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...Epps] has put a structure in place that will continue to function after he leaves," says S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation...
...prescription based on his or her complaints. Each prescription was then filled at a different location, where patients were randomly given pills that contained either a placebo of flavored compounds that tasted like herbs but had no medicinal effects, a standardized extract of 20 herbs designed to support bowel function in general, or the individually prescribed herbs. After 16 weeks of treatment, the two groups that received herbal medicines had fewer symptoms and less pain than the placebo group. But 14 weeks later, only the group that received tailor-made herbal remedies still felt better...
...herbal preparations lull you into ignoring serious problems. "A lot of my patients with hepatitis C take milk thistle," says Dr. Melissa Palmer, a liver specialist in Plainview, N.Y. "It seems to normalize their liver-function tests, but it doesn't affect the underlying disease...
Adhering to the mantra that simpler is better, cell phones and pagers have always had one primary function, respectively, but they got even better at it in 1998. The launch of Iridium's worldwide satellite paging and cellular-phone service was the flashiest advance, but the new low-cost calling plans (of just 10[cents] to 15[cents] a minute) on regular cell phones will do much more to increase their use. The Yankee Group predicts that these lower-priced calling plans will bump up average cell-phone usage, from three to five hours a month, by 2007. Pagers...
...Lauder is one of the leading biologists who carry out experimental studies of animal function in an evolutionary context," said Andrew Biewener, professor of biology and director of the Concord Field Station...