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Waite's asthma also posed problems. With everyone sleeping so close together, his chronic wheezing kept the others awake. So every night Anderson would calm Waite, keeping up a hypnotic patter of "Take it easy, breathe easy, exhale," until Waite fell asleep. Anderson was also more forgiving of Waite's insatiable appetite for information after so many years of isolation. Initially, when they were still separated by a wall, Anderson would tap out dispatches on world events he had culled from radio reports by using one tap for a, two for b, three for c and so on. When...
...effect, Oregon is promising to provide universal coverage in exchange for a system of financial triage. A child will get a liver transplant; a chronic alcoholic will not. An AIDS sufferer will get treatment in the early stages of his illness but in the terminal stages will get only "comfort care." The plan would not pay for so-called heroic measures, such as expensive life | support for babies born after less than 23 weeks of gestation and weighing less than 500 g (1.1 lbs.). Nor will it pay for self-curing ailments -- now covered -- like the common cold, food poisoning...
...ordinary folks, biofeedback can be a useful tool in treating dozens of ailments, from asthma to epilepsy, chronic pain to drug addiction. It is perhaps the single most effective treatment for Raynaud's disease, a condition mainly afflicting women, in which the fingers turn white, cold and painful when they are exposed to cold. A series of biofeedback sessions trains sufferers to improve circulation in their hands. Many insurers now cover biofeedback, and even some old-line hospitals offer the therapy...
...Relaxed in a near trance, patients are "guided" by a therapist or tape recording to visualize their condition mentally and to wish it 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...
...nefarious H. pylori has also been linked to ulcers and gastritis -- inflammation of the stomach lining. Parsonnet and others believe that people with chronic duodenal ulcers should consider a course of antibiotics to knock out the bug rather than rely on costly medications like Tagamet and Zantac, which treat the symptoms, not the cause. Meanwhile, studies are under way in Colombia and Mexico to determine if a similar strategy of antibiotics could play a role in cutting the world's incidence of stomach cancer...