Word: chronics
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Hepatitis B is not so easy to catch, but it's still serious. Each year it kills about 5,000 Americans, and many thousands more develop a chronic infection that in some cases will trigger liver cancer or other problems. The hepatitis-B virus is generally transmitted in utero from mother to child, through sexual activity or by close contact with infected blood. A vaccine is available...
...Slowly we doctors realize that the real fallout is just beginning. The most vulnerable people in our population, those with chronic psychiatric illnesses who don?t function well, start to show up in the emergency rooms. As the third week begins, no more waiting for people to turn up - we are busy. Over and over, patients? family members tell me the same thing, "She was doing okay, just barely, but then the Trade Center...." I think about how those of us who think of ourselves as stable feel - terrified, disbelieving, stressed to the limit - and try to imagine what...
...also a global phenomenon. The two most recent albums he has produced, his own Chronic 2001 and Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP, have sold 25 million copies worldwide. He's a multiplatinum seller in territories--Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Eastern Europe--that were distant hip-hop outposts a few years ago. Dre's distributor, Interscope Records, receives 4,000 requests a year from labels in such places as India, Turkey, Southeast Asia and Israel that want to add Dre tracks to international hip-hop compilations. Beyond his mere reach, Dre has also brought depth. Pepe Mogt, a composer...
...lost surplus rages in the months ahead, look for both sides to tie the issue to emotionally resonant problems. That's just what Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer did last week at an Arthritis Foundation meeting in Edgewater, Md. Hoyer tried earlier this year to increase federal research on chronic diseases by $350 million, but the White House pared it down to $175 million. He had hoped to restore the cut, but with the surplus gone, he told the seniors, it now seems unlikely. In Missouri, Bush had used his favorite tax-cut line: "It's your money." Hoyer gave...
...news wasn?t good: At the beginning of the year, when the surplus was still abundant, Hoyer had proposed increasing federal research money for chronic diseases like arthritis by $350 million for fiscal year 2002. The Bush administration had cut the program by $175 million, but Hoyer hoped the Appropriations Committee, on which he serves, would use the surplus to restore some of that funding...