Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem has become so pervasive across so many sports--football, track, swimming, gymnastics, weight lifting and biking, to name just a few--that many young athletes assume they will need to take some sort of drugs if they're ever going to compete at the highest levels...
...says her mother Marie Espinoza, who was suffering from a degenerative brain disease, had bruises, bedsores and a broken pelvis within months after her 1995 arrival at the Orangetree Convalescent Hospital. Food was often left at the foot of her bed, out of her reach. She began to lose weight. "She always seemed to be starving or begging for water," says Oliva in her official account. At Extended Care Hospital, Espinoza suffered severe dehydration and bedsores. Last January she entered Palm Terrace Convalescent Center. The nursing home said she died after choking on food, but Oliva plans to tell...
...according to the GAO, it has contributed to a litany of abuses. One resident lost a third of his body weight over seven weeks. During this time, the nursing home failed to weigh him, give him prescribed painkillers or alert his doctor to his worsening condition. Another resident had a bedsore, and the doctor ordered the bandage to be changed twice a day; it was unchanged for nearly two weeks. A third nursing-home resident was brought to a hospital, where the patient was found to have had a broken leg for at least three weeks and the nursing-home...
...that challenges patriotic fervor as well as the mind's capacity to comprehend horror--the D-day landing on Omaha: seasick soldiers slaughtered the minute the ramps on their landing boats are lowered; other men clambering over the sides trying to avoid the fire, only to drown under the weight of their packs; the surf turning red with the blood of the slaughtered; some who make it to the narrow beach huddling immobilized yet pathetically vulnerable behind what little cover they can find. A few inch forward, hoping perhaps that being a moving target is safer than being a stationary...
Adults with type 1 diabetes have always had an increased risk of heart disease. But those who gain a lot of weight during intensive insulin therapy face even greater risks. Their cholesterol and blood pressure rise more steeply than those of diabetics whose weight is more stable...