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Both the Harvard and Stanford studies are inconclusive, as the experimenters themselves recognize. Part of the problem in trying to document the psychological effects of TM, says the British medical journal Lancet, is that it is "difficult to exclude the effects of suggestion." So difficult, in fact, that TM's true value-or lack of it-seems likely to remain in doubt for a long time...
...Since surgeons first discovered that talc, a finely powdered mineral, could be toxic, they have stopped using it on the skintight rubber gloves they wear while performing operations. Now, according to the Lancet, there are indications that the starch used as a substitute may also be unsafe, leading to a potentially dangerous postoperative condition called "starch peritonitis." The condition, which develops anywhere from ten to 40 days after surgery and produces fever, cramping and abdominal pain, was first believed by doctors to be the result of intestinal obstructions. But those who reoperated discovered no blockages but pearly white nodules...
...cosmetic consternation in women and discomfort for both sexes, probably have a variety of causes. Habitual standing in place for long periods is one. Can sitting in chairs be another? So theorizes Dr. Colin Alexander of New Zealand's Auckland Medical School. Alexander's argument in the Lancet owes as much to geography as it does to anatomy. Varicose veins, he points out, are rare among the Japanese and other Eastern peoples who generally sit on the floor or the ground. But the condition is common among Westerners, who spend hours each day sitting in chairs. The reason...
...Smoking marijuana is frequently called a mind-blowing experience, and that description may be more than a metaphor. A team of British researchers has reported in the Lancet that ten habitual marijuana users were found to be suffering from cerebral atrophy, or irreversible shrinkage of the brain tissue. The patients, all between 18 and 28, were under treatment for various neurological symptoms and drug abuse. Using a special X-ray technique to measure the volume of the patient's brain tissue, the physicians found all ten to have significant atrophy, a condition frequently found in the elderly, people with...
Researchers have suspected for years that Hodgkin's disease-cancer of the lymphatic system-might be communicable to a small degree. New findings reported in the British medical publication Lancet offer the strongest evidence yet to support the theory: thirteen cases of the relatively rare illness have been discovered in Albany, N.Y. Each of the victims had associated with at least one of the others or with a mutual acquaintance. Ten have died...