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Never mind applying creams and lotions - if you could relieve a skin ailment simply by the kind of clothes you wear, or the bed linen you use, wouldn't you? The Handloom Weavers Development Society in Kerala , India , hopes so. The nonprofit organization - based in Thumbod, a tiny village of swaying palms an hour outside the state capital of Trivandrum - has infused yarn with organic herbs and plant extracts, and claims that regular contact with cloth made from this material will relieve itches, rashes and other skin disorders. With a sharp eye for the contemporary obsession with Eastern traditional medicine...
...chronically busy worker or parent, there may be a new term to describe what ails you: Attention Deficit Trait (ADT). That?s Dr. Edward Hallowell?s term for the ailment brought about by excessive multitasking?and it?s a close cousin of Attention Deficit Disorder. Hallowell is a noted child and adult psychiatrist who has written about and studied ADD for more than a decade. In his upcoming book, Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About To Snap-Strategies For Coping In A World Gone ADD,? Hallowell describes ADT and what causes it. TIME?s Senior Correspondent Sonja Steptoe spoke with...
...possible for a 63-year-old man with a Ph.D. to have attention-deficit disorder? That was the question English professor Richard Haber asked himself six years ago as he sat in his doctor's waiting room and flipped through a book on ADD, as the ailment is known. Haber, who taught at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass., thought he might learn something about his students' problems. Instead, he says, "I recognized myself...
...long ago, ADD was widely regarded as a children's ailment. But experts are increasingly discovering that it afflicts all ages. Psychologist Thomas E. Brown, author of Attention Deficit Disorder: The Unfocused Mind in Children and Adults, has seen his practice, which centered on young children 20 years ago, expand to include younger adults and seniors. They come to him and say, "I've had this problem for so long. If there's a treatment...
...Keith Howell on the other side of the field. The freshman has managed to hold his own and has consistently avoided getting burned on big plays. “It’s a very common freshman injury,” Murphy said of Berry’s shoulder ailment. “It’s probably why freshmen shouldn’t be allowed to play varsity quite frankly. He doesn’t have a lot of strength. He’s a very skinny kid...When he gets bigger and stronger those things tend to disappear...