Photo: APFew afflictions carry the existential dread that dementia does.
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And according to NPR, Alex wasn't alone in these afflictions.
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We meet a couple who have lived these afflictions intimately.
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Unemployment, the closet and drug addiction are afflictions in common.
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"These are all afflictions of the affluent," Mr. Kleinbard said.
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And among the most serious afflictions in these wards was nostalgia.
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As it happened, Mr. García recovered from his afflictions after the trip.
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But people have often responded to platform-threatening afflictions with creative governance.
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Ricardo Rosselló's resignation is far from a cure to the Island's afflictions.
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The difference is, those other afflictions have long since been recognized as fraudulent.
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No correlation was found between the latter two afflictions and living around traffic.
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These afflictions all have three things in common - can you guess what they are?
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There are some afflictions that cover most people: cataracts, glaucoma, Retinitis Pigmentosa, things like that.
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This is a society still permeated and shaped and limited by misogyny, among other afflictions.
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These eight tales depict women on the verge — survivors of assault, brutal marriages and mysterious afflictions.
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Of all the afflictions devised in the Jim Crow era, medical racism was the most lethal.
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Many of these afflictions started when Darwin was a student, and continued until his death in 1882.
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The first of these exes was keen on blaming the Kardashians for any number of society's afflictions.
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In 1839, four children from the same London family died after suffering sore throats and respiratory afflictions.
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The thirteen paintings in the section titled Afflictions offer testimony to Lethem as political and social commentator.
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American officials said the new rules had nothing to do with the diplomatic dispute over the afflictions.
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They have cancer, heart disease or any number of other afflictions that visit us as we age.
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Mr. Duterte's energy and jet-black hair belie his age, but his afflictions have taken their toll.
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But those are the visible afflictions, the ones that show up on expanding bellies and skyrocketing death rates.
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The presence of plastics seemed especially to aggravate some common coral afflictions, such as skeletal eroding band disease.
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Fields said that he takes medication for numerous mental health afflictions including depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD and anxiety.
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While blindness, HIV and incarcerated parents are either afflictions someone has or doesn't, autism is less clear-cut.
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Unravelling the genetic code would bring an exquisite understanding of bodies and their afflictions but also of minds.
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Most people infected show no symptoms, while others can suffer mild afflictions such as a fever and headaches.
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Some succeed, others fail, yet two people can't remain in their separate afflictions and hope for the best.
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The codes became an invaluable tool, a common language for epidemiologists and statisticians to track the world's afflictions.
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When pressed by adults, Parris and Williams finally named Good, Osborne, and Tituba as those responsible for their afflictions.
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There were some discrete afflictions: losses on energy loans, the costs of Britain's balance-sheet tax and restructuring charges.
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The knowledge could also be applied to helping remedy some adult afflictions, like avoiding the rejection of organ transplants.
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Wheelchairs and beds with restraining straps suggest that her hospitalized women are burdened with both physical and mental afflictions.
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Seeing Dan live really helps me think about what lyrics and vocal afflictions would work best with his music.
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"Every time he gets interviewed, he cries" about the Bronx's afflictions, David Greco told The Daily News in 1994.
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Campaigners at the time suggested the research could yield cures for afflictions such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes and cancer.
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H.P. Acthar is marketed for a variety of severe afflictions, including acute exacerbations of multiple sclerosis and rheumatic disorders.
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He also became an advocate for drumming as therapy for children, older people and anyone facing physical or emotional afflictions.
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Parkinson's is one of a cohort of incurable afflictions whose victims undergo an enduring transformation, an inexorable slide from wholeness.
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The goals are a set of 17 objectives for the eradication of poverty, hunger, illiteracy, gender discrimination and other afflictions.
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Phylicia Rashad plays Shelah, a Mississippi River matriarch whose leaking roof turns out to be the least of her afflictions.
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In actuality, my aunt was sedating my mother, which she later claimed she did to ease my mother's mental afflictions.
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Many individuals have experienced physical afflictions, ailments, and other impairments that threatened to cut short their careers in the arts.
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But Randall is the one on the decline, his stress manifesting itself as physical afflictions; a shaking hand, a stressed sweat.
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The Parkinson's and Huntington's tests watch for the more well understood patterns that accompany the motor degeneration found in those afflictions.
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Johnson & Johnson boasts "a fabulous pipeline of new drugs," many of them focused on hard-to-treat afflictions like depression, Cramer said.
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When it comes to age-related illnesses, dementia and Alzheimer's disease are some of the most notorious and least understood human afflictions.
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The British dislike grand ideologies, regarding them as the afflictions of foreigners—and particularly of those worst of all foreigners, the French.
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And at some point in the future, this event could be the means of staving off afflictions like cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.
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This ideology emphasizes themes of Islam being under siege, and of India and the United States as being responsible for Pakistan's afflictions.
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Before Jamison was an alcoholic, she had anorexia, but these two afflictions, she concludes, are not as different as they might seem.
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At the same time, he is undaunted by milder afflictions, like yellow-leaf virus, which can affect the vigor of the vines.
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As she grieves for her father and wonders where he went, she also contends with the usual early adolescent afflictions and anxieties.
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These revitalized cities have benefited from the system of afflictions that places like New York and San Francisco impose on their young.
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It can only be changed by flawed recording or retelling, both afflictions to which we both strive mightily to make ourselves immune.
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The people of London will come down with random afflictions—cold, headache, fatigue—which Jonathan can heal by offering them crafted medicine.
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All of these approaches make it easier for companies and medical providers to develop programs and benefits to address common afflictions or risks.
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These products are designed to promote your health and comfort, and to avoid Carpal Tunnel, repetitive strain injuries and other common office afflictions.
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When has a hungry, underemployed, displaced and deprived population been moved toward peace and reconciliation with those to whom it attributes its afflictions?
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The clear message here is that the airlines are far more interested in accommodating pet owners than those of us with these afflictions.
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But with Venezuela suffering from a severe economic crisis, this mental institution has almost no drugs to control the afflictions tormenting its patients.
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The pièce de résistance of the show is "Seven Deadly Sins" (circa 1968), a frieze of ghoulish types lost in their own afflictions.
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That swarm of afflictions — all of them released from these four new books — might seem extreme, but the world doesn't always spare children.
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That means they may be suffering from a different set of ailments than lung cancer, emphysema, or other common afflictions among chronic cigarette smokers.
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"Instead of being humbled and purified by my afflictions, I feel that they are turning my nature into gall," she confides to her diary.
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I mean post-election blues, holiday blues, end-of-the-year blues, all those afflictions that make us feel cranky, thin-skinned and intolerant.
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Those afflictions might provide an indication of an impending Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a mysterious syndrome that has plagued beekeepers in North America and Europe.
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Styled officially as Derry-Londonderry because its rival communities cannot agree on what to call it, this is a place with multiple blessings and afflictions.
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One day last year, Mehdi, a fan of Star Trek, asked herself why her phone couldn't function like a tricorder to diagnose the plants' afflictions.
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During the many tedious hospital visits that were part of my clinical trials, I crossed paths with hundreds of people with afflictions worse than mine.
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There's no evidence that people suffer disproportionately from the afflictions — now ranging from headaches to asthma — that MSG-averse cultures commonly associate with this ingredient.
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This is why, for Rumi, ego is not only the worst of our natural and inescapable human afflictions but also the root of them all.
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Having miraculously brushed off three strokes and a Job-like torrent of near fatal afflictions, Sportcoat has been pronounced dead more often than Michael Myers.
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He was a German-born evangelist whose open-air Christian revivals drew millions of followers, many of them hoping to be healed of their afflictions.
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The 21st century is showing us not only an attitudinal change but also an acceptance of all the tools that can help treat such afflictions.
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Opinion It would be easy to end 2017 with the impression that, whatever its afflictions, it was at least a game-changing year for feminism.
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"We have been made to believe that electronic sounds are just for Movement, Enlightenment, Primal Afflictions and Entertainment purposes," he writes in the album's press materials.
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The subtext of wealth and celebrity wrecks his potential as an everyman figure — one who might conceivably have eschewed megastar-specific afflictions for universal human error.
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As ex-circus animals, they suffered from a number of afflictions, including physical and behavioral problems as a result of previously poor care and living conditions.
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Other afflictions include vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue, which can affect any medical professional exposed to trauma, including nurses, other operating room personnel and first responders.
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Victims of lightning strikes can experience cardiac arrest, severe burns, hearing loss and neurological afflictions that may lead to personality changes, mood swings and memory loss.
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Presiding was a garrulous, 73-year-old doctor, who briefed Mr. Mann on the day's afflictions: water contamination, anemia and most of all, complications from diabetes.
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He had endured these afflictions so quietly that it never occurred to me to wonder whether he'd begun to be afraid of what might be next.
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Health officials have put the blame for the immunity problem partly on parental neglect and the mistaken belief that vaccines can cause autism and other afflictions.
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Not long ago, it was a challenge to get the public or governments to care about afflictions that affect such a relatively small number of people.
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Victims who survive lightning strikes can experience cardiac arrest, severe burns, hearing loss and neurological afflictions that may lead to personality changes, mood swings and memory loss.
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Many of the avians he captured were found and sent there, often to treat afflictions such as lead poisoning, which harms 15% of birds admitted to WBF.
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As the family in this farmhouse, along with two visiting priests, examined the afflictions that kept their daughter bedridden, other conflicts about faith, relationships, and possession emerged.
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The actions are a response to reports of sonic attacks in Havana on American diplomats and their families that seem to have caused tinnitus and other afflictions.
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Roy had wagered that war was a failure of the imagination, stemming from the inability to feel the afflictions of adversaries as if they were our own.
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By the end of the first "playthrough" you'll start becoming privy to each characters' particular mental afflictions, taking the form of severe depression or self-harming tendencies.
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To curb such afflictions, guidelines issued in 2016 urge adults to eat just 40-75 grammes of meat a day, or about half the current national average.
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Vera Lúcia and Ronaldo da Silva at home in Escada in northeastern Brazil with their son, Richarlisson, and daughter, Sophia, who suffers from afflictions caused by Zika.
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Schweppes, the first seltzer bottler in England, promised it could "reduce fever, ease 'biliousness' (indigestion), and address nervous afflictions and 'the debilitating consequences of hard living," Joseph writes.
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According to the UN, over 85033,000 children have died in the past year of diarrhea, pneumonia, dengue, and other afflictions caused by poor sanitation, unsafe water, and malnutrition.
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" His letter included this plea for help for his countrymen: "O ye, who revel in affluence, see the afflictions of humanity and bestow your superfluity to ease them.
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Their afflictions — gang violence, domestic brutality and poverty — are neither American national security priorities nor anything that was originally intended to be covered under the laws of asylum.
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In Craig Lucas's play, starring Michael Gaston ("Lucky Guy") and Russell Harvard ("Tribes"), a hearing man and his deaf son suffer through a series of Job-like afflictions.
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Gordon Parks — perhaps more than any artist — saw poverty as "the most savage of all human afflictions" and realized the power of empathy to help us understand it.
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In Craig Lucas's drama, starring Michael Gaston ("Lucky Guy") and Russell Harvard ("Tribes"), a hearing man and his deaf son suffer through a series of Job-like afflictions.
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"We have been holding conventions for years — we have been assembling together and whining over our difficulties and afflictions, passing resolutions on resolutions to any extent," she wrote.
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While the weeks and days leading up to death can vary from person to person, the hours before death are similar across the vast majority of human afflictions.
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The battle against Lyme disease is just an early stage in an unprecedented effort to conquer some of mankind's most pervasive afflictions, such as malaria and dengue fever.
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At the start of every season, players are advised on the potential benefits of receiving vaccines for afflictions such as measles and chickenpox as well as the flu.
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The afflictions of contemporary womanhood rain down like battering hailstones on the unhappy London of Penelope Skinner's "Linda," which opened on Tuesday night at the Manhattan Theater Club.
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They are searching for meaning and coherence within particular lives touched by random afflictions and the dizzying advances in science, rather than in any form of divine providence.
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Vision is a complicated process, and a lot of things can go wrong — but common afflictions like nearsightedness or an inability to focus on objects close up affect millions.
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Zoe's film critically foregrounds this connection between the scripted working bodies of scientific management and the prescriptive archive of gestures that pathologized certain mental afflictions, especially in female bodies.
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In September, Saniser, a rapper, released "Susamam" ("I Can't Stay Silent") a 15-minute track that rails against a host of Turkish afflictions from bad driving to animal neglect.
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On Friday, National Health Service Shetland rolled out what has been billed as "nature prescriptions" to help treat a range of afflictions, including high blood pressure, anxiety and depression.
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Tituba, who would eventually confess to various forms of witchcraft including flight and signing the Devil's book, initially claimed that Good and Osborne were responsible for the young girls' afflictions.
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As Reinarz described, physicians were among the first to call for better regulations of working conditions, recognizing that certain afflictions were the direct results of spending hours in hazardous environments.
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After a few setup menus—giving Poncho my location, permission to hit me with daily weather, and details of my horrible allergic afflictions—Poncho told me the weather in Brooklyn.
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Shares of Celgene, a biotechnology player that develops treatments for cancer and inflammatory afflictions, endured their largest percentage drop in 17 years on Thursday morning after the company reported earnings.
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I didn't want to talk about what was wrong with me anymore, but I was comforted by the fact that people who work in a hospital see all kinds of afflictions.
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The idea is not just to build an AI that knows how to walk, but to offer insight into how surgery may affect gait in people with afflictions like cerebral palsy.
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The gallery explains that the term, "hysteria," was coined by an ancient Greek physician named Hippocrates, who used the word to explain ailments and afflictions thought exclusive to the female body.
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But in a country where the main afflictions are malaria, meningitis and road accidents, the 150-bed hospital has become a destination for people willing to pay for decent medical attention.
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A vegetarian and a passionate believer in animal rights, Duszejko is grief-stricken after the unexplained disappearance of her pet dogs, and suffers from an assortment of physical and mental afflictions.
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Recently, Mr. Ng's lawyers asked that he be allowed to seek treatment for a range of afflictions, including "recent recurrent and unpredictable headaches" and pain in other parts of his body.
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Awed reports of what he went through, on the set of "The Revenant," cannot disguise the fact that his character is a moral monotone, who suffers great afflictions but no change.
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"The greater the crowding the riskier the situation on every level," said Markel, who added mental trauma, including post-traumatic stress disorder, to the list of possible afflictions found within the facilities.
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None of the afflictions of recent months is unprecedented, but the confluence of them all created an impression of "complete civic breakdown", says Farzana Shaikh of Chatham House, a British think-tank.
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But there is another cost to these terrible afflictions... The endless hospital stays, countless doctor visits—not only do the costs add up for those affected, but also for society at large.
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Some 20 miles north of Andújar in the province of Jaén, the site was where, in 1227, the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to a shepherd and healed his afflictions.
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When Ms. Schwarzbaum's basement flooded — wet cellars are common afflictions in Tivoli, which sits on the eastern bank of the Hudson River — Ms. Majer summoned the fire department to pump it out.
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That could resonate with the sort of voters who make up Mr. Trump's base as well as supporters of Brexit in Britain — that is, those inclined to blame immigrants for economic afflictions.
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Although Dodman believes the Union army during the U.S. Civil war grossly underestimated the number of nostalgia afflictions, he found records showing that the Union army suffered 5,213 cases among white soldiers alone.
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Acute clinical observation has lead to a taxonomy of afflictions, which he feels is a critical aspect of the field that psychiatry does particularly well, but without neurological underpinnings is simply not enough.
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" Later, with less romanticism if equal virtuosity, she describes the cruel cycle of afflictions endemic to poorer neighbors: "I can remember being repulsed and being held by the gaunt unhealthiness of their faces. . . .
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His mother, Nguyen Thi May, 66, had pleaded for a solution to just one of Mr. Truc's afflictions, such as testicles that had not descended or the attendant pain unrelieved by ineffective medicines.
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You're dealing with that, but I'm dealing with drug abuse; you're talking about the gang culture and you want to escape that and I want to escape my own self-afflictions and addictions.
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While the weeks and days leading up to death can vary from person to person, the hours before death are similar across the vast majority of human afflictions, Dr. Sara Manning Peskin wrote.
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Rose noted that each of these situations can generate the type of negative energy an entity can feed on, in addition to the non-supernatural symptoms and manifestations that one suffers from such afflictions.
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This Halloween may be a good time to engage in an ancient shamanic ritual to cleanse your aura and heal your afflictions—and all you need to accomplish these miracles is one humble egg.
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Last month, Mr. Trump expelled 15 Cuban diplomats in the wake of mysterious afflictions that have stricken two dozen American embassy personnel in Havana, casting a Cold War chill over ties between the countries.
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Foley says the turtles that are found dead or sick will undergo testing to confirm a cause of death, but with so many dying without any other apparent afflictions, there's only one likely explanation.
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Though he doesn't have a medical license, he performs both spiritual healing — praying intensely for believers and placing hands on them to cure their afflictions — and what appear to be actual surgical procedures without anesthesia.
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Mr. Couch, 20, became known as the "affluenza teen" after a psychologist suggested during his trial that growing up with money might have left him with psychological afflictions, too rich to tell right from wrong.
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Teichtal, who was imprisoned by the Nazis, wrote that the afflictions that were befalling the Jewish population of Europe during World War II were meant to spur a return by Jews to the Holy Land.
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Those languishing in detention centers, even the people who die there thanks to violence or woefully inadequate medical care for simple afflictions, they're just a warning to others who might be tempted onto a boat.
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To the extent that they have a genetic advantage, it appears to come partly from having inherited fewer than usual DNA variations known to raise the risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and other afflictions.
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Tell us something good Owings Mills, MD Assisted-living homes can be wonderful places for seniors to age safely, but dementia and other common afflictions among elderly people can also lead to depression and isolation.
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In the next few years the Syrian exodus will ease but Africa, burdened with many afflictions, not least climate change, food shortages and struggling economies, will continue to unload its unwanted northwards towards Libya and Europe.
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Zika is responsible for "other severe fetal brain defects," according to the Centers for Disease Control, which is studying the links between the virus and afflictions in adults like Guillain-Barré syndrome, which causes temporary paralysis.
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To those who remain unconvinced, I'll close with two questions: What wouldn't you do to find a cure for spinal cord injury, cancer, chronic lung infection, orthopedic deterioration, or other serious afflictions associated with military service?
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But when you don't worry about those things, when you just worry about making enough money to survive, it can seem bizarre to watch a movie or TV show that's about the afflictions of the comfortable.
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Experiments from Mitalipov and others pave the way for a future where we can cure an array of terrible afflictions, but also hold the real possibility of creating "designer" humans, and programming inequality deeper into our DNA.
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The urgency comes not only from a spirit that these are the right things to do, but from the real dangers that these afflictions are posing to the long-term health of large and small nations alike.
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These afflictions include economic stagnation, the opioid epidemic, family dissolution, high rates of work force nonparticipation and the "deaths of despair" that have driven down overall life expectancy in the United States for the past two years.
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As many of the world's best golfers began playing practice rounds at Erin Hills this month, the friars were asked if a trip to Holy Hill could cure golf afflictions, like nasty slices or the dreaded yips.
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In fairness, Mr. McCament's memo does acknowledge many of the other afflictions that would argue for temporary protected status, including homelessness, gender-based violence, food insecurity, deep deficiencies in sanitation and health care, and a weak government.
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"Caterpillar and Nvidia are not the first companies to blame China for their afflictions, but both companies are seen as industry bellwethers," Rodrigo Catril, a senior currency strategist at the National Australia Bank, said in a Tuesday note.
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While these are not easy afflictions to heal, and perhaps impossible to cure, one of the greatest threats to recovery remains the stubborn (and often idealistic) unwillingness of those who wield the scalpels to cut away the sickness.
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A sequence in which women suffering from mental afflictions are led naked into a gas chamber ought not to have made the final cut; many people will ask why it should have been filmed in the first place.
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Because of her tough-guy tomboy antics and her stage voice sounding bigger than five bouncers put together, I apparently took it for granted that she would just live forever and couldn't be touched by mere mortal afflictions.
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Most states have put orders in place to stop non-essential surgeries and are encouraging telemedicine for as many non-Covid-220 afflictions as possible in order to preserve PPE and free up personnel to treat coronavirus patients.
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But Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt argues that pressures on the N.H.S. are increasing not because of a lack of funding but partly because people are going to emergency rooms when they have bad colds or other minor afflictions.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which was founded by another super-successful tech entrepreneur, has made strides in tackling HIV infections (among other afflictions) in developing countries, where targeted efforts like condom distribution can go a long way.
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Preventative capsules and IV solutions seem to remedy hangovers as much as DayQuil and Mucinex "cure" the common cold—modern medicine can treat everyday afflictions, but we've got a long way to figuring out how to skip them altogether.
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"These are all afflictions of the affluent," said Edward D. Kleinbard, a law professor at the University of Southern California and former chief of staff of Congress's Joint Committee on Taxation, which estimates the revenue effects of tax proposals.
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In that time—the heat of the alt-rock, FM radio era—she was surrounded by friends, clients, and colleagues who struggled with addiction; some who are still with us, and some who were eventually claimed by their afflictions.
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This month, she'll participate in a few community events to raise awareness about the importance of funding breast cancer research, says her mom, and she plans to speak at a fundraiser to help children with cancer and other serious afflictions.
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It has been hobbled by the basic afflictions of its peculiar setup: The euro currency is a shared enterprise, yet the 19 national governments that now use it operate their own budgets, while having to abide by limits on borrowing.
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"A thorough defense would have enabled a jury to see not only who Dylann Roof is, but who Dylann Roof might have been in the absence of these afflictions," said Mr. O'Brien, who teaches at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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In the late Middle Ages, medicine sought natural as well as mystical causes for all manner of afflictions, making diagnosis a complex affair (stringy hair, for instance, might indicate an unscrupulous character, while baldness resulted from an excess of heat).
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Whether that's true or not I wouldn't know (I've only ever suffered one of those two afflictions), but Parachut, launching in beta today, is here to alleviate the burden a little bit with a subscription library service for photography and video fans.
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In November, two Princeton economists found that middle-aged whites with a high school education had significantly increasing mortality due to factors including substance abuse, afflictions and suicides that ran counter to the declining mortality rates of other Americans and white Europeans.
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Instead it elevated a supporting character, the C.I.A. killer Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend), to co-starring status — he, rather than Carrie, essentially solved the mystery in Season 6 — while saddling him with a monstrously debilitating set of post-traumatic mental and physical afflictions.
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Reinhard Bonnke, a German-born Pentecostal faith healer whose open-air revivals in Africa attracted so many followers that in one case people were trampled to death hoping to be cured of their afflictions, died at his home in Florida on Dec. 21991.
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" 'Whosoever shall put their trust in God shall be supported in their trials, and their troubles, and their afflictions, and shall be lifted up at the last day' (Alma 36:3) 'nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done,' (Luke 22:42)" she wrote.
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Most shockingly, economists Angus Deaton, winner of the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, and Anne Case found that mortality for white middle-age Americans has been increasing over the past 25 years, due to an epidemic of suicides and afflictions stemming from substance abuse.
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Yet, when Nicklen saw the farmed salmon covered in diseases and deformations—and learned that those afflictions are depleting the wild salmon ecosystems—what began as an assignment showing the benefits of farming fish turned into a passion for exposing the disturbing realities of the practice.
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They were also a regular focus of crass humor: As late as 236, when Dave Chappelle aired Kneehigh Park, a Sesame Street parody sketch wherein puppets taught kids about STIs, he and his team made Muppetized versions of three ostensibly well known afflictions: Gonorrhea, herpes, and crabs.
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Indeed, some historians and anthropologists — such as James C. Scott, in his book "Against the Grain" — argue that life before modernity was better than our own, with more leisure time, fewer diseases and afflictions, and a more robust phenomenological and spiritual engagement with the world around us.
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I also battle anxiety and depression and feel the resources I need to fight these often debilitating afflictions are often too expensive and when my doctor prescribes a certain medication that works for me the insurance companies deny and ask I try a cheaper, less effective medication.
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Taking a step further into the realm of science fiction, a person's behavior in digital environments offers clues as to their ability to learn, their creativity and even afflictions like Alzheimer's disease, said Andrea Stevenson Won an associate professor who studies humans in virtual reality environments at Cornell University.
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It's the leech's many uses across a broad spectrum of afflictions that is bringing them back into the "mainstream of modern medical practice," according to Maria Bonazinga, President of Leeches USA, whose website provides doctors and other leech enthusiasts information, case studies and year-round emergency leech delivery.
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The protagonist, as a result, doesn't see Nigeria as clearly as Ehirim presents it for us: Nigeria is beset by a commanding, contradictory menagerie of would-be gods of money, power and avarice — the very same afflictions that dig Nigeria's face into the mud and hold it there.
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With Dallas down five late in the second overtime, he caught the ball on the wing, dribbled once, stepped back, and hit the sort of rickety, knock-kneed triple that seems all the more affecting for the afflictions of its author, like an old song from some cirrhotic crooner.
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The cost of preventing more lead poisoning pales compared to the billions required to raise children who will live the rest of their lives with just a little less intelligence, a slightly greater propensity to criminal behavior, hearing difficulties, higher blood pressure, kidney disease, skin diseases, and other subtle afflictions.
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And third, forged in response to the Communist threat, there was a sense of Western identity, Western historical tradition, that could be glib and propagandistic in a from-Plato-to-NATO style, but at its best let people escape the worst of late modern afflictions, the crippling chauvinism of the now.
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He called his problem his Anfechtungen —trials, tribulations—but this feels too slight a word to cover the afflictions he describes: cold sweats, nausea, constipation, crushing headaches, ringing in his ears, together with depression, anxiety, and a general feeling that, as he put it, the angel of Satan was beating him with his fists.
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A headless figure juggling its own head — along with that of a child's and a cat's — speaks to feelings of multitasking to the point of mental overload (particularly apt in the internet age); a hooded girl hounded by curious canines, titled "She Wanted to Run with the Pack," conveys the afflictions women face in a male-dominated workplace.
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There are only a few things I've looked forward to that for the most part haven't tried to kill me, hurt me, or become a huge disappointment: writing (sometimes), helping other people who share common afflictions (often), horses (mostly), dogs (usually), mountains (yes but they tried to kill me once), and going back to sleep. 3.
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Not that I ever seriously considered gracing your godforsaken institution with my presence—you should be so lucky—but I'm nonetheless relieved to know that I won't be attending a university whose administrators opt to ignore oncological afflictions; perhaps if I'd followed the example of your prized student Lyle Menendez and killed my mother, things would have turned out differently.
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The company, Neurocore, which has received more than $5 million from Ms. DeVos and her husband, Richard DeVos Jr., to run "brain performance centers" in Michigan and Florida, lost an appeal before an advertising-industry review board, which found that the company's claims of curbing and curing a range of afflictions without medication were based on mixed research and unscientific internal studies.
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Not only because of her ever-increasing list of afflictions — the reveal of her Jumping Frenchmen Of Maine condition is one of the funniest things you'll see all year — but because of how fully her portrayer Sherri Shepherd commits to the bizarre, charming quirks of East Peck (a bit about a moose, his breath, and the number of Saturdays in a month is especially good).
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But virtually no one is focused on the cascade of privation, depression, and death that will come as indirect effects of the virus's progress: patients with other afflictions who will die as Covid-19 victims take up ICU space, equipment, and personnel; healthy delivery drivers who fall asleep at the wheel covering shifts for a sick colleague or picking up extra work to cover a shortfall at home.
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