The advancement of ocean voyages during the Renaissance resulted in prolonged periods without access to fresh fruits and vegetables, and made illnesses from vitamin deficiency common among ships' crews.
This is a novel mystifyingly overlooked by Virginia Woolf in her 1926 essay On Being Ill, in which she bemoans literature's failure to make illness one of its "prime themes" alongside "love and battle and jealousy".
The misuse results in an estimated 85,000 deaths a year, making illness related to alcohol abuse the third-leading cause of preventable death in the United States, after smoking and obesity.
Viome is focused on disrupting healthcare by "making illness optional".
Otherwise, villagers have access to a few distasteful wells, affluent with contaminated water, making illness very present.
The lived experience of illness over time makes illness trajectories.
There's something about the early morning hours that makes illnesses seem more frightening and a visit to the doctor imperative.
Undernutrition steals a child's strength and makes illnesses that the body might otherwise fight off far more dangerous.
"Undernutrition steals a child's strength and makes illnesses that the body might otherwise fight off far more dangerous," said Ann M. Veneman UNICEF Executive Director.
Mel and Todd Stottlemyre spoke this morning, before Mel made his illness public.
