Word: combatting
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...combat any legitimate free spech, however insensitive it may be, is not to push it underground where it can fester and grow. It's better that this sort of insensitivity should be exposed and challenged with more free speech...
...part of a 12-member federal panel, Harvard Medical School Professors Albert L. Sheffer and Christopher H. Fanta '70 released a report early last month showing that anti-inflammatory drugs will effectively combat the effects of the chronic respiratory disorder...
...combat asthma, Sheffer says, the report suggested anti-inflammatory agents, two of which are cromolyn and corticosteroids. "Both drugs are administered by a metered dose inhaled," Sheffer says...
...European troops had with poison gas was gruesome enough: in World War I, both sides used it, causing 91,000 deaths, many of the victims dying miserably after coughing up mouthfuls of yellow fluid. Since then, chemical weapons have grown more sophisticated, but so have the techniques to combat them. Says Lieut. Colonel Glenn Tripp, a doctor at MedBase America, a medical evacuation center in the Saudi desert: "The chemical threat is overrated...
...which pound for pound are deadlier than any other weapon, except for nuclear bombs. U.S. officials maintain that the masks handed out to the troops will also filter out most airborne germs. Yet there is no easy way to know immediately when such elements are present. All front-line combat troops have been inoculated against anthrax, which is considered Iraq's most likely germ choice, but not against many other potential diseases like tularemia and plague...