acute

1 - The medical benefit covers a broad range of services-e.g., in-patient, X-rays, diagnostics, office visits-for common chronic and acute conditions.

2 - Before treatment was available, most people who had acute leukemia died within 4 months of diagnosis.

3 - Acute bronchitis is an infection in the passages that carry air from the throat to the lungs.

4 - When governments finally took measures to control the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in March 2003, the infection had already cost more than 580 lives in 29 countries.

5 - Usually, acute pericarditis causes fever and chest pain, which typically extends to the left shoulder and sometimes down the left arm.