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...Lyme Disease, a tick-borne infection that's endemic in parts of the Northeast and Midwest, are easily cured by taking an antibiotic like doxycycline for a couple of weeks. But for years a debate has raged over what to do about patients whose symptoms (fatigue, mental confusion, joint pain) never seem to clear up. One small but vocal group of doctors and patient advocates believes that Lyme's corkscrew-shaped spirochetes have burrowed deep into their victims' bodies and can be eradicated only with intensive antibiotic treatment over many months. Another group believes, just as adamantly, that the bacteria...
...dose of doxycycline dramatically cut the risk of contracting the disease. That good news is tempered somewhat by the fact that 80% of patients who develop the infection don't remember ever being bitten by a tick. (The bugs inject an anesthetic into the skin to mask the pain and in their nymph stage are so small--about the size of a poppy seed--that they are easily overlooked...
...hospital right now.' At Cedars, he did his pre-op and they were terrific. We got x-rays, we got it cleaned out, he got morphine. By the time that everybody was done screwing around, it had been well over an hour before he got any pain medication...
...after it. Hooker once said "the blues is a pick-up. It's not a letdown." Although he sang sad songs like "Hobo Blues" and "My First Wife Left Me" and "It Serves Me Right (To Suffer)", Hooker was searching for catharsis, not pathos; he was looking to chase pain away, not to simply revel in it. "What do music do? It keeps the world turning," Hooker once said. "If there wasn't no music, this world would be a sad place to live...
...Tina Tessina: What postpartum depression means is that after the pain and tremendous exhaustion brought on by childbirth, and then through the fatigue of round-the-clock feedings, some women start to feel incredibly isolated, like no one understands what you're dealing with and that can't talk to anyone. Women sometimes also experience serious hormonal shifts, which can lead to radical mood swings. There is often a very serious disconnect between what women feel after they've given birth (depressed, tired, in pain) and what women are told they're supposed to feel as new mothers (elated, joyful...