Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ultimate skeptics when it comes to marriage. Some young adults maintain they will wait to get married, in the hope that time will bring a more compatible mate and the maturity to avoid a divorce. But few of them have any real blueprint for how a successful relationship should function. "We never saw commitment at work," says Robert Higgins, 26, a graduate student in music at Ohio's University of Akron...
...cannot make time stand still, it may help stave off some of the worst effects of aging, including the muscle deterioration that leaves many older people unable to climb stairs or carry groceries. No one yet knows if the larger muscles that HGH stimulates in the elderly will function as younger muscles do. But if that turns out to be the case, at least some of the elderly could get a chance to be more active and productive in their final years...
...patients can be kept free of depression. In a project involving 75 malignant-melanoma patients, it was learned that a direct connection exists between the mental state of the patient and the ability of the immune system to do its job. In a condition of emotional devastation, immune function is impaired. Conversely, liberation from depression and panic is frequently accompanied by an increase in the body's interleukins, vital substances in the immune system that help activate cancer-killing immune cells. The wise physician, therefore, is conscious of both the physical and emotional needs of the patient...
...Drug companies are testing more than 100 compounds that may at least relieve or delay the symptoms of the illness. Last week Warner-Lambert, a New Jersey pharmaceutical firm, applied for Government permission to market Cognex, a brand of tacrine, a drug that supposedly slows the loss of brain function in 40% of Alzheimer's patients who are given the medication. Such a drug, along with the new test to detect the disease, could conceivably add one or more productive years to the lives of Alzheimer's victims...
Wilson also urged seniors to consider civic service a responsibility. "We cannot assume that the basic function of civic society will be provided by others," Wilson said...