Word: orall
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...experimental treatment for rheumatoid arthritis -- oral doses of & collagen extracted from chicken cartilage -- can reduce and even eliminate swelling and joint pain, with no major side effects. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own tissues--in this case, collagen-rich cartilage. Doctors theorize that the collagen treatments desensitize immune cells and stop the attacks...
...partly because it is not especially bizarre or lurid. At least not by the standards of the Southern California trial it comes from. Other testimony last week moved some jurors to tears, as Lyle Menendez described how, when he was seven years old, he had been forced to perform oral sex on his father and later had been sodomized with a toothbrush. Lyle, now 24, and his brother Erik, 21, are seeking to explain why they burst into the television room of the family's $5 million Beverly Hills mansion on the night of Aug. 20, 1989, and killed their...
Discomfort from sore, inflamed joints may someday cease to plague the 2.1 million Americans who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, if an oral treatment for the condition developed by scientists at the Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital pans...
Trentham, a physician in Beth Israel Hospital's rheumatology department, said the solution reduces inflammation through a process called "oral toleration...
...oral technique is also beneficial in that it arrests immune response before the onset of arthritis, effectively nipping the disease in the bud. A third advantage of the collagen solution is that it has shown low levels of toxicity in studies to date...