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...past 30 years, doctors and health officials have come to realize how heavy a toll stress is taking on the nation's well-being. According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, two-thirds of office visits to family doctors are prompted by stress-related symptoms. At the same time, leaders of industry have become alarmed by the huge cost of such symptoms in absenteeism, company medical expenses and lost productivity...It is a sorry sign of the times that the three best-selling drugs in the country are an ulcer medication (Tagamet), a hypertension drug (Inderal) and a tranquilizer...
Lang has found that hypnotized patients experienced less pain and stress both during and after operations. They also required fewer anesthetics than non-hypnotized patients...
Currently, Lang is studying pain and stress levels in women undergoing breast biopsies...
...panel wound down with an exchange about how the events of September 11 have affected their work. Spiegelman said he suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (he lives in downtown Manhattan.) He has been working out his feelings in a series of comix for the German newspaper "Die Zeit." The other panelists felt overwhelmed by the idea of dealing with the disaster. "I'm sure it can be done, but boy, the chances of falling into something that is just going to be smarmy are lethal," said Kim Deitch. "Crying superheroes," Burns derisively suggested, though just such a thing...
With the third seed, Harvard knows it will not have to play Cornell until the finals and also does not have to stress over making the trip to Lake Placid only to come home the same...