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A new UCLA study suggests that tai chi chih (a modern, simplified form of tai chi) boosts immunity in the elderly against shingles, a painful rash caused by the reactivation of the chickenpox virus. For example, about 70 percent of adults who say they have not had chickenpox do have antibodies to varicella, the chickenpox virus. Prior to the introduction of VARIVAX in 1995, an estimated four million people(1) were infected with the chickenpox virus each year in the U. |
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