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...cancer center that offers seminars on how patients can benefit from this emerging science, I can attest that most have never heard of epigenetics. Yet everything in our environment - the way we think and feel, our exposure to stress - affects the way our DNA is expressed. Once we understand this premise, we can incorporate strategies to effect epigenetic changes - including neurogenesis, the growth of new nerve tissue in the brain. Brenda Stockdale Atlanta...
...Call Me the Idiot I am one of the antireform liberals Joe Klein disparages in "Village Idiots" [Jan. 11]. While the value of the health care reform bill is debatable - 30 million people may get coverage that may or may not be worthwhile - I can't understand why anyone would not be outraged that the government is forcing them to buy private insurance from an industry that routinely pays CEOs seven figures while denying sick, dying people coverage. How is that not outrageous? Ezra Abrams Newton, Mass...
...trials show promise and which experimental treatments are bunk. But as people take more control of their health care - joining an empowerment movement many are calling Patient 2.0 - plenty of doctors are worried about the quality of the information that is being assessed as well as patients' ability to understand it. Or as Duke neurology professor Dr. Richard Bedlack puts it, "Just because you have the tools to work on your sports car doesn't mean you're ready to do it." (See how to prevent illness...
...puts us in a huge hole, but we just got to take care of everything one game at a time,” Lin said. “It puts us really far behind but we understand crazier things have happened. We have to make sure we don’t drop any more games...
...real problem with the decision is that it undermines the strength of the nation’s economic and technological leadership. To understand this, we can invoke the words of a key Democrat who has previously given eloquent speeches in support of the Constellation program—Barack Obama...