Inflammation and Treating Common Illnesses

From: Talk of the Nation (NPR) | Date: December 8, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

IRA FLATOW
Talk of the Nation (NPR)
12-08-2006
Inflammation and Treating Common Illnesses

Host: IRA FLATOW
Time 14:00-15:00 PM

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I'm Ira Flatow. This is TALK OF THE NATION: SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR News.

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FLATOW: You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION: SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow and for the rest of the hour, a new way of looking at many of our most common diseases. Let's say you're chopping vegetables and preparing your holiday meal this season, and you slip with the knife, you cut your finger, and almost instantly your body mounts an immune ...

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