Sentence examples for pernicious illness from inspiring English sources

Geldof confirmed the new version at a London press conference last week, during which he described Ebola as "a pernicious illness which renders people untouchable".

to reflect the Ebola cause, and said all the proceeds made from the song will go towards battling the "pernicious illness".

• To the Editor: As the daughter of a patient in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's, I was pleased to see the sheer quantity of space you allotted in the Dec. 26 issue to this pernicious illness.

The lyrics "Do They Know It's Christmas?" will be tweaked and modernised to address the recent outbreak of Ebola, described by Geldof as "a pernicious illness which renders people untouchable".

Eating disorders are equal opportunity illnesses, developing regardless of age, ethnicity, social class or gender, and while any coverage helps to break through the silence that these pernicious illnesses thrive on, the pain they bring in their wake is similarly indiscriminate.

Doctors are working with physicists to improve radiotherapy for cancer; biologists and engineers are combining their skills to create chips that mimic the behaviour of human organs; epidemiologists and aid workers are cooperating with doctors to perfect vaccines that can tackle some of the planet's most pernicious illnesses, such as malaria.

Therefore, the contribution of developmental staging is really important since it provides the opportunity to intervene therapeutically in premorbid patients with bipolar disorder thus preventing a more pernicious course of illness.

Nonetheless, acceptance of the reality of vivax malaria as often provoking pernicious and threatening illness must not await demonstration of the mechanisms or cofactors.

1938 Chaliapin, Russian Basso, Dies PARIS — Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin, basso, died yesterday [April 12] at 5 15 p.m. in his Paris apartment, 22 Avenue d'Eylau, from pernicious anemia after a prolonged illness.

The weight of evidence now available leaves no doubt that vivax malaria in many settings often occurs in association with a pernicious and threatening course of illness, which does not assign cause and effect but instead, acknowledges real consequences without regard to their specific genesis.

The stigma associated with mental illness can have a pernicious effect on individuals with mental health problems and their families.