Word: chronics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Congress turned out to be tone deaf in responding to the crisis. Not long after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) asked doctors to vaccinate only those at highest risk of deadly complications--people over 65, pregnant women, young children and patients with chronic medical conditions--the office of Dr. John Eisold, the Capitol's attending physician, was still freely dispensing vaccine. Some House and Senate members defended the practice on the grounds they meet a lot of elderly and sick people and shake a lot of hands--despite the fact that both President Bush and Senator Kerry had announced...
...medicine writer comes down with the symptoms of whatever disease he's writing about that week. I was reminded of that hapless writer when I read about a new study out of University College London that found that people who use the Web to get information about their chronic diseases often wind up in worse shape than before they logged...
...compliance with governmental regulations, UHS has been administering shots only to those who fall into the “high risk” category as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This includes pediatric patients, pregnant women, patients over the age of 65 and those with chronic and pulmonary diseases—a group that is highly unlikely to include students...
...more than a few weeks shy of the typical 40-week-long pregnancy. Premature birth--by which doctors mean at least three weeks early--is the leading cause of developmental disability in children, including cerebral palsy and mental retardation, according to Dr. Eve Lackritz of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. It is also a significant cause of blindness, chronic lung problems and birth defects...
Those who will be given priority when flu shots become available Thursday include people over the age of 65, infants between the ages of 6 and 23 months, pregnant women and those with underlying chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, cancer or lung problems...