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Celiac Disease Finally Getting Attention

For a long time, celiac disease--the inability to absorb nutrients--has confounded doctors and patients. Lately, it's received some much-needed attention. In late June, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held a consensus conference on celiac disease, an autoimmune condition--not an allergy, a common misperception--that's triggered in genetically predisposed individuals by the ingestion of gluten. That experts discussed and then issued a formal statement related to celiac's...