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...said was true; veggies really are good for you. One study showed that eating garlic may help lower blood pressure. Other medical surveys suggested a relationship between specific foods and a reduced risk of certain diseases: broccoli and breast tumors, for example, or grapefruit and clogged arteries, soybeans and liver cancer...
Flash's problem seemed to be self-inflicted -- a bleeding stomach wound caused by his habit of chewing up and swallowing every splintery stick he could get his teeth on. But first the vet had to rule out rat poison and cancer with a blood test ($45) and a liver scan ($140). Then there was the emergency work-up ($45), followed by a catheter ($30), urinalysis ($22), a steroid injection and lab work to check organ function ($71); anesthesia ($345); an IV attached to a leg ($110); a biopsy ($45); upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy for fiber-optic images...
...effect, Oregon is promising to provide universal coverage in exchange for a system of financial triage. A child will get a liver transplant; a chronic alcoholic will not. An AIDS sufferer will get treatment in the early stages of his illness but in the terminal stages will get only "comfort care." The plan would not pay for so-called heroic measures, such as expensive life | support for babies born after less than 23 weeks of gestation and weighing less than 500 g (1.1 lbs.). Nor will it pay for self-curing ailments -- now covered -- like the common cold, food poisoning...
Among the technique's fans is top fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo, who was battling crippling arthritis before he sought the ministrations of Dr. Ling Sun Chu in New York City. "Before Dr. Chu, I lived on cortisone, Motrin, Advil and other pills that are bad for the liver," says Scavullo. Instead of "ending up in a wheelchair," he enthuses, "I was skiing and jumping horses." But beware acupuncturists -- or any healers -- who promise too much. "It's not a cure-all," says Chu, 83, who is also an M.D. Preferably acupuncture should be used in conjunction with Western medicine...
...town. The shiatsu masseuse will encourage you to buy certain herbs. Before you know it, you've suspended disbelief and are having your foot rubbed by a reflexologist -- a practitioner of a therapy, popular among the Amish, that maintains that your body's control panels are your feet. (The liver's special rheostat is in the middle of the right foot; the gallbladder's is nearby...