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...noisily rattled sabers about Iran." I can't even begin to imagine Ron Paul wanting to go to war with Iran. He didn't even want to go to war with Iraq. You did a great disservice to Paul by using such a blanket statement. Scott Spencer, Hampton, Va...
SCOTT SPENCER, HAMPTON, VA...
Tandem, based in Ashburn, Va., was testing its process in the lab in early 2001, and Emily Durham was working regularly with the treated water. She noticed something unusual: her forearms and hands looked and felt softer. Durham and the rest of the Tandem team didn't think much of this unusual fringe benefit. "We said, 'Hey, that's great,' but didn't want to deviate from our original goal," Lyles says...
...study, which was funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and lasted from 2003 to 2005, involved 605 veterans - most of whom were white men with an average age of 64, who had chest or abdominal surgery. All patients received routine postoperative care. Two experimental groups, however, received additional individual attention from a massage therapist: One group got a 20-minute visit, during which the patient and the therapist talked but no massage was given, and another group received a 20-minute back massage for up to five days following their operations. The massage group, the study found, reported...
...fact, a moment of medical nostalgia that prompted the pilot study that became the foundation for the VA trial. Recalling his days as a surgical resident in the 1970s, Hinshaw says older nurses would regularly give massages to frail, elderly patients prone to delirium on postoperative drugs. The treatment - standard at the time - helped those patients. "But now most of the nurses who practice it are retired," he says, and, now, medical training adheres more strictly to quantitative means of evaluating patient progress. So, patients' individual concerns and worries are sometimes swept aside in the process, preventing them from receiving...