Symptoms are often similar to common illnesses like flu and food poisoning.

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If the government wanted to regulate, they could demand an annual report on each patient they support, giving the actual utilization, health care outcomes and proof of appropriate management of common illnesses, immunizations and cancer screening.

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Scientists at Imperial College London may have found a route to new drugs that could treat schizophrenia, one of the most common mental illnesses, more effectively than current drugs.

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Anxiety disorders and depression are the most common mental illnesses: 28.8% of the general population will have an anxiety disorder in their lifetime and 20.8% will have a mood disorder, according to a 2005 study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

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The health authorities are trying to establish a link between the victims, who are said to have had no serious illnesses nor common health issues.

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Novel coronavirus is part of a family called coronaviruses, which cause illnesses ranging from the common cold to SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, as well as a variety of animal diseases.

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Authorities also are watching for respiratory illnesses, such as the common cold, influenza and tuberculosis.

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Whether radiation in produce is or is not harmful, what's certain is malnutrition is common, which often can result in illnesses and birth defects.

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In contrast, there is no such requirement for commercial hens in the US. Consequently, according to FDA data, there are about 142, 000 illnesses every year caused by consuming eggs contaminated by the most common strain of salmonella.

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One suspects that these two papers were placed at the front of the current issue of the journal because they hold out the prospect that a common behavior, coffee drinking, might have some protective efficacy against two serious illnesses.

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