Word: chronical
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...treatment is used for chronic wounds which cannot be healed by conventional methods--such as plastic surgery--or wounds with unusually long healing times. It cannot be used to treat surgical wounds...
...desire to "abandon" her mother. Fortunately, she was able to escape to Harvard and distance herself from the chaotic hold of her mother's constant need for attention and care. As a busy student, Gray Sexton found herself ignoring her mother's phone calls and obvious cries for help. Chronic depression, loneliness and alcoholism were taking their toll on her mother, but Gray Sexton, exhausted from care-giving, was compelled to remain distant. She writes, "in the last months of my mother's life I chose to ignore her cry of loneliness. I refused to make her last days less...
...Lawrence Jacobs, a professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, announced Monday that the drug, beta interferon, prolongs the non-chronic stage in multiple sclerosis patients by as much as 75 percent...
That same year, however, saw the first of the diseases to come--with the outbreak of Lyme disease. Legionnaire's disease emerged in 1978, toxic-shock syndrome in 1978, AIDS in 1983, and chronic-fatigue syndrome in 1985, to name a few. Malaria re-emerged. Today, dengue and yellow are spreading. Instead of improving, the virulence of disease seems only to have entered a new stage...
...many parts of the U.S., especially the Northeast, people are already leery of strolling in wooded areas for fear of encountering ticks carrying Lyme disease, a potentially chronic, arthritis-like condition. Now the Journal of the American Medical Association has reported on another tick-borne disease, which struck 25 people in Wisconsin and Minnesota, killing two. It is caused by a new variety of the Ehrlichia bacterium, which was first detected in humans in 1954. Doctors are concerned because life-threatening Ehrlichia infections may be misdiagnosed as Lyme disease or even a bad cold...