Another likely cause is a problem within the body's defenses against disease, when the defenses misunderstand signals and attack the body.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Les Paul is best known for creating one of the first solid-body electric guitars and the eight-track recording device.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

It stands about half a meter tall and has a blue body and a friendly face with big eyes.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Researcher Stephen Brusatte says scientists have believed that the physical qualities of Tyrannosaurus developed because of its large body.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Taking a warm bath or sitting by a fire or doing some exercise can also help the body warm up.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

This temporarily blocks signals that pass through the nerves to the muscles of the body and back to the brain.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

The concrete and glass museum is built next to a body of water, so it almost seems to float.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

But my chest felt heavy, and my heart pounded in my body as if it were going to explode.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Sweet potatoes, carrots and other darkly colored fruits and vegetables contain substances that the body can change into vitamin A.

VOA: special.2009.04.21

Doctors and scientists have identified at least eighty other diseases in which the body attacks its own organs and cells.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

And, a treatment to suppress the body's defenses against the disease was approved to treat severe cases of MS.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

For example, your body reacts to stressful situations by raising your blood pressure and making your heart work harder.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

The idea is that its removal from the body and purification makes it into something different that can be patented.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

I know only that the body was buried near the cabin, next to the burial place of his wife.

VOA: special.2009.10.31