Word: ward
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...HEARTY DOSE If you're among the many who take a baby aspirin each day to ward off stroke or heart disease, consider this: a study suggests that using a baby aspirin daily but substituting an adult aspirin once every two weeks may offer better protection...
...Suggesting that having a boyfriend or girlfriend is a viable solution to depression is insulting to the members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community who suffer from an illness that has its roots in neurochemistry. Those who must seek therapeutic treatment or take prescription medication to ward off relapse into depression, much as a diabetic depends on insulin to prevent illness, do not see relationships as a quick-fix to their situation...
...week later, on Jan. 7, Lewinsky was riding with Vernon Jordan to see his hand-picked lawyer to swear out an affidavit denying a sexual relationship with Clinton. Affidavits like that are sometimes used to ward off a deposition. But then, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, Lewinsky did something unusual. She did not actually file the paper with the court. Instead she squeezed Jordan: Lewinsky would later tell Tripp, who was wearing an FBI wire at the time, that she had no plans to file the affidavit until Jordan came through with a job, a source told TIME...
Preventative measures have been implemented by hospitals to prevent cross-contamination and infection among ward patients. Clinical usage of methicillin in the 1960s and 1970s controlled the expansion of multi-drug resistance somewhat but never assuaged the problem entirely...
Across the hall from the intensive care unitand its familiar tangle of oxygen tanks andintravenous tubing is the wildlife ward, wheresick and injured wildlife is cared for until itcan be transported to the New England WildlifeCenter...