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...types have long been successfully studied in laboratory petri dishes. Now, with the help of research performed at a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, doctors can remove skin cells from a patient, culture them to create a new sheet of skin, and graft them back onto the patient to heal wounds...
...also possible to see Turner's global pursuits as an elaborate attempt to heal from the first two traumas of his life. When he was 20 and she was three years younger, his sister Mary Jane died of a severe form of lupus erythematosus, a disease that causes the body to make antibodies against its own tissues. Until he saw her degenerate during five horrible years, Turner had been a practicing Christian. At 17 he even planned to be a missionary. But the loss of his sister killed his faith in God. While Turner never recovered that faith...
...came out, they were freed from their symbolism -- no longer did they stand for national helplessness and failed presidencies, for ill-fated schemes and a foreign policy with its principles held hostage. Instead they were real, grateful, living people with daughters they had never seen, scars that will never heal, long nights full of lessons they will never forget...
HYPNOSIS. The original hocus-pocus has moved off the magician's stage and into the doctor's office. According to the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, 15,000 health professionals now practice the technique. While not a cure, making healthy suggestions to hypnotized patients, studies show, can help them heal faster, give up smoking and other bad habits, and feel less pain -- long after a session ends. One remarkable study showed that burn patients heal faster, with less pain and fewer complications, if they are put in a trance shortly after they are injured...
...Lavabre, president of the 200-member American Aromatherapy Association, based in Pasadena, Calif. Lavabre admits that "for an infection, essential oils wouldn't be as strong as an antibiotic, but they wouldn't have side effects." A mixture of thyme and lavender with rosemary is used in France to heal wounds, he adds...