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...getting it? Like other forms of hepatitis, it's an inflammation of the liver caused by a virus. The symptoms, which include fever, nausea, diarrhea, jaundice, fatigue, abdominal pain and loss of appetite, usually clear up within a month or two. (Hepatitis B and C, by contrast, often cause chronic, incurable infections that can lead to cirrhosis and cancer of the liver.) Up to 200,000 Americans contract hepatitis A every year, often after eating shellfish taken from contaminated waters. But with our growing reliance on fresh foods imported from overseas, it's increasingly associated with vegetables that have been...
...recommend that patients sleep on firm mattresses to alleviate low-back pain, but a study in last week's issue of the Lancet suggests that such advice is based on little more than folklore. In a randomized trial, researchers at the Kovacs Foundation in Spain assigned 313 subjects with chronic low-back pain to either a firm or a medium-firm mattress to sleep on for three months. Good news for those of us who like a little give in our cribs: patients who slept on the medium-firm mattresses were twice as likely as those sleeping on firm ones...
Currently recovering from a high hamstring injury, she has had some chronic injuries in the past, but she is expected to return in time for this weekend...
...study also suggests that coronary-artery disease is much more dynamic than anyone had thought. "For a long time we saw coronary atherosclerosis as a chronic, progressive disease that just kind of marches along," says Nissen. "Maybe you slow it down, but you don't really change it very much." However, if you can reduce plaque buildup significantly in just a few weeks, he says, "that's a big shift in thinking...
...this really the blackened, barbecued soul of America exposed? A brand new confederacy of dunces unearthed? Americans make temptingly large targets for satire these days--what with the chronic obesity and all--but I'll be double-dog-darned if we're quite this easy to skewer. Pierre may have come clean about his past, but Vernon God Little feels like just another con. --By Lev Grossman