You had to have a strong set of mental blinders not to think, in the moments before Mr. Muti walked onstage, about the alarming illnesses that have kept him off the podium much of the season, and that naturally brought to mind the health problems that led James Levine to give up his directorship of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
It is one of the most alarming illnesses to elderly people.
I've been on a George Eliot kick: I've just finished re-re-reading "Middlemarch"; have been reading Eliot's journals (filled with alarming accounts of illness and depression, as well as her immensely daunting reading lists); and am now on the final pages of "Adam Bede," her first full-length novel.
Diabetes mellitus (DM), one of the fastest-growing and the most alarming of chronic illnesses, refers to a group of metabolic diseases characterized by abnormally high blood-glucose levels.
The alarming rate of mental illness within our country proves in itself that it is an issue that needs to be solved.
(Carer; mother, 49, White British) (See also Additional File 1, 3.4) Although most service users (n = 19) reported being encouraged to seek help by their immediate social networks (friends, family members and partners), nine had also experienced unhelpful responses ranging from not recognizing or minimising the severity of illness to alarming or critical responses.
Overall frequency of AdVs as the cause of nonbacterial pneumonia in children is less than that of RSV and parainfluenza virus type 3, but an alarming number of fatal illnesses have been noted.
The illness is an alarming one, but the fact is that the acute attack of glomerulonephritis needs no particular treatment other than the eradication of the infection or withdrawal of the offending drug, with some restriction of fluid and protein.
Coming on the heels of her landslide re-election victory in October, the public's reaction to Kirchner's illness is an alarming reminder that she has centralized and personalized power far too much and at the expense of institution-building, which has been desperately needed since the country's spectacular economic collapse a decade ago.
Among the novel's concerns are the weight of history and the past, the alarming ease with which mental illness can infect the relatively healthy, the intimacies and estrangements of marriage and family life, the insecurities of youth and the indignities of age.
