Word: chronical
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DIED. JAMES EARL RAY, 70, criminal who confessed to killing Martin Luther King Jr.; of liver failure caused by chronic hepatitis; in Nashville, Tenn. After an international manhunt following the assassination, Ray was captured in England. Three days after pleading guilty to the killing, Ray performed one of criminology's most famous about-faces, protesting his innocence for the remainder of his 99-year sentence. His prison term was marked by botched jailbreaks and his steady insistence that he had only been the fall guy in a larger conspiracy to slay King, a claim that received the unlikely backing...
...Western medicine, as powerful as it is, simply doesn't work very well for chronic illness," said keynote speaker James S. Gordon '62, a physician and chair of the Program Advisory Council at the National Institute of Health's Office of Alternative Medicine...
...running the government in Phnom Penh--had good reason to prefer his death to a revealing trial. But the 73-year-old's health had been failing. A stroke in 1995 paralyzed much of his left side, he was taking medicine for a heart complaint, and he suffered from chronic malaria. For the past three weeks he had been hustled between safe houses near the Thai border to avoid shelling. As government forces aided by growing legions of Khmer Rouge defectors closed in, Pol Pot must have realized the end was near...
Although skepticism is still prevalent, Western medicine is slowly beginning to accept its limitations and realize that some types of alternative medicine may be more effective in treating certain illnesses, especially chronic problems...
...recent study by the University of California at San Francisco found that 40 percent of Americans have some type of chronic illness, leading to $425 billion in direct health care costs every year. This explains why, despite annual health care expenditures of over 1 trillion dollars, the United States medical system was recently ranked 18th among developed countries by the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO found that other developed countries that ranked higher than the United States encouraged a pluralistic health care system which incorporated nontraditional therapies, especially to treat chronic ailments. This strongly suggests that the over...