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Article: Wonder cures from the fringe. (holistic medicine)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- September 23, 1991
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Millions of Americans probably grumbled into their coffee, "So? I knew that," when they read last month that people who are under stress get more colds than people who are not. It was the finding of a quite serious study in the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably the world's leading medical journal. The average three-colds-a-winter type, of course, is aware that if he is pressured at the office, rushed at home and gets too little rest, recreation and exercise, something has to give.
But behind that prosaic conclusion lurked a larger and more intriguing story. For the study added another morsel of evidence to a new field of research examining the tantalizing ...