Word: symptom
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...scans to isolate particular regions of the brain responsible for memory encoding has important implications for medicine. An early symptom of Alzheimer's disease, for example, is the inability to learn and remember new experiences...
...Cincinnati suggests that people hooked on the Internet may also suffer from underlying but treatable illnesses such as manic depression, anxiety disorders and substance abuse. But the jury is still out on whether compulsive computer use is a disorder in its own right--like pathological gambling--or a symptom of another illness...
...cell with a TV on gimbals. He left the Southern Baptists but eventually found God again in Methodism, which he felt downplayed sin in favor of God's grace. In Baker's theology, illness and death are not divine punishment on one woman for her weaknesses but rather a symptom of our collective distance from God. Our first disobedience let chaos into our world: chaos can be human sin; it can be a genetic predisposition for cancer. We are all shattered vessels, and death must come. Yet God's grace, like Super Glue, can begin to restore wholeness before death...
...dreaming--the images look like TV cartoons--when the beeper goes off. It is 2:55 a.m. Marilyn Yopp, a police detectives' secretary in Jacksonville, N.C., suffers from thymoma, a rare cancer. She was admitted to the oncology floor recently with an even rarer symptom, a disfiguring full-body rash that, her sister Doris Del Castilho explains, "started as tiny flakes of skin and then got bigger and opened up like a flower." A few minutes ago, she asked Del Castilho to help her turn over in bed, when suddenly "her eyes rolled up. I heard them...
When this fortified E. coli, which researchers dubbed the O157:H7 strain, takes hold in the body, it behaves savagely. Doctors believe the bacterial toxin first destroys blood vessels in the intestines, which accounts for the bloody diarrhea that is the signature symptom of the infection. The toxin then passes into the bloodstream, where it probably damages vessels throughout the body. This produces gummy clots that clog organs like the kidneys. Up to 5% of all people with O157 infection develop a kidney condition known as hemolytic uremic syndrome; up to 5% of all HUS cases are fatal. The clotting...