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Hillary is not the first overweight child to learn she has this form of diabetes, a chronic metabolic disorder that used to be called adult onset but was renamed in part because so many kids Hillary's age were getting it. As doctors have repeatedly warned, the U.S. is experiencing a diabetes epidemic. Some 18 million Americans suffer from one form or another, with 1.3 million new cases diagnosed last year--up from 878,000 in 1997. And although Type 2 diabetes still tends to strike people in their fifth or sixth decade, more children are getting it, a fact...
...response, may also play a key role. Inflammation is a complex biological process the immune system uses to limit the damage caused by various injuries. (Ever notice how a turned ankle swells or a sunburn feels warm to the touch? That's inflammation in action.) But when inflammation becomes chronic, it no longer limits damage. In fact, it starts to do harm to the body...
Many Harvard students often feel overwhelmed, but symptoms such as diminished interest in activities, chronic fatigue and unintended weight loss or gain could mean more than the typical midterm doldrums—they could mean clinical depression. Depression and other mental illnesses are common problems at Harvard, and the first step to treating these health concerns requires greater understanding and awareness of the serious issues involved...
...Such chronic neglect has decimated villages like Xinmin. By the early 1990s, local health workers no longer had a budget to spray antisnail pesticide around Dongting Lake, where Xinmin is located. Free schistosomiasis checkups and medicine stopped as well. Now funding for local clinics once proudly designated as "antisnail-fever bureaus" has also dried up; to make ends meet, many have opened up moneymaking clinics for sexually transmitted diseases and osteopathy. Consequently, just as China was proudly announcing that it had defeated snail fever, the mollusk began returning. Last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health...
...squarely casts his lot among those who search for biological and genetic bases to mental disorders, and though these approaches can bring relief to many, his strictly clinical approach misses the point—there are real, understandable reasons that any member of the Harvard community might feel even chronic sadness, reasons that need to be listened to, understood and addressed. The limitations of Hyman’s approach become evident when he searches for a reason explaining why college students continue to be diagnosed with mental disorders in ever-increasing quantities. His suggestions—that...