Word: brained
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...with chronic health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, renal disease, cancer or a suppressed immune response; parents or siblings of children who are at risk; anyone under age 18 who must take aspirin (the combination of aspirin and a viral infection has been linked to a sometimes fatal brain disorder called Reye's syndrome). People over 35 who are at risk and all those over 65 who are otherwise healthy need take only the standard flu shot...
...Like Nietzche said, 'That which doesn't destroy me makes me stronger,' although personally I prefer jogging or some other from of aerobics to having my brain eaten out by syphillis. But to each his exercise program...
Fighting phantoms Ernest Hemingway shotgunned his brain...
...condition was first identified in 1906, when German Physician Alois Alzheimer autopsied the brain of a woman with classic senile dementia. Because the woman was middle-aged, however, and because senility was considered a natural consequence of aging, Alzheimer's disease went unrecognized among the elderly until the 1960s. Today it is believed that Alzheimer's affects 5% to 10% of people over the age of 65, including half of all nursing- home residents...
...focused his search on the crippled central brain tissue where those chemicals normally originate, hoping to find a large accumulation of an abnormal protein that was inflicting the damage. Using monoclonal antibodies, which bind to specific proteins and thus act like biological homing pigeons, the Einstein researchers eventually isolated and identified A-68. Subsequent autopsies, as well as two rare brain biopsies of living Alzheimer's patients, confirmed that A-68 is unique to the disease, and further tests showed it can be found in spinal fluid...