Word: chronical
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HOLD THE PILLS! Up to 75% of antibiotics prescribed each year are for upper-respiratory infections. Yet most of these are unnecessary. New guidelines should make it easier for doctors to just say no. (The advice doesn't apply to individuals over 65 or those with diabetes or chronic heart and lung disease.) Patients shouldn't think they're getting poor treatment if their doctors don't prescribe antibiotics. Stick to over-the-counter products to ease symptoms. And be patient, patient! The bug will eventually go away...
...black terry cloth wristband with a green ganja leaf design that he says lets the ladies know, "I can get you high." With his close-cropped hair, wide cheekbones and enormous grin, Fai may not be the most attractive representative of his gender - he also has the chronic slouch and bob of a beat poet - but looks aren't everything. Confidence and a smooth tongue can take a man much farther than a pretty-boy face. Fai knows it and, apparently, works it. According to his friend Luca, "He has an intuition to know when a girl wants...
...father has chronic pneumonia that many rounds of antibiotics couldn't clear up. Twice in the past year, an ambulance had to be called to haul him to the hospital for suctioning procedures that he found dreadful, and after talking it over with my mother, he decided he wouldn't go down that road again. He was brought home and put on hospice care, and the decision was made to take him off antibiotics. They simply weren't doing him any good. There were e-mail exchanges about this decision, which seemed grave, and my mother and sister notified...
Today it's a different story. Like most school nurses across the country, Jackson has seen her responsibilities grow dramatically in number and complexity. School nurses are managing care for more children with chronic conditions such as asthma and Type 2 diabetes. At the same time they are doling out more and more psychotropic drugs, such as Ritalin and Prozac, and performing involved medical procedures for students with severe disabilities--a population newly mainstreamed into the public schools by force of federal antidiscrimination laws. "We're not sitting in our offices waiting to clean off a skinned knee anymore," says...
PLAQUE PRONE You thought chronic infections like sinusitis or bronchitis were punishment enough? Now a study suggests that people who get repeat infections have a threefold greater risk of developing artery-clogging plaque, making chronic infections a stronger risk factor than even high blood pressure or elevated cholesterol. Why? To fight infections, the body releases substances that may make arterial walls vulnerable to clogging...