Word: symptom
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...time. In an Oct. 23 game against the Cardinals, he took a terrifying blow to the chin from Wilber Marshall, a freight train of a linebacker. It caused the sixth concussion of Aikman's five-year career, and his second in 10 months. Aikman now says he is symptom free and ready to play, an attitude that worries his agent, Leigh * Steinberg. "Players have a better grasp of the contents of a can of diet soda than they do of the effects of their brain rattling against their skull," Steinberg says. "They accept way too much risk...
...reason why the president's diagnosis is uncertain could be that there is a long list of diseases for which fatigue is a symptom...
...results of this election should not be read as the defeat of liberal ideals, but as a symptom of the Democratic Party's inability to articulate those ideals. It is past time that Democrats took back the high road, refused to allow Republicans to define them and begun to fight for what they have always fought for--what is good, what is right, what is moral in America...
...unconscionable to write off the deaths of two children as some misguided political gesture or a symptom of societal discontent. While Lezarna's attempt to enfranchise women is a noble one, her reluctance to condemn Smith outright is both an egregious oversight and an oversimplication of an unjust act. Julie R. Cooper...
...regulating chemical messenger -- in order to observe psychotic breakdowns, allegedly without advising them on consent forms of the extreme discomfort and high risk of the undertaking. When Vera Hassner, an advocate for the mentally ill, complained to the project director, she received a letter that stated, "Patients may experience symptom aggravation . . . It would not be advisable to talk to patients about psychosis or relapse . . . Talking to patients about psychosis or schizophrenia might cause unnecessary anxiety . . ." At a recent congressional hearing, Dr. Jay Katz, a bioethicist at Yale University, said, "It is not the patient who may be anxious...