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March 2012 is our Future of Medicine issue. Here are the stories:
- ### No Pulse
How doctors reinvented the human heart by Dan Baum * ### By the Numbers: Flu Season, Visualized
Tracking the rise and fall of flu season with Google by Katie Peek and Ryan Bradley * ### The $1,000 Genome
The new medical problem: having too much information by Jen Abbasi * ### The Virus Station
Redesigning the toilet to produce water, fertilizer and energy by Lana Birbrair * ### Brain Pain
Will doctors ever cure migraines? * ### Terminator Vision
“We are incorporating optical displays, radios, and computer chips into contact lenses” by Babak Parviz, electrical engineer at the University of Washington, as told to Flora Lichtman