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...reclusive, living out of a small, sparsely furnished apartment in Manhattan. One year he lost money. He said later, "I underwent a serious change in my personality during that period. There was a large element of guilt and shame in my emotional makeup." Therapy helped, but philanthropy was the cure...
...probably looked like a neatly packaged, over-the-counter cure for a financial headache. In need of cash for new public health campaigns on smoking and violence, the American Medical Association decided to turn to the Sunbeam Corp. While best known for its food mixers, blenders and toasters, the Delray Beach, Fla., company also makes medical equipment--thermometers, heating pads and blood-pressure monitors. Under an arrangement that could conceivably net the association millions of dollars a year in royalties, last week it gave Sunbeam exclusive rights to fix the A.M.A. seal on some of the firm's health-care...
WHAT'S MY LYME? Doctors have isolated an antibody in spinal fluid that allows them to quickly detect if Lyme bacteria have spread from the site of the bite to the nervous system. Treated early, Lyme disease is easy to cure...
Your article "Tick, Tick, Tick" stated that most of the time doctors know how to diagnose and cure Lyme disease [HEALTH, July 28]. I challenge that. In many states throughout the U.S., doctors not only don't know how to diagnose Lyme disease, they refuse even to consider it a possible cause of severe illness among their patients. As a result, Lyme has become one of the most seriously underdiagnosed diseases in this country. Lyme victims have gone undiagnosed and untreated for years, leading to chronic, debilitating and sometimes deadly consequences. What is needed is much better information about this...
...mortal man. On the surface the policy seems reasonable, given the prevalence of offensive sites and the ease with which even a novice Web surfer can find them (though most porn sites these days can't be accessed without a credit card). But free-speech advocates call censorware a cure worse than the disease. Filtering programs block Web pages in one of two ways. The more primitive method is to search for key words in the pages' titles, a system with all the subtlety of a Gatling gun. America Online, for instance, once banned the word breast from some areas...