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When Patriots safety Rodney Harrison tore the anterior cruciate, medial collateral, and posterior cruciate ligaments in his left knee just three weeks into the 2005 season, it was potentially a career-ending injury. Harrison, however, refused to acknowledge that possibility. Facing major reconstructive surgery, he had faith in a higher power and in medical technology.
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Rosemary Wilson, a 53-year-old Connecticut homemaker, has spent the past 20-odd years trying to fix whatever it is that's wrong with her back. She's seen neurologists, an orthopedic surgeon, an osteopath and a physical therapist. She has also sought help from chiropractors, a massage therapist an...
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MTUBATUBA, South Africa  - Tryphina Ngwenya slides a pink condom over the magic wooden stick normally used to conjure up ancestral spirits, unleashing a ripple of laughter among her audience of traditional South African healers.
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MADRI, India  - Whenever Lalibati, a poor farmer's  wife in western India, falls sick, she heads for only one  person: the local faith healer.
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Clergymen struggling to comfort the afflicted in New Orleans are finding they, too, need someone to listen to their troubles.
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The Selomas and the Monamodis find room for children in need.
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Our health care system is a frustrating mix of routine miracles and scandalous failures. The miracles abound; Bill Clintonâs recent open-heart surgery was cutting-edge a few decades ago.
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NHULUNBUY, Australia  - As the campfire burns slowly, a group of Aborigines build a "place of healing" in a remote outback camp where they will treat the ill using traditional bush medicines.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Rachmat has a nasty gash on his leg from cleanup duty. Marni, an old-timer, has a laceration on her forehead. Their fellow workers are also nursing cuts and scrapes.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Oct. 7 -- At first it looked like an old glove, black and rubbery and flattened in traffic. But a closer look revealed toenails.
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Adiences of an exhibition are being invited to see what they would look like if they had cosmetic surgery.
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By Sara Kennedy, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Dec.
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Patients could be offered therapies such as acupuncture on the NHS under plans being considered by the assembly government.
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Patients with heart disease are being offered a  treatment with a difference - vibrating trousers.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Under the blazing noontime sun in this relief camp, Fatima Abdullah Abou does something she couldn&#39;t have done before the Darfur conflict began. She takes her patient, a young mother about to give birth, to get medical help at a local clinic manned by doctors for an international medical aid group, Relief International.
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Customers are getting Botox shots in settings that are   more salon than  doctorâs office.
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It's a basic lesson children learn even before their ABCs &#151; say you're sorry when you hurt someone. But it's now being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly powerful way to soothe patients.