Word: developed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Preliminary research suggests that low-dose aspirin and fish-oil capsules - both of which are known to reduce inflammatory cytokines - seem to reduce a person's risk of Alzheimer's disease. Unfortunately, most of these preventive measures need to be started well before any neurological problems develop. "What we've learned with dementia is that it's very hard to improve people who already have it," says Dr. Ernst Schaefer, a professor of medicine and nutrition at Tuft's Friedman School of Nutrition in Boston. "But it may be possible to stabilize people and to prevent disease...
...past few years, powerful drugs like Remicade and Enbrel, which target specific inflammatory cytokines, have worked wonders against rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune disorders. But as often happens in medicine, the drugs have also created some problems. Patients who take Remicade, for example, are slightly more likely to develop tuberculosis; the same inflammatory cytokines that attacked their joints, it seems, also protected them against...
...breathe is full of germs, viruses and other irritants. Since half of the 17 million Americans with asthma are hypersensitive to common substances like cat dander or pollen, it stands to reason that their allergic reactions trigger the chronic inflammation in their bodies. Yet the people who develop asthma as adults - one of the most rapidly growing segments of the population - often don't have allergies. Doctors still don't know what's driving their disease, but the signs of inflammation are every bit as present in their lungs...
Hugo has done all he can to become a hermit, but he can't quite seem to saw through those last few stubborn fibers connecting him to the rest of humanity. His wimpy artist brother Dennis turns up on his doorstep, fleeing an imploding marriage. Both men develop raging crushes on Stephanie, a bored and incorrigibly sexy lawyer who happens to be Dennis' wife's best friend. Then Hugo's estranged con-woman wife Sonia rematerializes and installs herself chez Hugo with her daughter Bellatrix, who may or may not be his child...
TIME cited one government-agency report about a single drug to support its claim that the government plays a large role in discovering new medicines. Yet TIME failed to note that the same agency reported that the government was involved in developing only six of the 100 drugs that federal agencies most commonly buy. In fact, pharmaceutical companies develop nearly all new medicines...