Word: chronics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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...
...said that chronic inflammation might drive away "many of the most feared illnesses of middle and old age" and that there might be "a single, inflammation-reducing remedy that would prevent" heart disease, Alzheimer's and colon cancer. Talk about preventing ailments is just whistling in the wind. It is simple: we are born, perhaps procreate and die. I can't believe we need the help of the pharmaceutical industry to see us through to our end. At the rate American medical researchers and drug companies are promulgating their dogmas, followers will rattle like pill bottles should they live...
...practicing dentist and was pleased that you referred to gum disease as a source of chronic inflammation. But I was surprised that you did not explore the link in greater detail. The relationship between gum disease and systemic disease, specifically heart disease, has been widely reported. Your article takes it to the next step. The overall ability of the body to heal and stay healthy is certainly compromised by a chronic infection like gum disease. People need to learn how to achieve and maintain dental health. Robert Del Presto Brick...
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...