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relapse

[ri-laps, ri-laps, ree-laps] / rɪˈlæps, rɪˈlæps, ˈri læps /




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After a major relapse, and at Bartlett’s urging, she set up an online fundraiser to ease the financial strain of medical treatment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

"While some therapies are effective at the beginning, many patients eventually relapse because cancer cells can activate compensatory and convergent biological pathways that allow them to overcome the toxic effects of therapy, promoting survival."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Despite advances in treatment, an unmet need remains for oral therapies that can deliver robust relapse prevention, slow disability progression, while maintaining a favorable safety profile,” Novartis Chief Medical Officer Shreeram Aradhye said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Japan will ease overtime regulation starting Tuesday in a move meant to help spur economic growth but criticised as a relapse into the country's ingrained workaholic culture.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

A lengthy prison term may increase the odds that re-entry will be extremely difficult, leading to relapse, and re-imprisonment.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The European Commission approved Cenrifki for secondary progressive multiple sclerosis without relapses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

According to the MS Trust, this treatment reduces the number of relapses by about 70%.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

Although antibiotics are commonly used to treat the infection, many patients experience relapses after treatment.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026

If a patient relapses or breaks a rule in a rehab facility, the knee-jerk impulse should not be to discharge them from the program.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025

Sometimes, when I have relapses of my old demon, I lie in the crook of his arm and he comforts me this way, talking to me all night long to stave off the bad dreams.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Ward said if Rios relapsed she likely felt deep shame about it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The Food and Drug Administration has accepted a biologics license application for anito-cel as a fourth-line treatment for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

Individuals who had relapsed after therapy had significantly narrower cristae than newly diagnosed patients, with the most dramatic differences appearing in those previously treated with venetoclax.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 23, 2025

To the insurer, it would look like he had relapsed, which he said he had not during that time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

The effort succeeded; for an instant he unconsciously relapsed into his old servile manner, bent low before me, and actually fawned upon me as he replied:—

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Novartis said it plans to seek regulatory authorization in relapsing multiple sclerosis globally for the drug, which is already approved in the U.S. and the European Union as a skin treatment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

In 2025, Italy became the first country to pass a national law recognising obesity as a chronic, progressive and relapsing disease.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026

This approach revealed traces of ancient pathogens, including the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis and the organism responsible for louse-borne relapsing fever, Borrelia recurrentis.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 22, 2026

Almost a decade later, the Times looks to be relapsing into bad form.

From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026

She remained abed ten years, gradually growing better, but never completely recovering, relapsing periodically into her paralytic state.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright




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