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Updated throughout the day, it's the Torch News Ticker with all the news and info that's not fit for print. Bookmark it every Monday! Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:00 a.m. - We're looking for reports from the two TNA house shows this weekend and last night's WWE supershow in Providence. - TV ratings: Smackdown from Friday night averaged a 2.7 rating, down slightly from last week's 2.8 rating. The show finished fifth out of the five networks on the night, but finished fourth in adults 18-49 with a 1.4 rating. - Mike Mooneyham's Sunday column has an interview with Jeff Hardy. Hardy talks about his rise to legit main event status, his current injuries, and avoiding serious injury. Regarding doing dangerous stunts, Hardy says, "I'm usually pretty comfortable with anything I look at or stand on top of.
More researchers embrace mind-body connection
Tagging along with winter come ailments that challenge most Western doctors: stress, back and joint pain, head colds, heart attacks, anxiety, depression, upset stomachs and insomnia.Is it time to try acupuncture, hypnosis, meditation, guided imagery and massage?
Surprisingly, even the most conservative mainstream research hospitals now answer "yes!"Twenty years ago, the mind-body connection was largely dismissed by U.S. doctors as a wacky concept in healing. Today it's a staple of integrative medicine, the discipline that blends complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, with conventional treatments and places more emphasis on treating the whole person.About 75 percent of medical schools have CAM courses in the curriculum, and the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine includes 39 academic health centers, including Mayo Clinic as well as Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Duke and Yale universities.To help doctors catch up on the growing body of evidence-based research on CAM therapies, the University of Chicago's Tang Center for Herbal Medi-cine Research and the Mayo Clinic co-hosted the annual Conference on Complementary and Alternative Medicine."The encouraging thing is that CAM treatments require self-care," said Brent Bauer, director of the Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program at the Mayo Clinic.
Arnhem in the gardens
THERE is no red dust for them to kick up in dance. There is manicured lawn and exotic European trees instead of a sea of spinifex. Even the sky seems to be a different colour blue. The birdcalls are strange, as is the noise from the busy road that runs on the garden's fringe. As they take in their surroundings, the Beswick community Songmen realise they are about as far across mainland Australia as they can get from their home in south-west Arnhem Land. But the Songmen, led by singer and actor Tom E. Lewis, have travelled across the country to bring some of the spirit of their land to Melbourne's Botanic Gardens, with a performance tonight of their Walking with the Spirits forming part of the Australia Day celebrations. Mr Lewis, who starred in the 1971 film The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, said the combination of ancient corroboree with modern rock and jazz influences made music that was "proper medicine for the country".
Your Health: Besides beta blockers, breathing exercises can help blood ...
Q:A few months ago, I finally yielded to my doctor's pressure and went on a blood pressure medication, against my better judgment. I am a 63-year-old female. The medication is metoprolol succinate.If you could tell me some of its side effects, I would be grateful. I am not feeling well, and I am guessing this new med is the culprit.A:Metoprolol, like other beta blocker blood pressure medicines, may cause fatigue, dizziness or diarrhea. Some people develop an itchy rash while taking the medicine, while others may find themselves short of breath. It slows heart rate, sometimes by quite a lot.Many cardiologists are reassessing beta blockers, though. Such drugs are rarely considered first-line treatments for hypertension these days (Lancet, Oct. 29, 2005). Blood pressure control is very important, so don't stop your medication on your own.
EBSCO Publishing's Medical Review Board
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Flushing Them Out (52)
Daniela lives down the street from a drug dealer, not a safe environment for a young family. She knows the guy's name, his address and she's seen him do business. But she can't call the police — they might take her away. She's learned how to walk quietly, to stay in the shadows. The only place Daniela allows herself to go is her children's elementary school. She volunteers there six hours a day. She says it's her responsibility to be active in her children's education. But when she walks to school (she won't drive, ever) she makes sure to go with one of her few friend or her kids. "You can't walk alone because if you are walking alone and you get taken, who is going to tell your family you are gone?" she says. "When you walk, you walk fast and you walk quiet. You don't talk to nobody.
War as a Spectator Sport
It started Dec. 16, 1944, as a German offensive in Belgium's Ardennes forest and lasted until Jan. 25, 1945. More than a million troops fought in the battle, including about 600,000 Germans, 500,000 Americans and 55,000 British. This was the snowbound fight so famously depicted in 2001 in the Emmy Award-winning miniseries "Band of Brothers." The term "bulge" refers to the salient that the Germans initially put into the Allies' line. The Gap, which has been hosting the event for more than 20 years, has a connection to the Battle of the Bulge because the 28th Division, now part of the Pennsylvania National Guard, was one of the units that took part in the battle. "The 28th Division took the brunt during the first few days of the Battle of the Bulge," Shaw said. "They were right in the center of it.
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