Holiday signifies life’s battles
Syracuse.com - Dec 17 3:04 AM
7Sherman The genius of the Jewish holiday is such, it can be understood on a variety of levels. There is the historical significance, putting it in yesterday’s context, affirming or celebrating something significant in the collective memory of Jewish peoplehood.Save to My Web
Hypnosis may provide clues of brain function
Houston Chronicle - Dec 15 10:45 PM
Hypnosis, with its long and checkered history in medicine and entertainment, is receiving some new respect from neuroscientists.Save to My Web
Facing up to the hard questions
Sydney Morning Herald - Dec 15 4:55 AM
It was a startling feat of medicine, the world’s first partial face transplant. But many doctors are worried, write Craig S. Smith and Lawrence K. Altman. -Save to My Web
Mind/Body
Philadelphia City Paper - Dec 14 5:18 PM
ACUPUNTURE AND HERBAL HEALING Experience Chinese herbal medicines and acupunture healing. Every Mon, Thu, Fri & Sat, Wellpoint Oriental Medicine, 255 S. 17th St., 215-200-6200.Save to My Web
Women Are Not More of a Pain But They Are More Sensitive To Pain Than Men
[Press Release] PR Web via Yahoo! News - Dec 16 4:00 AM
(PRWEB) December 16, 2005 — For centuries, it has been generally believed women are the more sensitive gender. A new study says that, when it comes to pain, women are in fact more sensitive. According to a report published in Octobers Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery , the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), women have more nerve receptors, which Save to My Web
US panel limits support for Merck shingles vaccine
AlertNet - Dec 15 3:21 PM
BETHESDA, Md., Dec 15 (Reuters) - U.S. health experts on Thursday offered limited support for an experimental vaccine to help prevent shingles, a painful rash affecting about one million, mostly older, Americans each year.Save to My Web
Harris Methodist Fort Worth is all heart
Fort Worth Business Press - Dec 16 9:01 PM
Offering an early and large-scale valentine of sorts to the community, Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital officials unveiled a $62 million heart center Dec. 7. Harris Methodist Heart Center , although not licensed as a separate hospital, is being referred to, at least informally, as Tarrant County s only dedicated heart hospital.Save to My Web