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...nerve endings and help transmit the pain message from the injured region toward the brain. Prostaglandins also increase circulation to the damaged area, causing the swelling and redness known as inflammation. The purpose of this is to attract infection-fighting blood cells that will ward off any invading bacteria. Since the days of Hippocrates, doctors have been relieving pain with salicylic acid, a precursor to aspirin that was derived from willow bark, but only in the past 15 years have they understood that it works by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins. Tylenol (the most common brand of acetaminophen) works much...
...most evidence of the accident has disappeared. The coastline is clean and the shore birds have returned. Production of marketable oysters resumed in 1981. Scientists say that natural processes such as waves and tides dispersed much of the pollutant and that bacteria broke down some of the crude. An estimated 18,000 tons of oil deposited on the sea floor have all but vanished. After last week's decision, however, it may take Amoco a lot longer to recover...
Irregular schedules, constant travel across time zones and other forms of stress have been known to lower the defenses of the body's immune system against bacteria and viruses. What is more, says Psychiatrist Charles F. Stroebel, director of Connecticut's Institute for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Medicine, the Democratic candidates, pushed to their limits for months, could experience "significant emotional and physical problems with the letdown after the campaign." This "after-the-battle phenomenon," as Stroebel calls it, "has been widely observed in terms of how stress makes us sick." But politicians are tough, and the current...
...Mortoa's office investigated some of the dining halls yesterday and is culturing bacteria from the schools of the victims. The results of the tests will not be available for at least 48 hours...
...method is said to hold significant advantages over conventional protein production, where scientists must destroy the bacteria to recover protein. Under the new method, the cell secretes the protein and remains intact...