A Latter-Day Gehrig Survives, and He Demands to Be Heard (New York Times)
For a man so active, a blur of energy climbing mountains, running fishing-boat charters, fixing cars and moving, always moving, it began as weird glitches in the gears.
(New York Times, May 8, 2008 - 5:08:29 PM)
Millions of Americans in Chronic Pain (Time Magazine)
Nursing a migraine today? New research shows you're not alone. More than a quarter of Americans suffer daily pain, a condition that costs the U.S. about $60 billion a year in lost productivity. And how often you're in pain depends largely on the size of your paycheck.
(Time Magazine, May 8, 2008 - 4:54:45 PM)
One in four Americans have daily pain (Reuters)
More than a quarter of Americans have daily pain, a problem that costs the country more than $16 billion a year in pain remedies and about $60 billion a year in lost productivity, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
(Reuters, May 8, 2008 - 4:52:06 PM)
A pacemaker without wires or batteries (Wall Street Journal)
For people with slow or irregular heartbeats, pacemakers have become lifesavers. Doctors have implanted millions of the devices to take over the metronomic chores for malfunctioning hearts since the 1970s. But even after decades of improvement, the devices aren't perfect. They require a surgical procedure, their batteries wear out and sometimes the wires that carry their electrical signals to the heart go bad. (Wall Street Journal, Apr 17, 2008 - 11:53:05 AM)
Bush shifts stance on global warming (Newsday)
Shifting his long-held stance on global warming, President George W. Bush yesterday laid down a new goal - the year 2025 - for halting growth in greenhouse gases, but a local climate expert who last year shared a Nobel Prize said the proposal is far too vague. (Newsday, Apr 17, 2008 - 11:50:48 AM)
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