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...WRITING CURE Sounds like fiction, but researchers say writing about stressful experiences can improve symptoms in rheumatoid arthritis and asthma patients. And though patients wrote only 20 minutes a day over three consecutive days, about half of them experienced positive effects that seemed to last for months. The study is more evidence that the mind plays an important role in chronic illnesses...
...Roxbury, Mass., respiratory disease rates are extremely high, Eady said. Asthma rates in that town are five times the state average, she said...
...Roxbury, Mass., respiratory disease rates are extremely high, Eady said. Asthma rates in that town are five times the state average, she said...
...Garland, 29, an anthropology student at the University of Chicago, remembered to turn off her wristwatch alarm while she lay fear-stricken in her tent; the raiders never found her. Another American, Linda Adams, 53, walked a mile toward a certain death with the other captives, then feigned an asthma attack and was let go. Deanja Walther, 26, a Swiss flight attendant who speaks French, stayed with the English-speaking hostages even though the Hutus let the French-speaking tourists remain at the camp. Walther, who last September was supposed to work aboard the ill-fated Swissair Flight...
...that followed Clinton's August admission of his affair with Lewinsky. She exerts a strong influence behind the scenes, and her fingerprints were all over dozens of items in the President's budget, from a tax credit for stay-at-home moms to increased funds for research into childhood asthma...