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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...book leaves you with a heightened awareness of the smile's subliminal power. As you read this, buses around Sydney are advertising cider with a sepia photo of grave-faced frontiersmen: they saved their smiles for happy hour; while emails zip around cyberspace with the smiley emoticon of colon-dash-parenthesis. "The smile, meanwhile, is getting broader, wider, fiercer," writes Trumble. And, as his book attests, more subversive than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A History of Lip-Reading | 3/30/2004 | See Source »

...said that chronic inflammation might drive away "many of the most feared illnesses of middle and old age" and that there might be "a single, inflammation-reducing remedy that would prevent" heart disease, Alzheimer's and colon cancer. Talk about preventing ailments is just whistling in the wind. It is simple: we are born, perhaps procreate and die. I can't believe we need the help of the pharmaceutical industry to see us through to our end. At the rate American medical researchers and drug companies are promulgating their dogmas, followers will rattle like pill bottles should they live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

Folkman said that the next step includes testing the effectiveness of Avastin on forms of cancer other than colon cancer and on patients receiving various doses of chemotherapy...

Author: By Tess M. Ponce, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Doctor Pioneers Cancer Drug | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

...these rare cases, side effects might include the formation of holes in the colon. Such side-effects would require surgery to prevent intra-abdominal infections or internal bleeding...

Author: By Tess M. Ponce, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Doctor Pioneers Cancer Drug | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

...Aspirin. A well-known inflammation fighter, aspirin can cool reactions raging in heart arteries and in the colon. Similar agents are also showing promise in controlling inflammation in the brains of Alzheimer's patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Inflammation: What You Can Do | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

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