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...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...
...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...
...wearing high fishing boots when she walked to the beach. "We were really infested," she says. "It seemed as if every blade of grass had a tick hanging off it." Her hen patrol has reduced the local tick population, although that has not prevented her from contracting the tormenting ailment that she and millions of other householders routinely take elaborate pains to avoid. The tick that infected her with what was diagnosed last week as Lyme disease probably, she thinks, bit her while she was horseback riding...
Doctors' waiting rooms are hardly the most serious ailment of American health care. More than 30 million citizens have no health insurance at all. Few among the rest of us are free from fear of losing our insurance or finding it insufficient. Costs are soaring -- over 12% of GNP, by far the world's highest -- yet our longevity and infant-mortality rates are nothing to brag about. But an hour's wait to pay $120 for a few minutes of a doctor's time nicely illustrates how our system combines some of the worst aspects of both capitalism and socialism...