Sentence examples for illness describes from inspiring English sources

Norman Cousins's 1979 book, "Anatomy of an Illness," describes beating cancer with "Candid Camera" episodes and Marx Brothers films; the Viennese psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that at Auschwitz laughter was "another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation"; and the seventh-century Zen monks Kanzan and Jittoku believed in laughter as the path to inner peace.

This statement presents the latest evidence for integrated community case management of childhood illness, describes the necessary program elements and support tools for effective implementation, and lays out actions that countries and partners can take to support the implementation of integrated community case management at scale.

Over the past 30 years he has exhibited signs of mental illness – described by one psychiatrist as "institutional psychosis" and by another as a "state of insanity".

He cuts a deep swath through the promise of an end to genetically caused human illness, describing just how tangential this goal is to the sequencing of the human genome.

Lynne Meadow, the artistic director of Manhattan Theater Club, said in an interview on Tuesday that Mr. Roberts's illness, described by his daughter as a minor seizure, had come as a surprise.

She canceled a planned trip to Morocco, and Victoria Nuland, a State Department spokeswoman, gave a mixed picture about the severity of her illness, describing her as having a "very uncomfortable stomach virus" and then saying she was "under the weather".

After banning pet ferrets in 1999, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani became so incensed about the animals that he accused a ferret advocate of mental illness, describing his yen for the creatures as "deranged".

Interestingly, however, the greatest hope for immunotherapy would come from another illness described in the 1950s, autoimmune diseases such as lupus, which clearly confirmed that auto-reactive cells can elude self tolerance [24].

The 9-year-old's illness, described in two reports in 1964 in The New England Journal of Medicine, was the first known case of what is now called WHIM (warts, hypogammaglobulinemia, infections, and myelokathexis) syndrome.

The concussion was the result of an earlier illness, described by the State Department as a stomach virus she had picked up during a trip to Europe that led to dehydration and a fainting spell after she returned to the United States.

Even as he was in the hospital dying -- or fighting vainly to live -- he wrote about his illness, describing the dual blessing and curse of the chemicals in our lives.