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JOHN F. KENNEDY'S Appalachian oak rocking chair from North Carolina was recommended by his doctor to ease J.F.K.'s chronic lower-back pain. But it eventually signified contemplation in the White House...
...bring the brainpower of Harvard to benefit Native people.” Leo J. Nolan, a senior policy analyst at IHS, said Tuesday that over the past 50 years, IHS has been very successful at combatting infectious disease in the Native American community, but that chronic illness—health problems related to lifestyle and behavior—remains a problem. “We need to enlist support—both in terms of resources, talent, and ideas—from other entities that have the competency to help us,” Nolan said. Norman and Lopez said...
...than a nicotine patch for 67 smokers trying to quit. ACT encourages addicts to accept the urge to do drugs and the pain that will come when they stop-and then to work on figuring out what life means beyond getting high. ACT has also been used to help chronic-pain patients get back to their jobs faster. But perhaps the most noteworthy finding was that 27 institutionalized South African epileptics who had just nine hours of ACT in 2004 experienced significantly fewer and shorter seizures than those in a placebo treatment in which the therapist offered a supportive...
...would fail for those with serious mental illnesses. He usually responds by pointing to the studies in which ACT has been used successfully with psychotics. But one of the things that troubles me about ACT is the convenient plasticity that allows it to treat everything from schizophrenia to a chronic backache. Most psychologists slowly build research out from one or two disorders, but Hayes and his followers seem to be offering ACT as a sort of psychological Rosetta stone, a key for interpreting all interior events. At the very least, as Hayes' mentor Barlow has pointed out, ACT seems...
...exception: the National Institutes of Health, whose budget doubled from 1998 to 2003. "Unless there's an emotional appeal, basic research is well beyond the time span of the next election," says Craig Barrett, chairman of Intel. "There is a very emotional attachment to research on cancer or chronic illnesses. It's much more difficult to say, What will the structure of the transistor look like in the next 15 years...