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...study suggests that doctors may be overlooking some significant benefits of heavy-lifting activity for thousands of patients like Jefferson. Published in the Aug. 13 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, the study is the largest and longest of its kind to date. University of Pennsylvania researchers recruited 141 breast-cancer patients with a diagnosis of stable lymphedema. Half of them participated in a biweekly 90-min. weight-lifting program, which involved the slow, progressive addition of weight machines and free weights, up to as much weight as patients could comfortably lift; the other half of the patients...
...eyes, I'm not sad. It's chemotherapy, and I've made the Kleenex industry wealthy.' ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania Senator, proclaiming himself "fit as a fiddle" and "ready for re-election" despite lingering side effects from cancer treatment last year...
...Taiwanese hiking group recommends other mountains to climb, points out how to get to the sulfur springs. One of the women went to college two hours from my home in Pennsylvania...
National Patterns in Antidepressant Medication Treatment Dr. Mark Olfson, New York State Psychiatric Institute; Steven Marcus, University of Pennsylvania Archives of General Psychiatry 9 pages...
...than 50% relapse rate in their patients within months. First attempts to quit smoking cold turkey fail just as often. So, helping drinkers and smokers cut down, even if they can't quit immediately, may have significant value, says Teri Franklin, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. "If you can prevent people from inhaling the 4,000 chemicals in just one cigarette, over 400 of which are carcinogenic, you can get a health benefit," she says, noting that she was only able to quit smoking by first cutting down...