Word: ulcerating
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...counter, expect to pay more for that really bad mug shot taken by an especially grouchy DMV jock who has just been told not to plan on any pay raises before the kids leave home. You can only hope the experience doesn't leave you with an ulcer, because if you're on any kind of health-care assistance, you may find that you no longer qualify. Even if covered, you may find that the nearest hospital has been shut down, along with a wide range of state-funded facilities and services that will impose hardship on millions of Americans...
...probably never met Myrtle Potter, but you may have taken some of the medicines she has marketed. At Merck in the early 1990s, her name became legend when she took charge of a struggling ulcer remedy called Prilosec and transformed it into a worldwide best seller. At Bristol-Myers Squibb in the late '90s, she worked the same magic on billion-dollar brands like Pravachol (for high cholesterol) and Glucophage (for diabetes). Today Potter, 44, is the COO of the world's No. 2 biotech firm, Genentech, where she's working to bring 20 drugs to market over the next...
...same bed and even each other's mannerisms. Now scientists conclude that husbands and wives also share something not nearly as sweet: their diseases. Examining the ills of 8,000 English couples, researchers publishing in the British Medical Journal found that when one partner is depressed or has an ulcer, the other is twice as likely as a member of a healthy couple to have the same problem. High blood pressure, high cholesterol and asthma also seem to run in pairs. Some of these phenomena can easily be explained. Spouses are exposed to the same allergens, which can play...
...prompted by stress-related symptoms. At the same time, leaders of industry have become alarmed by the huge cost of such symptoms in absenteeism, company medical expenses and lost productivity...It is a sorry sign of the times that the three best-selling drugs in the country are an ulcer medication (Tagamet), a hypertension drug (Inderal) and a tranquilizer (Valium)...No one really knows if there is more stress now than in the past, but many experts believe it has become more pervasive. "We live in a world of uncertainties," says Harvard's [Herbert] Benson, "everything from nuclear threat...
...SYMPTOMS Shortly after exposure through a cut or other break in the skin, a small, itchy bump appears. In some cases, a rash may develop. In another few days, the lesion fills up with fluid and develops into a painless ulcer 1 to 3 cm in diameter. Not long afterward, the lesion turns black, a hallmark of skin anthrax, as tissue begins...