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Prusiner's hypothesis is that fatal brain maladies such as mad-cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are caused not by viruses, bacteria, fungi, or some other mundane agent but by something startlingly new that he has discovered--mutant, rampaging proteins known as "prions," short for "proteinaceous infectious particles."
Editorialists criticized 1) the plaintiffs' lawyers, for trying to enrich themselves by linking the implants to apparently unrelated maladies and 2) the company, for failing to warn women of the implants' genuine risks.
In fact, the tabs have been uncommonly fixated on under-eye maladies of late.
Congress has already authorized disability payments of up to $21,876 per year for veterans with chronic maladies that appeared within two years after the war.
Or the childhood maladies left untreated because there is no money for a doctor.