Seeing case after case of chronic suffering, caused by simple diseases that were treatable or preventable, was quite an eye opener.
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The NHS is facing a chronic shortage of family doctors after official figures showed some GPs were responsible for 9, 000 patients.
Doctors at George Washington University Hospital, also in the capital, reported an increased in reports of pain and chronic illnesses in the week after the attacks.
Study after study shows that chronic inactivity is a serious health risk.
But after sometimes 20 years, chronic hepatitis C can cause jaundice, nausea and abdominal pain.
After years of living with chronic pain, Jaesson has now turned her focus to alternative medicine techniques and stress reduction instead of drugs.
The effort comes amid growing concern about the risk of brain injuries in football, but the scope extends well beyond concussions to bone and joint injury, heart disease, depression and chronic pain that affect many players long after their careers are over.
"There is no timetable at this point, " said Stoudemire, who's had chronic knee problems, and developed considerable soreness after a span of four games in five nights.
The former chronic myeloid leukaemia sufferer began running marathons for charity after he was given a life-saving bone marrow transplant in 1989.
Stockton filed for bankruptcy in June of last year after it was unable to trim its chronic budget deficits amid a severe decline in tax revenue because of foreclosures and falling real estate values.
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Just three months before its planned split into two companies, Abbott Laboratories is suffering a significant setback after a Phase III trial for a chronic kidney disease treatment was ended due to an excessive number of deaths and serious adverse events in patients.
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But there is a chronic shortage of donor organs and a high risk of rejection after transplantation.
Woosnam is due to make his debut in Barbados next week after more than a year battling post-viral chronic fatigue syndrome.
After watching both my dad and brother suffer from chronic allergies year-round, I was driven to find out why their symptoms persisted well past the pollen season.
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Despite a chronic knee problem, King's selection was widely predicted after the Tottenham captain's fine run of form in helping his club finish fourth in the Premier League.
The surgery was recommended as a "precautionary measure" after the nodule was discovered during an examination for a chronic neck injury that she has checked from time to time, Johnston said.
Novartis ' (nyse: NVS - news - people ) Gleevec, the first targeted cancer therapy, was approved after mid-stage trials in which it helped patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia.
Gleevec was so good at attacking chronic myelogenous leukemia that it won approval in less than three months, after only two of the three phases of trials that the feds usually require.
The chronic shortage of foster carers across Wales means that many children being looked after by local councils are not receiving the kind of personal and fully committed care they need from a dedicated foster family.
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Not long after he arrived in Boston, he treated an Armenian woman for chronic bronchitis.
King has a chronic knee injury which needs careful management, but the Spurs star returned to training on Sunday after missing Saturday's session to work on his fitness in the swimming pool and gym.
Using data from a study that followed more than 1, 700 patients in North America, Europe and Australia long-term after hernia repair, Dr. Heniford identified both preoperative and surgical factors associated with chronic postoperative pain.
On Jan. 9, the National Institutes of Health confirmed that the future Hall-of-Fame linebacker, who in May 2012 committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest, suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease that has been connected to other athletes who died way too early after a career taking frequent blows to the head.
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