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There are a multitude of causes, including normal aging, poor dental hygiene, infections and viruses, exposure to toxic fumes, and head trauma. "It's much easier to prevent than to treat," says Dr. Alan Hirsch, neurological director of Chicago's Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation. "I always encourage people to wear seat belts to avoid head trauma. Avoid use of cigarettes. Avoid use of illegal drugs like cocaine." Marcia Levin Pelchat, a researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, offers a simple piece of advice: "Stay healthy." Elderly people who are healthy have better flavor perception than...
...They said it would be helpful for them to have a review of international law and medical ethics and dealing with terrorism and psychological trauma," Barron says. "Their sense of what was normal and proper in medicine had been so affected by the military occupation...
With remains originating from the "pre-contact" era--before the arrival of Spanish explorers--up till the seventeenth century, the remains have been crucial in allowing researchers to trace the effects of Spanish settlement on disease, diet and bone trauma...
Right now, he said, all the children remember is the trauma of leaving their homes. He held up pictures of the children's artwork to illustrate his point...
...Columbine tragedy didn't start out as a front-page story about the battle between good and evil. But it has been moving there, as the trauma overflowed the argument about guns and culture and spilled into other realms. With each passing day of shock and grief you could almost hear the church bells tolling in the background, calling the country to a different debate, a careful conversation in which even Presidents and anchormen behave as though they are in the presence of something bigger than they are, and maybe should lower their voices a little and speak with less...