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Sitting on the couch watching TV, my foot started its nervous tapping, irritating my wife sitting next to me. Then it happened. Dancing with the Stars judge Len Goodman commented that the dancer's foot was moving so fast it looked like he had restless leg syndrome. My ears perked up. Having seen advertisements for pharmaceuticals to treat this condition, and not knowing what it was, I searched the Web for "restless leg syndrome" in an act of self diagnosis and began to wonder: What influences our searches for medical conditions...
Pain relief isn't the only reason to stop a migraine before it goes too far. When the illness goes untreated, there is some evidence "of a mechanism in the central nervous system that makes traditional medications less useful," says Dr. Michael Moskowitz, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston. How that resistance develops is the subject of intense investigation...
...fairy songs,” recalls Hoagland. After college, Hoagland plans to move to Hollywood and try his luck on the silver screen. “I am excited to move to L.A. to begin my career,” he says. “But I am also nervous about my potential to get discouraged. It will take time to build a career. Acting is not like becoming a doctor, which always includes the same things: medical school, the MCAT, internship, residency. There is no formula for becoming an actor, so there are many different kinds of success...
...says. On a combination of No-Doz, caffeine, over-the-counter-drugs, and other substances, Adams tried to stay up for days prior to his medical screening to make the army doctor believe he had some type of disorder.“I had destroyed my nervous system on no sleep, controlled substances and looked like a frightful mess,” he says. Noticing something amiss, the army doctor asked Adams to return for repeated visits. Adams had 15 physicals in total. On this extended regiment of no sleep, Adams recalls a particularly harrowing incident...
...Often responsible for soothing the fears of both parents and students alike about life after studying Latin and Greek, Assistant Professor of the Classics David F. Elmer ’98 says Classics concentrators, among others, go on to a full range of professional and academic careers. As for nervous parents, he jokes, “It’s not hard to convince them that their child will not end up living on the streets...