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...informed that they have only a few months to live will die within their given time frame, even though postmortem investigations show that there was no physiological explanation for early death). In a new paper published in the journal Pain, researchers found that clinical-trial participants have reported a wide variety of nocebo-fueled medical complaints, including burning sensations outside the stomach, sleepiness, fatigue, vomiting, weakness and even taste disturbances, tinnitus and upper-respiratory-tract infection. What's more, these nocebo complaints aren't random; they tend to be specific to the type of drug that patients believe they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flip Side of Placebos: The Nocebo Effect | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...those studies, neurosurgical patients, wide awake with their cortex exposed, listened to certain sounds and music. While their neural activity was being recorded, they told researchers how those selections made them feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using Music to Ease Patient Stress During Surgery | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...holes were wide open, and I just ran through them...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Breaking Free | 10/13/2009 | See Source »

...convey the truth of a soldier's life in a place like that, your pictures have to delineate a wide range of experience, from pain and grief and anxiety to loneliness, mischievousness and sheer boredom. The images have to find an equilibrium between the war zone as a place of jangling danger and abrupt violence and the war zone as the temporary quarters of young men far from home who are simply trying to get through the day with some semblance of normality. There will be blood, but there will also be mealtimes, horseplay and video games. Recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Window On the War in Afghanistan | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Cristo Rey is an island of success in the Catholic ocean. But as in the charter-school community, there is an awareness that there needs to be a system-wide overhaul, lest another thousand-plus schools close over the next decade. "Just because you're devoted to serving others isn't a reason why you can't be operationally excellent," says Eriksen. "That's not really a culture that has permeated the Catholic Church for the last few decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Solutions to the Catholic-School Crisis | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

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