Word: chronical
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Other labs are taking a different approach, focusing on enhancing the supply of oxygen that fuels everything the muscle cells do. And here too, athletes are eagerly dogging the footsteps of medical researchers, specifically those working to treat chronic anemias, conditions in which red blood cells dwindle to dangerously low levels, starving tissues of oxygen. In athletes, prolonged exertion leads to oxygen depletion in the muscles, which causes fatigue...
...after decades of chronic underinvestment and the longest waiting lists for operations have been reduced. The Labour government has been loath, however, to question the basic structure of the NHS - to the detriment of British patients who can't afford private care, says Dr. Maurice Slevin, an oncologist and member of the U.K. organization Doctors for Reform. "Here patients have no power," he says. "We want to move away from a Soviet-style, monolithic, nationalized industry that provides very poor value for money." Slevin says the number of managers in the NHS has grown three times faster than medical staff...
Prompted both by the rise in health-care costs and the increasing computerization of health-care equipment, doctors are using remote monitoring to track a widening variety of chronic diseases. In March, St. Francis University in Pittsburgh, Pa., partnered with a company called BodyMedia on a study in which rural diabetes patients use wireless glucose meters and armband sensors to monitor their disease. And last fall, Yahoo began offering subscribers the ability to chart their asthma conditions online, using a PDA-size respiratory monitor that measures lung functions in real time and e-mails the data directly to doctors...
...heard of: restless legs syndrome. RLS affects up to 10% of the population and can cause nagging pain and discomfort along with an uncontrollable urge to move one's legs during periods of physical inactivity. At night it can mean hundreds of jerky, involuntary movements and can result in chronic sleep deprivation. A study reported in the journal Sleep found that Requip, a drug for Parkinson's disease, significantly reduced RLS symptoms and improved the quality of sleep. The drug is currently being reviewed for approval by the FDA. --By David Bjerklie
...also an oddly Catholic book. John Bagnall's "Don't Tread On My Rosaries," published by Kingly Books of Glasgow, Scotland, collects a group of short stories, the best of which, "The Chemist and the Capuchin," tells the slightly nutty but heartfelt story of a scientist who suffers a chronic injury and rediscovers his lost faith. Another tale imagines David Bowie's diary from his Berlin days. Created with no apparent pretense, Bagnall's work has a warm and funny eccentricity...