A MYSTERIOUS bowel disease thought to be caused by an over-exuberant immune system may paradoxically be triggered by immune cells that don't do enough in the early stages of bacterial infection. Since some treatments for Crohn's disease aim to suppress the immune system, it's possible these drugs could be making things worse. Interesting. And the bit I ...
... to be able to meet her at the finish line. In light of her accomplishment, applepieisgood and I have decided to participate in our own fundraising and walking around event for another set of big killers, heart disease and stroke. She and I signed up for the Heart Walk in February 2010, and hope to raise our goals by then. All that's all well and good, but I noticed something when I ...
Title: Because of Houdini Author : wave_obscura Summary: Sam loved his brother. He did. But he couldn't let himself get used to having Dean around. An AU in which Dean suffers from cystic fibrosis, a chronic illness of the lungs. Rating: PG-13 Warnings/Spoilers: Stanford era, Sick!Dean, language, WIP Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended. PART SEVEN Previous ...
Researchers at Yale are using a different approach to developing a vaccine for Lyme disease. Instead of trying to base it on the DNA of the bacteria, they are using the DNA from tick saliva, on the theory that if the tick is immune to the Lyme disease it carries, that immunity can be incorporated into the vaccine. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34044210/ns/local_news-hartford_ct/
A new theory suggests that a weak immune system allows infections to build up in the intestines. This is kind of neat, not just in that it gives hope for better treatments for a debilitating disease, or that it supports cynicism because if the theory is right, then Crohn's sufferers were being given exactly the wrong treatment, but because it's a result of careful thought and checking the ...
I woke up the other day and my foot was hurting. I initially thought I'd kicked something in my sleep and bruised it. Visiting the doctor today, it seems that I've had an attack of gout , despite eating quite minimal levels of food with purine content. *shrug* Maybe it has something to do with my currently broken sleeping patterns. Still, a few changes in the diet - fewer legumes, cutting beer ...
Okay, um, I guess I haven't been entirely truthful with you guys? I haven't been doing really well lately. I've been dragging myself along and keeping up a cheerful kind of outlook but for the last month it's just been... interesting. I don't have a lot of self worth -- between a recent battle of my actual body vs. how I see myself, my work not being up to par, weeks of death, not seeing eye to ...
...They weighed and measured her: 2775 grams and 47 centimeters. She urinated all over the place (well, that's what you get when you want her totally naked ;p). She will also get her vaccines for different disease there. She should get her first shots the next time we go there (just before Christmas). I'm just wondering if we maybe shouldn't postpone it three weeks. She was three weeks early, so her ...
... Money clubs for political wanna-bes and parasites-in-training. Have you ever looked at the curriculum list for those places? It's hysterical. I worry that Tam's school could be infected by this mental disease. If I visit her campus and see students running around with brooms between their legs, I think I will have to cleanse the fucking place with an air stike - or maybe crash a few satellites ...
