Word: chronic
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...Heart disease 268.0 2. Cancer 199.4 3. Stroke 58.5 4. Pulmonary diseases 42.3 5. Pneumonia, influenza 35.1 6. Accidents 34.5 7. Diabetes 23.9 8. Suicide 10.8 9. Acute kidney infection 9.7 10. Chronic liver disease, cirrhosis...
...confused with occasional periods of bad behavior or crimes of passion, ASP (also referred to as sociopathy) is defined in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as a lifelong "pervasive pattern" of rule breaking and violating the rights of others that begins before age 15. ASPs are chronic troublemakers whose symptoms vary greatly in severity: they can be constant money borrowers, black sheep, pathological liars, white-collar criminals or, at the most severe end of the continuum, murderous felons. They are impulsive and grandiose, don't learn from punishment, are poor self-observers, blame others for their problems...
During this seven-month excursion, Richards fell ill with amebic dysentery, which is caused by a parasite and produces severe intestinal discomfort including chronic diarrhea. He was hospitalized there...
...comes in more than a hundred varieties. About 20 million people in the U.S., for example, have been diagnosed with osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease in which cartilage that cushions the joints erodes, leading to painful bone-on-bone contact. And 3 million or so more have rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic inflammation of the joints that causes pain, stiffness, swelling and loss of function...
...some cities are targeting a whole different population for arrest: truants' parents. According to a report in Monday's New York Times, one Alabama parent was recently sentenced to 60 days in prison for failing to police a chronic truant. While these programs have shown some early success, they raise some hefty ethical questions - should we put kids in control of sending their parents to jail? Can the single parent of a grown high school student make his or her child go to school? As with most areas of education reform, there don't seem to be any simple solutions...