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...just at UCLA. At Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, dogs have been incorporated into rehabilitation treatments for victims of brain and spinal-cord injuries. At the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, Sandra Barker brings her own Lhasa apso to relax shock-therapy patients who are visibly trembling before treatment. In Texas, dogs are used to motivate children recovering in burn units and to calm residents in Alzheimer's wards...
...animals are so good at what they do that it may be only a matter of time before they win over the real powers that be in the medical establishment--the HMOs. "Insurance companies will need to recognize the benefits of animal-assisted therapy and reimburse accordingly," predicts Richmond's Barker, whose study of 230 hospitalized patients treated with--and without--a dog in the room was published in the journal Psychiatric Services. The canine-assisted sessions measurably reduced anxiety in depressive and demented patients and cut the anxiety level of psychotic patients in half...
...major change and that CD sales and critical acclaim will inspire other rock acts to emerge. I have endured the boy and girl bands long enough. It's time for music buyers to prove that we won't go for the undertalented teen pop acts anymore. ANNIE BURTOFF Richmond...
...there are flashes. Becker is a member of the Laureus World Sports Academy, a European foundation devoted to achieving social change through sports, and when he heard about its support of the Richmond, Virginia-based Midnight Basketball program, he insisted on seeing it in action. A barely publicized event in mid-April promised little in the way of image-polishing, but Becker went to Richmond anyway, attended a workshop, gave a pep talk, borrowed some socks and sneakers and played ball - all before an audience of only 100 people. A month earlier, he had spent two days working...
Varner's killing produced clues impossible to bobble. "There was blood all over the bedroom," testified Detective Darryl Richmond at Mesa's bail hearing in February. There were bloody footprints made by Nike Air Max sneakers. Reportedly tipped off by a $650 forged check of Varner's made out to Mesa and cashed after Varner's death, police searched Mesa's room and came up with a pair of bloody Air Maxes. After initially protesting his innocence, Mesa finally told Richmond, "O.K., I did it." With the aid of two interpreters, Richmond said, Mesa made a 3 1/2-hr. video statement...