Because AIDS spreads through sexual activity, contaminated needles among drug injectors and from mothers to children, it still afflicts mostly young adults.
Luckily, the early closing afflicts mostly stores: the restaurants, cafes and bars still stay open into the wee hours, and it was at these establishments that Tracy Jo and I began to find our missing New Orleanians.
At the meeting yesterday, Wong reported that his team has also examined the saliva from groups of 10 people with either type II diabetes, breast cancer, or Sjogren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease that afflicts mostly women and destroys the salivary gland and pancreas.
The abnormal growth pattern of bone tissue including a distinctive, cauliflower-like external appearance led the team to diagnose the condition as osteosarcoma, which today afflicts mostly children and young adults.
Chinese officials are finally waking up to the staggering public-health costs (see article).Smaller gains could come from tackling cancers that mostly afflict the poor.
It is characterized by intense snoring, and it mostly afflicts men.
But try to think of a Russian who has grown rich by inventing something and you'll probably think of someone like Sergey Brin of Google, who moved to America when he was six.Ready for the Skolkovo summit Graft may be a problem in Russia, says Mr Lupachev, but it mostly afflicts big, highly regulated industries.
Afflicted patients are mostly young, male, inveterate tobacco smokers who present with distal extremity ischemia, ischemic ulcers, or frank gangrene of the toes or fingers.
In sickle cell disease, which afflicts 100,000 Americans mostly of African descent, a defect in hemoglobin causes red blood cells to form a sickle shape that blocks small blood vessels.
