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Eight years ago, Peggie Riechard's future looked promising: She loved her job as a computer programmer, and was moving into a new apartment in St. Louis, Missouri. When she injured her left foot during the move, it seemed like a minor setback -- a stress fracture at worst. But her foot continued to swell and ache, and even brushing it against the bedsheets produced excruciating pain. After five pu...

It was only a couple of weeks after Christian Bagge came home from the war in Iraq that the torment began. Lying in his hospital bed at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Bagge suddenly felt a crushing pain in his feet. His feet, however, were not there. After the 23-year-old National Guard soldier's unit was hit by two bombs on an Iraqi road in June 2005, Bagge woke up in a military hospi...

What is Parkinson's disease? We all lose brain cells as we age -- and most of them aren't really missed. But when the wrong cells stop doing their job, a person can become seriously ill. Certain nerve cells, for example, have the vital job of producing dopamine, a compound that relays messages between parts of the brain that tells muscles how to move smoothly. People develop Parkinson's disease ...

There's still no cure for Alzheimer's or known way to prevent it. But if you're worried about developing the disease, your doctor just might give you an unexpected prescription. She might urge you to exercise daily, eat a diet rich in whole foods, and watch your weight. She might even recommend taking a language class or some dance lessons. Or having a fish dinner twice a week. Or adding curry dis...