FROM THE EDITORS November 17, 2008 Issue

REVERSE THE CURSE OF DEGENERATIVE CONDITIONS

DEGENERATION certainly generates plenty of news these days. Who hasn't felt pummeled by all the headlines about degenerating credit flows in global financial markets? By political news of campaigns that degenerate into personal attacks? And there's the constant drumbeat of stories on the degeneration-prone human body and its vulnerability to debilitating conditions.

Medical news sources define a degenerative illness as a condition resulting in progressive loss of bodily function and marked by deteriorating cells, organs, or systems. From arthritis through the Z's in the catalog of degenerative conditions, the number of people suffering from such conditions is said to be on the rise.

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