Word: lupus
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Silicone breast implants have been blamed for virtually every ailment imaginable--muscle aches, joint pain, mysterious rashes, even serious autoimmune diseases like lupus and scleroderma. So it is little wonder that implant lawsuits have clogged the nation's courts and forced one manufacturer, Dow Corning, to seek pre-emptive bankruptcy. Yet many medical and legal experts have long suspected that the blame laid on implants is based on "junk science." Last week, in a bold opinion that surprised legal experts across the country, a federal district court judge in Portland, Oregon, endorsed that view. Expert testimony linking implants...
...contrast, is a disease of the immune system that often strikes people in their 30s and 40s, and sometimes earlier. It is a hot area of research right now because doctors believe a successful approach to rheumatoid arthritis could lead them to treatments for other immune disorders, including lupus and multiple sclerosis...
Examples of connective-tissue disorders are lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome and scleroderma...
...dictates of society. Society, he said, tells us to cooperate with one another, indeed, even to "love thy neighbor as thyself"; yet by our nature, we are tempted to exploit our neighbor, "to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus [Man is a wolf to man]." The Unabomber, too, in his mode aas armchair psychologist, celebrates our "WILD nature" and complains that in modern society "we are not supposed to hate anyone, yet almost everyone hates somebody at some time or other." This sort of cramping of our natural selves, he opines...
Under the headline "DHEA Gets Respect," the Harvard Health Letter last July listed other preliminary trials in humans and animals. They involve the impact of DHEA on such disorders as lupus, skin cancer and diabetes. One of the experimenters, Dr. Raymond Daynes, a University of Utah pathologist, had some advice for consumers who might flock to health-food stores for DHEA supplements. "What is sold in health-food stores is garbage," he said, noting that these pills carry only enough DHEA to affect a "small mouse...