Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taxpayers are. The Veterans Affairs Department and the Pentagon are providing free medical help to any veteran who believes he or she is suffering from Gulf War syndrome. Congress has authorized such aid without the veterans' having to prove, as is usually the case, that their ailment is connected to their military service...
...Researchers reported the first direct link between MAD-COW DISEASE and a fatal brain ailment in people. Sick animals and human victims had the same biochemical patterns in their brains, further supporting the contention that eating tainted meat causes the human illness...
They complain that the referendum as written would permit almost anyone to buy marijuana. For one thing it would apply to patients suffering from "any" ailment for which marijuana provides relief, without specifying which complaints that would cover. As a picture of things to come, the opponents point to the Cannabis Buyers' Club in San Francisco, founded in 1991, which at one time claimed 12,000 members. Until Aug. 4, when state narcotics agents raided and closed down the club, it sold pot to anyone who was desperately ill. And maybe to other people. Police say that during...
RECOVERING. POPE JOHN PAUL II, 76; from an appendectomy; in Rome. Doctors said they found no sign of any serious ailment during the surgery...
...want to change jobs but fear you won't qualify for new health insurance because you have a chronic ailment? Not to worry. Under the health-insurance reform bill Congress passed last week, medical insurance could become as portable as a briefcase. The election-year measure, which the President says he will sign, guarantees that workers who have health insurance can obtain immediate coverage after a change of jobs--even if they suffer from heart disease or other long-term conditions. Insurance companies will be required to provide coverage to new employees within 12 months. The bill also requires insurers...