They tend to have a less severe illness (although it can still be debilitating).
It is not necessarily a precursor to Alzheimer's disease, but it does raise the risk of progressing into that more severe illness.
The strain H3N2 of the flu virus is causing many of the cases, reports suggest, and it is known to cause severe illness, especially among the elderly.
Mandatory vaccination of health care workers is especially important in an emerging pandemic, which though it is still relatively mild, has shown the capability of causing severe illness and death, and can also get worse as it continues to spread.
Though it is not clear whether that immunological shift translates into a greater likelihood of contracting the virus, there is no doubt that it can result in more severe illness among pregnant women who are infected with it, she said.
Dutch researchers are proposing that DNA sequencing replace older forms of genetic tests for diagnosing the cause of severe intellectual disability, the second time in a day that researchers have pushed the emerging technology as a first-choice diagnostic test for severe illness.
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The pensioner developed a severe depressive illness in the weeks before the tragedy, the court heard.
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Overall, it was estimated that the rate of undertreatment for medical conditions was 10% for those with severe mental illness.
It is human nature to grasp at understandable causes for complicated, tragic affairs such as the development of a severe mental illness.
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Again, like the suicidal thoughts, psychosis in childhood is extremely serious and often but not always indicates the presence of especially severe mental illness.
It is reached when heat is so severe that illness and death may occur among the fit and healthy, and not just in high-risk groups.
We have a unique opportunity to reaffirm our tradition of responsible gun ownership, and also do more to keep guns out of the hands of criminals or people with a severe mental illness.
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If they're not part of that 90 percent who agree that we should make it harder for a criminal or somebody with a severe mental illness to buy a gun, then you should ask them, why not?
Ortiz, confronted with a possible life sentence and reportedly suffering from a severe mental illness, admitted his guilt again a year later as part of a plea deal that sent him to prison for up to 25 years.
"The accusation that the NBC broadcasts may provoke copycat attacks - the most serious charge against the network - appears to rest on a notion of severe mental illness as contagious, " wrote Bronwen Maddox of the Times.
At times, children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia need multiple drugs, with even higher doses prescribed during periods of illness or severe stress, including surgery.
In a commentary that ran with the article, Cox and Dr. Tim Uyeki, a physician with the CDC, noted that patients were not given antiviral medication until their illness became severe.
Verity Reed Hall, who runs a postnatal depression support website from her home in west Cornwall, wants a dedicated centre for women with severe cases of the illness, so they can recover and care for their baby at the same time.
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Mrs Whittaker said McLean's mental illness had been "much more severe" than the family had been told when they were working with the 2gether NHS Foundation Trust to "support him at home".
Instead of charging the highest premiums for overweight smokers, alcoholics with bad driving records and dangerous hobbies, the most expensive policies will be priced for those who are younger with histories of mental illness, divorce, criminal records or severe financial difficulties.
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Whooping cough, an illness caused by the pertussis bacteria, can cause severe respiratory symptoms and even death in young infants.
Many E.coli strains are harmless, but the more serious ones can cause serious illness, including vomiting, diarrhoea and, in severe cases, intestinal bleeding.
The FDA last March asked pediatricians to stop administering GlaxoSmithKline's Rotarix, a vaccine that prevents rotavirus infection, a diarrheal illness that commonly affects infants and children and that can cause severe dehydration.
At the time, both sectors had been hit by the effects of the war in Iraq, a so-so economy and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The latter, a viral illness first reported in Asia, was blamed for 774 deaths in 2003 and whipped up fears that aircraft cabins were prone to contagion.
"We cannot emphasise enough that measles is an illness that can kill, or leave patients with permanent complications including severe brain damage, and the only protection is two doses of the MMR vaccination, " she added.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say catching the illness isn't always a death sentence, but bacterial meningitis is usually severe.
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