Word: chronic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America was 47 years. Antibiotics were unknown, and death often took place in the family presence, with most people dying at home. Now, with life expectancy climbing past 75, largely due to rapid medical and technological advances, we are able to live long enough to die from slow chronic killers such as cancer and heart disease...
Other difficult cases followed, among them children with chronic pain. Some of the toughest cases, like that of the boy with cancer, involved neuropathic pain caused by damage to major nerves. Such pain can result from amputations, injuries, cancer and other diseases that affect the nerves, and it often does not respond to standard therapy. "I was making it up by extrapolating what had been done for adults and knowing the pharmacological differences between children and adults," Berde says. "I began thinking there was a need for better ways of managing pain, and a need to have it be multidisciplinary...
...transplants are performed there each year. Heart transplants have proved quite effective, with mortality rates of only 20% after a year (but 20% to 30% of patients die while waiting for a donor). For those deemed unsuitable for a donor heart--some of the elderly or those with chronic diseases like AIDS or cancer--there is little hope...
...Amish. One of those diseases, he has discovered, is glutaric aciduria, a metabolic deficiency that usually strikes children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. Often triggered by childhood illnesses such as chickenpox or strep throat, it can cause permanent brain injury that can lead to chronic disability, medical complications and even early death...
Less than a year ago, a new generation of diet pills seemed to offer the long-sought answer to our chronic weight problems. Hundreds of thousands of pound-conscious Americans had discovered that a drug combination known as "fen-phen" could shut off voracious appetites like magic, and the FDA had just approved a new drug, Redux, that did the same with fewer side effects. Redux would attract hundreds of thousands of new pill poppers within a few months...