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...summer, knowing he hadn’t filled out after his growth spurt, he spent a month at HammerBodies Custom Fitness Clinic in St. Louis. There, he went on a diet of seven meals a day that he still follows and gained over 15 pounds while decreasing his body...

Author: By Alan G. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Versatile Cusworth Still Growing | 11/19/2003 | See Source »

...infusing patients with an experimental drug, reported Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, he and his colleagues reduced the fatty arterial plaque that triggers most heart attacks by an average of 4.2%--about 10 times better than statins, the most effective drugs now on the market, and in the almost unbelievably short period of just five weeks. With only 47 patients, the study was too small to be definitive, but, says Dr. Daniel Rader, the University of Pennsylvania cardiologist who wrote an accompanying editorial in J.A.M.A., "it's very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Drano For The Heart | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...over the past 12 months. The effects of SARS on the domestic and tourist markets saw many a steel shutter come down for good. Hundreds of staff were laid off (or worked unpaid). And at the height of the outbreak, going out for a meal was like visiting a clinic: a sober experience of sterile swabs and face masks. The arrival of an international culinary superstar and the continuing emergence of local ones are therefore a much needed boost for the city's recovering dining scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong's Hot Tables | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...have exhibited some symptoms of depression. Up to a million others may suffer from the alternately depressive and manic mood swings of bipolar disorder (BPD), one more condition that was thought until recently to be an affliction of adults alone. ADHD rates are exploding too. According to a Mayo Clinic study, children between 5 and 19 have at least a 7.5% chance of being found to have ADHD, which amounts to nearly 5 million kids. Other children are receiving diagnoses and medication for obsessive-compulsive disorder, social-anxiety disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), pathological impulsiveness, sleeplessness, phobias and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicating Young Minds | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...American adults say they experience sleep problems on a weekly basis. Sleeping pills can help, but what are the risks of taking them night after night for months at a time? Most clinical trials study the effects over very short periods only. That's why there is so much interest in a new study sponsored by the drugmaker Sepracor and led by Dr. Andrew Krystal, director of Duke University's Sleep Research Laboratory and Insomnia Clinic. It monitored users of a Sepracor pill called Estorra (currently under review for approval by the FDA) in a double-blind, placebo-controlled study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Safety Trials For Insomniacs | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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