Basketball Star Details His Struggle With Gout

... back, he said. "If any of you ever had [gout], you would know you would try to do everything possible to try and prevent it," Cheeks said with a wry smile. "Because once it's full-blown, there's not a whole lot you can do." More information To learn more, visit the Gout & Uric Acid ...

Hand-held computers prod older adults to exercise more, Stanford study shows

... half of them wound up responding to the PDA only after being beeped for the fourth time. "The PDAs can really keep on you," King observed with wry humor. "We were surprised by that; we thought by the time they heard the fourth beep, they might find it annoying and not respond at all." The ...

Study Finds That Lincoln Suffered from Smallpox During Gettysburg Speech

... and an end of slavery in the US. According to a physician's contemporary account reported in the study, Lincoln retained his trademark wry and sometimes black sense of humor despite his illness. The study appears in the current issue of the Journal of Medical Biography. ...

Wry in Medical Dictionary

Wry neck

... Torticollis ( wry Neck ) See all Pictures & Images Overview, Causes, & Risk Factors ... wry neck ; Loxia Symptoms: Enlargement of the neck ... + "collum", neck = twisted neck. Also called wry neck . Search All of MedicineNet For: search help ...

Wry in Biological Technology

How 40-plus tech job seekers can prevent age discrimination

... a place where people look to you to guide them through rough seas. This can be part of your interview persona, too. Exude calm, maturity and a wry sense of humor. These are more attractive qualities than the sense of a person making a desperate attempt to fit in. Look at me: a mother of ...

Wry in Biological Dictionary

Teat

... English nouns ... Shop for Cretan Teat Books - Books at Shop.com. General Fiction BRIAN ALDISS THE CRETAN TEAT The Cretan Teat is a wry and comic novel that interweaves its own ... ...