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...budget," he says. "It's pretty low-tech and it's probably cost effective." The hospital offers a range of options including holistic prenatal checkups and homeopathic remedies. In the group acupuncture clinic, Berkovitz uses needles hooked to a current to treat patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. Many improve with eight treatments, and one canceled a knee replacement after successful treatment. "I'm not saying everyone can throw away their crutches, but the potential for savings is there," says Berkovitz. Some doctors, however, still worry that patients may be throwing away money on alternative treatments - whether the state...
Jewaun Smith, a 9-year-old boy from Chicago, is lucky to be alive. A scrape on his left knee that he picked up riding his bike last October turned into a runaway infection that spread in a matter of days through the rest of his body, leaving his lungs riddled with holes. Jewaun managed to survive, but what worries doctors most about his near-death experience is that it's not an isolated case. The bacteria that infected his knee has become resistant to the most common antibiotics and is on the march across the U.S. It has spread...
Like the play it helped spawn, the '60s snapshot is remarkable for its ordinariness. Against a sand dune the young family sit: mother in straw hat and Dame Edna glasses; a bronzed, bare-chested father holding his knee; their son dressed in a tropical shirt squinting at the sun. The latter is Michael Gow aged 6, holidaying near Ulladulla on the New South Wales south coast, though that's about all the Australian playwright can remember. "In my memory, Christmas holidays went from about 1959 to 1970," recalls Gow, 51. "There's just this kind of weird dream...
...fencer. Though the All-American has been fencing nationally since the age of 10, this past season was the first time he established himself as one of the preeminent collegiate fencers in the nation.Ungar saw limited action his freshman year as he recovered from surgery on his knee. Though he fared well against Ivy competition, he was far from dominant.Coming into his sophomore year, Ungar was hungry for more. He knew he had the potential to win NCAA gold, and he set his sights on the medal.“That was one of the goals I set for myself...
...Like his 2002 remarks, Summers’ statement this week has drawn fire here at Harvard. One of Summers’ fiercest critics, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, said that “the knee jerk accusation that targeted criticism of Israel singles out Israel is as absurd as stating that the anti-apartheid movement was singling out South Africa.” Matory said that the criticism of Israel was appropriate because of the “extraordinary” support that the country has received from...