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...real medicine, a placebo or no treatment at all. Their analysis, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that placebos offer no significant advantage over "no treatment" for dozens of conditions ranging from colds and seasickness to hypertension and Alzheimer's disease. (The exception is pain relief, which sugar pills seem to bring to about 15% of patients.) Dr. Asbjorn Hrobjartsson of the University of Copenhagen, who led the study, speculates that much of the improvement attributed to the placebo effect may have been the result of a disease's natural fluctuation or of patients' unconscious...
Botulinum toxin--yes, the same poison that causes muscle paralysis when ingested in bad restaurants and smooths forehead wrinkles in trendy clinics--may also relieve aching backs. Scientists report in the journal Neurology that patients with longstanding lower-back pain who receive Botox injections are three times as likely as those who get injected with a saline solution to report less pain and less difficulty walking, sitting and exercising. The shots, five in all, not only eased muscle spasms along the spine--which might be expected, given Botox's known muscle-relaxing effects--but somehow also quieted the nerve firings...
...grades fell from A's to D's and F's. One day, after a glaring match with Creson in a hallway, Davis recalls, "it was just like something clicked in my head. I had been going downhill for so long. I got stuck thinking about all the pain I'd suffered. And I couldn't put all that out of my head." He went home, got his hunting rifle and ambushed Creson in the school parking...
...Ferber, a Los Angeles prosecutor specializing in animal-abuse cases, the Gleevec experience was very much the same. Less than two years ago, he was lying in a hospital room considering suicide to escape the pain radiating from his bones. "From crawling across the floor on my knees to go to the bathroom, I'm now back at work," says Ferber, 48. "I go to the gym. I'm volunteering for an animal-rescue group. I have a girlfriend. It's the dream of any cancer patient in the world to be able to take a pill that works like...
...Hopkins University, are searching for diagnostics that will pick up other cancers in their preliminary stages. Others are focusing on an even earlier stage, trying to lower the risk of developing cancer to begin with. Here the most exciting work centers on the cycooxygenase inhibitor called COX-2. This pain reliever was originally developed to clamp down on inflammation as aspirin does but without aspirin's tendency to eat through the lining of the stomach...