Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quiet, patient man who always expressed humility. He never sought praise for his own work," he said. "He was in many ways the quintessential virtuous lawyer...
State Trooper Bill Robertson said Zupanic was a patient at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility specializing in the treatment of chemical dependency and mental illness. The hospital is also a Harvard Medical School teaching facility...
...HEART--AND BEYOND. One drawback with all these techniques is that it takes time, usually several weeks, to grow organs using the patient's own cells. Although using these cells sidesteps the rejection problem, time is a luxury many patients, particularly heart patients, can't afford. So Michael Sefton, who directs the tissue-engineering center at the University of Toronto, has proposed building a "heart in a box"--complete with chambers, valves and heart muscles--from cells genetically engineered to block the signal with which the body marshals cells to attack invaders. Sefton envisions spin-offs along the way--like...
...tears were compulsive, reflexive, the way I imagine tears to be for women when they watch female weepies like An Affair to Remember, in which Deborah Kerr can't meet Cary Grant at the Empire State Building because she's been hit by a car, or The English Patient, in which Kristin Scott Thomas can't meet Ralph Fiennes because she has died alone in a cave. I mean, women are drawn to this material in a creepy, Pavlovian way, right? Surely they don't enjoy...
...patient. Research shows that most stretches have to be held for at least 30 sec. to provide lasting benefits. "The stretch that you're doing today is not going to be of any great benefit today," says William Evans, an exercise expert at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. "But it will help you tomorrow and the day after...