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‘‘She was buying Christmas presents for her son that day and really had a tremendous amount of energy.

She seemed wonderful and very, very grounded and strong." In her introduction to the first segment of The New Medicine, Reeve tells viewers: ‘‘Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being.

For years, my husband and I lived on — and because of — hope.

Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on." The project, the last she is thought to have completed before her death March 6, seems fitting: The program, to make its debut tonight, explores how mainstream doctors are embracing treatment of the whole patient — not just symptoms of a disease.

Her appearance after her death unintentionally underscores one of the central points of the documentary: Holistic medicine represents a tool, not a cure-all, in the fight against illness.

‘‘Part of the challenge is we get patients all the time who are really looking for a magic cure," said Tracy Gaudet, an obstetriciangynecologist who heads the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine in Durham, N.C.

‘‘We’re not in the business of magic cures; we’re in the business of good medicine." The center uses any available technique — from alternative to mainstream — t...

Cancer Statistics: 2002 Incidence and Mortality report, which includes incidence data for about 93% of the U.S.

population and mortality data for the entire country, more than 180,000 women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, and more than 41,000 died from the disease.

In 2004, an estimated 215,990 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among women.

Seventy-five percent of all diagnosed cases of breast cancer are among women aged 50 years or older.(2) Mammography is the best available method to detect breast cancer in its earliest, most treatable stage- an average of 1 to 4 years before a woman can feel a lump.

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Advanced Image Enhancement (AIE), the Providence, Rhode Island based software company, produces image-processing tools for the medical imaging industry.

AIE's core technology evolved from proprietary United States Navy signal and image processing software utilized for the detection, classification and localization of undersea mines.

AIE holds the exclusive license to this technology from the Navy.

The Company is utilizing the Navy technology as the baseline to develop image processing algorithms for enhancing digital mammograms with plans to expand into applications in chest x-rays and orthopedics and other image modalities including ultrasou...