Personal Best
By GINA KOLATA
IT can happen for no reason, it seems, taking you completely by surprise. And it can be excruciating. Suddenly, a muscle contracts violently, as if it had been prodded with a jolt of electricity. And it remains balled in a tight knot as painful second after painful second drags on.
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By REED ABELSON
It is a common medical puzzler. The benefits statement arrives from the insurance company, saying that although the doctor has charged, say, $200 for that recent office visit, only $80 is covered — and the consumer is obliged to pick up the balance.
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By GARDINER HARRIS
WASHINGTON — A Chinese factory that has not been inspected by the Food and Drug Administration is the source for the active ingredient of a critical blood-thinning drug whose production was suspended this week after 350 patients reported ill effects from it.
At least four people died after being given the […]
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By JOSHUA ROBINSON
Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee sprinter who was barred from able-bodied competition in January, is making his final bid to be eligible to qualify for the Olympic Games.
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Arts and Leisure Preview
By JORI FINKEL
(Note: This article will appear in this Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section.)
IT just might rank as one of the biggest accidental discoveries in archaeology. In the summer of 1966 a Harvard student named Steve Young was living in a village in the northeast reaches of Thailand, going door […]
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Dance Review
By JENNIFER DUNNING
The annual ballet gala produced by Solomon Tencer tends to be long on fun and interesting dancers, partly because it plays down the usual tacky glamour of such events. But a little more razzle-dazzle would have been welcome on Monday night at the New York State Theater, when “Stars of […]
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