Word: checkups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...candidates' physicians contend, probably correctly, that they have released all "significant" material. Some observers-including Dr. Roglieri-say they would like to see Presidents and candidates for the presidency submit to checkups by an independent panel of physicians, and the full results made public. It would be hard to choose, or certify, such a panel. Nor can there even be any real guarantee of future good health. After all, which American has not heard of someone who, a few days after his or her annual checkup, suffered a heart attack...
Having survived the hazardous voyage, they are waiting to get a medical checkup and ID cards, a cold drink and a cigarette. Several of them have dog bites, which they say they got from dogs turned loose on them by the Cuban police...
Aside from prevention, early detection of cancer is the most effective way of fighting it. Last week, citing studies on the costs, risks and benefits of screening tests, as well as new information about how the disease develops, the American Cancer Society announced major changes in its cancer checkup recommendations to the public. Among them...
...Instead of a "periodic" (usually interpreted to mean once a year) general checkup for cancer, including physical examination of the breasts and pelvis, testicles and prostate, thyroid, lymph nodes, mouth and skin, the A.C.S. now suggests one every three years between ages 20 and 40, and annually thereafter...
...checkup in the womb...