neuropathy
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The treatment significantly reduced pain linked to diabetic neuropathy and chemotherapy-related nerve damage.
From Science Daily • May 24, 2026
Together, these processes can damage multiple organs, leading to blood vessel dysfunction, heart inflammation, neuro-inflammation, small-fiber neuropathy, ME/CFS-like fatigue, menstrual changes, problems with blood sugar regulation, and kidney or liver injury.
From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026
Further conversations with clinicians led the team to target another side effect of many cancer medications: neuropathy, or nerve damage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026
This causes neuropathy - nerve damage - in his feet, among other symptoms.
From BBC • Dec. 2, 2024
It is a neuropathy that has led certain scientists, like Lombroso and Krafft-Ebbing, to suggest that some anarchist crimes can only be looked upon as a means to indirect suicide.
From Violence and the Labor Movement by Hunter, Robert
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