Word: chronical
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...accordingly. "We are still trying to map out these neurochemical systems," says Edgehill Newport's Wallace. "If we succeed, then it is likely that we will be able to design treatments." A.A. and other groups may always be necessary to help alcoholics assess the psychological and emotional damage of chronic drinking, but there is hope that medicine may make the course to sobriety less perilous...
Much of the problem, however, is imbedded in the structure of the University. With its relatively small faculty, abundance of large lecture courses and chronic shortage of qualified section leaders, it is naive to think that simple solutions could cut to the core of the problem...
...blamed for all such symptoms of social malaise. Says a Moscow sinologist: "The greatest danger facing China is not capitalism. You can treat bourgeois liberalism just as you would a case of the grippe. The real threat to China is a feudal way of thinking. It is like a chronic, incurable case of asthma...
...researchers, Microbiologist Memory Elvin-Lewis of Washington University in St. Louis and Marlys Witte, a professor of surgery at the University of Arizona in Tucson, told of a black teenager who showed up at St. Louis City Hospital in 1968 with chronic genital swelling. The youngster, then 15, admitted that he was sexually active; laboratory tests disclosed that he had a severe case of chlamydia, a common but curable venereal disease. Doctors prescribed several antibiotics and put him on a low-salt diet. Nothing worked. His muscles wasted away, and his lungs filled with fluid. Robert R. died...
...longer life," complains Daniel Callahan, 57. They should be "creatively and honorably accepting aging and death, not struggling to overcome them." Medicine, Callahan chides, ought to "give up its relentless drive to extend the life of the aged," who in any event are often "being saved from death for chronic illness, with Alzheimer's as a tragic example." It is time to honor a "natural life-span" that normally winds down in the late 70s to mid-80s, he says. "How many years do we need to have a reasonably decent life, to raise a family, to work, to love...