Over the past 25 years, there have been incredible advances made in medicine. HIV/AIDS is now a chronic condition, for instance, and ulcers can be cured with a course of antibiotics. The end of a decade seemed like a good time to look back on the progress made in treating AIDS, ulcers, lung cancer, myopia, leukemia, and rheumatoid arthritis. Myocardial infarction and two other topics were covered in the first days of 2010.
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