Word: ailments
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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...
...away. Introduced in the 1970s to help athletes and musicians perform better, the method has won increasing acceptance among some doctors as a way to battle chronic pain, tumors and persistent infections. Patients are advised to study in detail how their immune system is responding to a particular ailment and then, with cues from a therapist, to imagine the antibodies and white blood cells zapping...
...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...
...administration . . . Armenia and Azerbaijan signed an agreement calling for a cease-fire and negotiations to end their dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan, but the fighting continued. Among those who helped broker the agreement was Boris Yeltsin. The Russian president, who is suffering from a heart ailment, subsequently announced that he would take a two-week rest...
...course, chiropractic could restrict itself to relieving back pain and still have its hands full. By some estimates, 75% of all Americans will suffer from low-back aches at some point in their lifetime. The annual cost to U.S. society of treating the ubiquitous ailment was recently tallied at a crippling $24 billion, compared with $6 billion for AIDS and $4 billion for lung cancer. If spinal manipulation could ease even a fraction of that financial burden, remaining skeptics might be forced to stifle their misgivings or get cracking themselves...