Say "Ah" Prisoners at Colorado's Arapahoe County Detention Facility don't go to the doctor for routine complaints. The doctor comes to them -- via cyberspace.

Health Care by Wire In this small Welsh town, sheep outnumber people and medical expertise is scarce. Now, via remote links to specialists in London, the town doctors are able to confer and learn over what they call "the electronic examining table."

The Doctor Is In Someday, soldiers' lives on the battlefields will be saved by surgeons many miles away, thanks to robotic cybersurgery.
X-ray Vision An MIT professor has devised a new way for neurosurgeons to explore the inside of a brain. Call it X-ray vision.
Can't Repress the Net The military government in Burma tolerates no opposition within the country. But as Burmese exiles in India have discovered, it can't control the Internet.
Search for Life Everyone has different reasons for creating Web pages. The purpose of Vrushali Ranadive's site is to save her life.
A Two-Hour Window Bill Norton builds airplanes from kits, shares vital medical information, and stays in touch with loved ones, thanks to a satellite that passes over his remote village in Tanzania once a day.
Vision from Afar Remote doctors help prevent a blinding disease among Chickasaw Indians by viewing test results over the Net.
But Can I Be a Mother? A woman with a rare, painful disease learns on the Net if childbirth is a possibility for her.

Project Xpedite The rush to match donated organs with recipients used to be a race against the clock. Now, a life-saving online program helps place more organs, more efficiently.


Lead photograph by Gregory Heisler


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