Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medical or a political point of view. When Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts stated during the 1992 presidential campaign that his lymphoma was in remission and he had been cancer free for five years, he neglected to mention at that time a single recurrence just a year after receiving a bone-marrow transplant to treat the disease. Even though the selective disclosure became a media issue after Tsongas had already quit the race, he continues to be, to this day, quite healthy...
...Mayo branch in Jacksonville because its fees were so high. Vonk went anyway, on a referral from a sports-medicine specialist who had done an mri when he learned that an ache in Vonk's leg had persisted for more than a year. Mayo specialists diagnosed the problem as bone cancer and subjected Vonk to three operations; Vonk also spent six months in a partial body cast and a year on crutches. The bills were high, all right: even with his insurance benefits Vonk, now 33, wound up owing Mayo $15,000. He appealed under an "indigent patient" program...
...need to make it acceptable for workers, especially women, to take time off from their careers. They need to be able to take six weeks, six months or six years with a child--how-ever long they feel they need. After that period, they should be able to bone up on their field of expertise, re-enter the workplace and be considered as qualified as ever for high-level positions and promotions, if they deserve them...
...rheumatoid arthritis, cell growth destroys underlying bone, arteriosclerosis is a proliferation of the arteries' vascular wall, creating a kind of plaque...
Those who don't like that choice may want to examine the alternatives. There are other ways to fight osteoporosis and heart disease: don't smoke; get regular exercise that is both weight bearing (to prevent bone loss) and aerobic (to condition the cardiovascular system); eat a diet rich in calcium and low in fat. And, of course, there are other drugs for heart disease and several promising new ones in the pipeline for osteoporosis. Many of the "alternative" practitioners around the country are suggesting that women seek estrogen from dietary sources. In Los Angeles and Boston, Mexican yams have...