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...pensioner, she worried what counseling would cost. Quietly desperate, she combed the Internet for help - and found ptsd-online.org, set up by psychologist Britt Klein, of Swinburne University of Technology, to trial Web-based clinical treatment for people with post-traumatic stress disorder. After a phone interview to confirm her diagnosis, Fogarty was accepted into the e-therapy program. "I had a real gut feeling, Oh, this is just the right thing," she says. "It just seemed like, here is something I can do without having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Online Helpdesk | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

Though the figures from the study simply confirm what was expected, van Dam said that the novelty of the study lay in quantifying the combined effects of healthy lifestyle factors...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists: Healthy Habits Good for You | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

After twenty-some years of gathering data from roughly 80,000 women, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health confirm that healthy lifestyle habits are indeed good...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientists: Healthy Habits Good for You | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...three museums—Fogg, Sackler, and Busch-Reisinger—but will not be open to the public. This facility is still under construction, however, making it likely that few, if any, works have been removed from the museum to date. (The museum staff declined to confirm this.) According to staff members, the plan is for moving to begin in early 2009. Meanwhile, many of the Fogg’s administrative offices have been relocated to the Sackler and to an adjacent three-story house on Cambridge Street. Museum director Thomas Lentz’s offices will remain...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Where Art Thou, Fogg? | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

What's more, even where records exist, there is usually no way to confirm their validity. Doctors in the developing world often lack lab facilities to authenticate cases of suspected malaria. Perhaps more often, they never even get to see patients who have the disease - many patients either cannot afford the time or money to see a doctor or they simply self-diagnose and take cheap over-the-counter medications to battle malaria-like symptoms. The WHO estimates that nationally reported (but often unvalidated) malaria cases account for just 40% of the global estimate; the other 60% comes from "detective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Malaria Estimates Are Reduced | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

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