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...Your article on the destructive effects that chronic inflammation can have on the body answered myriad questions about the relationships among various illnesses [March 1]. You provided potentially lifesaving information. I now have a new direction to pursue that may help me receive aggressive medical treatment. There was more information in this article than I have received in the past year from my family doctor, neurologist and orthopedic surgeon combined. Jean Ayotte White Lake...
Leslie Reynolds, executive director of the National Association of Secretaries of State, said chronic understaffing makes running the polls difficult...
With fears of mad cow lingering, it's a relief to learn that we probably don't have to worry about a related condition--chronic wasting disease--that afflicts deer and elk. In a survey of death certificates in infected areas, Colorado scientists found no increase in human deaths attributable to the disease...
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...
...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...