Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outraged at an anonymous letter in the January 8th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. In the letter, a resident physician wrote in, describing how he had been summoned to the bedside of a 20-year-old patient named Debbie, who was dying of ovarian cancer...
Norsigian argued that male politicians should not control legislation on issues of vital importance to women, such as advertising by tobacco companies, expensive medical technology, health coverage, childbirth, funding breast cancer research, and contraception...
...wants to go into nursing these days when there are so many better opportunities for women?" asks Adriene Barmann, 27, a cancer nurse at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach. For most registered nurses, the average beginning salary is $21,000, yet 30-year veterans regularly earn less than $30,000. Duties range from starting intravenous lines and bathing patients to such menial tasks as fixing TVs and taking out the garbage. Hospitals routinely require 50- and 60-hour workweeks. Little wonder, then, that enrollment in nursing schools has plummeted 20%, to less than 200,000 student nurses, since...
...leader's adultery and then of his hush-money payments and mismanagement. The avenging angel took wing again. Swaggart passed word to denominational leaders of an impending Charlotte Observer report on the hush money and pressed for a cleanup. He declared the scandal to be a "cancer that needs to be excised from the body of Christ...
...community health at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston: "There is persuasive evidence that a low-fat diet can help prevent, and even treat, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. I'm of the school that holds that low-fat diets also reduce the risk of colon and breast cancer." At the very least, Gorbach notes, vegetarians tend to be thinner than meat eaters, and that alone is beneficial...