Word: ailments
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...HONG KONG Jars of tonic ingredients - including dead snakes - line the shelves of the tiny but atmospheric She Wong Leung, tel: (852) 2578 8135. Tell the specialist your ailment and he'll concoct a remedy on the spot...
...that Hatoyama acknowledged deflation, Shirakawa said, "We need to work on the core reason for [deflation]: weak final demand as seen in capital investment and private consumption." Economists estimate Japan's demand shortage at around $400 billion a year. (Read: "Japan's Latest Economic Ailment: Deflation...
...suburb 30 miles southeast of the capital Harare, the rains have renewed fears of cholera. This is where last year's outbreak of the disease started. Eventually, it would claim close to 5,000 lives in the country of 12 million. Borne on infested, waste-filled water, the intestinal ailment may ride the rains to a new onslaught on the country...
...illness of the aging mind. In its initial stages, that's true - memory loss is an early hallmark of dementia. But experts in the field say dementia is more accurately defined as fatal brain failure: a terminal disease, like cancer, that physically kills patients, not simply a mental ailment that accompanies older age. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...vaccine is far from ready for public consumption, and researchers think that even if future trials confirm its utility, it may never reach the market. That's due in part to legal hurdles - drugmakers fear that patients who take an addiction drug, then later overdose or develop another ailment, like cancer, may lay blame on the vaccine. Addiction experts also caution that no drug-based addiction treatment is a panacea, and that behavior-based quit programs must play a role. "It's good that they're doing this research, but we need to temper our enthusiasm," says Carl Hart, associate...