neuropathy
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neuropathies
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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 new insight into the flow of fats through the body points to new therapeutic targets for mitigating diseases like ASCVD, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, diabetes, peripheral neuropathy, and neurodegeneration.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024
Van Halen was diagnosed with neuropathy in his legs a few years ago and no longer plays drums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
Mr Lowe, from Omagh, said the small fibre neuropathy affected his entire body, from toes to fingertips.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2024
These plutocrats are so afraid of our politicians that there is danger of their dying of neuropathy.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann
In the 1940s, some people with vitamin B12 deficiency given very high doses of folic acid to treat anemia developed irreversible neuropathies.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 26, 2021
Surgical scars, lost body parts and hair, chemically induced fatigue, radiological burns, nausea, hormone-blocking medications, numbness from neuropathies, weight gain or loss, and anxiety hardly function as aphrodisiacs.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2018
Patients dealing with lymphedema or neuropathies, the loss of a limb or postoperative pain may resign themselves to these distressing conditions as an unfortunate but inevitable price that had to be paid for life.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2015
Whose chemo resulted in kidney damage or neuropathies?
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2012
A number of friends who have either Raynaud’s or neuropathies associated with diabetes have tried it as well with great success!
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2010
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