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...global revolution, actually. More than 50,000 people around the world suffer spinal injuries each year, and these days, methylprednisolone is the standard treatment in the U.S. and many other countries. But Young is still not satisfied. The drug is an elixir for people who are newly injured, but the relief it offers is only partial, and many spinal-injury victims were hurt before it became available. Young's dream is to help those people too--to restore function already lost--and to that end he is studying drugs and growth factors that could improve conduction in damaged nerves...
Though they make up 45% of the population, patients who suffer from heart disease, diabetes, asthma, AIDS and other long-term maladies account for nearly 80% of all health-care costs--often winding up in the emergency room or a hospital bed when they fail to follow their complicated medication regimen. If you are one of them, don't be surprised when your employer or health insurer introduces you to a specialist in the burgeoning field of disease management. The basic idea is relatively simple: led by a company called American Healthways, these newfangled Florence Nightingales, among them Lifemasters...
...body weakened, I thought of my grandfather who had died of thirst in a communist jail. I wondered whether I, in my freedom, was about to suffer a similar fate. Perhaps I was being punished for my lack of filial duty. I had contravened the ancient Chinese custom that dictates: "When your parents are still alive, don't wander far from home...
...sense of seriousness in the chamber Tuesday afternoon. "This vote is about providing moral leadership for a watching world," said Wisconsin's James Sensenbrenner. Lawmakers cited everyone from Galileo to the Pope to Nancy Reagan in their arguments over how best to balance protecting human life against relieving human suffering. Supporters of the tight Weldon ban warned of embryo farms and headless humans cloned to harvest their organs. "Human beings should not be cloned to stock a medical junkyard of spare parts for experimentation," declared Tom DeLay. Those favoring Greenwood's more liberal guidelines warned of America becoming a theocracy...
...elderly and the young are especially vulnerable to heat stress. So are folks who are overweight or suffer from heart disease. Whatever you do, don't ignore the signs of heat stress in yourself or those around you. When the thermometer's rising, everyone's at risk...