What does a stubbed toe or a splinter in a finger have to do with your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, suffering a heart attack or succumbing to colon cancer? More than you might think. As scientists delve deeper into the fundamental causes of those and other illnesses, they are starting to see links to an age-old immunological defense mechanism called inflammation the same biological process that turns the tissue around a splinter red and causes swelling in an injured toe. If they are right and the evidence is starting to look pretty good it could radically change...
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