Sentence examples for devastating illnesses from inspiring English sources

Devastating illnesses result in bankruptcies that tear families apart.

As a result, officials say now, many who died early or lived for years with devastating illnesses never filed claims.

But most devastating illnesses, among them diabetes, autism, Alzheimer's, and cancer, are almost always the result of a constantly shifting dynamic that can include hundreds of genes.

But the union claimed a victory by persuading management to contribute to a brand-name drug plan for nurses and their family members with devastating illnesses, like cancer.

Continuum agreed to give up to $40,000 a year total to a fund that would help pay for brand-name drugs for devastating illnesses.

It's so precise that it's expected to turn into a promising new approach for gene therapy in people with devastating illnesses.

In this moving meditation on life and afterlife, a northern Michigan family confronts devastating illness and death.

Witnessing a parent's grief over a child's devastating illness inspires sympathy in most people.

None of her doctors had been able to figure out what was causing the strange episodes of devastating illness that prompted all these surgeries and dozens of hospitalizations.

Based on "Chanda's Secrets," a 2004 novel by the Canadian writer Allan Stratton, and adapted for the screen by Mr. Schmitz and Dennis Foon, the movie throws plenty at her, including a drunk of a stepfather, gossipy neighbors and devastating illness.

As Robert Cornfield explains in his excellent but all too brief introduction, "After some years of devastating illness and deteriorating memory, Denby died by his own hand in the summer of 1983". He was born in 1903, in China; his father was an American diplomat.