Supplemental

Good personal investments may provide supplemental income in retirement.

Scientists called the use of dexamethasone, normally used to reduce inflammation in patients with arthritis and other diseases, a "major breakthrough" in the treatment of patients infected by the coronavirus who have been hospitalized and need the use of a ventilator or supplemental oxygen.

The shortage has also placed enormous strain on social services programs such as the federal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, known by the acronym WIC.

But when women with repeated UTIs were given supplemental estrogen through the vaginal canal, he said the hormone restored the integrity of the bladder's cellular lining to that of healthier tissue seen in younger, premenopausal women.

The World Health Organization and the U.N. Children's Fund recommend that mothers breastfeed within the first hour after giving birth and continue until their children reach age 2, with supplemental food as they grow older.

The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.