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...Spin City, disclosed to PEOPLE that the disease was diagnosed in 1991 after he noticed a twitch in his finger during the filming of Doc Hollywood. Fox underwent brain surgery last March for the illness--a progressive degeneration of the central nervous system with no known cure. "I think I can help people by talking," he said...
Sarah Breedlove was born on a cotton plantation near Delta, La., in 1867. Orphaned at age 7, married at 14, widowed at 20, Breedlove earned a subsistence living as a laundress in St. Louis, Mo. Seeking to supplement her income--and cure her case of alopecia, or baldness, commonly suffered by black women at the time because of scalp diseases, poor diet and stress--Breedlove became an agent for Annie Turnbo Pope Malone's Poro Co., selling its "Wonderful Hair Grower." Realizing the potential of these products, Breedlove took her daughter and $1.50 in savings to Denver, married her third...
...analyst from Anderson was always there to stop me from accepting cigarettes from those inner city school volunteers. And thank God financial valuating and option wielding derivative associate partners were always there to save me from faulty medical practices and illiteracy. I have full faith that when the cure for cancer comes, it will come from the hallowed halls of Goldman Sachs...
...William Sears and Lynda Thompson, authors of The A.D.D. Book (Little, Brown), believe Ritalin can be helpful but urge parents to explore behavior-modification strategies such as neurofeedback. "Medication is never the only answer," they write. "Nor is it a cure." In mid-December, Hazelden/Rosen will be publishing Ritalin: Its Use and Abuse, a guidebook for teenagers. The author, Eileen Beal, writes that Ritalin can be quite helpful, but that there are problems that go with the territory, such as the pressure to share the medicine with classmates...
Though the Internet is host to more than its share of quacks touting dubious cure-alls, a few serious sites on supplements are worth checking out: Columbia University Medical Center's Fact Sheets on Alternative Medicine at cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/rosenthal/factsheets.html the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at altmed.od.nih.gov/nccam/ and the University of Texas Center for Alternative Medicine Research at sph.uth.tmc.edu/utcam/default.htm Finally, the surest sign that alternative medicine has gone mainstream: Herbal Remedies for Dummies (IDG Books; $20) is just hitting the stores...