Word: chronical
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...threaded into the main artery in his left thigh. Mathur hopes the $5.5 million, four-year study will help clarify whether stem cells from a patient's own bone marrow can repair a failing heart. There's much at stake in the outcome, and not just for the 300 chronic-heart-failure patients the trial will study or the two in 1,000 people who are diagnosed with the condition in developed countries every year and face a 37% risk of dying in the first year. The London trial is among the first large-scale efforts to determine whether stem...
...trend began two decades ago-though it has intensified in recent years. Abe's challenge is to combat inequality and provide a better "social safety net" while continuing with market reforms. Such reforms, and the sustained growth they will bring, will have the desired effect of reducing Japan's chronic budget deficit-which is a symptom, not a cause, of Japan's problems. The question everyone is asking is whether Shinzo Abe-who has never shown much interest in economics-has both the desire and the capability to continue reform. On this, too, the jury is still...
...health-care industry, with its chronic shortage of nurses and burgeoning client base in Sun Belt states, is a natural pioneer of such programs. But increasingly, other kinds of companies are getting involved, especially giant retail chains like Borders, Home Depot and CVS Pharmacy...
...surprise, says the report's author, Dr. Christopher Murray of the Harvard School of Public Health, is that life-span discrepancies show up most in young and middle-aged adults, not kids or the elderly, who tend to be viewed as at higher risk and are due more to chronic ailments like heart disease and high blood pressure than to factors like homicide...
...Cuban Revolution, 1956-1971: A Self-Debate” burst onto the Historical Studies B scene last year, with its innovative pedagogy succoring any students’ doubts over its suggestive course title. Grading was dependent on self-debating ability, but you’re probably already a chronic, compulsive self-debater anyways. You’ll have to wait until next year to take this one though, because it’s not being offered this year.The jury is still out on Historical Studies B-68, “America and Vietnam: 1945-1975,” team taught...