Word: chronical
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...getting it? Like other forms of hepatitis, it's an inflammation of the liver caused by a virus. The symptoms, which include fever, nausea, diarrhea, jaundice, fatigue, abdominal pain and loss of appetite, usually clear up within a month or two. (Hepatitis B and C, by contrast, often cause chronic, incurable infections that can lead to cirrhosis and cancer of the liver.) Up to 200,000 Americans contract hepatitis A every year, often after eating shellfish taken from contaminated waters. But with our growing reliance on fresh foods imported from overseas, it's increasingly associated with vegetables that have been...
...Such chronic neglect has decimated villages like Xinmin. By the early 1990s, local health workers no longer had a budget to spray antisnail pesticide around Dongting Lake, where Xinmin is located. Free schistosomiasis checkups and medicine stopped as well. Now funding for local clinics once proudly designated as "antisnail-fever bureaus" has also dried up; to make ends meet, many have opened up moneymaking clinics for sexually transmitted diseases and osteopathy. Consequently, just as China was proudly announcing that it had defeated snail fever, the mollusk began returning. Last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health...
...squarely casts his lot among those who search for biological and genetic bases to mental disorders, and though these approaches can bring relief to many, his strictly clinical approach misses the point—there are real, understandable reasons that any member of the Harvard community might feel even chronic sadness, reasons that need to be listened to, understood and addressed. The limitations of Hyman’s approach become evident when he searches for a reason explaining why college students continue to be diagnosed with mental disorders in ever-increasing quantities. His suggestions—that...
...recommend that patients sleep on firm mattresses to alleviate low-back pain, but a study in last week's issue of the Lancet suggests that such advice is based on little more than folklore. In a randomized trial, researchers at the Kovacs Foundation in Spain assigned 313 subjects with chronic low-back pain to either a firm or a medium-firm mattress to sleep on for three months. Good news for those of us who like a little give in our cribs: patients who slept on the medium-firm mattresses were twice as likely as those sleeping on firm ones...
Currently recovering from a high hamstring injury, she has had some chronic injuries in the past, but she is expected to return in time for this weekend...