Word: chronical
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Digitalis has been used for more than 200 years to treat chronic heart failure. But more powerful new medications made doctors wonder if the old standby had outlived its usefulness. A 12-week study of 178 patients with mild to moderate heart failure has laid those fears to rest. According to the report, combining digitalis with more modern drugs decreased by sixfold a patient's odds of getting sicker...
Today's list of endemic woes, topped by economic stagnation and ethnic warfare, certainly add up to a crisis. But it is a creeping, chronic crisis, not one that galvanizes people or calls for leaders to wield a sword of confrontation. Now, when the challenge is mainly to cooperate, to find national and multilateral solutions to long-term ills, today's leaders are coming up short...
...chronic spending on space does not end with NASA. Another billion-dollar program is SETI--the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. No personal pork-barrelling by a backwoods congressional representative could ever have been as superfluous and ridiculous as this program...
About 12 million American children suffer from chronic hunger. The problem is worst in some Southern states, where more than a fourth of all children regularly go hungry; the rate is more than 18% in New York, South Dakota and California...
When coping day after day with a chronic disease, patients generally want the treatment to be as simple as possible. But in the case of diabetes, simplicity is not the best policy. On Sunday the National Institutes of Health announced the results of a 10-year, $165 million study that proved that the most effective treatment for severe diabetes is a complex, time-consuming regimen to control blood-sugar levels tightly. Patients who make that extra effort will lower their risk of suffering blindness, kidney failure or many other complications of diabetes...