This record bespeaks a chronic failure of judgment that should be sufficient to disqualify the nominee from so important a Pentagon post.
And it will not make up for the chronic failure to level with the American people about the cost of the services that they value.
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Still, Hunt's journey through successive generations of new friends has its own pathos, since his chronic failure ever to get to grips with money tainted the very thing he stood for, namely, good fellowship.
It was (and is), for example, a chronic failure of international bank regulation that the debt of Italy, Spain, Germany and so on was classified by financial regulators as completely safe and without risk after monetary union - which gave an unhealthy incentive to banks to lend to these governments (in the jargon, the government bonds of these countries were given a zero risk-weighting).
"The best case is that they lose a third of their Eprex sales for chronic renal failure, " says Sweig.
French regulators are apparently concerned only with using Eprex to treat the anemia that occurs during chronic kidney failure.
Enbrel is now in tests for two dozen other diseases, from chronic heart failure to psoriasis to Alzheimer's and even some cancers.
The most promising frontier for Enbrel is in treating chronic heart failure.
Dr Gerlach said patients with chronic liver failure, caused by conditions such as hepatitis C, could also be helped by the bioreactor.
Medicare is the federal health insurance program that provides care for people 65 and older, some younger people with disabilities and people with chronic kidney failure.
"Once you are in your 70s, 80s or 90s, or if you have chronic disease like heart failure, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic lung and kidney disease, a larger body size gives you longevity, " he said.
Cachexia is best known as a disease of cancer patients, but it is seen in patients with chronic infection, AIDS, heart failure, rheumatoid diseases and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Hendricks had severe congestive heart failure, chronic asthma, uncontrolled diabetes, hypothyroidism, gout, and a history of smoking and alcohol abuse.
Making devices for such chronic conditions as heart failure and Parkinson's disease, Medtronic has an obvious interest in finding better ways of managing long-term disease, and making money in the process.
Tiny implantable sensors are making their way to market, all with the potential to transform the treatment of chronic diseases such as heart failure, diabetes and epilepsy.
Tight budgets are leading more states to turn to managed care, and Amerigroup is ready with physicians, nurses, nutritionists and active outreach which is especially for pregnant women and young mothers and people with chronic diseases like congestive heart failure or diabetes.
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They are frail, often suffer from multiple chronic diseases (such as heart failure, dementia, or diabetes), and are impoverished.
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Hospital workers also had rates of emergency department utilization and hospital admission for a number of chronic medical ailments including congestive heart failure, hypertension, depression, coronary artery disease, diabetes, asthma as well as obesity.
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Carlos Oya of the School of African and Oriental Studies in London says this chronic insecurity is a result of policy failure, not nature.
While EMR is aimed at doctors, Collaborative eCare is used by caregivers in conjunction with patients suffering chronic diseases such as diabetes or congestive health failure.
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At the same time, Brazil itself was going through major political and economic upheavals, with a new president and its government taking office under a debt crisis and the failure of Plano Cruzado to abate chronic inflation.
Within the Medicare program, 10 million of the current 44 million beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, such as diabetes or congestive heart failure, and these 10 million cost the program 68% of the budgeted dollars.
Underinvestment and chronic lack of capacity led, inevitably, to a failure to meet even basic standards.
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People with heart failure often have a lower quality of life than arthritis, chronic lung disease or angina sufferers.
The data from the report, which analyzes how 50 global risks will play out over the coming decade, puts antibiotic resistance within a web of connected threats that include a vulnerability to pandemics, failure of the international intellectual property regime and rising rates of chronic disease.
Packed with data from dozens of academic studies, this book shows the hard facts about the failure of active management and the fund companies who profit from it despite the chronic underperformance.
Asthma, congestive heart failure, depression, coronary artery disease and diabetes--they're the five major chronic conditions that drive the vast majority of health care costs.
He died of heart failure in 2010 at just 45, and when they examined his brain they found he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), caused by taking blows to the head.
However, if patients living with one lung have diabetes, coronary artery disease, chronic lung disease or are immunosuppressed, they may also be more vulnerable to develop complications such as respiratory distress or failure if they develop an upper respiratory infection such as bronchitis or pneumonia.
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