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Some workers suffer from carpal-tunnel syndrome. Now Nintendo addicts report a new hand ailment dubbed Nintendinitis. Can Rollerbladitis be far behind...
Strewn throughout this story are seemingly gratuitous nods to bits and pieces of popular culture: show-biz celebrities, movies, rock groups. Maynard suggests that her alienated characters suffer the modern ailment of media overload. Toward the end of the novel, the mother of the hired teenage killer speaks: "One minute you're sitting there, reading some article in a magazine all about Tom Selleck or someone, the next thing you know they're putting handcuffs on your son. . .It doesn't feel like your real life, you know? It feels like you're on a show too. Only there...
...malady that caused George Bush to throw up on Kiichi Miyazawa's suit was identified as gastroenteritis. Actually it was an ailment that has afflicted the presidency for 30 years. Call it excessive travelitis: jetting around the world too far, too fast, too often...
With severe burn cases and patients who might have skin cancer as well as another skin ailment such as psoriasis, Fewkes says that autografting presents an advantage over split thickness grafting...
...credentials of a number of alternative remedies, as do claims that the British royal family are loyal patients. (The royals are said to be particularly fond of homeopathy, a system that treats diseases by administering tiny doses of the substances that might normally cause the same symptoms as the ailment.) "We're not just another New Age fairy tale" is also much heard. So says Marcel Lavabre, president of the 200-member American Aromatherapy Association, based in Pasadena, Calif. Lavabre admits that "for an infection, essential oils wouldn't be as strong as an antibiotic, but they wouldn't have...