Word: chronics
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Dramatically increased rates of chronic diseases among children could indicate a future strain on the country's social welfare system, a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported...
Gortmaker has studied chronic diseases for the entirety of his academic career, beginning with his first assistant professorship 30 years...
...this recent paper, he and his associates examined genetic, birth-related, dietary, environmental, and cultural factors that can lead to greater risk of these chronic conditions in children...
...brain, not the gut, that continues to get most of the attention, and one of the biggest reasons is technology. It was in 1985 that Volkow first began using PET scans to record trademark characteristics in the brains and nerve cells of chronic drug abusers, including blood flow, dopamine levels and glucose metabolism--a measure of how much energy is being used and where (and therefore a stand-in for figuring out which cells are at work). After the subjects had been abstinent a year, Volkow rescanned their brains and found that they had begun to return to their predrug...
That's up to the FDA to decide, and over the years, its border inspectors have rejected tons of tainted catfish from China and closely monitored shipments by chronic offenders. Last month Mississippi officials decided to test Chinese catfish to see how good those controls are and found them wanting. Most grocery-store samples contained residues of two antibiotics that are banned for use in aquaculture in the U.S. but widely used in China. The catfish was ordered off store shelves...