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What matters here is the rhetorical purpose "chronic disease" plays: Blaming the victims, and creating the pretext for taking their health care away.

Some Republicans, however, focused their questions on Kennedy's advocacy for eradicating chronic disease in children and his criticism of the US food industry.

She also said that chronic absenteeism was linked to lower scores.

But it includes some concepts that many public health experts consider sensible, such as calling for a stronger focus on chronic disease prevention and seeking more restrictions on prescription drug advertising aimed at consumers.

While overall homelessness was still nominally up in California, chronic homelessness, long the driving force of the state’s increases, decreased slightly in California last year, but ticked up across the nation.