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Some friends and I discussed V.S. Ramachandran’s famous “mirror box” therapy over drinks last night, which has long been one of my favorite experiments . It alleviates phantom limb pain, using only a mirror. Then, when I got home from the bar, I saw a study showing that mice can recognize an artificial limb as its own, too.

Embodiment is so…bizarre.

Republicans dangle pay raise to physicians — if they stay quiet on Medicaid cuts

Lawmakers have begun lobbying the lobbyists : asking health care interests to keep quiet — or speak up — about potential cuts to Medicaid, which will put 10.9 million people at risk of losing health insurance.

Republicans have urged do

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