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Inflammation is the body's basic emergency-response system. When anything threatens the body's health--from disease-causing germs to the buildup of fatty plaque in the walls of a heart vessel--the immune system sends in wave after wave of cells to swarm and destroy the invader. In the blood vessels, layers of these immune cells pile up, creating lesions that become increasingly unstable and may eventually rupture, triggering a heart attack. How sensitive this alarm system is depends on such things as diet, stress and one's genetic predisposition...
...hydrocephalus--water on the brain--is showing new promise as a treatment for Alzheimer's. Surgeons implanted a catheter behind the ear of a dozen patients to drain fluid from the brain. The goal was to improve the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain and reduce the buildup of neurotoxic proteins. Over a year, patients with shunts maintained mental function better than those in an untreated control group. Larger studies are under...
...risks of retaliation by Saddam with biochemical or nuclear weapons argues against Deutch’s military buildup and rallying the region,” Kristol said...
...Fleet, while Qatar hosts the biggest pre-positioned military hardware facility in the world - a brigade's worth of tanks, armored personnel carriers, ammo and other equipment. The United Arab Emirates and Oman have routinely allowed U.S. planes to come and go and may see a buildup of U.S. forces in the event of a war, while one of the biggest U.S. contingents in the Gulf is at Saudi Arabia's Prince Sultan Airforce Base (P-SAB) near Riyadh. The Saudis have spoken out strongly against a war, but have indicated that they will allow...
...direct connection to U.S. preparations for war with Iraq, the prospect of an invasion is rallying anti-American sentiment on the Arab streets, where it is viewed as part of an anti-Arab, anti-Muslim crusade - and if that perception suits al-Qaeda's propagandists, the U.S. military buildup in the Gulf region may also suit its operational planners by offering more targets of opportunity and also by depleting U.S. deployments in Afghanistan...