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Prompted both by the rise in health-care costs and the increasing computerization of health-care equipment, doctors are using remote monitoring to track a widening variety of chronic diseases. In March, St. Francis University in Pittsburgh, Pa., partnered with a company called BodyMedia on a study in which rural diabetes patients use wireless glucose meters and armband sensors to monitor their disease. And last fall, Yahoo began offering subscribers the ability to chart their asthma conditions online, using a PDA-size respiratory monitor that measures lung functions in real time and e-mails the data directly to doctors...
...heard of: restless legs syndrome. RLS affects up to 10% of the population and can cause nagging pain and discomfort along with an uncontrollable urge to move one's legs during periods of physical inactivity. At night it can mean hundreds of jerky, involuntary movements and can result in chronic sleep deprivation. A study reported in the journal Sleep found that Requip, a drug for Parkinson's disease, significantly reduced RLS symptoms and improved the quality of sleep. The drug is currently being reviewed for approval by the FDA. --By David Bjerklie
...also an oddly Catholic book. John Bagnall's "Don't Tread On My Rosaries," published by Kingly Books of Glasgow, Scotland, collects a group of short stories, the best of which, "The Chemist and the Capuchin," tells the slightly nutty but heartfelt story of a scientist who suffers a chronic injury and rediscovers his lost faith. Another tale imagines David Bowie's diary from his Berlin days. Created with no apparent pretense, Bagnall's work has a warm and funny eccentricity...
...overthrew Saddam Hussein 15 months ago, the Bush Administration proclaimed that women's rights would be a centerpiece of its project to make Iraq a democratic model for the rest of the Arab world. But for many Iraqi women, the tyranny of Saddam's regime has been replaced by chronic violence and growing religious conservatism that have stifled their hopes for wider freedoms--and, for many, put their lives in even greater peril. For women like Shaima, the most terrifying development has been the rash of honor killings committed by Iraqi men against sisters, wives, daughters or mothers whom they...
...sick? There have been surprisingly few studies to test that question, but research on long-term hardship at work finds that the stresses are associated with an increase in heart disease. Other studies, conducted by Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, found that people suffering chronic stress on the job or in relationships are at least twice as likely to get sick from a cold or flu. The more stress people endure, Cohen concluded, the better their chances of falling...