Word: hopkinses
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At other schools, the likes of Drummond and McGee are not often found in the residence halls. Most institutions-Columbia, Cornell, New York University, Johns Hopkins and Brown, to name a few-primarily use older undergraduates, with adults supervising at a distance and academic advising usually done outside the dorm...
Some acupuncturists use magnets to stimulate pressure points and promote circulation. But as Dr. Edward McFarland, head of sports medicine at Johns Hopkins University, puts it, "The science [of biomagnetics] has to catch up to the hype." Indeed, there have been no authoritative studies on the effects of magnetic therapy...
--Dr. William Pawluk, a former faculty member at Johns Hopkins, maintains that magnets stimulate red blood cells, which contain iron. "I placed a round bull's-eye magnet on a nurse's knee following a ski injury," he writes in a Web article. "The next morning she had a perfect...
Not everyone is sold on such a simple prescription. Even if homocysteine is behind some cases of heart disease, it's unlikely to be behind them all, and there's no guarantee that managing the amino acid will decrease the risk of cardiac trouble. Regardless of circulating homocysteine levels, smoking...
There is more bad news to come. Last month the FDA received a letter signed by several dozen neuroscientists blasting the agency for not opening up the post-approval monitoring process more fully. The FDA, these doctors charge, continues to ignore animal tests that suggest prolonged use of Redux can...