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Optical illusion dampens arthritis pain
Seeing the movements of a healthy hand mirroring one's own movements plays a welcome trick on the brains of arthritis sufferers, a new study shows: It reduces the perception of pain. The observation, reported this week at the Society for Neuroscience's...Tags: Hands, Amputation, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Arthritis
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The Healthy Skeptic: Is caffeine an effective weight-loss aid?
If losing weight was one of your New Year's resolutions, you might already be growing weary of counting calories and working out. Wouldn't it be great if you could slim down without so much effort?
Anyone looking for a shortcut to weight loss might be...Tags: Vitamin D, Physiology, L. Michael White, Ephedra (dietary supplement), Storrs
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New Avastin tests add to confusion over use in breast cancer
In November, following an emotional public hearing some months earlier, the Food and Drug Administration withdrew approval for the cancer drug Avastin for patients with metastatic breast cancer — the late-stage, incurable form of the disease. The...Tags: Mastectomy, Diseases and Illnesses, Diseases and Illnesses, Germany, Human Body
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Open the discussion on dying
Last week, my dad was taken on a practice run from his Northern California nursing home back to his house. He'd had recent hip surgery, and the idea was that if he could master the challenge of getting in and out of the car and the wheelchair, he could...Tags: Nursing Homes, Cancer, Nursing, Medical Specialization, Chemotherapy
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Bill Janklow dies at 72; South Dakota governor, congressman
Bill Janklow, the former four-term South Dakota governor who resigned as the state's lone member of Congress after causing a fatal traffic accident, died Thursday of brain cancer in Sioux Falls, S.D., said his son Russ. He was 72.
He was known as a...Tags: Cancer, Regional Authority, College Baseball, U.S. House of Representatives, Government
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Dr. Richard Olney dies at 64; researcher sought cure for Lou Gehrig's disease
Dr. Richard Olney, an internationally renowned researcher who dedicated his life to finding a cure for Lou Gehrig's disease, has died after his own eight-year battle with the disease. He was 64.
Olney died Friday at his Marin County home, UC San...Tags: Litigation, Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Research, Genes and Chromosomes
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That bad attitude? Blame the birth month
If you don't believe in horoscopes, you're in step with science. But that's not the same as saying the season of your birth cannot affect your fate. Hundreds of studies, published in peer-reviewed journals, have suggested that the month a person is born...Tags: University of Oxford, Vitamin D, Flu, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Diseases and Illnesses
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Market Watch: On the cusp of grapefruit season
Special to the Los Angeles TimesMidwinter is prime citrus season for both the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California districts, with an abundance of excellent mandarins, oranges, tangelos and lemons. The one laggard is conventional grapefruit, which, as grown in these two areas will...Tags: Oranges, Genes and Chromosomes, Grapefruit, Health, Human Body
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Wylie W. Vale Jr. dies at 70; researcher helped discover stress hormone
Wylie W. Vale Jr., a professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla and an internationally renowned expert on brain hormones who led a team of Salk researchers that discovered the brain hormone that triggers the body's reaction to...Tags: Physiology, Diseases and Illnesses, Endometriosis, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Body
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