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...Exalted Nawab of Lower Rawalpindi's 14th and 15th wives go in for a chest X ray, they sit and wait next to Ole and Lena from Spring Grove. And sitting and waiting is part of the Mayo experience. You tell all your interesting troubles to the examining physician, and he or she routes you to the appropriate shamans and gurus--to cardiology or the department of digital prostate examinations or the hiccup guy or the specialist in owliness--and it may take several days to get a thorough checkup, the emphasis being on thoroughness. It's a good idea...
...Engle case is a class-action suit--the first ever tried against the tobacco industry--which means that the plaintiffs (in this instance, three) sue on behalf of themselves and others, united by a common complaint. The case bears the name of physician Howard Engle, who suffers from emphysema and was originally the lead plaintiff. For the case truly to run its course, say some legal experts, Florida would have to try each of the hundreds of thousands of complainants' suits individually--to corroborate the $145 billion aggregate penalty...
Ever since 1906, when German physician Alois Alzheimer described the degenerative brain disorder that bears his name, doctors have argued about what exactly causes the disease. Dr. Alzheimer carefully noted two main features of the autopsied brains of his patients: the dense clumps, or plaques, of protein that showed up where nerve cells should have been and the tortured tangles that many of the neurons had become. But whether the plaques or the tangles triggered the illness or they were both just the most visible effects of some other, more obscure process no one could say for sure...
Cycling suits both the gung-ho exercisers whose knees can no longer take the shock of running and the flabby layabouts who are finally heeding doctors' advice about the heart-protecting, cholesterol-lowering benefits of aerobic exercise. Gabe Mirkin, a sports-medicine physician in Kensington, Md., testifies that pedaling's smooth, rotary motion is safe for your knees. "I used to be a marathoner," he says. "Now that I'm 65, I can't run 400 yards. But I can still ride 20 to 25 miles...
...older people too, memory problems may be the result of poor diet, vitamin deficiencies or glandular imbalances (all reversible with treatment) rather than the classic types of dementia associated with old age. Even if a physician ultimately diagnoses Alzheimer's disease--which is done by eliminating other possibilities rather than by a direct test, because none is available other than a brain biopsy--the news needn't be as bleak as it once might have seemed...