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...Short-term stressors with high stakes--like the SATs or the bar exam--appeared to hinder the immune response by suppressing Th1 cells, which normally activate killer cells and wound-healing chemicals called cytokines. This suppression can also boost the concentration of Th2 cells, which produce antibodies and can make allergies worse...
...funny line, but the comedian may have had it backward. Short-term stresses like speaking in public, it turns out, boost your immune system in ways that tend to keep you out of the coffin, not put you in it. That's one of the findings that emerged from a study of 30 years of stress research published last week in Psychological Bulletin, a journal of the American Psychological Association. In a meta-analysis of more than 300 studies involving some 19,000 subjects, psychologists Gregory Miller at the University of British Columbia and Suzanne Segerstrom at the University...
When test subjects were asked to speak in public or do mental math in the lab, the tasks tended to mobilize their fast-acting immune response--the body's all-purpose defense system for fending off infection and healing wounds. Compared with controls, people subjected to such short-term stresses had up to twice as many natural killer cells in their blood ready to fight the early stages of infection...
...nudged up its benchmark short-term Fed funds rate last week to 1.25%, from 1%. By itself that move will have little impact on housing. Yet the Fed is widely expected to push the rate to 2% by year's end and 3.5% by the end of 2005. The typical mortgage rate will surge to 7.5% from about 6% today, says Douglas Duncan, chief economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association. In that environment, says Duncan, home sales will fall 10% and mortgage activity, including refinancings, will fall more than half, to $1.75 trillion of new loans in 2005. Nonetheless, experts...
...blood tests may not detect it) and cause fever, sore throat, severe fatigue, joint pain, tingling or numbness in the extremities and changes in vision. In late stages, the disease can lead to arthritis, meningitis, facial drooping, numbness in the hands and feet, and neurological disorders that can include short-term memory loss, inability to concentrate or finish sentences, disorientation and confusion...