Sentence examples for persistent illnesses from inspiring English sources

"My only question is: why has it taken five years?" Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, commissioner of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, said the city had been hesitant to issue guidelines until it had sufficient scientific evidence linking the dust to serious and persistent illnesses.

In case differences related to diagnoses should emerge, these practices will be specified for different severe mental disorders (e.g. schizophrenia and depression), and can serve as a model to be transferred to other persistent illnesses.

When he died, aged 60, after a decade of unremitting work and persistent illness, Cooper was mourned the world over as more than a much-loved film star.

Seeking a cure for a daughter's persistent illness, he wandered into a modest church overseen by an aging pastor who was reputed to be a miracle worker.

Noncompliance -- or, as some health practitioners prefer, nonadherence -- to medical prescriptions is a problem of enormous proportions that often results in recurring or persistent illness, excessive tests and avoidable hospitalizations that increase the cost of medical care.

Long-term persistent illness following antibiotic treatment is not uncommon, particularly when treatment is delayed.

Both substance use and anxiety disorder concordance were associated with poorer global functioning and persistent illness.

She also wrote movingly about a persistent illness, eventually diagnosed as the painful womb condition endometriosis, that left her unable to have children.

His letters begin as an effort to address a persistent illness of Elisabeth, which Descartes diagnoses as the manifestation of a sadness, no doubt due to the events of the English Civil War.

Hendrix was fatigued and suffering from poor health, due in part to severe exhaustion caused by overworking, a chronic lack of sleep, and a persistent illness assumed to be influenza-related.

These patients likely will present with care needs representing a mix of those with first-episode and persistent illness.