Word: patient
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Whitesides added that those traditional treatments may not help in those cases where the cancer spreads beyond the treated, or treatable, areas. Traditional cancer therapies are also notoriously hard on the patient as both malignant and normal tissues are susceptible to toxic agents...
...physician-assisted suicide, which is currently legal only in Oregon. The bill, sponsored by Henry Hyde (R-Ill.), was approved by a 16-8 committee vote, and will face a full House vote in the coming weeks. Sponsors of the measure hope that it will prevent terminally ill patients and their doctors from ending the patient?s life. The House bill, and its Senate version, sponsored by Majority Whip Don Nickles (R-Okla.), have ruffled some feathers out West. "A lot of Oregonians perceive this as a real slap in the face," says TIME Washington correspondent Sally Donnelly. "This bill...
...patients with Huntington's disease, it's the part of the brain called the basal ganglia that's destroyed. While these victims have perfectly intact explicit memory systems, they can't learn new motor skills. An Alzheimer's patient can learn to draw in a mirror but can't remember doing it; a Huntington's patient can't do it but can remember trying to learn. Yet another region of the brain, an almond-size knot of neural tissue known as the amygdala, seems to be crucial in forming and triggering the recall of a special subclass of memories that...
George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees: I love the game the way it is, but the average fan is action oriented and isn't patient enough by nature to understand the true beauty of the game. I don't think it's possible to make chess more action oriented without hurting the very foundation of the game...
...EMPTIVE STRIKE It's a cruel but common outcome: a patient with lung cancer appears to be in complete remission, but then dies when the disease spreads to the brain. Prophylactic radiation of the skull has been used for years in hopes of preventing or delaying the onset of brain tumors, but its effectiveness was uncertain. A new analysis concludes that the therapy does bestow a small but significant survival advantage...