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...down steps without pain, compared with those sticking with traditional care. That improvement was expected, to a certain extent, since physicians are increasingly aware that acupuncture does have physiological effects on the body. "There is a lot of data now that acupuncture can have an effect on the nervous system, and that the nervous system then has effects on other systems in the body," says Dr. Richard Nahin, acting director of the division of extramural research at the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine...
Cherkin's findings raise at least two possible explanations. Since the sham procedure used the same acupuncture points as the legitimate therapy, there may be something about the stimulation of those points, even without skin penetration, that triggers a beneficial physiological reaction in the body and the nervous system, leading to pain relief. (This may be the mechanism behind acupressure, which involves pressing certain points on the body to alter physiological processes occurring deep inside organs.) Or the patients' improvement may be due simply to a powerful placebo effect, in which the mere belief that you are receiving...
...other reasons you say you're a bad mother is that you aborted a son who may or may not have had serious health issues. Are you nervous about how that's going to be received? He had a genetic abnormality, and that abnormality could have resulted in mental retardation and it also - the chances were more likely that you wouldn't have necessarily known anything was wrong. I expect that people who are pro-life will respond negatively, and, in fact, I'd sort of be disappointed if they didn't. But when I went through this experience...
...firm's 1,200 bookings since January have taken advantage of this promotion. She adds that the discount brings the price of a 15-day trip to Morocco to $722.50 from $850, not including airfare. "For people who are in between jobs and maybe a little nervous about money, this kind of savings could be the difference between staying home and getting to see the world," she says...
...Lewis ’70-’73.Every morning Anderson prints applications from the Common Application Web site—through which about 94 percent of the applications were submitted this year. In addition to processing thousands of applications, the admissions office also receives gifts and trinkets from nervous applicants trying to differentiate their application from the thousands of others. Anderson pointed to handmade soaps, t-shirts, and a crocheted Harvard insignia on his office bookshelf. “The soaps made my office smell great,” he says, laughing.“The most fun part...