Fred Kaplan
Fred Kaplan
Fred M. Kaplanis an American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. His weekly "War Stories" column for Slate magazine covers international relations and U.S. foreign policy. He is no relation to the American journalist Robert D. Kaplan...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 July 1954
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These people are literally imprisoned in a second skeleton, ... It transforms muscles, tendons, ligaments -- connective tissues become sheathed in bone. It spans joints, locking them into place and rendering movement completely impossible.
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That can send the condition into a wild state of flare-up.
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Generally, though, these people are quite healthy, ... Perhaps there is an auto-inflammatory component because they tend to be tremendously resistant to infections. But if they happen to get a cold or respiratory infection, it's more likely to become a complicated issue.
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What happens in FOP is children continue to make new pieces of the skeleton after birth, ... The signal is not just 'make more bone.'
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The real question, which will be answered in the next couple of months, is whether the combatants in this phase of the Iraqi warthe Sunnis vs. the Shiites, mainlyare ready to agree on a framework.