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...plans for after college. These problems, however, run far deeper than the tutors themselves; rather, they stem predominantly from the shortcomings of the current tutor system and selection process. The existing selection procedures pit Houses against each other as they battle for the most talented tutors. Students inevitably suffer from these fights because their House loses strong tutors to another House. Instead of fiercely competing, Houses should be working together to help each other meet their needs. This kind of cooperation would be a tremendous improvement, benefiting students in every House...
...plenty of company in her misery. Approximately 1 in 6 Americans suffers from chronic or recurrent pain. For many, especially the millions who suffer from inflammatory diseases like arthritis or from chronic back pain, the withdrawal of Vioxx from the market last September and the serious questions raised about the safety of the entire class of COX-2 inhibitor drugs--at last week's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hearings and in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine--represent yet another setback in the long, frustrating search for relief. "I just loved Vioxx. It was magic...
Doctors who specialize in managing pain say this need not be so. Perhaps the biggest reason so many patients suffer more than they should is the tendency among doctors and patients alike to see pain as a mere sideshow--a vexing side effect of arthritis, a herniated disc, cancer or trauma--rather than what it is: a serious and consequential health issue in its own right. A long-suffering Michigan physician and mother of three, who asks that her name not be used, knows this both as a doctor and as a patient whose life has been compromised by severe...
...finally put to rest in the 1980s, as research proved that kids, with their still developing nervous systems, actually experience pain more intensely than adults do. But only recently have doctors begun to get serious about the problem of chronic pain in kids--even though millions of children suffer from juvenile arthritis, cancer, fibromyalgia and other extremely painful disorders. Moreover, as many as 20% of kids who undergo surgery each year develop chronic pain that lasts long after the body has healed. According to Dr. Lonnie Zeltzer, founder and director of the Pediatric Pain Program at UCLA's Mattel Children...
According to Zeltzer, some 80% of kids under 17 treated in her pain clinic also suffer from anxiety and depression, and the clinic addresses those feelings as well (so do the handful of other programs around the country that focus on pediatric pain). "It's really sad that children were so undertreated in the past," says Dr. Catherine Skae, director of Pain Service at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore in New York. "I think we've come a long way, but we still have a long way to go." --By Michael D. Lemonick. Reported by David Bjerklie/New York...