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...After the trials, I went home to Texas for about three days. Then I went to Germany to see the doctor [Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfarth, who treats many track and soccer stars in Europe] about my hamstring. And I didn't do any running for almost three weeks. No running at all. That fourth week, maybe, I tried to do some jogging, some drills. So basically for a whole month I went through a lot of mental stress, trying to stay positive and trying to figure out why this happened. The woulda, coulda, shoulda. Stuff like that...
Bolt's bad eating habits are somewhat surprising, given how strict his parents were. "He never got in trouble," says Herb Elliott, the Jamaican team doctor, who knew Bolt as a boy. Jennifer and Wellesley Bolt raised Usain on the north shore of Jamaica, and he turned down scholarship offers from several U.S. colleges for the comforts of home...
Sophie Robert, a pharmacist (like all other SCORxE reps), was visiting a family-medicine clinic in southern Charleston recently. The topic of the day: antidepressants. A family doctor at the clinic, Dr. Annette Anderson, spent about 15 minutes with Robert - far longer than she ever devotes to the six or so drug reps who show up unbidden every day. Anderson says she likes the idea of unbiased information delivered right to her office. She does, though, have one small suggestion for the program in the future. "Pizza," she says. "The staff would really like that...
...Zhao is one unhappy Beijinger. His father needs surgery, but the doctor tells him that all operations have been postponed until after the Olympics. Unable to drive because 90% of vehicles have been banned from the roads, Zhao bicycles slowly home through the August heat; guards at every intersection force him to dismount for security inspections. When he finally does get home, his favorite dish of kidney and beans tastes awful. Because of endless delays caused by inspections of goods transported into the capital, only low-quality food is available at the markets, his wife tells...
...devoted to the strongest antiperspirants available without a prescription. Which makes you wonder: Do we sweat that much? And if we do, is it such a bad thing? "We have created a sense in modern society about hygiene that goes beyond being human," says Mehmet Oz, Oprah's doctor in residence, who doesn't use an antiperspirant because of the chemicals in it. "We all smell, and we all sweat. We're supposed...