The phrase "a given malady" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific illness or condition that has been previously mentioned or is understood in the context.
Example: "In the study, researchers focused on the effects of treatment on a given malady that affects millions worldwide."
Alternatives: "a specific illness" or "a particular condition."
Mr. To makes the most of Mr. Hallyday's pop idol stature, dressing him in a black raincoat and fedora and furnishing him with suitably terse dialogue and a malady that gives the story a twist.
Decades before it was given a name, Michelangelo Antonioni recognized the malady we now call attention deficit disorder.
When he entered St. Elizabeths, Hinckley was given a diagnosis of two major psychological maladies -- psychosis and major depression.
KAREN E. VICTOR Boston, June 3 , 2012 To the Editor: Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal joins the argument against routine medical screenings, consistent with the recent media blitz of experts trying to turn public opinion against preventive medical testing, claiming expense and waste given how rarely a legitimate malady is discovered.
Ever since it was given a name, many researchers and physicians have viewed the malady, which has no Food and Drug Administration approved treatment and no diagnostic test, as psychosomatic.
The series was given a jolt of energy and intrigue as Detroit again refused to succumb to an assortment of maladies or to the Rangers' impressive array of talent.
Though the charges against me were eventually dropped, I have since been given diagnoses of a range of maladies, including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and adult attention deficit disorders.
You may think that I'm a nature spoil sport, but as I discovered much to my sadness and shock two years ago, it's imperative that you watch out for nature-loving, disease-carrying ticks, which can transmit Lyme disease, a confusing malady that may give you mysterious ailments such as mental confusion, fatigue and muscle pains.
("I had to live for this," Gershwin grumbled, "that Sam Goldwyn should say to me, 'Why don't you write hits like Irving Berlin?' ") Given Gershwin's record of maladies, increasingly violent headaches were dismissed as just another of his nervous symptoms; his unprecedented swerves into foul humor were chalked up to the experience of failure.
Geisel had undergone massive radiation and chemotherapy for cancer of the palate over the past nine years but still lost part of his jaw to cancer and, in recent weeks as his health slipped because of several maladies, he was given more to scrawling notes on paper than speaking.
