Issue: March 19, 2012 (Archive)

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Music as medicine
Judith Ritchie unlocked her office at the Sammons Cancer Center and gathered the instruments that would best serve her patients in the oncology unit. An American Indian flute. A plucked psaltery or lap harp.

Watch the voice
Here are some other common benign vocal cord diseases which cause hoarseness in the voice.

Perils of hoarse voice
Learning to look after your voice and to know when there is a problem is particularly important for professionals who make use of their voice in their line of duty.

What's app, Doc?
What do you do if you're looking for a doctor? You could flip through the Yellow Pages but how do you tell if the doctor is any good? Or you could ask friends for recommendations.

No pain, all gain
Your loss is someone else's gain. Outdoor fitness company Circuit25 is giving you two new incentives to tone up: All4One and the Six-Week Challenge.

Give yourself 21 days
Almost 40 percent of the Chinese population is overweight or obese, according to the World Health Organization. The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes in the country is close to 10 percent of the population - similar to that of the United States.

Won't come out to play
The kid who never gets the ball tossed to him in the playground may be more likely to pass on any type of exercise. Children who were ostracized during a virtual ball-toss computer game were subsequently less physically active, a study has found.

Eye that freebie
Get a free Sukin Antioxidant Eye Serum (HK$135) when you buy more than HK$230 worth of Sukin products from Watsons between February 28 and March 18.

Gentle cleanser
You don't need to scrub your face squeaky clean to cleanse it thoroughly.

Stop pushing it
Mark Goldman was a relative newcomer to yoga when he found himself teetering in the standing lotus pose with an instructor barking over him like a drill sergeant. "You can get into this pose," the yogi said. "Push harder."

Fight the radicals
Pollution, smoking and stress increase the presence of free radicals in your body.

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