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...possible nocebo responses stretches far beyond stomachache (in extreme cases, ailing patients who are mistakenly informed that they have only a few months to live will die within their given time frame, even though postmortem investigations show that there was no physiological explanation for early death). In a new paper published in the journal Pain, researchers found that clinical-trial participants have reported a wide variety of nocebo-fueled medical complaints, including burning sensations outside the stomach, sleepiness, fatigue, vomiting, weakness and even taste disturbances, tinnitus and upper-respiratory-tract infection. What's more, these nocebo complaints aren't random...
...This demonstrates that we’re halfway home, and remarkably we got halfway home with just one chemical,” said Kevin Eggan, assistant professor in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and another senior author on the paper, in a press release announcing the paper...
...Nikhil was the man, make sure you put that in the paper,” Atkinson said. “He was absolutely the man. He blocked a five meter, and two one-on-nobodies...For people who don’t understand water polo, he came up with some one-in-a-hundred saves today...
...asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer for it or where the question is to be found," wrote the Guardian's David Leigh in a historically obscure front-page article on Tuesday. "The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented - for the first time in memory - from reporting parliament...
...Then again, the hypothetical Martian would also scratch his head at the notion of paper money. The dollar has no intrinsic value. It has become the world's storehouse of value because it is backed by the economic might of the U.S. If another super-economy emerges, be it the European Union, China, India, Brazil or Russia, then that new power's currency could replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency, just as the dollar replaced sterling in the last century. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...