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...patients admitted to inhaling them. Another possible explanation is the so-called immunologic overload theory, says San Francisco's Dr. Robert Bolan. Homosexuals with many sexual partners often contract numerous venereal diseases, intestinal disruptions (gay bowel syndrome), mononucleosis and other infections, explains Bolan. "This constant, chronic stimulation to their immune system may eventually cause the system to collapse...
...distinguishes itself from other sex-improvement books because it is by a journalist who had to ask doctors and males the questions instead of answering them on the basis of lifelong medical or therapeutic research. The Best of Dear Abby devotes a full chapter to the chronic world-wide problem of snoring spouses. In the compendium's final chapter of funny and pathetic letters, one woman writes earnestly "It there anything in insecticides that excite a man?...(Arthur) gets especially aroused right after he sprays our2
...circulatory problems, including blood clots, respiratory infections like pneumonia, severe muscle atrophy during prolonged immobilization. Each year about 200,000 older Americans suffer from this seemingly minor accident. As many as 40,000 die of complications within six months, and another 40,000 are so disabled that they require chronic care in nursing homes for the rest of their lives...
...abroad. Ironically, the Soviet specialists are striving to improve the distribution of consumer goods, one of the weakest links in the Soviets' own economy. Still, the experts from Moscow have accumulated a great deal of experience in rationing food and other essential goods. Iranians, who are suffering from chronic shortages of meat, eggs, cereals, kerosene and gasoline, recently received detailed questionnaires about their needs that were direct translations of those used in the U.S.S.R...
...addition to cancers, the survey will monitor a variety of acute and chronic disorders, including diseases of the reproductive and nervous systems...