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...Ashley was 16 and worried about her upcoming exams. She had been having headaches for the last eight weeks and they were getting worse. Two months before, she had broken up with her boyfriend; her grades took a definite downturn; and her sister got a pet hamster for her birthday. Her headaches seemed to be the worst in the evening and the morning, and though Motrin helped a little, they occasionally were bad enough to awake her from sleeping. The pain was all over but seemed worse over her sinuses and "behind her eyes." She had had no trauma...
Unfortunately, it turns out that when Teflon is heated to over 600°, the coating can break down and release a chemical called perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA. The fumes can be fatal to pet birds. In humans, DuPont acknowledges, they can cause a reversible flulike condition called polymer-fume fever, first noted in the company's labs. In animals, though, PFOA can cause cancer, immune-system damage and death. And about 95% of all Americans have traces of PFOA in their blood...
...through which Greenhouse went to a stable in a suburb of Boston every Wednesday afternoon for three years. “I never got any good at it, and I never got over my fear of horses,†Greenhouse says.Greenhouse also once had a five-foot-long pet iguana named Madonna.“Linda is just a very nice, gentle person. It belies a very tough mind,†Jones says. “She’ll ask tough questions and cut to the core of things. In addition to speaking at Class...
...patients were as loyal as they come. People outside the world of medical specialists don't appreciate how certain internists have certain kinds of patients. It's amazingly consistent - rather like pet owners resembling their pets. Nervous, frightened internists have nervous, frightened patients. Puffed-up, formal ones have puffed-up, self-important patients. Nice guys have friendly, reasonable patients. Don had great patients. When we discussed them he knew every little fact about them...
...doesn?t complain. She has a smile for everyone. Some critics might say Sara Lopez "lacks independence," because she lives with her parents. But she adores her family, who immigrated from Oaxaca before she was born. They own a little blue house in Mid-City Los Angeles, with a pet chicken in the backyard who lays an egg every morning...