Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knee is good and I'll be ready to go on Saturday," Menick said. "It didn't really hurt, but the doctor said to stay off it for the week and not risk injuring it any further...
...have definitely grown as a person at college, and a lot of that is football," Green said. "I've become more independent. Now, I'll hopefully take this degree and become a doctor...
...That's a hardship for a population that is composed largely of poor farmworkers, many of whom have limited transportation. Besides, women like Campos might not have the luxury of time when the baby is on the way. "I had my last kid in 15 minutes," she says. "The doctor didn't even make it on time...
...hospital, is taking over." But the hard-line stance could backfire. Last year in Manchester, N.H., the Catholic Medical Center, which had recently merged with another local hospital, refused to perform an emergency abortion on a woman in danger of prematurely delivering a 14-week fetus--even though her doctor had determined that she was at risk for a lethal infection. The incident generated so much outrage that the hospital with which it had merged sought and won a divorce...
...tumor has acquired the mutations for spreading, the doctor of the future may call on matrix metaloproteinase inhibitors, a new kind of drug that can be taken orally to block the enzymes a tumor uses to break down the cells of surrounding tissue and invade it. Vaccines cobbled together from whole cancer cells or bits and pieces of those cells have been shown to boost the body's immune system, helping it recognize and kill tumors on its own. "This was all a dream five years ago," marvels John Minna, director of the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research...