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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins announced publication today of the Y2K Survival Guide: A Step-By-Step Workbook for Physicians, which offers medical care providers a strategy for protecting patients against the adverse effects of possible breakdowns in the delivery of health care.

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Back pain and other spinal disorders are very common, but can pose challenging treatment problems. Part of the problem is the difficulty of determining the true effectiveness of treatments, especially in areas affecting the patientís daily activities. (Spine, 12-15-00)

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins announced the debut of Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology, a new journal designed to help keep practicing allergist/immunologists stay current with the burgeoning research in their field.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins announces the launch of an Internet site for healthcare practitioners in internal and family medicine, featuring the full text of the 30th Edition of the best-selling Washington Manual.

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Publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins today announced the launch of LWW's Organism Central, a new CD-ROM product that provides health professionals with a single source for full information on familiar and unfamiliar organisms.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins has launched comprehensive new content and features at LWWoncology.com, its leading Internet community for oncology professionals.

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Back surgery provides better long-term outcomes than nonsurgical treatment for patients with moderate to severe sciatica caused by a herniated disk in the lower back.

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A study of how the severed spinal cord heals in rats shows a direct relationship between re-establishment of specific connections between the brain and spinal cord and recovery of hind-leg function.

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Even though x-rays usually aren't needed to diagnose the cause of low back pain, most patients rate them as "very important."

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At least some of the benefits of alternative medicine treatments for low back pain may be related to the patient's expectation that the treatment will work.