A statement signed by 80 Nobel laureates says stem cells hold the promise of improving "the lives of millions of Americans suffering from many of humanity's most devastating illnesses".
This February 7, while the country watches the 50th Anniversary of the National Football League's biggest day, you have the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children fighting some of the most devastating illnesses by hosting a St . Jude Game
These advances will hopefully lead to new optimism for what has historically been one of the most devastating illnesses in clinical medicine, and establish ICH as a medically treatable condition worthy of aggressive ICU support.
Toward the end, the narrator — who suffered the most devastating mental illness of all, the illness called adolescence — says of himself: "I'm still here.
Schizophrenia, the most devastating psychiatric illness, is understood in contemporary psychiatry as a brain disorder, helped primarily by medicine and to some extent by family therapy.
Autism and related autism spectrum disorders (including Asperger's Syndrome and pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS)) are considered to be among the most devastating psychiatric illnesses affecting children.
IT was an event that required suspension of disbelief: 25 children, most with devastating illnesses, were told they were going to the North Pole.
What if, with a wave of the wand, we could eliminate some of the world's most devastating causes of illness and death?
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WITNESSING a parent's grief over a child's devastating illness inspires sympathy in most people.
