Word: strenuousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...checked in to Boston's New England Baptist Hospital. A "dream team" of 12 cardiologists assembled by the Celtics' physician, Arnold Scheller, made a diagnosis of cardiomyopathy, an abnormal stretching or thickening of the heart that can cause it to beat erratically. The condition can be fatal if, during strenuous exercise, the heart pounds so fast that no blood enters its chambers...
Voss, who has missed several months of work over the past year with a back injury, said he fell down a flight of stairs on July 9 and was taken to Mt. Auburn Hospital after being placed on a shift that many guards consider especially strenuous. One guard, Howard Reid, said he saw Voss immediately after the fall with a bloodied elbo...
...Harvard has refused to recognize the incident as a work-related injury or pay worker's compensation for it. The University also disputes Voss's charge that his placement on a strenuous shift constituted harassment. Manager of Operations for Security Robert J. Dowling said the shift, which requires walking through chemistry labs, is no more taxing than any other...
...University Health Services said yesterday that no one has been treated in the past few days for heat exhaustion, heat stroke, or dehydration, precautions are still wise. Zuromskis, director of the urgent care clinic, said people should "increase fluid intake and minimize fluid output." This means avoid strenuous outdoor exercise in the middle of the day, and drink lots of liquids. "Stay in places where it's cool," Zuromskis recommends. Three things to avoid, he says, are alcohol, salt tablets and jumping in the Charles River, all of which can just make you feel worse...
FACED WITH STRENUOUS OPPOSITION FROM THE DRUG industry and newly emboldened Republicans in Congress, President Clinton scaled down his plan, announced last month, for the government to finance immunization shots for all American children, regardless of their families' ability to pay. The Administration now proposes to supply free vaccines only to youngsters who are on Medicaid or who are uninsured. Even so trimmed, said Clinton, the proposal is still "a big advance over where...