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Joshua E. Raffaelli '02 has been bedridden for a week with pneumonia, unable to attend class or leave his room...
Scientists report a promising new treatment for Parkinson's disease. A study of advanced and even bedridden cases shows that electrically stimulating the brain with implanted electrodes reduces symptoms dramatically. Indeed, most patients who underwent the procedure were well enough to perform everyday tasks again--even while cutting back on their medication...
...week after surgery instead of for six hours, as existing drugs do. Prolonged pain after chest or abdominal surgery is not just unpleasant; it can be harmful as well, keeping a patient from taking deep breaths or coughing--things they need to do. Pain can also keep people bedridden, impeding their recovery. "Our major aim is to get people up quickly," Berde says. "They're less likely to develop pneumonia, lose muscle mass and have trouble sleeping." Ambulatory adults are also less prone to blood clots, heart attacks and mental confusion...
...just waking up on Thursday in Edmonds, Wash., when she heard the news. The radio announced that the Supreme Court had sustained a Washington State law forbidding the terminally ill from enlisting doctors' help in committing suicide. Jewell, 58, who has advanced ovarian cancer and an aversion to a bedridden, IV-tubed future, was bitterly dismayed. "I felt a heaviness in my heart," she says. "I've always been a law-abiding citizen, but I think this is a moral right...
Five years ago, when I was bedridden with rheumatoid arthritis, I kept saying to myself, "I have to do something now." But then I thought, "I just have to wait" to get better. After 20 years in the entertainment business, I realize that I don't have the ability to create my own projects as a writer or producer. My talent is interpreting the works of others. I have to wait for good material...