LEONIA, N.J. — It is bumper to bumper as far as the eye can see, the kind of soul-sucking traffic jam that afflicts highways the way bad food afflicts rest stops.
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Food prices are soaring as a drought afflicts southern Africa.
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It already afflicts two generations of adults and their children.
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Scrapie, for example, is a deadly disease that afflicts sheep.
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It is the sickness that eventually afflicts most every American.
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The genetic condition afflicts her body's soft tissue, causing chronic pain.
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He soon discovered the loneliness that afflicts so many UK residents.
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They found, for one, that debt afflicts even this young population.
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It's an inherited condition that mainly afflicts people of African descent.
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It's a problem that also afflicts many of its closest neighbors.
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It afflicts doctors of all ages, both sexes and all specialties.
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But it suffers from a malaise that afflicts the entire political structure.
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That's a problem that afflicts most of Texas, and flummoxes Democratic organizers.
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The deadly disease afflicts about 30,225 to 222,215 Americans, according to Sarepta.
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Heart failure afflicts approximately 6.5 million people in the United States alone.
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Poverty afflicts a third of the population, and the figure is climbing.
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It is the result of pathology that afflicts celibates and noncelibates alike.
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The McDonald killing also reflects a larger injustice that afflicts our society.
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The "death spiral" that some say already afflicts the exchanges would thus accelerate.
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Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that currently afflicts around a million Americans.
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The torment that now routinely afflicts New Jersey rail commuters underlines his shortsightedness.
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In fact it afflicts many men, and always has, no matter their station.
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In the US, this afflicts both parties — but in a deeply asymmetric way.
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Misogyny after all is not simply a problem that afflicts the white majority.
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And he has real weaknesses, like the logorrhea that afflicts many longtime senators.
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Inequitable treatment afflicts Latinx, Native American, and Asian and Pacific Islander patients as well.
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Mr. Gleason has A.L.S., a motor-neuron disease that afflicts an estimated 2000,000 Americans.
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"This is something that afflicts tens of thousands of women every year," Jagsi said.
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You'd think they'd be the first to say something about what afflicts your people.
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And it afflicts not only inattentive, "low-information" voters but highly attentive ones too.
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I'm curious to know more about the time sickness that afflicts Jean in the story.
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It is a disease that afflicts those who have suffered trauma in childhood and beyond.
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Whatever its other depredations, addiction afflicts modern people in a way specific to our time.
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It inflicts utter torment on those whom it afflicts and can drive them to suicide.
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It's a disease that more often afflicts people who are African, Asian, or Latin American.
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Nor are Chinese AV developers immune from the biggest problem which afflicts their Western rivals.
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Chronic pain afflicts more than 85033 million Americans according to the National Institutes of Health.
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The suspicion that war-crimes tribunals are an alien imposition also afflicts the new Kosovo court.
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But when so much else afflicts us, maybe that's just the easiest way to remain sane.
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This sudden amnesia afflicts both parties during every change in White House and/or congressional control.
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The disease afflicts about 217 people a year in Britain, according to the National Heath Service.
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Never mind that this afflicts the 85033-year-old Trump just as much, if not more.
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MS is a chronic disease of the central nervous system and afflicts an estimated 400,000 Americans.
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Poverty now afflicts 22010% of Argentines, up from 27% in January-June 2018, say official figures.
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PKAN is a neurodegenerative genetic condition disease that afflicts children, and which ultimately leads to death.
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By announcing it openly, O'Connor was helping to destigmatize the disease that afflicts 5.7 million Americans.
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Given the volatile political landscape and the weak economy, a sense of hopelessness afflicts many Brazilians.
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The drought afflicts a huge area of eastern Australia, running from south-western Queensland into South Australia.
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As the trial unfolded, conversations went well beyond demographics into the subtle ways bias afflicts everyday interactions.
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This rare disorder afflicts one in every 30,000 people in most parts of the world, or roughly .
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Adults may lament the "absence of future" that afflicts the "strange, beautiful, dark country" they drive across.
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Cancer knows no political affiliations, and afflicts people of all races, income classes, educational backgrounds, and ideologies.
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The rare iatrogenic condition — one caused by medical treatment — afflicts a tiny subset of turbinate-surgery patients.
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There are still a lot of unknowns about the disease, which afflicts more than five million Americans.
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There is a deadness of the soul that for some reason afflicts people in the summer swelter.
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"The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end," he said.
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Video-game addiction afflicts between 1 and 8 percent of gamers, according to estimates published by researchers.
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"The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation" is not the problem Trump thinks it is.
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It is not a social loneliness she endures, but one that afflicts the bones of her being.
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More broadly, this week dealt with the overwhelming discontent of Gilead that afflicts even its most devoted citizens.
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Familial dysautonomia, a genetic condition of the nervous system that primarily afflicts a tiny number of Ashkenazi Jews.
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The governing Social Democrats would fall victim to the malaise that afflicts centre-left parties around the world.
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The general lack of security also afflicts Fulanis, who say they have taken up arms to protect themselves.
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The survey, conducted online, was the largest to date to identify how poverty afflicts university students, Richardson said.
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That is not even to speak of the insane amount of spectacular gun violence that afflicts this country.
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Some scientists caution that much remains unknown about C.T.E., including why it afflicts some players but not others.
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There is perhaps no starker illustration of negative partisanship today, and how it disproportionately afflicts the Republican Party.
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But he was forced to quit because of something that afflicts a few other 40-year-olds — arthritis.
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Yet Egan doesn't suffer the ailment that typically afflicts literary novelists who venture into history: She isn't nostalgic.
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But the free-rider problem that afflicts public goods has been well-known to economists for a century.
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While such inequality afflicts the United States and many other countries, South Korea's income distribution is remarkably lopsided.
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No such weakness afflicts Christie: the New Jersey governor has risen partly because of his considerable debating prowess.
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Cancer-related psychological distress, which afflicts up to 40 percent of patients, can be resistant to conventional therapy.
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The condition, which is also called atopic dermatitis and is often chronic, afflicts millions of children and adults.
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Heavily addictive painkillers were originally marketed as a way to treat the pain that afflicts millions of Americans.
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It typically only afflicts those over the age of 50, or who have compromised immune systems or lung damage.
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The Treatment Gap A life-threatening heart infection afflicts a growing number of people who inject opioids or meth.
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I'm a microbiologist, and I became interested in the causes of lactose intolerance because it afflicts a close friend.
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It afflicts about five percent of the population and is poised to become the leading cause of liver transplants.
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Spending on cancer, a disease that most afflicts the aging, is predicted to soar as people live longer (PDF).
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FOR decades scientists have been trying to understand schizophrenia, a distressing disorder that afflicts one in a hundred people.
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A similar problem afflicts private banks, whose wealthy clients are starting to wake up to the impact of fees.
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Roughly one-third of adult Americans are now obese; two-thirds are overweight; and diabetes afflicts some 29 million.
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He spoke eloquently about the income inequality and poverty that afflicts the Dominican Republic, but said he had hope.
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This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors.
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It's one that afflicts the many personalist autocracies around the world, including powerful countries like Egypt and (increasingly) China.
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Indeed, the origin of the word goes back to a Scottish term for a spell that afflicts one's vision.
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"The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end," he said in July.
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To me they point to a frightening trend that afflicts both Democrats and Republicans: the criminalization of political differences.
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National/International ____ A life-threatening heart infection, endocarditis, afflicts a growing number of people who inject opioids or meth.
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Pain, however, is only directly observed by those it afflicts and is difficult to transport its gravity through language.
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It most often afflicts middle-aged men, usually the result of an injury that may not have been noticed.
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And this is to say nothing of ongoing modern slavery, which afflicts roughly 35.8 million people globally each year.
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But he said the "negative impact of the siege on Hezbollah afflicts all Lebanese, as it does the Lebanese banks".
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Deflazacort used to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a progressive muscular degeneration condition that afflicts fewer than 15,000 people, mostly boys.
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I have Crohn's Disease, an autoimmune disorder that afflicts the gastrointestinal tract, so I am no stranger to chronic pain.
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His arms and legs are severely bowed from the condition, which, he says, also afflicts his mother and younger brother.
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Health Canada approved the drug in 2017 to treat a genetic disorder known as cystinosis, which afflicts about 100 Canadians.
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Morrison, another resident of south Lumberton, also believes racism afflicts the town, and that it shows itself in relief efforts.
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The most common type of dementia, it afflicts about 44 million people worldwide, including 5.5 million in the United States.
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One could argue that another form of "eternal return"—the commercial recurrence of the lifelike android—afflicts the genre's consumers.
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The condition afflicts an estimated 240,250 in the United States, according to Regeneron, the pharmaceutical company that developed the drug.
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What price tag do you put on a pill that can cure a disease that afflicts millions around the world?
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But for decades, there has been only modest progress against an inherited condition that mainly afflicts people of African descent.
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When the man finds out, he curses Kintu, precipitating a chain of domestic tragedies that afflicts the clan for generations.
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To really understand how gun violence afflicts a city requires looking at the ranges of safety and danger within it.
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The same feeling afflicts me on a daily basis when teaching Greek, though I have learned better how to suppress it.
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Iceland's 5-2 defeat to France in Sunday's quarter-final highlighted a problem that commonly afflicts smaller nations deep into tournaments.
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Today, a smouldering civil war afflicts much of English-speaking Cameroon, with tit-for-tat atrocities by security forces and separatists.
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As detailed by Kaspersky Lab, so-called WinPot malware afflicts what the security researchers describe only as a "popular" ATM brand.
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And for all its violence Afghanistan has managed to avoid the kind of sectarian bloodletting that afflicts neighbours such as Iraq.
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That's a snapshot of living life with obsessive-compulsive disorder, an anxiety disorder that afflicts nearly 2 percent of the population.
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Other children play in Kibera's drainage ditches, she noted, while few are bedeviled by the constant diarrhea that afflicts her son.
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Depression is a relatively common phenomenon that afflicts over 300 million people worldwide and is closely linked with the neurotransmitter serotonin.
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It's called nonadherence to prescribed medications, and it is — potentially, at least — 100 percent preventable by the very individuals it afflicts.
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Now we will see if America's young people can do so again with the crisis of guns that afflicts our nation.
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He's a "truth teller," a scourge of the political correctness that afflicts our politics, the perfect candidate for these anti-establishment times.
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CHRONIC-FATIGUE SYNDROME, or CFS, which afflicts over 1m people in America and 250,000 in Britain, is certainly chronic and surely fatiguing.
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Like many things beloved by economists, "surge pricing" of the sort that occasionally afflicts Uber-users is both efficient and deeply unpopular.
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That could have been my son, or your son for that matter, and one can only imagine the trauma that afflicts him.
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In sum, it was a testament to the culture of sexism and harassment that still afflicts large portions of the Marine Corps.
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Critics say Atiku would use his policies to enrich himself and those around him without addressing the poverty that afflicts most Nigerians.
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The supernatural nastiness embodied by Pennywise is abetted and to some extent camouflaged by the ordinary human awfulness that also afflicts Derry.
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The results, researchers said, suggest that carefully chosen probiotics could also help prevent stunting, which afflicts 160 million of the world's children.
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The disease is most commonly diagnosed in middle age, among people in their 50s or 60s, though it sometimes afflicts young adults.
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Overproduction or underproduction of thyroid hormone afflicts as many as 7003 million Americans, including a disproportionate number of women and the elderly.
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Is it that visible income inequality afflicts the poor with a toxic form of social stress, as some previous studies have suggested?
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It is not only the lack of a broader political approach, but also a lack of historical analysis that afflicts this impassioned book.
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"We're doing this because there is such inequality when it comes to security that afflicts driver and rider due to gender," Pelletz reiterated.
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Protection for the rural poor in time of drought, which presently afflicts swathes of the north and east, is more effective than before.
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Both had brightly agile voices with no glimmer of the rasping tightness that afflicts too many singers in this helden, or heroic repertory.
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I have a message for all of you: The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end.
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The original French title of "Non-Fiction" means "Double Lives," and it captures the existential split that afflicts Valérie, Selena, Léonard and Alain.
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Her gift is to find the venality that afflicts the holy and the profane alike, and to present it without malice or spite.
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It is a lifesaver for people with chronic myeloid leukemia, a relatively uncommon blood cancer that afflicts an estimated 5,000 Americans every year.
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He won in large part by casting Bloomberg as insufficiently concerned about the gaping inequality that afflicts both New York and the country.
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To face racism, even as a child, is to live with a chronic, damaging stressor — one that afflicts both the mind and body.
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"Men invent; women transcribe," the novelist and Times contributor Jennifer Weiner writes in today's Opinion section, describing a stereotype that afflicts female authors.
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Helen Obando is the youngest person ever to get a gene therapy that scientists hope will cure the disease, which afflicts 100,000 Americans.
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Eating-disorder caregivers and advocates welcome Marathe's help in shattering the myth that anorexia afflicts only well-to-do white girls and women.
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When I was 13 years old, I was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that afflicts roughly 1 percent of pancreatic cancer patients.
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Overconfidence afflicts both sexes, but men more so; one study found that they overestimated their abilities by 30% and women by 15% on average.
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The disease afflicts people of all ages, but experts say that as many as half of older adults don't get better with standard treatment.
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" Trump: "I have a message for all of you: The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end.
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The inherited incurable disorder typically emerges in childhood causing nervous system damage and problems with motor function, and afflicts between 4,000 and 6,000 Americans.
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The mysterious neurological condition that afflicts them is known as developmental prosopagnosia, or face blindness, and it means they struggle to recognize familiar faces.
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New treatments for hepatitis C—which afflicts over 3 million Americans and can lead to liver failure and death—were approved five years ago.
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NASH afflicts an even higher share of our Hispanic neighbors in this country – 19 percent – and young children and teenagers are also at risk.
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But one contributor I'd never considered was male postpartum depression, which, according to some studies, potentially afflicts up to a quarter of new fathers.
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A certain studiousness afflicts even his most accomplished work as a screenwriter and director, a tendency to put his erudition ahead of his instincts.
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Dannielle Geneus from New Jersey understands when it most often afflicts her: Mostly when envy plays in my life its mostly because of looks.
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The latter is a mental condition defined in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders that afflicts some transgender individuals.
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With this trend has come an increase in diseases to which obesity contributes, including type 2 diabetes, which now afflicts 415 million adults worldwide.
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Even though addiction still afflicts minority communities in urban areas, Hunter said, heavy-handed policing tactics have made it much harder to acquire drugs.
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We commonly assume that cancer afflicts the aging or aged, but approximately 16 percent of breast cancer deaths involve women under the age of 50.
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China has pledged to resolve what it calls "urban sickness", or the pollution, congestion and overcrowding caused by rapid urbanization, that afflicts its biggest cities.
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According to the Post, student debt afflicts as many as 44 million Americans, with the total amount owed in the United States exceeding $1.3 trillion.
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A few cure hepatitis C, which afflicts 3.5 million Americans; those medications, though expensive, need to be taken for only a short amount of time.
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The challenge is to recognize that unconscious bias afflicts us all — but that we just may be able to overcome it if we face it.
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That's in part because the cause of Parkinson's, which afflicts more than a million people in North America, usually after age 60, remains a mystery.
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It afflicts two to three times more women than men, and one woman in 25 has chronic migraines on more than 15 days a month.
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It's a syndrome that only afflicts a minority of the population, but it's real, it's ugly, and it can do a remarkable amount of damage.
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As a devastating disease afflicts the country's swine, companies are scrambling to roll out facial and voice recognition and other unproven ways to save them.
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"I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end," he said.
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The corruption that afflicts Vietnam's one-party government, along with the growing economy, are major factors in the disappearance of natural habitat and endangered species.
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"I have a message for all of you: The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end," he said.
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According to the World Health Organization, depression alone afflicts roughly 22001 million people around the globe, one of the main causes of disability in the world.
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" Trump on crime "I have a message for all of you: The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end.
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As a result, some numbers say that gaming disorder afflicts less than 1 percent of gamers, but other studies suggest rates up to 100 times higher.
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She's been on the road a lot in the past couple of years, but there isn't a hint of the jadedness that sometimes afflicts touring artists.
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It is the "most common and aggressive malignant brain tumor," according to the National Brain Tumor Society — one that afflicts some 12,000 people nationwide every year.
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Related: Lead Contamination Poses Hazards Far Beyond Flint Recent investigations have shown that lead-contaminated water is an problem that afflicts schools and communities beyond Flint.
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He was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a manic-depressive illness that afflicts more than 235 million American adults, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
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It's a condition that often afflicts middle-aged and older people, simply as a consequence of degeneration that can occur with age and often accompanying osteoarthritis.
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If opinions of Russia continue to separate along party lines, the alliance could fall into the partisan epistemology that afflicts so much of our political discourse.
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Sickle-cell disease: A cure for the inherited condition, which mainly afflicts people of African descent, seems possible after some experimental gene therapy trials eradicated symptoms.
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He still went fishing and played golf, showing no signs of the depression or other mental illness that afflicts most people who take their own lives.
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Three decades ago, the Yankees saw spinal stenosis, the condition that afflicts Wright, deprive their brilliant first baseman Don Mattingly of his cobra-sting power swing.
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If Congress and regulators do not take action to rein in buybacks, the rampant economic inequality that already afflicts the United States will only get worse.
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Hence the success of campaigns like #ThisIsWhatAnxietyFeelsLike, which helped turn anxiety — a disorder that afflicts some 40 million American adults — into a kind of rights movement.
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But her win also smacked of a phenomenon that routinely afflicts the Grammys, which despite years — decades — of curveball winners, remains the music industry's most coveted honor.
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The new study is fascinating, but it suffers from the same thing that afflicts so many other archaeological studies: insufficient evidence from which to draw robust conclusions.
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MOTIVATED reasoning—ignoring inconvenient truths on a cognitive path toward conclusions that match our pre-existing beliefs or commitments—afflicts all of us from time to time.
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The crossover is particularly common among people with periodontal disease, an inflammatory condition that afflicts half of American adults over 50 and damages the mouth's soft tissue.
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The truth of Diana's involvement came out after her death — including her private battle with bulimia nervosa: the binge-and-purge syndrome that afflicts millions of women.
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Matters are not helped by a political culture that is suspicious of intelligence and security work, and political fragmentation that afflicts all aspects of the Belgian government.
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Last week, she traveled to Philadelphia to meet with families affected by neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a condition that afflicts babies exposed to opioids in the womb.
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According to the book Antisemitism in America by historian Leonard Dinnerstein, these sorts of acts are just something that afflicts American Jewish groups from time to time.
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The crisis around housing, one that afflicts so many parts of the country, was responsible in large part for propelling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to her congressional victory.
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We don't even know why it afflicts some people but not others, and why some treatments work for certain individuals but not large segments of the population.
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Letting her singlehandedly take out a rogue ambulance is evidence that the show's writers are falling into the same power-creep trap that afflicts so many superhero shows.
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In short, doctors resorted to opioid painkillers to help Americans deal with pain — a serious medical issue, given that chronic pain alone afflicts about 100 million US adults.
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There's no shortage of questions about how all these factors work together to cause a disease that now afflicts five million Americans and is only becoming more common.
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Trump also received multiple education deferments and he has also said he obtained a letter from a doctor for heel spurs, a condition that no longer afflicts him.
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Frederick originally applied to medical school because he wanted to work on a cure for sickle-cell anemia, which afflicts a hundred thousand people in the United States.
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Alzheimer's disease, increasingly prevalent in the U.S., afflicts 5.4 million Americans, and superbugs bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics infected 2 million Americans last year, causing 23,000 deaths.
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I have a message for all of you: The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon — and I mean very soon come to an end.
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But the neglect that afflicts many public housing developments and has led to harsh criticism of the de Blasio administration, persists here, residents and other local leaders said.
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OSLO — In 2015, Karen Dolva learned from a friend who'd worked briefly in a pediatric hospital ward of the loneliness that afflicts children during long-term hospital stays.
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Although syphilis still mostly afflicts gay and bisexual men who are African-American or Hispanic, in Oklahoma and nationwide, rates are rising among white women and their infants.
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This pattern of injustice, which often afflicts people of color and the poor, will become a more urgent problem as climate change threatens some Americans more than others.
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I became fixated on my perceived flaws, as if I had body dysmorphic disorder (which afflicts 1.7% to 2.4% of the general population and can cause anxiety and depression).
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NASH, a progressive fatty liver disease tied to obesity and diabetes, afflicts about 5 percent of the population and is poised to become the leading cause of liver transplants.
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It is possible that there has been more progress in treating heart disease, which disproportionately afflicts men, than conditions such as arthritis that tend to affect women, she added.
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Up to $2000 billion is spent annually across the U.S. to confront child abuse and neglect, an ugly underside of American life that afflicts hundreds of thousands of children.
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The proverbial Golden Calf is a fetish, a false idol, an irrational obsession that afflicts a community and blinds its members to more sober and realistic habits of mind.
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Zuckerberg's creation is no longer a social network — it has metamorphosed into a mind-numbing contagion that afflicts various segments of the American public with differing degrees of malignancy.
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Instead, it's a symptom of a deeper issue with the new iPhones, part of a problem that afflicts much of the company's product lineup: Apple's aesthetics have grown stale.
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While this is understandable, it is regrettable and it is only through actions based on faith and just principles that this evil that afflicts the Church will be eradicated.
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After saying recently there was a lot of "hysteria" surrounding the pandemic and its consequences, he said the disease is "something that afflicts us" and a cause for concern.
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Long sentimentalized as the home of "fair play," Britain is now host to the virus of lies, deception and digital skulduggery that afflicts many other countries across the world.
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Osteoarthritis afflicts some 27 million Americans, and that number will certainly grow with the increase in obesity, the current emphasis on lifelong physical activity and the aging of the population.
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By their estimation, they have given at least $1 million and thousands of hours of their time to nonprofits focused on children with autism, which afflicts their youngest child, Sonya.
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Low health literacy also afflicts those who are at higher risk for complex health conditions and who face insurance barriers restricting access to health services: the elderly, uninsured and Medicaid beneficiaries.
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They hint that psilocybin, along with supportive psychiatric care, may be an effective treatment for depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder and the anxiety that often afflicts people when death is approaching.
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G.M. Trevelyan, a Cambridge historian, wrote a reference for Burgess dismissing his ideological orientation as no more than the "communist measles" that temporarily afflicts "so many of our clever young men".
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The struggles the contestants went through help explain why it has been so hard to make headway against the nation's obesity problem, which afflicts more than a third of American adults.
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Trump's decision to challenge California's authority to regulate vehicle emissions upends decades of federal policy undertaken to allow the largest U.S. state to combat air pollution that particularly afflicts Los Angeles.
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A specific condition afflicts business travelers: Call it hotel gloom, an amorphous melancholy that seems to thrive in the perfectly serviceable hotel rooms of the $200-a-night-and-under variety.
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Unchecked nostalgia is a disease, one that afflicts us in all walks of life, but one that I see being taken financial advantage of the most in the world of gaming.
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The kind of wet macular degeneration that I have, caused by my degenerative myopia, is different from the far more common age-related macular degeneration that afflicts so many older adults.
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Well, yes — and to be clear, in making that claim, I'm not suggesting that the desire for continued acceptance by one's social network is a trait that afflicts only conservative judges.
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Air pollution appeared to have the greatest effect on survival for people diagnosed with early-stage adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer and the form that often afflicts non-smokers.
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Though the ONS cautions that this may be due to improved police recording practices, it is clear that stalking afflicts many—and in some cases, even escalates to murder and serious injury.
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"I hope she can now use all her remarkable qualities to unite her country, to stop the violence and to end the prejudice that afflicts both Muslims and other communities," he said.
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It could easily have lapsed into didacticism, or into the kind of sentimental wishful thinking that so often afflicts Hollywood's attempts to deal with the seductive, morally ambiguous world of big money.
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And on a day when the political news was all about the Ku Klux Klan, he identified the particular variety of liberal-minded bigotry — the "sorority racism" — that afflicts the movie industry.
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Reporter Jimmie Briggs spent months following Naverro, tracing the epidemic of PTSD that afflicts men of color surviving in neighborhoods where guns and drugs create daily trauma for VICE magazine's latest issue.
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The Inclisiran effort is not only one of the largest drug trials that exploits this mechanism, but it also manages to target an ailment that afflicts a broad swath of the population.
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At a moment of yawning income inequality in America, Lexi, who doesn't come from money, shines a light on how the struggle between the haves and the have-nots afflicts cheerleaders, too.
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This pathology afflicts Aciman's characters with the sense that all the moments of their lives are happening at once, and they can only access the present through those other, not-present moments.
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While Bloomberg didn't solve the great stagnation of living standards that afflicts the American middle class and poor, it's hard to think of a contemporary mayor or governor who made more progress.
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Decades ago, ME/CFS stole his life, but music has allowed Murdoch to take back his life and shine a light on a disease that afflicts more than 17 million people worldwide.
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A few weeks later, she withdrew from the Rogers Cup in Montreal, eventually citing postpartum depression, a condition that afflicts about 15 percent of all mothers but is often dogged by stigma.
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Jackson said he planned to advocate to find a cure for the disease, which he said "bested my father," strikes 60,000 Americans a year and afflicts 7 to 10 million people worldwide.
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In humans, the resulting disease, trypanosomiasis, causes "sleeping sickness," a potentially fatal condition that attacks the central nervous system and, as the name suggests, afflicts people with an uncontrollable urge to sleep.
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Postpartum depression, which afflicts an estimated one in seven mothers — including the Iowa woman above, who has recovered — can begin before the birth and may have serious detrimental effects on mother and child.
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As a housing shortage afflicts portions of California, Facebook plans to spend $1 billion to build up to 20,000 new, affordable housing units, the Silicon Valley-based social media giant announced on Tuesday.
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Zatarain might have stayed in PR, too, if not for her father, who was struck with terminal cancer and suffered the loss of strength and body heat that afflicts so many cancer sufferers.
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Born with a rare developmental disorder called Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome that afflicts only about 500 people in the United States, the oldest of Chad's five children wasn't expected to live past age 2.
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But people who live in places where it isn't and housing affordability has become a problem that afflicts large swathes of the middle class should really consider looking at a change in approach.
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"The sanctions that will come from the United States -- I'm not looking forward to them because that afflicts us as people," said a 33-year old protester who identified himself only as Victor.
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This option would not take sides on the major conflict that afflicts the American middle class over how to raise children and how parents, working mothers especially, should balance work and family responsibilities.
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Characterized by nervous, fake laughter, sweaty palms, and the dangerous-but-uncontainable urge to blurt out anything just to fill the void, it's a phenomenon that afflicts even the most gregarious among us.
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The opioid epidemic began in the 473s when doctors prescribed a tremendous amount of opioid painkillers to help treat pain — a serious problem, given that chronic pain alone afflicts about 100 million Americans.
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True, there's a huge difference between being affluent enough that you don't have to worry much about money and living with the financial insecurity that afflicts many Americans who consider themselves middle class.
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The virus has been indiscriminate in its UK tour as it afflicts every level of British society including Johnson, members of the UK cabinet, and even Prince Charles of the country's royal family.
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A heart transplant is the definitive treatment for the most severe stages of heart failure, a disease that afflicts six million Americans (and a quarter of a million in its most advanced form).
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We should supplement new cash allowances with new jobs programs, but direct cash payments to parents is a widely tested and powerful weapon to combat the poverty that afflicts so many right now.
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"I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon – and I mean very soon – come to an end," he said as the crowd roared.
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On other big issues, such as the choking air pollution that afflicts northern India, or the water mismanagement that has led to dangerous shortfalls across the country, the government has been less than impressive.
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"The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end," Trump will say Thursday night during his acceptance speech, according to excerpts of his prepared remarks distributed to reporters.
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Beyond messaging, the love blindness that often afflicts us in the early stages of a relationship may prevent us from asking questions about HIV status and from talking to our partners about condom use.
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Healing potions and spells are abundant, but they raise your Fever level, an ailment that afflicts magically sensitive individuals (even those who don't go out of their way to wield spells) in Enderal's universe.
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According to a 303 study at Massachusetts General Hospital, clinical acne afflicts 45% of women ages 21 to 30, 26% of women ages 31 to 40, and 12% of women ages 41 to 50.
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Automakers are beginning to deliver electric cars that alleviate a condition known as "range anxiety," which afflicts electric-car owners who fear they'll run out of electricity on the road with nowhere to charge.
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Many crave a reduction in the income volatility that afflicts them, since sudden swings in earnings are associated with poor mental health, high stress and worry over losing access to financial assistance or food stamps.
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For example, researchers at the University of Utah have now begun looking into the genetic predisposition for Ewing sarcoma, a bone cancer that afflicts approximately 200 children and young adults in the U.S. each year.
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He hit this note right from the start: I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon -- and I mean soon -- come to an end.
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Investigating the lore that milkmaids never got smallpox, he discovered that material from scabs produced by cowpox, a similar condition that afflicts cattle, induced a mild illness in people that left them immune to smallpox.
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The same policy stagnation afflicts our ability to confront the most pressing threats to our security, from North Korea to the risk of terrorists acquiring weapons of mass destruction, from pandemic disease to Russian aggression.
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Many have witnessed this violence personally, some have even been its victims I have a message for all of you: the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end.
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Such continuous monitoring is primarily geared to those with type 1 diabetes, which afflicts some 3 million people in the U.S. The primary criticism is that it's an expensive hobby and not particularly useful in isolation.
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"This piece of legislation ... will help all Americans deal with the epidemic of robocalls which afflicts them and their families every single day of the year," Markey said on the Senate floor ahead of Thursday's vote.
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But Pakistan has a learning crisis that afflicts its schoolchildren despite much debate and increase in funding for education because policy interventions by the government and foreign donors misdiagnosed what is keeping children out of school.
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By allowing experimentation, proponents argue, and by breaking the power of teachers' unions, districts will somehow be able to innovate their way past the crushing underfunding that afflicts majority-minority school districts all around the country.
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At 16, She's a Pioneer in the Fight to Cure Sickle Cell Disease Helen Obando is the youngest person ever to get a gene therapy that scientists hope will cure the disease, which afflicts 100,000 Americans.
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Recently, though, the company has been thinking further afield, wanting to combat the "menu fatigue" that afflicts its devotees, and attract new customers with items that are not only un-saladish, but are actually … not salads.
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I am angry and sad at Mr. Mubarak's release not just because of what could have been, but what now cannot be, as long as our criminal justice system comforts the powerful and afflicts the powerless.
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The longer it takes for Europe — the United States' largest trading partner — to make up lost ground, the greater the risk the region will be trapped in the same kind of long-term stagnation that afflicts Japan.
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He is sleepless, worried that the illness that afflicts him may be a terminal one, and thinking back upon his unrequited love for Sarah, a younger academic from France who shares many of his interests and sensibilities.
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On Capitol Hill, the recurring Trump nightmare that afflicts Republicans reappeared as GOP leaders signaled their disgust at the President's behavior, sent their own message to Putin and reassured US allies traumatized by the NATO-skeptic President.
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It purports to remedy the problem that afflicts so many during Super Bowl season—dealing with structurally-unsound snack stadiums made of cardboard or foil or paper, materials that crumble beneath the weight of chips and dip.
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Chronic insomnia, a condition that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, currently afflicts some forty million Americans, is not really caused by coffee and Facebook, although it may certainly be aggravated by these things.
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Grievous loss also afflicts Katrin (Anna Gunndis Gudmundsdottir) and her husband, Gardar (Thorvaldur David Kristjansson), who — with a friend, Lif (Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir) — have started renovating a decrepit house in Iceland's remote and stunningly stark Westfjords region.
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She entered the graduate art program at Columbia in 20143, and during her first year there she had an artistic crisis, the kind that afflicts gifted art students who can't decide what their work should be about.
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When it comes to gangs in Chicago—where gun violence afflicts a very small percentage of the population, but intensely—he likes the idea of trained "interrupters," who intervene with members after a violent incident to prevent retaliation.
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It is a constant theme, to push back against the image of them as the town drunks, the degenerates, and to make the point that alcoholism affects all classes of society and it afflicts the best and brightest.
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And Janesville, a town with an unusual level of civic commitment, unity and native spirit — the Ryan family has been there for five generations — has capitulated to the same partisan rancor that afflicts the rest of the nation.
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Morbid obesity, as the most severe form is called, afflicts an estimated 6 percent of men and 226 percent of women in the country, and the diseases associated with it, like diabetes and heart disease, can be deadly.
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Even though the SNP has run Scotland's devolved government for 303 years, it has—despite the boredom and disillusion that normally afflicts governments that are long in the tooth—put on another remarkable performance in a Westminster election.
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Irrigation ministry officials in Kabul said that last year Iran received more than 3 billion cubic meters, at a time when the effects of drought, which now afflicts 20 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces, were already starting to be felt.
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This condition afflicts less than 20123% of all Americans, based on a calculation using the drugmaker's own figures, and it is most commonly associated with people who have multiple sclerosis (MS) or ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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The economic anxiety that afflicts working-class whites bears down even stronger on working-class blacks, who have long been overlooked by pundits and politicians, even as they found themselves near the bottom rung of the American economic latter.
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Perhaps this obscene phenomenon, which afflicts victims of every age, color, and geographic location, is better understood as self-destruction: The body politic bleeds again and again, while our faith in democracy's mettle is weakened, if not eliminated altogether.
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" Mr. Icahn lashed back, countering that Mr. Ackman "may be a smart guy but he has clearly succumbed to the same dangerous (and sometimes fatal) malady that afflicts many investors — he's developed a very bad case of 'Herbalife obsession.
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Lo and behold, the answer is always the same — real institutional racism always ends up being something from the past, something dealt with, not an ongoing system of policy that afflicts minorities and profits white people to this day.
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While Idso claims that carbon emissions will continue to promote vegetation growth—as they have to some degree—continuing atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide will also drive desertification, which already afflicts roughly 46 percent of the land in Africa.
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First identified in the ear of a woman in Japan in 2009 ("auris" is Latin for "ear"), the germ has spread around the globe, mostly appearing in hospitals and nursing homes, where it afflicts people with weakened immune systems.
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The American College of Physicians recently issued new nondrug guidelines for treating chronic or recurrent back pain, a condition that afflicts approximately one-quarter of adults at a cost to the country in excess of $100 billion a year.
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Today, with crime rates lower, Americans more readily believe that the country has an overincarceration problem — one that disproportionately afflicts minority communities, as black and brown people are far more likely to be locked up than their white peers.
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The inability to hear what someone else is saying — an ailment that afflicts many people as they get older — underscores the isolation that is far more commonplace and deeply embedded in this society than we want or care to admit.
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For Jews like Weiss, the primary lesson after Pittsburgh is not that Jews share the same interests as other minority groups or the political left, but rather that anti-Semitism is a disease that afflicts all groups in distinctive ways.
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When a mishap at a fertility clinic leaves him covered in semen, a staff member tells him not to worry; it's just the sperm of men with sickle-cell anemia, a disease that, in the United States, overwhelmingly afflicts African-Americans.
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Beyond helping arrange work, Bella Flor organizes theater workshops, provides education and food, and attends to health problems linked to living at the garbage dump, as well as domestic violence and addiction, a scourge that afflicts many of the local youth.
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China and India's enthusiasm for cleaner energy arises in part from a wish to reduce the terrible air pollution that afflicts cities like Beijing and New Delhi; any move away from coal would make a big difference in public health.
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A wiser choice would have been to fund properly the refugee camps in countries near Syria, thus avoiding both the issue of economic migrants masquerading as refugees and the unwitting importation of the terrorism that currently afflicts the Islamic world.
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Tiffany, who said her father had schizophrenia, was an early beneficiary of his vision and has become a poster child for what can be done to prevent a devastating, costly illness that afflicts up to 3 percent of the population.
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After her treatment was complete, Smith and her 6-year-old daughter, Mia, started the Make Cents of Breast Cancer campaign, which has raised more than $7,000 for research on the disease that afflicts nearly a quarter of a million women each year.
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It's hard to know where to start with Trump's speech, but this paragraph is what I keep coming back to: I have a message for all of you: The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end.
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Then, last summer, his latest company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, bought and jacked up the price of Daraprim, an obscure drug used to treat a parasitic disease called toxoplasmosis that sometimes afflicts AIDS and cancer patients and pregnant women, by more than 5,000 percent.
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Bryan Cranston's memoir, A LIFE IN PARTS (Scribner, $27), suffers from the lopsidedness that afflicts any account of late-breaking fame — Cranston was 51 when he took the role of Walter White in AMC's "Breaking Bad," which made him a global star.
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Our inability to roll out testing rapidly, even when thousands of cases are probably in circulation, owes a lot to the inherent problems of medical bureaucracy and the regulatory state, and to the decadence that afflicts American institutions at almost every level.
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Obstructive sleep apnea afflicts about 9 percent of women and 24 percent of men, most of them middle-aged or older, yet as many as 9 in 10 adults with this treatable condition remain undiagnosed, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
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The first promising vaccine for dengue — a disease that afflicts hundreds of millions of people around the world — is in jeopardy after the Philippines suspended it, amid widespread fears about its safety and growing public anger over its use in 663,000 schoolchildren.
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So it came as no surprise that when accepting their award for Original Song for Selma's "Glory" (which lyrics even address Ferguson), John Legend and Common spoke out about what afflicts the black community today, including poverty, racism, and America's flawed prison system.
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Hundreds of thousands poured into the streets to protest a case that, to many, represented all that afflicts Mexico, a nation where about 1003,000 people have disappeared and more than 100,000 have been killed in the decade-long churn of the drug war.
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The duo will leverage the Apple Watch 4's FDA-cleared heart rate monitoring capabilities to detect atrial fibrillation (AFib) — an irregular heart beat that afflicts up to 6 million US patients (predominantly the elderly) and is a leading cause of stroke.
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Exclusive: Lead poisoning afflicts neighborhoods across California, new data showsDozens of California communities have experienced recent childhood lead poisoning rates surpassing those of Flint, Michigan, with one Fresno locale showing rates nearly three times higher, blood testing data obtained by Reuters shows.
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It's hard to know where to start with the speech, but this paragraph is what I keep coming back to: I have a message for all of you: The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end.
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On Wednesday, a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School reported in the journal Neuron the latest bit of evidence suggesting herpesviruses can spark the cascade of events that leads to Alzheimer's disease, a fatal form of dementia that afflicts at least 5 million Americans.
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In those roles, Ma learned plenty, including that kidney disease impacts up to 40 percent of diabetics, and that diabetes afflicts roughly 0003 million people — a giant percentage of whom are unable to feel pain from ulcers and gangrene, which can lead to amputations.
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Stanford University's David Spiegel, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of the school's Center on Stress and Health, tells me that depression is a common, treatable mental disorder, but people it afflicts can blame themselves for things that aren't their fault.
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For example, low back and neck pain together are the third biggest source of medical spending in the U.S. And unlike the diabetes or heart disease, which tend to affect Americans in their late-60s or older, neck and back pain often afflicts working adults.
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Through my work, I realized just how massive the chronic pain problem is in the US. Defined as any pain lasting longer than three months, chronic pain afflicts more than 50 million Americans each year and has a net economic impact of around $600 billion.
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At this point, it is difficult to tell whether Ryan's bill is simply caught in the kind of political maelstrom and skittishness of wavering House members faced with tough votes that afflicts all major legislation or whether Washington is watching a political project locked in terminal decline.
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While breasts are as sexualized as ever in popular culture, the Breast Cancer Awareness movement's devotion to pink seems like a clear attempt to recast an illness that primarily afflicts a female erogenous zone (although men can also suffer from breast cancer) as something girlish, even prepubescent.
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Some vegetables have enough internal moisture to stay tender in a hot oven — but for those that do not, placing a bowl of water on the bottom of the oven floor creates a gentle steam that can prevent the dreaded leathery texture that afflicts some roasted vegetables.
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More than that, r/steroids is filled to bursting with authoritative-sounding, PubMed-sourced FAQs, in which users cite studies showing that testosterone might increase penis size and list innumerable ways to avoid the gynecomastia that afflicts many people who are new to steroids, particularly teenagers.
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Her boys will soon get weaker as their muscles deteriorate from the effects of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a progressive genetic disease that mainly afflicts males and will eventually rob Max, 11, Rowen, 7, and Charlie, 5, of the ability to walk, breathe and care for themselves.
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"Unless concerted action -- led by the government and aided by all sectors of the government and society -- is taken soon, we risk the return of another cycle of violence and radicalisation, which will further deepen the chronic poverty that afflicts Rakhine State," Annan said in a statement.
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Under his direction, Turing acquired a drug called Daraprim, which treats a parasitic infection that can be deadly when it afflicts unborn babies and people with H.I.V. and AIDS , and then raised the price of a single pill from $13.50 to seven hundred and fifty dollars.
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It shows how one person with the coronavirus, who passes on the virus to three other people (some experts say three is the average, though others estimate the infectiousness is a bit lower), can very quickly spawn a public health nightmare that afflicts thousands of people.
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Sleep apnea afflicts more than two people in five who have a body mass index of more than 30, and three in five adults with metabolic syndrome, Dr. Sigrid C. Veasey and Dr. Ilene M. Rosen wrote in The New England Journal of Medicine in April.
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The key dynamic remains the same, and to some degree afflicts Democrats in Congress as well: Most lawmakers really don't want to overtly challenge Trump's trade war, because they agree with the administration's concerns about unfair Chinese trade practices -- especially intellectual property theft and forced technology transfer.
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But the "resource curse" that afflicts many mineral-rich, particularly oil-rich, nations—reducing incentives to develop other industries, exacerbating inequality as élites hog oil rents and fail to build a strong individual-income-tax base—began to hit Venezuela hard in the eighties and nineties.
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If anxiety about the president's approach afflicts governors of both parties, Democrats are far more eager to brand Mr. Trump a failed leader: Mr. Inslee said he viewed governors' actions on climate and trade as compensating for a "giant sucking sound of ignorance" at the federal level.
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My first encounter with Turbine Hall came in 2002, when I was living in London for the year, suffering from that very specific condition that often afflicts Americans if they spend any extended length of time in Britain, whereby everything feels both too familiar and too foreign.
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China has previously shut down factories and limited the operation of heavy equipment ahead of high-profile diplomatic and sporting events - such as meetings of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and the Beijing Summer Olympics of 2600 - to cut the choking smog that afflicts many of its cities.
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"Unless concerted action -- led by the government and aided by all sectors of the government and society -- is taken soon, we risk the return of another cycle of violence and radicalization, which will further deepen the chronic poverty that afflicts Rakhine State," Annan said upon announcing the commission's finding.
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There's also very little a person can do to fight back against cognitive decline: There's currently no cure for Alzheimer's, which afflicts 5.8 million people in the US and is projected to affect nearly 14 million people and cost more than $1 trillion by 63, per the Alzheimer's Association.
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It makes perfect sense that programs like Outer Coast and Wayfinding have sprung up to address another major deficit that afflicts students across the socio-economic spectrum, and which will leave them floundering at university and beyond: the inability to ask, and answer, serious questions about life's ultimate purpose.
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For some directors, like Peter Jackson — who shot "The Hobbit" at 48 frames per second, to largely negative reaction — and James Cameron, higher frame rates are the future of movies, an opportunity to correct the motion blur that afflicts fast-paced action sequences shot at the standard rate.
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Since 2006, when the results of the first of the new wave of studies was published, there have been a dozen papers showing that it may be a useful treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder, tobacco addiction, alcoholism, depression and the anxiety that so often afflicts people when they are approaching death.
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Trilobites Seventeen volunteers in the Netherlands have agreed to host parasitic worms in their bodies for 12 weeks in order to help advance research toward a vaccine for schistosomiasis, a chronic disease that afflicts more than 200 million people a year, killing thousands, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and South America.
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If we can unpack this enormously complicated event, immerse ourselves in it and see it with fresh eyes, we might come to terms with one of the most consequential, and most misunderstood, events in our history and perhaps inoculate ourselves against the further spread of the virulent disunion that afflicts us.
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Its 25m people suffer under a seasonal plague that afflicts the Indo-Gangetic Plain from the city of Lucknow in the east all the way to Lahore, in Pakistan, to the west, as millions of rice farmers conclude their harvest by burning off the leftover stalks to clear paddies for winter planting.
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Portenoy, who has held leadership positions at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Mount Sinai Beth Israel, was among the first physicians to espouse opioids as an option for the treatment of chronic pain, a condition that afflicts tens of millions of Americans, in medical journal articles published in the 1980s and 1990s.
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The problem on the streets and jails is fueled by an epidemic of substance abuse, said Dr. Colin Dias, former director of Emergency Services at the Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, which afflicts as many as 80% of the people he evaluates in the emergency department with mental illness.
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Only one run would cross the plate after Noah Syndergaard, whom everyone calls Thor, never Noah, departed after the fifth, his first start since a finger injury in May and his last before going down with hand, foot and mouth disease, a weeklong bout of sores and rashes that primarily afflicts young children.
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Op-Ed Contributor In July, the Food and Drug Administration took the important step of approving two final-phase clinical trials to determine whether a party drug that has long been on the Drug Enforcement Administration's Schedule I list of banned substances could be used to treat a psychiatric condition that afflicts millions.
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Dr. Smith pointed out that, although great apes, several other primates and rodents have an appendix, only humans get appendicitis, a condition that predominantly afflicts people in industrialized nations who consume a Westernized high-carbohydrate, low-fiber diet that can result in calcified carbohydrate particles becoming trapped in the opening to the appendix.
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One, called primary insomnia, results from a problem that occurs only or mainly during sleep, like obstructive sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome (which afflicts 15 to 20 percent of older adults), periodic limb movements or a tendency to act out one's dreams physically, which can be an early warning sign of Parkinson's disease.
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While certainly a ludicrous legal defense (he was sentenced to 10 years of probation, until he violated that in 2016 and spent two years in jail), it's a fair assessment of what afflicts a corporate-consumerist society like ours, with individuals across the class system focused on the dogged pursuit of more money and material.
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Vagina: Jacques Ravel at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Larry J. Forney at the University of Idaho are studying 200 women to determine the microbial changes that may result in a common and difficult-to-control infection called bacterial vaginosis, which afflicts more than 20 million American women of childbearing age.
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In the early 1980s, that spellbound interregnum of American life, when high interest rates were turning the screws on the American working class, just before the lurid depredations of the Reagan era took hold, Tseng and Wong dramatized the "permanent outsider" status that afflicts Asian-Americans to this day, and restaged it to their advantage.
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"There has been some interesting work that has shown that one of the central reasons the US lags behind a lot of similarly positioned nations [in life expectancy] is the burden of injury, which especially afflicts younger individuals: firearm related homicide and suicide for example, and drug poisoning," Keyes said in a phone call.
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By raising taxes on the wealthy, we could end the lead poisoning that afflicts half a million American kids, we could provide high-quality preschool for all, we could offer treatment for all people with addictions and we could ensure that virtually all kids graduate from a decent high school and at least get a crack at college.
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Last year in a column entitled "Hearing Loss Threatens Mind, Life and Limb," I summarized the current state of knowledge about the myriad health-damaging effects linked to untreated hearing loss, a problem that afflicts nearly 22021 million Americans and, according to two huge recent studies, increases the risk of dementia, depression, falls and even cardiovascular diseases.
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, instead, includes a condition that afflicts many, but not all, trans people: "gender dysphoria," which is a state of emotional distress caused by how someone's body or the gender they were assigned at birth conflicts with their gender identity, and that can lead to depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation.
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This story was only the most recent example of the now-consuming dilemma that afflicts all media coverage of the current White House administration: How to adequately convey any lasting sense of context amid the swirling hurricane of events transpiring not just daily, but often hourly, piling up upon each other like remnants of coastal buildings swept up in the storm surge.
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The number of Americans with poor vision, often undetected among older adults, is expected to double by 255; hearing loss – mostly untreated or undertreated – afflicts nearly two-thirds of adults over 264; both vision and hearing impairment occur in one person in nine age 250 and older (fewer than one in five have neither), and the prevalence of dementia is now doubling every 20 years.
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Those who test negative but are vulnerable to infection because of sexual activity should take pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, the daily drug regimen that reduces the risk of getting H.I.V. The tragedy is that those tools are sitting on the shelf in many parts of the country, especially the South, where H.I.V. rates are still rising among some groups and where AIDS disproportionately afflicts African-Americans.
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The protests are specifically about one man in a very troubled neighborhood that gets a disproportionate amount of attention from police, but they also seek to bring attention to the police brutality that all too often afflicts black men in the US. Freddie Gray suffered a fatal spinal cord injury on April 12 when he was tossed around the back of a police van.
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First lady Melania TrumpMelania TrumpEx-Melania Trump adviser raised concerns of excessive inauguration spending weeks before events: CNN The Hill's Morning Report - Trump moves green cards, citizenship away from poor, low-skilled White House seeks volunteers, musicians for Christmas celebrations MORE and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Wednesday met with families affected by neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a condition that afflicts babies exposed to opioids in the womb.
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But it's a problem that disproportionately afflicts black Americans — to the point that many of these communities have homicide rates that are closer to more violent countries like Mexico than the rest of the US. A new analysis of FBI data by the pro-gun control Violence Policy Center finds that the black homicide rate in 2013 (the most recent year with available data) was 16.91 per 100,000 people.
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According to the nonprofit Better Hearing Institute, hearing loss is linked to several negative health consequences, including: - Fatigue, tension, stress and depression - Social isolation and loneliness - Reduced alertness and increased risk to personal safety - Impaired memory and ability to learn new tasks - Reduced job performance and earning power - Diminished psychological and overall health Research indicates that untreated hearing impairment may be linked to dementia, which afflicts some 5 million American seniors.
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"If 'Prozac Nation' has any particular purpose," she wrote, "it would be to come out and say that clinical depression is a real problem, that it ruins lives, that it ends lives, that it very nearly ended my life; that it afflicts many, many people, many very bright and worthy and thoughtful and caring people, people who could probably save the world or at the very least do it some real good, people who are too mired in despair to even begin to unleash the lifespring of potential that they likely have down deep inside."
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