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In the January 2009 issue
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Advances in treating (and avoiding) Alzheimer’s disease (pages 1, 4, 5)
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Illustration by Stacy Janis.
what's inside this issue
FOOD SENSE
  • Spices to boost your health (page 7)
  • Smell and taste: close relations (page 7)
SPECIAL REPORT
  • Screening tests you can live without (pages 8, 9)
SHAPING UP
  • The surprising power of gentle exercise (page 10)
OFFICE VISIT
  • To scratch an itch (page 11)
ON YOUR MIND
  • Interesterified fats; Walking speed; Hydrogen peroxide for cuts; Help for a pinched nerve (page 12)
PLUS:
UPFRONT
  • Editor’s note: Flu vaccine myths (page 2)
HEALTH WIRE
  • Eat fast, gain weight; Pneumonia vaccine may help the heart; Sweet healing powers?; How will this drug help me, Doc?; Surf the Web to boost your brain; V.I.P. diseases (pages 2, 3)
NEWS; YES OR NO?
  • Saving your health-care dollars (page 3)
  • Wheelchair recycling; Spoiled leftovers; Respite care; Snow-shoveling injuries; COOL labels. (page 3)
GETTING PERSONAL
  • Do you really need to detox? (page 6)
  • Footpads (page 6)

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