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Sex and reproductive systems

impact of bed rest on

male potency, exercise and

type 2 diabetes and

Skin, impact of bed rest on

Slow-twitch oxidative muscles

South Carolina, University of in Columbia

Spinal fusion surgery

Stanford University

Stem cells

Stress

Stroke

Sydney, University of

Tai chi

Television

Alzheimer’s disease and

average time children watch

as a substitute for physical activity, need to avoid

type 2 diabetes and

Tennessee, University of in Knoxville

Testosterone

Texas, University of

M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Southwestern Medical Center

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Thompson, Paul D.

Tryptophan

Tufts University

Ulrich, Cornelia

United States

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, rate of

average caloric intake in

diabetes prevalence in

obese, percentage of the population that is

treatment for sedentary persons, cost of

University Hospital (Cologne, Germany)

University Hospital (Freiburg, Germany)

University Hospital (Göttingen, Germany)

University Hospital (Leipzig, Germany)

University Hospital (Marburg, Germany)

University Hospital (Saarland, Germany)

Untrained heart

Urinary passages, impact of bed rest on

van Praag, Henriette

Vermont College of Medicine, University of

Viagra

Voelcker-Rehage, Claudia

Volkow, Nora

Waddell, Gordon

Waitz, Grete

Washington, University of in Seattle

Weinstein, James

Westerlind, Kim

White, Paul Dudley

Williams, George

Williams, R. Sanders

Witten/Herdecke, University

Wolff, Julius

Wolff’s law (law of the bone transformation)

World Health Organization

Yale School of Medicine

Yale University

YMCA (Seattle, Washington)

Zegelin, Angelika

Jörg Blech, a native of Cologne, Germany, received his diploma in molecular biology from the University of Cologne in 1993. After studies in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Sussex, England, he trained in journalism and was awarded internships in Paris, Washington DC, and Bangkok. He was science reporter for
Stern
magazine, the weekly newspaper
Die Zeit,
and since 1999 has been a staff writer at Europe’s largest weekly news magazine,
Der Spiegel
. In 2005 he established the Boston bureau of
Der Spiegel
and was appointed science correspondent. His five best-selling books for a general audience have been excerpted in
Der Spiegel
,
Facts
magazine (Switzerland
), Profil
magazine (Austria),
El Pais
daily (Spain),
New Scientist,
and
The Guardian
. His book
Inventing Disease and Pushing Pills
has been published in a dozen languages. Jörg Blech lives with his wife and their three children in Arlington, Massachusetts.

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Translation copyright © 2009 by Jörg Blech

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