A to Z Health Guide 2007

The scientific bulletin of the year may be the stem-cell breakthrough. But 2007 provided a whole alphabet of big medical news. TIME's A-to-Z guide reviews them

By Coco Masters, Alice Park, Carolyn Sayre, Tiffany Sharples, Alexandra Silver and Kate Stinchfield

Yearning

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As many of us know from experience, grief over the death of a loved one tends to encompass several emotions — often classified as disbelief, yearning, anger, depression and acceptance. A study in JAMA clarifies the progression of grief, noting that yearning — a consuming longing for a lost one's return — not depression, may be the dominant negative response to a natural death and that it peaks four months after the loss. But acceptance eventually trumps the other states, allowing for some closure to grief.

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