But Novartis is in pitched pursuit of some of the more obscure maladies in the world.
Why teach pupils well, when distress and maladies earns them more marks than knowledge?
Unexpected, but planned-for medical emergencies include heart attacks, strokes, choking, diabetic reactions, seizures, and other maladies.
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For the rest of us, it could be coming, along with other maladies.
Ms. Barrett argues that her "no impact" classes prepare women to avoid maladies.
Strohman said the human genome only explains rare inherited diseases, which represent only about 2-percent of all maladies that afflict mankind.
Ms. Huxtable used the word "urbicide" to describe cities in the 1960s, blighted by decay, uncontrolled development, social maladies and pollution.
These tests are transforming the treatment of cancer, among many other maladies.
Far more progress might be made by targeting longevity genes to develop multipronged drugs aimed at diabetes, Alzheimer's, cancer and other age-related maladies.
It's the latest move in a global trend toward packing that shows diseased organs, dying patients, skin lesions or other medical maladies caused by smoking.
It makes sense that such a fervent rock band would make a jaw-droppingly beautiful album about pop culture, consumerism, cultural arrogance and other maladies typical of post-industrial society.
Technically, these drugs are made to help people who suffer from the sleepiness that comes from night shift work, or as a result of maladies such as narcolepsy or sleep apnea.
It could be argued, for example, that public policy in already affluent economies should be focused on rectifying specific social maladies, such as mental illness, rather than striving to raise growth.
The programming confronts the mother of all maladies: Cancer.
And our subsequent inability to cope feeds a wide range of maladies, including poor work performance, overeating, insomnia, relationship troubles, road rage, fear of flying, sex addiction and panic attacks over public speaking.
America's universities suffer from many maladies besides cost.
They are certainly doing themselves harm by eating buckets of fatty, sugary food, and they might be said to be imposing health costs on others because of the heart diseases and other maladies they get.
While the mayor of Jerusalem has only a limited capacity to solve the unique, politically-driven maladies endangering the city, he does have considerable power to solve the problems that are similar to those impacting other cities nationwide.
Work is still early enough that there's a long way to go before such implants are part of any treatments, but there's hope that future chip iterations could help fix inner ear maladies, not just report on them.
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Together, we can eradicate the roots of bitter maladies and afflictions, and instead, through the promotion of universal and lasting values such as ethics, spirituality and justice, allow our nations to taste the sweetness of a better future.
His last victory came two years ago, at the Australian Masters, which preceded by less than two weeks his famous encounter with the fire hydrant, followed by scandal, a series of left-leg maladies and a crisis of on-course confidence.
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The investigative element, centered on the familiar amusements of summer vacationers (shot in fulsome color) and the spontaneous ridicule and emotion of an amateur songwriting competition, diagnoses, in the discontents of leisure, the deeper maladies of society at large.
How then does the country get the doctors and scientists it needs to develop the drugs and medical technology that may provide early detection or a cure for cancer, diabetes or the hundreds of other maladies that plague the world?
In dozens of small patient trials staged over three decades, cognitive behavioral therapy has been shown to be surprisingly effective in quelling an ever expanding array of mental maladies: depression, anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress syndrome, bulimia, hypochondria--even insomnia.
Its shareholders endured six years of disinterest and disdain in the markets, which disliked the industry for myriad maladies--overcapacity, crashing prices, onerous regulation, takeover turmoil, imperiled monopolies and a decline in local phone lines for the first time since phone service began a century ago.
But companies have billions of dollars of investment and years of research on the line, with Myriad arguing that without the ability to recoup their investment through the profits that patents bring, breakthrough scientific discoveries needed to combat all kind of medical maladies wouldn't happen.
It's one thing to have a national vaccination campaign--easily enough done--but quite another to rebuild public infrastructure, offer care for maladies ranging from AIDS to obstructed labor (which requires, of course, a Cesarean section, which in turn requires electricity and an operating room and someone who can perform the procedure), and to recruit and train that army of community health workers.
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