They're a sign of a much more severe ailment that plagues our entire health care system.
On Thanksgiving evening, 1924, several members of the family, including Sophie Hasel, fell ill with a severe stomach ailment.
He attributed his ailments - including nerve damage and chloracne, a severe skin ailment associated with dioxin exposure - to his exposure to Agent Orange.
A severe eye ailment forced Dirksen to resign his House seat in 1948.
Strauss endured a severe stomach ailment that seemed to be a direct result of his continuing guilt and stress.
But many analysts are treating Mr. Takeshita's retirement, officially attributed to a severe back ailment, as the more significant event.
He has a severe heart ailment, and once he's moved in, they will cross their fingers when the time comes for the surgery that will give him the best chance at a long life.
That refusal resulted in a dramatic showdown that month between Attorney General John Ashcroft, who was in the hospital with a severe pancreatic ailment, and White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, who had rushed to Ashcroft's hospital bedside in a futile attempt to persuade him to reauthorize the e-mail program.
A few years after 9/11 Marty came down with a severe lung ailment that required a lung transplant.
A zoo veterinarian, who contended that Gita had completely recovered from a severe foot ailment, said it was a mystery why she was prone.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 - A Superior Court jury cleared a prominent Beverly Hills dermatologist of medical malpractice on Friday after finding that Botox injections did not cause the severe ailments that a patient complained about in a lawsuit.
