One thing the pod will not cure, however, is boredom, which must be the most common affliction among Elysians.
The most common affliction during the Eastern Caribbean outbreak was white plague, so named because the disease kills tissue and exposes the coral's ivory-colored skeleton.
AOM represents the most common affliction necessitating medical therapy for children younger than 5 years in the USA and has a significant impact on the health of children and cost of providing care.
What if there were a simple cure for some of life's most common afflictions, such as eczema, asthma, or hay fever?
In multigenic diseases, which include many of the most common afflictions like Alzheimer's, asthma, diabetes, heart disease and schizophrenia, the contribution from every gene is so small that each is hard to identify.
"These are the most common afflictions of children and women living in extreme poverty, and the reason they can't escape poverty long-term," Peter Hotez, the president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, the dean of the First National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor University, and a founder of the Global Network, told me recently.
You've probably never heard of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), even though they are the most common afflictions of the world's poorest people -- more than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined.
Despite all the attention society has placed on ensuring access to clean food and water, sewage control, and handwashing, gastrointestinal illnesses remain one of the most common afflictions of humankind.
As parents know, middle-ear infections are one of the most common and painful afflictions of childhood, striking three-quarters of children.
While much time, angst, energy, and wealth is spent on diseases du jour such as the swine flu, there are precious few places to find solid information about one of the world's most common and widespread afflictions.
The prosecutors were undone by the twin afflictions most common among government lawyers: arrogance (mostly Marcia Clark's) and ineptitude (largely Christopher Darden's).
