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...suggesting that music can reverse Alzheimer's disease or the slow destruction of brain cells that causes it. But this November, as yet another National Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month rolls by without a cure, and people continue to live with --and die from--this terrible condition, it's a good time to think about the quality of life of patients and their families. To that end, more and more nursing homes and hospitals are finding that working with a music therapist can make a big difference...
...about time someone made sense of the deadly AIDS epidemic. If we look for a cure over many years while we fail to stem the epidemic, endless thousands more will die. The so-called public-health agencies have done far less to control the spread of HIV than has been done for other highly fatal, dangerous infections...
...need more dive in your life, and the remarkably dive-tastic Cantab is the place to get it. The Central Square fixture’s exposed pipes, fluorescent lighting and “Hot Nuts” dispenser will help cure you of Daedelus-itis. But the delicious gloom is a mere side benefit to the devoted crowd. The main draw is the blues-tinged music on the club’s tiny stage, every night of the week. Octogenarian Little Joe Cook is a national blues legend, and has been playing at the Cantab with backing band the Thrillers...
...says Goldfeld, who visits the program several times a year from her base at Harvard. "If you give someone the education of how to be well, they'll do it." The World Health Organization was doubtful at first, but Sok and Goldfeld were right. CHC achieved a cure rate of 90% to 95%. By the end of 2004, some 5,000 of their patients had recovered...
...anthropology and hoping to become a doctor for the poor, perhaps in Africa. He eventually became America's most celebrated doctor for the poor, made famous by Pulitzer-prizewinning author Tracy Kidder in his 2003 book, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World...