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...these etiologies are, the causes of headaches are myriad, and a careful practitioner must be able to diagnose the serious, albeit rare, causes as well as the common ones. So it is always with some reluctance that I approach headache patients, not because they are demanding but because their symptom is. Of the many headache patients I have taken care of, three "zebras" stand...
...when their children are in diapers and in adolescence, and returning to their initial levels of happiness only after their children have had the decency to grow up and go away. When the popular press invented a malady called "empty-nest syndrome," it failed to mention that its primary symptom is a marked increase in smiling...
...Nolan acknowledges that declining enrollment exacerbates the challenge schools face, but she says the decline is a symptom of a larger problem...
...researchers discovered the cause of asthma, paving the way for better treatment and possibly a cure for the respiratory disease suffered by 20 million Americans.Harvard professors Dale T. Umetsu and Omid Akbari, researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston, found that the immune response that triggers asthma symptoms is caused not by Helper T (Th2) cells as was previously thought but by Natural Killer T (NKT) cells in the lungs.“It’s very new. No one else has seen this before,” Umetsu says. “The biology of these cells...
...about how we can adapt to environmental change, as all species have had to do since the beginning of time? Charles W. Meyer Fremont, California, U.S. time's cover photo of a polar bear among shrinking ice floes broke my heart. Thanks for perfectly capturing a simple, real-life symptom of a complicated problem. We humans have to take responsibility for how our lifestyle affects the innocents around us. I know I'm motivated to do better. Matthew M. Cooper Eugene, Oregon, U.S. Be worried? no - be prepared! We've done the damage, and now we must live with...