Saturday, November 28, 2009

Health: more than medicine

A couple of articles that struck a chord:
Awareness and movement do something that seemed impossible:
Learning His Body, Learning to Dance
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Published: New York Times, November 25, 2009
A determined choreographer has done what therapists could not: She has dramatically changed the way Gregg Mozgala, a 31-year-old actor with cerebral palsy, walks.

Maybe feeling taken care of matters too:
Trying to Explain a Drop in Infant Mortality
By ERIK ECKHOLM
Published: November 27, 2009
Mothers in Dane County, Wis., are the subject of a study by researchers into the large racial gap in infant deaths.

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