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Many vets believe chemical exposure is contributing to the debilitating collection of ills known as Gulf War syndrome, which includes chronic fatigue, joint ailments, rashes and memory loss. But the Pentagon says it has no proof of a link and adds that there is no sickness pattern among those who were at Kamisiyah. Critics argue that the lack of a pattern is not conclusive. Some researchers suggest that chemical agents may cause illness through a specific sequence of events that can affect everyone differently. They fear that a combination of nerve-gas exposure, prewar vaccinations against such toxins and environmental...
...that tore through the region in recent weeks are the least of their problems. "Reefs are tough," observes Clive Wilkinson, a biologist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. "You can hammer them with cyclones, and they'll bounce right back. What they can't bounce back from is chronic, constant stress." The kind of stress, in other words, that is being applied by humans...
Based on a 1994 series that won Dash the Pulitzer Prize, Rosa Lee is an unflinching portrait of underclass pathology in Washington's ghetto. The protagonist, Rosa Lee Cunningham, was a 57-year-old chronic welfare recipient, petty thief, drug addict and prostitute who died from aids earlier this year. Her worst failing may have been passing along her self-destructive traits to most of her offspring; she was even capable of recruiting one of her daughters into prostitution at age 11. Of her eight children by six different fathers, only two managed to escape to the mainstream world, through...
...revolutionary in a deeper sense as well: it represents a profound change in the way medical science looks at obesity. "There is an increasing consensus," says Dr. Michael Lowe, a weight- control expert at Philadelphia's Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, "that obesity is at least a chronic condition and maybe even a chronic disease that is in many ways indistinguishable from diabetes and hypertension...
Feeling tired? Can't concentrate? Lethargic? Achy? Until a few years ago, doctors probably would have suggested a good night's sleep. Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention delineated the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome in 1994, however, it has become clear that not all cases of exhaustion can be cured with rest. With CFS, fatigue continues for months or years, along with flulike symptoms of joint pain, headaches and muddled thinking. The cause of CFS still eludes doctors, but studies show that sometimes the culprit may be low blood pressure. In such cases, when CFS patients...