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...guidelines are an attempt to reconcile what is best for the patient - providing treatment that may help - and what is ethically upright. They also reveal a fundamental change in the way modern scientists view the relationship between mind and body. In 1979, a similar survey of American doctors found that 60% of respondents believed that using placebos was a good way to deduce whether a patient had a "real" problem or was just faking it. In the current study, 80% of doctors disagreed with that statement. "That's a significant shift in doctors' thinking in a relatively short time," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Your Doctor Prescribing Placebos? | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...part of society, similar to what is currently happening in the West. As human beings, we have the capacity to think, reason, elevate our minds and arrive at a rational decision without laying blame at anyone else's door. Immorality is not endemic. We have the choice of being upright or engaging in forbidden behavior. Maria Jacob, Mississauga, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...society, similar to what is currently happening in the West. As human beings, we have the capacity to think, reason, elevate our minds and arrive at a rational decision without laying blame at anyone else's door. Immorality is not endemic. We have the distinct choice of being upright or engaging in forbidden behavior. Maria Jacob, Mississauga, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...have my own modest proposals to return air travel to its original upright position. Unlike a snack box or headphones or curbside check-in, they won't cost a dime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Holiday Travel a Little Less Horrid | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...senses--not merely hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch, but also the proprioceptive and vestibular senses, which tell us where our arms and legs are in relation to the rest of us and how our body is oriented toward gravity. Some kids treated for SPD can't maintain an upright position at a desk; some are so sensitive to touch that they shriek when their fingernails are trimmed or if they get oatmeal on their face. Sounds and smells can be overwhelming. When lawn mowers roar outside the home of Lizzie Cave, 4, a STAR child, she's been known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Attention Deficit Disorder? | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

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