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Miraculous stem cell therapy has sickened people in five states

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After years of back pain, Timothy Lunceford decided in July to try an injection of umbilical cord blood, an unproven treatment increasingly touted by chiropractors and pain doctors as a cure for achy joints. A day after he got the shots, Lunceford’s back began throbbing. After two days, he was feverish and could hardly move. “It felt like someone stuck a knife into the middle of my back and just left it there,” said Lunceford, a 52-year-old wildlife biologist from Athens, Tex. Read More...

Opinion | Book review: Stalin: Volume 1, Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, by Stephen Kotkin

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STALIN Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 By Stephen Kotkin Penguin Press. 949 pp. $40 There is a kind of justice when a great despot like Joseph Stalin, who made millions suffer during his lifetime, suffers at the hands of his biographers. From the early accounts by his rival and victim Leon Trotsky to the vivid treatment of Stalin and his court by Simon Sebag-Montefiore, biographers have drawn a dark and sanguinary portrait of a worthy successor to Ivan the Terrible. Read More...

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