Societal doctors already exist

Cultural fears of early mortality already exist.

a stimulation of angiogenesis by surgery. However, even if surgery does lead to an induction of angiogenesis, it is unlikely that this would translate into a worsening of mortality in such a short time period. Also, it is quite possible that age is an independent prognostic factor in breast cancer, as is the case in prostate cancer where generally younger men have more aggressive disease even i...

Happiness: enough already.

The plural of anecdote is not data, as scientists will tell you, but consider these snapshots of the emerging happiness debate anyway: Lately, Jerome Wakefield's students have been coming up to him after they break up with a boyfriend or girlfriend, and not because they want him to recommend a therapist. Wakefield, a professor at New York University, coauthored the 2007 book "The Loss of Sadnes...

Vitamin D: enough already?

Q&A: Already A Success?

When Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster (the organizer of this COLING-86 panel on "Natural Language Interfaces: Ready for Commercial Success?") sent out invitations to panelists, he stated that his goals were "to evaluate three natural language interfaces which were introduced to the commercial market in 1985 and to relate them to current research in computational linguistics." For comparison, he has aske...

The heart is already working.

Understanding the logic of living systems requires knowledge of the mechanisms involved at the levels at which functionality is expressed. This information resides neither in the genome, nor even in the individual proteins that genes code for. No functionality is expressed at these levels. It emerges as the result of interactions between many proteins relating to each other in multiple cascades...