Word: suffering
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...vitro can be an exercise in frustration. It is expensive (about $7,800 for each attempt, three or four of which are often needed to achieve success) and not covered by many insurance plans. It is also quite unpleasant for most women, who become bloated and sore and sometimes suffer mood swings from the powerful hormones they must take. Finally, the procedure produces children for only 18% of the couples who try it, as 40,000 did in the U.S. last year...
...inheritance pattern of the disease dictated that any child the Abshires conceived would have a 1-in-4 chance of developing Tay-Sachs. As members of the Pentecostal Assembly of God, the couple could not countenance abortion, yet neither could Renee risk conceiving a child who might suffer and die as Maigon had. Still in their 20s, they opted for childlessness...
...students and Dean Lewis will be no better than they were last year, and might, if this is conceivable, be worse. And while it may be wrong to pin blame for all the evils of the world on Dean Lewis, it is undeniable that students will continue to suffer until he learns that we are competent adults who can, and should, be treated with respect...
Half a million Americans suffer strokes each year. Four times out of five, the cause is a wayward clot that blocks an artery and robs the brain of oxygen-rich blood. Nerve cells start to die, depriving key parts of the body of the cerebral instructions they need to function. TPA can change all that by dissolving the clot and restoring blood flow before any damage is done to the brain. "It's the first bright sign that we've had that something we're doing actually works," says Dr. Cathy Helgason, a professor of neurology at the University...
...simple urine test may soon be available for HEART DISEASE. According to a new study, patients with protein in their urine are much more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke than those without. Protein shows up when arteries in the kidneys are leaky, suggesting that arterial damage may exist elsewhere in the body--including the heart...