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May 6, 2004
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Doubled over
Anne Louise Oaklander, director of the Nerve Injury Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, has shown that nerve damage on one side of the body is mirrored on the other. The painful 'crossover effect' has been observed with viral diseases, such as shingles, but also in injuries such as cut fingers, broken legs, and sprained ankles - in other words, where there is no known connection between the two sides of the body. (Staff photo Lindsay Pierce/Harvard News Office) Full story
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HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES
Losing your nerves
Injuries with mirror images cause pain on both sides of the body
Harvard teams solve mystery, define a lung cancer treatment
Dana-Farber, MGH teams discover drug target
Conference examines economics of health innovation
Insulin-producing pancreatic cells are replenished by duplication
New studies put spotlight on replicative capacity of beta cells
New papillomavirus target could lead to first specific antiviral drugs for precancerous cervical lesions
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