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ACUPUNCTURE MAY DO YOUR BODY GOOD Patients with fibromyalgia, a chronic, incurable and widespread pain illness, know it's a hard condition to treat. But Mayo Clinic doctors can offer some relief: in a study of 50 patients, six acupuncture treatments given over two to three weeks significantly improved their symptoms of pain and fatigue...
...says food aid is now flowing into Niger but warns that donors still need to fund outstanding aid requests for neighboring countries. In the long term, though, the region needs to modernize its farming practices if it is to avoid chronic food shortages. That is likely to happen only if West Africans can turn agriculture into a successful commercial industry. But farmers there will never be able to compete against heavily subsidized exporters in First World countries. It may seem like a leap to link images of starving children to world trade, but one of the most effective things concerned...
...looking at her bones, for example, the scientists determined that Sherit was probably able to walk normally and didn't have any debilitating chronic diseases. Most likely she succumbed to an infection or bad water or tainted food, as did some 50% of ancient Egyptian children within a year or two of being weaned. The bones and teeth also helped fix her age; her adult teeth hadn't grown in yet. And her gilded face mask indicated that her parents were wealthy. With higher-res scans, scientists may someday make out the hieroglyphs on the inside of the cartonnage...
...professional record spanning more than four decades, Nelson has had to spend $20,000 on lawyers, fearing that the government will indict him if it turns out that one of his patients has misused his medicine. "My practice is sunk," says the 73-year-old physician, who specializes in chronic-pain treatment. "I can't even write a prescription for Tylenol 3 if someone has a migraine...
...focused attention on the problem of under-treated pain. Research showed that addiction did not necessarily result from aggressive, well-managed opioid therapy. In the 1990s, as the specialty of pain management grew in hospitals and universities, opioid use spread from cancer and end-of-life patients to the chronic-pain victims of industrial accidents, car crashes and conditions such as migraines, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis...