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Nature 448, 27 (5 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448027a; Published online 4 July 2007
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Falling victim to balance
Timothy Miles1
BOOK REVIEWED-Balance: In Search of the Lost Sense
by Scot McCredie
Little, Brown: 2007. 304 pp. $24.95
Balance, or more precisely when people fall over because of imperfect balance, is an important issue for our ageing population. As the author of Balance, journalist Scott McCredie, points out, the social and medical costs resulting from falls are rising rapidly.
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