Word: health
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while Heimert has gained so much out of the last five years, a family legacy of diabetes has cast a shadow. Unable to work for two years for health reasons, he had surgery in an attempt to clear up his arteries in the February of 1997. He suffered a stroke and ultimately had to have his leg partially amputated...
...apple a day keeps the doctor away. That proverbial advice has always been presumed to mean that good health habits, such as eating an apple, help assure good health. Now scientific study suggests that whom you eat the apple with -- and not just the apple itself -- may be what makes the difference. An intriguing body of research, reported in Monday?s New York Times, indicates that social status may be an additional factor in assuring good health and longevity. Medical researchers are not sure what exactly accounts for the better health of people in higher socioeconomic classes, but the research...
...other factors are at work. For example, says Gorman, there is a tendency for children to stay in the same general socioeconomic stratum as their parents. "There is also evidence," she says, "that environmental deficits in the womb and early in life" can seriously affect a person?s health later on. Thus poor adults, who may simply be the inheritors of a poor childhood, may exhibit a less healthy adult life cycle -- not because of lower-class stress but rather because they may have been exposed to more lead or more pollution, or obtained less medical attention, when they were...
...they can. In the first study to connect antibiotic resistance in humans directly with the food we eat, a group of Minnesota public health specialists reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine that an eightfold increase in drug-resistant food poisoning among Minnesotans directly followed the approval and use of the same drug in chickens. While most of their patients got sick while traveling overseas--where overuse of antibiotics is even more widespread than in the U.S.--the scientists found evidence that the same thing is happening right here at home...
...investors, whether they realize it or not, are pouring cash into subadvised funds. These funds are farmed out by the likes of Vanguard and Dreyfus to outside managers with special expertise. That's a good thing, according to a recent study, which showed that subadvised funds, especially in growth, health and emerging-market stocks, initially outperform, by up to 0.5% annually, their in-house peers. Two such choices are Enterprise Growth and Dreyfus Appreciation...