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Every once in a while, however, the whole feverish production doesn't shut down on cue. Sometimes the problem is a genetic predisposition; other times something like smoking or high blood pressure keeps the process going. In any event, inflammation becomes chronic rather than transitory. When that occurs, the body turns on itself - like an ornery child who can't resist picking a scab - with aftereffects that seem to underlie a wide variety of diseases...
Suddenly, inflammation has become one of the hottest areas of medical research. Hardly a week goes by without the publication of yet another study uncovering a new way that chronic inflammation does harm to the body. It destabilizes cholesterol deposits in the coronary arteries, leading to heart attacks and potentially even strokes. It chews up nerve cells in the brains of Alzheimer's victims. It may even foster the proliferation of abnormal cells and facilitate their transformation into cancer. In other words, chronic inflammation may be the engine that drives many of the most feared illnesses of middle...
...Record Hospital” doesn’t fix broken vinyl. It uses music to cure its audience from a chronic malady—a boring music collection. Long into the night, 10 p.m. - 5 a.m., Monday through Friday, and Sunday nights from 12 a.m. - 5 a.m., a crowd of nocturnal Harvard DJs rock the Boston airwaves with underground hardcore, punk, emo, electronica, noise and other equally non-mainstream genres...
...record a CD, David Roth, 39, a Chicago-area sculptor turned singer-songwriter, was having trouble with the part-time bass player--his wife Heidi Meredith. Both had grown up in broken homes and hoped to avoid separation. But after more than a decade together, they had devolved into chronic arguers: how to make the bed, how to make music. "We were in this decaying orbit that was going to crash and burn," says Roth. Says Meredith, 39: "It was never a question of our not loving each other. We would just completely butt heads, and then we would analyze...
...Most of the people who die from the flu usually have secondary or chronic disorders,” he said, adding that the elderly are especially vulnerable as well...