Word: chronics
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...adds that he hopes additional technical workshops, offered earlier in the semester and more highly publicized, will help solve the chronic shortage in coming years...
...study was originally designed to study diet and chronic disease including diabetes in women. However, we think the results should apply to men,” Frank Hu wrote in an e-mail. Hu is an associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology at SPH who helped design and supervise the 16-year study...
...Port, Mass. But for more than a decade now, as biographers have burrowed under the New Frontier, another J.F.K. has come into the picture. That would be the one with a multitude of serious illnesses whose life was a hidden ordeal of pills and injections, the one whose severe chronic back pain led him eventually to find relief in amphetamine shots from Max Jacobson, the celebrity physician later known as Dr. Feelgood. "I don't care if it's horse piss," Kennedy is reported to have told his disapproving brother Bobby. "It works...
DIED. KIM GALLAGHER, 38, who bested chronic illness to win two Olympic medals in the 800-m race; of a stroke, after battling cancer of the stomach and colon; in Philadelphia. She underwent surgery for ovarian cysts six months before her silver-medal win in Los Angeles in 1984. Her 1988 time in Seoul is still the third fastest by an American woman in that race...
...actually a very commonplace sexually transmitted disease. More than half of U.S. women will develop sex-related HPV infections at some point in their life, and in most cases the immune system knocks the virus out before it can do any damage. In some cases, however, the infection becomes chronic, with measurable levels of the virus remaining in the system. Perhaps 5% of these women will eventually develop precancerous lesions that could lead to cervical cancer. Or at least that's what would happen if they did not undergo routine Pap smears, which can detect abnormal cervical tissue before...