Word: ulcer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Finally, are you ready to monitor the oil market 24/7 - to be peeking at your monitor even while kissing your spouse - and are you well stocked with ulcer medications? Yes, it is that easy. Now for the hard part: profit...
...Madden retired from coaching after the 1978 season, citing a stomach ulcer and fatigue. In his 1984 best-selling book Hey, Wait a Minute (I wrote a book!), Madden noted that he had been so focused on football that he'd become estranged from his family, at one point thinking his 16-year-old son was twelve. But he didn't stay out of the limelight for long: in the early 1980s he became an iconic pitchman for Miller Lite, appearing in the beer's famous "tastes great, less filling" ad campaign. Madden's barely restrained enthusiasm made...
...woes. For one thing, she had had a fever a few days earlier and was feeling run-down. She also remembered having severe itchiness in the areas where she now had pain. Her other doctors initially worried that she was having a heart attack or that she had an ulcer, though antacids brought no relief. I asked her to describe the pain. "Stabbing," she said. The clincher was a band of reddened skin - extending from the middle of her back around to her chest - and its double row of tiny blisters. The diagnosis: herpes zoster, known colloquially as shingles, from...
...result, Langer said, was a tape-based adhesive that may be simpler, easier to use, and perhaps even stronger than glue. For example, Karp said, the adhesive could in intestinal surgery or ulcer treatment, preventing bleeding after a gastric bypass procedure...
...Kroes said the probe was partly triggered by her 2005 fine on AstraZeneca of €60 million ($88m) after the Commission found the company had delayed market entry of a rival ulcer drug by misleading authorities over the expiration of its patent...