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...economy is a mess. Prices are falling, which means consumers won't buy, thinking goods will be cheaper next week. Banks are crushed by bad debts. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi wants to reform the economy and let bankrupt firms go to the wall. Result: in the short term, more pain and record levels of unemployment...
...mind may not feel pain, but it does know when its wires are loose, and a different sort of pain comes from not being able to do anything about it. Memory loss (what's the capital of Wyoming again?) offers the most common example by evoking sudden panic. But it gets a lot worse. A college psych class I was barely in visited a mental hospital where psychiatrists interviewed several patients to demonstrate the relative severity of their illnesses. One was a former mathematics professor who, unlike the others, was calm as an evening lake in answering the doctors' questions...
...suffer from persistent aches and pains in your lower back, it may be of small comfort to know you're not alone. As many as 80% of adults in the U.S. experience significant lower-back pain at some time during their life, making it second only to the common cold as a cause of lost workdays among those under age 45. The good news is that most cases aren't serious and respond well to simple treatments such as physical therapy and over-the-counter medications. But for some patients, pain persists, making them desperate to find any means...
...this group, your answer could well be a new, minimally invasive procedure called nucleoplasty. In less than an hour, most patients walk out of the doctor's office--yes, walk--and are free of much of their pain. To be sure, nucleoplasty is not for everyone. According to Dr. Yung Chen, director of the Stanford Interventional Spine Center in Stanford, Calif., the ideal candidate is someone who has only a mildly herniated disk--meaning the damaged disk hasn't completely ruptured or extruded too far outside its normal confines within the spinal column...
...soft, gel-like substance in their center, or nucleus, helps cushion the jolts caused by simple movements like running and jumping. But for various reasons, a disk's hard, protective shell can degenerate, allowing the spongy interior to bulge out and press on spinal nerves. This can cause excruciating pain that radiates down the leg in a condition commonly called sciatica...