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...read the latest report on the health of Gulf War veterans, released by a congressionally mandated panel earlier this week. The 465-page study details how the U.S. military mistakenly poisoned its own soldiers with two chemicals during Operation Desert Storm, leading to a number of debilitating symptoms - from chronic muscle pain and digestive problems to memory loss and persistent skin lesions - now collectively known as Gulf War illness (GWI). Worse still, the panel found that millions of dollars in funding for GWI research had been misappropriated, despite the fact that the illness afflicts nearly...
...critics say the surgeries are more dangerous than the glossy advertising and glowing testimonials suggest. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a committee opinion last year warning that women may experience scarring, chronic pain, obstetric risks or reduced sexual pleasure; a similar statement was issued in July by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Which is why the New View Campaign - with the endorsement of dozens of sex educators, doctors and psychologists from around the world - is demanding new regulations that would require the Federal Trade Commission's consumer protection division to monitor...
...many as one-third of asthma patients age 16 and over may not actually have the chronic disease, according to a study published Nov. 18 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal...
...study's findings come as no shock, says Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association. The symptoms of wheezing and shortness of breath, which frequently get confused for asthma, may signal a host of other health problems, including the a respiratory infection, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, anxiety and congestive heart failure. In fact, congestive heart failure is so often misdiagnosed as asthma that lung experts often refer to it as "cardiac asthma," Edelman says. "All that wheezes is not asthma...
...year-old named Lula (great stuff, actually).It’s certainly odd, then, that in light of all of this, my mind turns once again to the words of Susan Sontag, who once wrote that the advent of photography had forced people to develop a “chronic voyeuristic relation” with the rest of the world and criticized it as a harmful and misused force. In later years (and after a long-term relationship with photographer Annie Leibowitz), she quite openly stated that she no longer believed much of what she wrote. Another statement from...