Word: chronical
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...other hand, are the seemingly boundless medical possibilities inherent in this discovery. If a cancer specialist can use this map to accelerate her search for the genetic anomaly that leads to breast cancer, we might find a cure - or a means of prevention. And if the root of a chronic illness lies buried in our DNA, the genome map could eventually lead us to a usable therapy. Of course, despite all this tantalizing promise, treatments, not to mention cures, are years, possibly decades away. Scientists involved in the mapping stress that while the latest descriptions are critical to an eventual...
Adopting healthy habits won't cure all that ails you, of course. But doctors believe that as much as 70% of all chronic diseases in the U.S.--from diabetes and high blood pressure to heart disease and even some cancers--can be warded off with some timely, sensible changes in lifestyle...
...acknowledged the need to improve America's teaching force and better prepare new teachers. Recruitment programs, he said, need to be initiated to counter the chronic teacher shortage in the K-12 system. Finally, he said teacher salaries need to be increased so that the teaching profession is more attractive...
Little known but devastating among the aged is a phenomenon described as chronic suicide. Depressed old people may eat improperly, refuse to take medications and in general passively fail to take care of themselves until they die. Others may enter into a suicide pact with a partner. This usually occurs in response to one partner's developing dementia or being admitted to a nursing home...
...first arise from a sheep disease gone spontaneously wild, something similar could happen here--and not just with sheep. U.S. officials have found that elk in Western states suffer from a prion disorder called chronic wasting disease that causes severe weight loss and listlessness. When contaminated tissue was injected into the brains of cows, they too developed the disease (although cows that merely ate elk meat did not). Last week advisers to the FDA took up the question of whether deer, closely related to elk, might pose a danger to venison eaters. "We have to be vigilant," says Linda Detwiler...