Treatment of chronic illnesses now accounts for almost 93%% of Medicare spending.1 Lymphedema, once acquired, is a lifelong progressing disease with no currently known cure.
Type 2 diabetes is a lifelong process progressing from normal glucose regulation to impaired glucose regulation and ultimately to diabetes (1).
Unlike Gorbachev, who never really outgrew his faith in benign Leninism, Yeltsin was a lifelong work in progress, much like Russia itself.
Mr. Bratcher navigated an all-terrain John Deere Gator through the 25-acre woodland garden, describing it as "a lifelong work in progress".
As I perfect the various skills and high art of bicycle fishing, a lifelong work in progress, with much of the skill being simply to remember to bring everything, it occurs to me that my bicycle-fishing career actually began some 40 years ago in Gladwyne, Pa.
I think the reality is, our faith identities, and how we conceptualize ourselves, are lifelong works in progress.
Hair follicles (HFs) undergo lifelong cyclical transformations, progressing through stages of rapid growth (anagen), regression (catagen), and relative "quiescence" (telogen).
Dr. Perry began working with polio during World War II, when she was a physical therapist for the Army, and she has seen some patients continually for 50 years or more, creating lifelong charts of their progress, and in many cases, she said, their decline.
At Disrupt, we plan to cover a lot of ground with Thrun, from the importance of lifelong learning and the progress of Udacity, to his interest in life sciences, notably his work at Stanford on an app to detect skin cancer.
Although many people believe that going to rehab is a permanent solution to a drug problem, it is actually the start of a lifelong process -- a process that often involves an intricate dance of forward and backward progress.
