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...AILING. WILLIAM REHNQUIST, 80, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; with thyroid cancer; in Washington, D.C. The type and prognosis of his illness, which has prompted increased speculation on the future of the court, were not disclosed, although the additional announcement of a tracheotomy suggests an advanced or complicated case...
Over time, says Dr. David Elliott, director of the Celiac Clinic at the University of Iowa medical center, celiac disease can lead to osteoporosis, anemia and severe weight loss. There is also an increased risk of diabetes, thyroid disease, liver disease and arthritis. Fortunately, celiac disease has become a lot easier to diagnose in the past few years, thanks to more reliable blood tests. If the results are positive, a quick biopsy of the small bowel provides a definitive verdict. The trick now, say experts, is to teach primary-care doctors to recognize the symptoms and test for the disease...
Almost anyone can undertake to change his or her weight, and we should do everything we can to encourage Americans to lose a few pounds. Granted, there are people with particular thyroid conditions and genetic afflictions that cause them to be severely overweight, but they do not make up the 40 percent of the population of this country that is taking up 25 percent of Dartboard’s seat...
...scientist to figure out this is junk science. School officials dispute the numbers Brockovich is throwing about. They say 216 claims have been filed against the school district, and only 94 of them involve cancers. And what about those specific cancers - Hodgkin's Lymphoma, non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and thyroid cancer - listed in the initial suit filed against the oil companies by the Brockovich firm? As the University of Southern California medical school's Cancer Surveillance Program flatly states, "Known causes of these cancers are not petroleum or petroleum products...
...brain, after all, is only another organ, and it operates on the same biochemical principles as the thyroid or the spleen. What we experience as feelings, good or bad, are at the cellular level no more than a complex interaction of chemicals and electrical activity. Depression represents an imbalance in that interaction, one that can kill just as directly as more obviously physical ailments. Each year in the U.S., an estimated 30,000 people commit suicide, with the vast majority of cases attributable to depression. But depression's physical toll goes far beyond the number of people who take their...