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Rosen, 44, needs all this food -enough to feed a family of eight-as a result of treatment for a mysterious and frustrating intestinal disorder, Crohn's disease. A chronic inflammation of the bowel, Crohn's afflicts an estimated 1 million Americans, including 100,000 children. It goes by a variety of other names, including regional enteritis, ileitis and granulomatous colitis, depending on which part of the intestinal tract is affected. Repeated flare-ups can totally block the intestine. Fistulas or abnormal passages may develop in the inflamed bowel and lead into adjacent organs. In some instances...
...gather round. The platelets also manufacture a chemical that induces the artery's exposed underlying muscle cells to multiply. "If the injury is short-lived," says Russell Ross of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, "the proliferation process is reversible. But if the injury is chronic and repeated in the same sites in an artery wall, then you have a buildup." Cholesterol and debris collect around the muscle cells, an atherosclerotic plaque develops and the artery narrows. Platelets continue to congregate and may eventually help create a clot that completely blocks blood flow. Says DeWitt Goodman...
...Haig's failings are less serious than chronic shortcomings at the White House. In an effort to keep the National Security Council from becoming an alternative State Department, a role it took on in the Carter and Nixon Administrations, the White House has denied National Security Adviser Richard Allen an adequately trained and able staff for his stripped-down duties of coordinating policy and briefing the President...
...South. Perhaps the only business doing better than placement agencies is the moving trade. United Van Lines transported 533 households from Michigan to Texas in 1980, up from 293 the year before. UHaul's one-way southbound traffic in rental trucks has been so brisk that it creates chronic shortages up North...
...Chronic illness plagues old people far more than acute short-term illness. Medicare, which ends after only ninety days, scarcely aids chronically ill patients. Traditionally, as the costs of long-term care impoverished old people, Medicaid, a medical support program for the poor, took up much of the coverage slack. But the Reagan administration wants to cut federal funds for the state-run Medicaid programs...