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Elizabeth Cooney is a health reporter for the Worcester Telegram &
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« In case you missed it: trail of misery, wired for excitement, drive-through flu shots, reaching the uninsured, Caritas review, Arthur Kornberg, Gian F. Poggio | Main | Today's Globe: child healthcare bill, going the distance, Mt. Auburn gift, out in the cold » Monday, October 29, 2007Today's Globe: power of music, old drug and new hope, pediatrician's cough conundrum, overdue kudosJust why evolution would have endowed our brains with the neural machinery to make music is a mystery. What is clear is that the brain is abundantly wired to process music.
In my 30 years as a pediatrician, the only side effects I've seen from the cough medications - including the ones pulled by drug companies - were occasional sleepless nights (rather than drowsiness) caused by antihistamines, writes Dr. Victoria Rogers McEvoy, is chief of pediatrics and medical director of the Mass. General West Medical Group and assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
Also in Health|Science, why can't we capture lightning and convert it into usable electricity and is it possible to literally die of a broken heart? Posted by Elizabeth Cooney at 06:46 AM
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Blake Althaus (left) wasn't expected to live much past his second birthday. A genetic disorder was weakening muscles throughout his body, as well as his aorta, the main artery from his heart - leaving him lethargic and nearly immobile. Then a Baltimore researcher following 
