An individual who has recovered from an illness or has entered a period of stability in a chronic illness and who subsequently suffers a recurrence of symptoms is said to have experienced a relapse. In the addictions, there has been some controversy...

A relapse is a return of symptoms in an individual who has recovered from an illness or has entered a stable period in a chronic illness. In people with drug addictions, a lapse refers to minor episodes of drug use following a period of abstinence, and...

A relapse (etymologically, "who falls again") occurs when a person is affected again by a condition that affected them in the past. This could be a medical or psychological condition such as depression, bipolar disorder, multiple sclerosis, cancer or an...

IF A GOVERNMENT CAN exhibit symptoms of a totalitarian hangover, or even of a relapse, then the Russian conviction of American businessman Edmond Pope for espionage qualifies as a prime example of the syndrome. Apart from the Kafkaesque qualities of Pope's closed trial,...

TIM LEONARD, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-07-2000 EL RELAPSE -- HERNANDEZ FALLS IN RETURN FROM REHAB By TIM LEONARD, Staff Writer Date: 08-07-2000, Monday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star B Notes:...

Women with early stage breast cancer won a new gene test Tuesday to help predict whether they'll relapse in five or 10 years, information that could influence how aggressively they fight that initial tumor.The MammaPrint test isn't the first such predictor for breast cancer to...

Security: Newly released books and films show a growing pop-culture bias against U.S. counterterror efforts. It's another sign the pendulum is swinging back to a 9/10 state of mind.Six years ago we were united as a nation against a common enemy -- 300 million Americans...