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...survey, women ages 35 to 65 who took a 50-minute aerobics class three times a week lost only 2.5% of the density in their forearm bones, compared with 9.5% for women who did not exercise. "Osteoporosis is a total life-style problem," emphasizes Heaney. "You can't cure a bad life-style with a pill, and it's a terrible strategic mistake to encourage people to think you can. If I'm sitting all day, don't walk to work, don't carry loads or work in the garden on the weekend, I'm going to lose bone...
...time updates on their health as they go about their daily lives.BREATHING EASYIn findings published in the March 16 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, a team of Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers discovered the cause of asthma, paving the way for better treatment and possibly a cure for the respiratory disease suffered by 20 million Americans.Harvard professors Dale T. Umetsu and Omid Akbari, researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston, found that the immune response that triggers asthma symptoms is caused not by Helper T (Th2) cells as was previously thought but by Natural Killer...
...with Robert H. Brown Jr., a leading ALS researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. “One hopes that there will be a treatment, an intervention that will slow the disease,” Brown said. “Obviously the real hope is a cure. Whether that is possible, I don’t know.”This summer, Kremer will be working on the launch of Avi Therapeutics, a for-profit biotech company that will try to commercialize academic research in the ALS field, according to Kremer. With these two companies, Kremer said...
...sight at age 25 after a mysterious illness. That was, to say the least, a calamity. Braille had not been invented yet. The blind were institutionalized and infantilized, expected to lead celibate lives mooching or begging or doing menial work. None of which appealed to our hero. Seeking a cure (not only for his blindness but also for agonizing rheumatism), he set off alone for southern France...
...sixth day of an indefinite hunger strike, their hand-written white T-shirts make clear their position on the government's controversial new policy to increase quotas for lower-caste students at the country's elite educational institutions: DON'T MIX POLITICS WITH MERIT; QUOTAS: THIS CURE IS WORSE THAN THE DISEASE; MERIT IS MY CASTE, WHAT'S YOURS...