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...progression of their disease, complications and survival rates; they also recorded the treatments each patient received as well as their health-care proxies' understanding of advanced dementia and the patient's prognosis. Over the course of the study, 55% of the residents died, with nearly half of those deaths occurring within the first six months of the study. Patients' median survival span was 478 days, a figure comparable with that of terminal-cancer patients. Thirty-one residents suffered major health events, such as seizure, gastrointestinal bleeding, heart attack or stroke, but only in rare cases did those events lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redefining Dementia as a Terminal Illness | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

...that the range of possible nocebo responses stretches far beyond stomachache (in extreme cases, ailing patients who are mistakenly informed that they have only a few months to live will die within their given time frame, even though postmortem investigations show that there was no physiological explanation for early death). In a new paper published in the journal Pain, researchers found that clinical-trial participants have reported a wide variety of nocebo-fueled medical complaints, including burning sensations outside the stomach, sleepiness, fatigue, vomiting, weakness and even taste disturbances, tinnitus and upper-respiratory-tract infection. What's more, these nocebo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flip Side of Placebos: The Nocebo Effect | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...Told an interviewer in 2007 he had received 14 death threats in the previous three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sheriff Joe Arpaio | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

Finally, you may not enter the promised land. Forced to die across the Jordan on Mount Nebo, Moses confronts his final choice: Will he fight or prepare the Israelites for the future? He chooses the latter. "I have put before you this day life and prosperity, death and adversity," he says. "Choose life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Moses Shaped America | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...during the investigation into Kebble's death that the hapless Agliotti's relationship with Selebi emerged. Selebi, who was the country's first black police chief, once said of Agliotti that he was "my friend, finish and klaar [done]." The two men now appear to be estranged. They did not look at each other in court, and at one point during last week's testimony, Agliotti seemed close to tears when he said, "It's not easy being here. I didn't want to be here to testify against my then friend and the accused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corruption Trial Marks Major Test for South Africa | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

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