Word: onsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conventional approaches for treatment of Type 1, or juvenile-onset diabetes, may be incorrect, a group of Medical School researchers reported last month, suggesting that scientists should use different strategies in their current search for a vaccine...
Heptulla said the government itself is not to blame, but instead police have been negligent in controlling the riots from the the onset...
Drosos, the Crimson's 177-pound hulk, experienced the same "oh-soclose" feeling as he also endured a one-point loss. He led 2-0 at the onset but eventually succumbed...
...sense, scientists already know what causes juvenile-onset diabetes, a disease that afflicts about 1.5 million Americans. For some reason, the body's immune system attacks and destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Without insulin, the body is unable to process sugar into energy. Even with daily insulin shots, diabetics run a high risk of blindness, kidney failure and heart disease. But why does the immune system go on the attack...
...course in nine months to a year. Unfortunately, it often returns. The initial episode has what researchers call a "kindling effect"; it seems to carve a pathway in the brain that leaves 70% of its victims vulnerable to another attack. "While a psychosocial stress can be involved in the onset of the first episode, the triggering mechanism for subsequent depressions can be more autonomous," says Robert Post, the NIMH scientist who developed the kindling theory. "Once someone has a number of depressions, they are likely to happen on their...