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...Port, Mass. But for more than a decade now, as biographers have burrowed under the New Frontier, another J.F.K. has come into the picture. That would be the one with a multitude of serious illnesses whose life was a hidden ordeal of pills and injections, the one whose severe chronic back pain led him eventually to find relief in amphetamine shots from Max Jacobson, the celebrity physician later known as Dr. Feelgood. "I don't care if it's horse piss," Kennedy is reported to have told his disapproving brother Bobby. "It works...
DIED. KIM GALLAGHER, 38, who bested chronic illness to win two Olympic medals in the 800-m race; of a stroke, after battling cancer of the stomach and colon; in Philadelphia. She underwent surgery for ovarian cysts six months before her silver-medal win in Los Angeles in 1984. Her 1988 time in Seoul is still the third fastest by an American woman in that race...
...actually a very commonplace sexually transmitted disease. More than half of U.S. women will develop sex-related HPV infections at some point in their life, and in most cases the immune system knocks the virus out before it can do any damage. In some cases, however, the infection becomes chronic, with measurable levels of the virus remaining in the system. Perhaps 5% of these women will eventually develop precancerous lesions that could lead to cervical cancer. Or at least that's what would happen if they did not undergo routine Pap smears, which can detect abnormal cervical tissue before...
...broader implications of the new study will require further research. People who suffer from chronic inflammatory responses like arthritis may be at higher risk of heart disease. There may also be a cancer link, for among the substances released during the inflammatory response are free radicals that can trigger tumor growth. Maybe that's why doctors' advice to eat more nutrient-rich vegetables and less fat works equally well for a patient who is at risk for cancer or for heart disease. They've been treating the same underlying cause all along...
Parasite infestation is another chronic problem of high-density seafood farms. One of the most damaging organisms is the sea louse, which breeds by the millions in the vicinity of captive salmon. In 1989 Peter Mantle, who owns a wild salmon and sea-trout sport fishery in Delphi on the west coast of Ireland, discovered that young trout returning to his river from the ocean were covered with lice that were boring through the trouts' skin and feasting on their flesh. The sea lice were breeding near newly installed salmon farms in the inlet fed by his river...