I was working on a story about a poor couple in Nigeria who created an illness plot in order to get money from a rich, unmarried, pale-skinned short man.
The danger for us may be creating a mental "illness" that didn't previously exist.
Aviles and Coplan decided to collaborate on a more fully formed and active initiative – an ambitious community organization dedicated to creating an ongoing dialogue about mental illness in the restaurant industry, dialogue meant to eradicate the stigma that keeps so many chefs, cooks and servers languishing alone.
Some parents also reported that they or other family members also contracted the illness, thereby creating an even less manageable situation when a sick parent had to take care of a sick child.
An index of clinical morbidity was calculated by dividing the log-transformed lifetime number of mood episodes by the log-transformed years of illness, to create an indicator of illness severity.
Under a project run by Dr Jonathan Amory at Writtle College, sensors are tracking dairy cows to help farmers spot illnesses earlier, creating an early-warning system for disease that hopefully cuts suffering for the animals and improves milk yields.
Under an agreement with Kelci Stringer, the N.F.L. will support her efforts to create a heat illness prevention program.
The irony is compounded by our increasingly sophisticated pharmacopeia for the treat ment of heart failure, which, by slowing the progression of ventricular dys function, has created a chronic illness.
The pollutants "run off" the farms as fertilizers, manure, herbicides, and pesticides, and they reach us through our drinking water and even our seafood, creating a web of illnesses, ranging from cancer, neurologic disorders, and "blue baby syndrome," among others.
Mental illness has been associated with smaller social networks [ 21, 23, 31] with hospitalisation for mental illness creating a spiral in which small networks contribute to hospitalisation and hospitalision in turn, diminishes social networks [ 31].
