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...counter products designed to moisten or lubricate your eyes, but you should resist the temptation to play doctor and instead should seek out an eye-care specialist. Dry eyes may be associated with an underlying medical condition like lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, eczema, a viral infection or something called Sjogren's syndrome, says Dr. Esen Akpek, an ophthalmologist who runs the dry-eye clinic at Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute. "You can also overdo it with eyedrops and actually wash out your own tears," Akpek says. Also, watch for products whose active ingredients end with the suffix -zoline. Those are vasoconstrictors...
Encouraged by these successes, drug companies are starting to turn to the lesser known autoimmune diseases. Remicade, for example, is used to alleviate the intestinal inflammation caused by Crohn's disease, and drugs against the potentially systemic disorders scleroderma and Sjogren's syndrome are well along in clinical trials. None of these treatments is a cure, of course, but anything that can put the brakes on a runaway immune system has to be considered a good start...
Encouraged by these successes, drug companies are starting to turn to the lesser-known autoimmune diseases. Remicade, for example, helps alleviate the intestinal inflammation caused by Crohn’s disease, and drugs against the potentially systemic disorders scleroderma and Sjogren’s syndrome are well along in clinical trials. None of these treatments is a cure, of course, but anything that can put the brakes on a runaway immune system has to be considered a good start...
Examples of connective-tissue disorders are lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome and scleroderma...
What is going on, educators contend, is that many families are profligate in their spending and unwilling to sacrifice for education as previous generations have. "It wasn't until the late '60s that federal aid was considered an entitlement," says Cliff Sjogren, U.S.C.'s dean of admissions and financial aid. Sjogren himself dropped out of the University of Michigan for a year to earn money -- an approach he feels is now rare. "When I went to college in the '40s, my parents really had to sacrifice. Now parents are trying to figure out strategies of getting money rather than saving...