Word: healthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...illustrates a record of tangible achievement, rather than the theoretical--and at times fanciful--plans of his competitors. Fiscal prudence and compassionate, practical social programs have become the Dukakis trademark. Massachusetts has led the nation in its workfare programs, its housing and education initiatives, and in its insurance and health legislation...
...funds to beef up the war on drugs is the strongest signal yet that the commission believes the IV drug problem, if left unchecked, could result in the spread of the AIDS virus to the heterosexual population. Equally important, Watkins has shrewdly sized up the role the country's health- delivery system must play in combatting the devastation already caused by AIDS -- and found it badly wanting. The chairman's recommendations, which are expected to be approved by the full commission this week before going to the White House in March, outline how the U.S. health-care system should...
...team from the National Institutes of Health found a link between low metabolism rates and excessive weight gain over a period of several years. Their subjects were 171 Pima Indians in Arizona, a tribe in which two-thirds of the women and half the men are obese. Though there were variations among individuals, researchers generally found that the slower the metabolism, the greater the weight gain. Yet after a gain of between 20 lbs. and 45 lbs., % metabolism rates changed, rising to a new level...
...refuses to condemn Stalin's terror outright. One of the most revealing anecdotes in the book is Gromyko's account of a telephone call he received from Konstantin Chernenko one day in 1985 in which the ailing Soviet leader asked whether he should resign because of ill health. "There's no need to hurry," Gromyko cautioned. Three days later Chernenko was dead...
...news account on March 2 incorrectly identified four doctors on a fact-finding team sponsored by Physicians for Human Rights. Drs. Bennett Simon and Leon Shapiro are associate clinical professors of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Dr. Jennifer Leaning is director of emergency services for the Harvard Community Health Plan. The leader of the team, H. Jack Geiger, is a professor of community medicine at the City University of New York Medical School...