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...recent study by the University of California at San Francisco found that 40 percent of Americans have some type of chronic illness, leading to $425 billion in direct health care costs every year. This explains why, despite annual health care expenditures of over 1 trillion dollars, the United States medical system was recently ranked 18th among developed countries by the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO found that other developed countries that ranked higher than the United States encouraged a pluralistic health care system which incorporated nontraditional therapies, especially to treat chronic ailments. This strongly suggests that the over...
...which have begun to demonstrate the validity of such treatments as acupuncture or herbal medicine. The pervasiveness of the placebo effect, which we must keep in mind when examining both conventional and alternative medicine, reminds us that controlled, double-blind studies are essential for assessing the efficacy of any type of therapy...
This gradual shift has also been reflected in American medical schools, which will play a major role in determining the attitude of future physicians towards alternative therapies. At the end of 1997, over 30 medical schools were offering at least one course on some type of alternative medicine, and, like all other indices associated with alternative medicine, the classes are proliferating...
Just call it your entire life online. Kraus is the 26-year-old cofounder of Excite excite.com) the Web's No. 2, "we try harder" search engine, one of those immensely useful sites that search the Internet for pages that contain whatever words or phrases you type in. This week Excite unveils its latest incarnation, centered on what the digerati call "personalization." If you want to stick with Excite's standard service, that's fine. But the more personal data you're willing to feed the site, the more the Net's teeming world of data will come formatted...
...movie has its obligatory "gay" jokes and gratuitous dinner scenes that try to force a romantic comedy "feel"--but the momentum never lasts. In a sense, the filmmakers have tried to make a touchy-feely "gay movie," the type of comedy that mainstream audiences can embrace...