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Power of Words for Cancer Patients
“When my mother was first diagnosed with cancer, she did something she had never done before. She started to write down her feelings. My mother had always been too busy for something she felt was as indulgent as keeping a journal, but in the early days of her cancer diagnosis, she found that writing down her thoughts helped her cope with the prospect of dying.” By ANGEL FRANCO. NY Times: February 26, 2008

Patterns: Bacterim May Reduce Kidney Stone Risk
“A common intestinal bacterium is associated with a significant reduction in the risk for kidney stones, a new study has found.” By NICHOLAS BAKALAR. NY Times: March 18, 2008

Mind’s Control Over Healing
“When doctors and medicine fail, where can you turn? Anthony Brooks talks to Ann Harrington about her new book The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine, which explores the mind’s control over healing.” NPR: Day to Day, March 13, 2008

The Case for Another Drug War, Against Pharmaceutical Marketers’ Dirty Tactics
“By the time Melody Petersen gets around to interviewing Iowa’s state nosologist near the end of “Our Daily Meds,” the facts that she cites don’t even sound that grim. The nosologist’s job is to catalog Iowa’s deceased according to cause of death. He processes about 27,000 death certificates a year. And by his reckoning there were only five deaths caused by adverse reactions to prescription drugs in 2002. That low figure is jarringly out of whack with Ms. Petersen’s investigative reporting in an angrily illuminating book on drug-related corporate malfeasance and patient peril.” By JANET MASLIN. NY Times: March 17, 2008

Psychotherapy for All: An Experiment
“At the faded one-story medical clinic in this fishing and farming village, people with depression and anxiety typically got little or no attention. Busy doctors and nurses focused on physical ailments — children with diarrhea, laborers with injuries, old people with heart trouble. Patients, fearful of the stigma connected to mental illness, were reluctant to bring up emotional problems.” By DAVID KOHN NY Times: March 11, 2008

When Big Business Eats Organic
“Does your purchase of organic milk conjure up images of happy cows? Do you buy brands like Nature’s Farm and Nantucket Nectars because you want to support small farms? Well, this animated graphic will make you think twice about your organic purchases.” TARA PARKER-POPE. NY times: March 19, 2008

Heparin Find May Point to Chinese Counterfeiting
“The finding by the Food and Drug Administration culminated a worldwide race to identify the substance discovered early this month in certain batches of heparin, the blood-thinning drug that had been linked to 19 deaths in the United States and hundreds of allergic reactions.” By WALT BOGDANICH. NY Times: March 20, 2008

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