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...hitting record numbers, retailers are trying to entice jittery consumers to spend by offering to let them return everything from plane tickets to cars should they get laid off down the road. Now Walgreens' in-store clinics are promising free health care this year--for ailments like strep throat--to patients (and their families) who lose their jobs after March 31 and have no insurance...
...Head of the Charles as a junior and senior and deciding in her final year to continue her rowing career at Harvard.In her freshman season, she rowed for the Black and White varsity heavyweights during the 40th edition of the Head of the Charles. Despite a bout of strep throat just days before the marquee fall regatta in her sophomore season, Larsen-Strecker hit the Charles again but felt her performance suffered. An injury left her sitting out the weekend in her junior year, so this final year on her home course is a special one.And this year...
Other compelling, if controversial, research has long pursued an entirely different cause of OCD: streptococcal infection. As long ago as the 17th century, British physician Thomas Sydenham first noticed a link between childhood strep and the later onset of a tic condition that became known as Sydenham's chorea. Modern researchers who saw a link between tics and OCD began wondering if, in some cases, strep might be involved with both...
Last year investigators from the University of Chicago and the University of Washington studied a group of 144 children-- 71% of whom were boys--who had tics or OCD. All the kids, it turned out, were more than twice as likely as others to have had a strep infection in the previous three months. For those with Tourette's symptoms, the strep incidence was a whopping 13 times as great...
...tics and OCD are probably the result of an autoimmune response, in which the body begins attacking its own healthy tissue. Blood tests of kids with strep-related tics and OCD have turned up antibodies hostile to neural tissue, particularly in the brain's caudate nucleus and putamen, regions associated with reinforcement learning. "There certainly seems to be an epidemiological relationship there," says Dr. Cathy Budman, associate professor of psychiatry and neurology at New York University, "but what it means needs to be further investigated...