Say, for example, that you develop a severe allergic reaction that requires you to take several pills each day, said Brad Bowman, WellMed's founder and chief medical officer.
In just one manifestation of the grave disease, some AIDS patients develop a severe form of diarrhea, requiring that their bed linen be changed several times each day.
Of those, some will be hospitalized, and a few will develop a severe and potentially fatal syndrome involving kidney failure, anemia and bleeding.
Humans and other animals that become infected with hepatitis B virus may develop a severe and long-lasting form of liver disease known as hepatitis.
Banterers will be unable to resist placing the mops on top of their head or next to their crotch for "comedic" purposes, and the exposure to germs will eventually cause them to develop a severe banter allergy.
Dr. Jacobson had one patient from Saudi Arabia who was particularly sensitive to birch pollen, absent in his birthplace, and had been here long enough to develop a severe reaction; other similar cases involved patients from India and China.
People who spend time outdoors are most likely to contract it, and those older than 50 or younger than 15 tend to be most likely to develop a severe infection.
But in rare instances, women who are pregnant or breastfeeding can develop a severe form of the disease that causes disabling back pain and bones that break out of the blue.
About one in every 100 women undergoing usual IVF treatment will develop a severe form of a medical condition called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome or OHSS.
Mice with cardiac-specific over-expression of the calsequestrin (CSQ) gene develop a severe form of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy that serves as an appropriate mouse model of heart failure.
The findings, reported in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine, help explain why some people develop a severe form of multiple sclerosis (MS) that is practically untreatable and offers a new target for developing treatments for the autoimmune disease.
