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Kappler is not exaggerating. In the past few months alone, dozens of new immune discoveries and promising therapies have been reported. Researchers announced in March that by activating certain immune cells, they had increased by 20% the five-year survival rate of patients in the early stages of lung cancer. In the same month, European scientists reported eliminating the need for insulin shots in some diabetic children by administering a drug that suppresses the immune system. Researchers in Colombia have tested a malaria vaccine that, unlike previous efforts, seems to provide protection against the disease. Advances have come so fast...
...m.p.h. It was a knee killer." Musicians face peril as well. Pinched nerves and muscle cramps caused by repetitive hand motions are common. Violinists suffer everything from fiddler's neck rash to complete jaw displacements. Trumpeters get neck hernias and muscle tears around their mouths. Bagpipers are prone to lung infections from fungus that grows inside the bag. Clarinetists develop thumb problems, because the 28-oz. horn is supported only by a hook on the finger. "It's a vicious instrument," declares one physician...
Slowed recovery has a profound impact when it comes to illness. With advancing years, bones take longer to knit, wounds to heal and infections to clear up. Ultimately, says Cassel, the difference is that a "healthy young person can lose a lung, a kidney and do fine. And so too an old person can be doing fine, but then he has a stroke, a heart attack, whatever. Because of the stress, it's much more likely that all the major organs will go one after the other...
...care. Says William Kannel, chief of preventive medicine at Boston University and a former director of the Framingham Study, a long-term heart-research program: "The most rational use would be in high-risk people, rather than having everyone gobble aspirin." Claude Lenfant, director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, cautions that for aspirin-sensitive people a suddenly increased intake of aspirin could be "tragic...
Tina Lucia, a self-styled therapist in Stone Mountain, Ga., uses crystals to treat patients, because "physical problems are manifestations of spiritual problems." Gallbladder ailments, she says, come from a bitterness toward God, and lung trouble from a hatred of one's own body. "All you have to do is release these problems," she says. She uses amethyst, rose and blue quartz, and even black onyx and obsidian. One of her satisfied customers is Annette Manders, who wields a crystal wand that Lucia gave her. "I healed a fungus under my toenail with my wand," says Manders...