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Dilemma for America: We should be raising interest rates to keep our overheating economy in check, but a rate hike would worsen Asia's problems by hurting its debtors.
But Democrats said the plan was the same old hat, benefiting the rich, threatening to worsen the national debt, and jeopardizing Social Security and Medicare.
• Because injection of contrast material may worsen lung injury, it appears prudent to limit this procedure to specific indications in patients with ALI undergoing a thoracic CT scan
Aspirin treatment did not improve or worsen the anaemia (table 2).
, any iron in the ferritin form) leads to formation of free radicals that can worsen ischemic myocardial injury and contribute to atherogenesis.