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It might be rooted in some sort of primal hunter-gatherer-type urge, the kind that afflicts most men when they enter a Price Club ("Of course we need 24 gallons of WD-40, honey.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a significant, chronic disease that afflicts 1% of the general population in most countries [ 1 ] . Joint damage typically occurs before patients are diagnosed, and most of the joint destruction occurs within the first 2 years of diagnosis [ 2 ] . Therapeutic drugs such as sulfasalazine and methotrexate (MTX) only slow the progression of the disease, suggesting that these drugs fail to adequately quell the underlying pathophysiology of RA [ 3 ] .
Grateful Nation is said to present a powerful but one-sided argument for the existence of the "Gulf War syndrome" that many vets claim afflicts them.
I do believe that the administration has used the National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3) for purely political purposes--to demonize welfare reform and draw attention away from the fact that it (the administration) has no plan to rectify the crisis that afflicts the child-welfare system.
In 1996 Bradley was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation--a heart rhythm problem that afflicts former President Bush and about 2 million other Americans.