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...It’ll be interesting to see if one day I’ll be able to cut the cord with Mother Harvard,” she muses...
...showing up in Gulf War veterans at twice the rate it occurs in other military personnel. That's the conclusion of the Defense Department and the Veterans Administration after reviewing the medical records of 2.5 million servicemen and women. ALS, which destroys nerve connections in the brain and spinal cord and causes muscles to atrophy, is the first disease directly linked to the generalized symptoms of Gulf War syndrome...
...Just look at housing, Americans' economic insurance policy/bungee cord throughout this downturn (low interest rates + more mortgages = extra wealth for consumers). The Commerce Department reported Friday that new home sales were up a whopping 6.4 percent in December, and the National Association of Realtors said existing home sales rose 0.6 percent. So far, so good...
...Perfectionist also proved less than perfect. One side of my toast tended to come out darker than the other--fine for bagels, but not for bread. And while I had 63 options for browning, the short, 20-in. cord gave me too few options for where to put the thing...
...drug bag. The first fully implantable drug pump could change all that. Here's how it works: morphine is stored in a pager-size pump just under the skin of the abdomen. A plastic catheter runs from the pump to the fluid-filled space outside the spinal cord, where pain signals travel. When the patient presses a handheld remote, the pump sends a measured dose of morphine directly to the spine. According to its maker, the SynchroMed works better and requires much smaller doses of medication than intravenous methods because it intercepts pain signals on their way to the brain...