Word: chronics
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...acknowledged the need to improve America's teaching force and better prepare new teachers. Recruitment programs, he said, need to be initiated to counter the chronic teacher shortage in the K-12 system. Finally, he said teacher salaries need to be increased so that the teaching profession is more attractive...
...real problem, say experts, is chronic rescuing. Children who are continually bailed out never grow up. Cheryl Erwin, author of several Positive Discipline parenting books, says, "As parents, we need to be there to teach and guide, not to rescue and pamper. That is an ultimately unloving thing...
...sometimes called the common cold of psychiatry, affects an estimated 10% of all Americans. But unlike the common cold, depression usually doesn't go away by itself. People age 65 and older are particularly susceptible. Of the 34 million older people in this country, about 6 million suffer from chronic depression...
Little known but devastating among the aged is a phenomenon described as chronic suicide. Depressed old people may eat improperly, refuse to take medications and in general passively fail to take care of themselves until they die. Others may enter into a suicide pact with a partner. This usually occurs in response to one partner's developing dementia or being admitted to a nursing home...
...first arise from a sheep disease gone spontaneously wild, something similar could happen here--and not just with sheep. U.S. officials have found that elk in Western states suffer from a prion disorder called chronic wasting disease that causes severe weight loss and listlessness. When contaminated tissue was injected into the brains of cows, they too developed the disease (although cows that merely ate elk meat did not). Last week advisers to the FDA took up the question of whether deer, closely related to elk, might pose a danger to venison eaters. "We have to be vigilant," says Linda Detwiler...