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...asked her to describe the pain. "Stabbing," she said. The clincher was a band of reddened skin - extending from the middle of her back around to her chest - and its double row of tiny blisters. The diagnosis: herpes zoster, known colloquially as shingles, from the Latin cingulum, for belt or girdle...
Kidney stones are already more common in the warmer Southern states than in the North. Urologists even talk about a "kidney stone belt," a high-risk zone through the South where populations are more likely to develop stones - crystallized chemicals (usually calcium, phosphates and oxalates from an ordinary diet) that form in the urinary tract, and often cause sharp, intense pain when they pass. The Texas researchers used regional data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to predict how this belt might grow, publishing their report this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
...warm air pockets that trap disease-causing smog. But in this study, says lead researcher Tom Brikowski, he and his colleagues are pretty sure they've traced a direct relationship between human health and temperature - no mosquitoes or air pollution are needed to make the link. Even in the belt region where kidney stones are common and populations have adjusted their lifestyles to the heat, cases still peak seasonally after periods of hot weather. A previous study found that soldiers sent to warm regions see a peak in stone risk 90 days after deployment...
...Eastern seaboard. But if there's a threshold temperature at which risk shoots up - some evidence suggests such a threshold exists at about 13.4 degrees C (56 degrees F) - they expect the hardest-hit regions to be those where mean temperature crosses the threshold: Northern California and the belt running from Kansas to Kentucky...
...Marble monuments and majestic museums are enticing enough. But the main attraction is the people, a carousel of tourists, history buffs, and schoolchildren. From my observations, I’ve made a few discoveries. First, I dress like a WWII veteran: polo shirt tucked into khaki shorts with a belt. Second, I don’t know as much history as I thought I did, at least compared to those pesky Virginians who can recite George Washington’s family tree from memory...