Word: chronical
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Will Europe ever come up with the money it needs to plug its brain drain in science and technology? In France, scientists are sick of waiting - so this week, hundreds of research directors are planning to resign from their administrative duties to protest chronic underfunding and understaffing...
...childhood surgery. Some complain that they were assigned the wrong sex at birth. Others are more upset about the secrecy and shame their condition often elicited from their family. There is growing evidence that such surgery can interfere with the ability to achieve sexual gratification, that it can cause chronic incontinence and that the cancer risk may be exaggerated...
...there is a big difference between a statistical link and a causal relationship. It's entirely possible that breast cancer was creating the women's need for antibiotics (rather than the other way around) by undermining the immune system, for example. Or that an underlying problem--perhaps chronic inflammation--was making the women's bodies a breeding ground for both bacterial infections and tumors. It's worth noting that the antibiotics users were, on average, older and heavier, had stronger family histories of cancer and were more likely to use hormone-replacement therapy--all risk factors for breast cancer...
...advice may sound terribly familiar, but we have fresh reasons to follow through. Losing weight induces those fat cells - remember them? - to produce fewer cytokines. So does regular exercise, 30 minutes a day most days of the week. Flossing your teeth combats gum disease, another source of chronic inflammation. Fruits, vegetables and fish are full of substances that disable free radicals...
...Floss. Keeping your mouth clean by flossing and brushing regularly can reduce the risk of gum disease, a source of chronic inflammation...