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...possible that the nocebo response is easily explained: in the antidepressant trials, maybe some patients - given that they already tended toward depression and anxiety - worried so much about the doctor's cautions that their stomach released enough acids to cause pain. That would make sense except 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...
...three years after lying on her first sun bed, Duke went to see a doctor to get a mole removed. Routine tests confirmed that the mole was a malignant tumor - Duke had advanced-stage melanoma and was wheeled into surgery that week. A chunk of flesh from her right arm was removed, and a year of intensive cancer therapy followed. She survived without serious complications...
Mazoltuv Borukhova, a Queens doctor, was convicted in March of first-degree murder after her cousin, Mikhail Mallayev, shot and killed her husband execution style in front of their 4-year-old daughter in a playground. In the midst of a heated custody dispute, Borukhova allegedly lured her husband to the playground where she had hired Mallayev to carry out the murder...
...have to find the right recipe,” he says. “It’s like a doctor, like a physician, if he’s a good doctor he won’t do the same thing for every patient...
Massachusetts General Hospital doctor Leslie W. Milne, a specialist in emergency and sports medicine, organized the emergency response to Shaker’s injury. Along with Milne, patrolman Joe Perna, Action Ambulance personnel Warren Mayhew and Marc Haigh, and Ipswich firefighter Jeff Stone performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Shaker before she was taken to Boston Medical Center by emergency helicopter...