Word: symptom
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...healthy. Sometimes their hormone levels will return to normal after a few months. So far, there hasn't been a research study large enough to determine whether they should be taking drugs as well. Until there is, most doctors will be understandably reluctant to treat a woman whose only symptom is an oddball number on a blood test...
Nobody knows exactly how many people have GERD. But the latest surveys suggest that at least 15 million Americans experience heartburn, its principal symptom, on a daily basis. And things are only getting worse. "The number of Americans reporting frequent heartburn has grown 10% in the past two years," says Dr. Andrew Dannenberg, chairman of a national heartburn advisory panel and an associate professor at Cornell University Medical College in New York City. Some of that is due to aging. But a lot is caused by such habits as late-night snacking, high-fat eating and a related propensity...
...years old when she discovered a large lump in her breast. Tests showed that the malignancy had spread to her lymph nodes. Bradfield got the works: a double mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy, followed by radiation and then more chemo. It bought her 18 months of symptom-free life. Then one hot August night, she recalls, "I went to rub my neck, and there was a tumor about the size of a marshmallow." Bradfield was already depressed--her daughter had just died in a car accident--and she never wanted to face chemo again. "I thought I was probably...
...Snowe, the Maine Republican who serves on the Armed Services Committee, calls the report "a disturbing step backwards." Karen Johnson, a retired Air Force officer who is now a vice president of the National Organization for Women, said that "creating a two-tiered training system will focus on the symptom rather than the underlying problem--a military culture that values women less than men. If men and women do not train together from the beginning, how will they learn to respect each other as equals...
...still, because there was no public scrutiny of the iron triangle of bureaucrats, businessmen and bankers, the natural coziness that developed in that clique led inevitably to decisions based on personal relations. At best this was inefficient, at worst corrupt. The financial crisis facing Asia today is merely a symptom of a much deeper problem. The social and political assumptions on which the Asian model was founded are terribly outdated. The global economy is far too complex and fast paced for any bureaucrats to control. The only miracle in Asia is that this approach worked as long...