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...Administration may find that it would be better off to hold its tongue about the rate at which the deficit is growing. It is still forecasting that GDP will only drop 1.2% in 2009. That number is clearly improbable which should shake whatever confidence the taxpayers have in the forecast. Anyone watching the process of budget revision as the bottom line gets progressively worse understands that a $2 trillion deficit for the year is possible, and perhaps likely...
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Anyone who has suffered from back pain knows that when the throbbing gets bad enough, you'll try anything to find relief - heating pads, acupuncture, pain relievers, physical therapy, even poking yourself with toothpicks...
Cherkin and his team followed up with the patients at eight weeks, 26 weeks and a year after their sessions to find out how much pain they were experiencing. After eight weeks, twice the number of patients getting any type of acupuncture - whether it was customized, standard or sham - reported improvements in their ability to function, such as walking or going up and down steps without pain, compared with those sticking with traditional care. That improvement was expected, to a certain extent, since physicians are increasingly aware that acupuncture does have physiological effects on the body. "There...
...while these results suggest that you might not even need the full-fledged needle-penetrating version to find relief, no physician is quite ready to recommend pricking yourself with toothpicks. "Further studies are going to have to tease out the relative magnitude of the placebo effect from the physiological effects of acupuncture," says Nahin. "But for patients, what the study tells you is that if you are having pain that is not being well managed by standard care, then acupuncture is a viable option...