Asthma affects more than seven million children each year and is considered one of the leading childhood illnesses.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

About eighty percents of illnesses spread by food are still listed as having been caused by "unspecified agents."

VOA: special.2011.01.11

They have been used to study cancer,AIDS,genetic testing, and drugs for illnesses including influenza,herpes and Parkinson's disease.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Studies suggest that these people often get stress-related illnesses.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

"If we started seeing less fit employees or those with chronic illnesses or aging employees discriminated against in the workplace because they're not thought of as as vigorous, that's the potential danger I would say."

VOA: special.2011.02.28

That study asked them whether a patient's age and other illnesses might play a role in not recommending chemotherapy after surgery.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

UNAIDS estimates about have been infected with HIV since the epidemic began about About 25 million have died from HIV-related illnesses.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17

Kenya's National Blood Transfusion Services estimates the country needs to deal with illnesses, surgeries,accidents and other medical conditions.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

"One room houses over 150 women and 50 babies, many suffering from illnesses related to the cramped and unsanitary conditions of the center."

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

WHO says declining air quality worsens illnesses and deaths from asthma,heart disease, and lung cancer.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

The same thing a doctor would take." They learn how to diagnose and manage common illnesses like colds,or chronic problems such as diabetes and heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

She says contaminated floodwaters can cause fatal illnesses, such as diarrhea and cholera.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

It is still a relatively low number compared to deaths from other illnesses.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

Although there are some people that do get fatalities and serious illnesses."

VOA: standard.2009.05.14

"As they're working,right now, with these mannequins and role players, in the real world these are real people, and I want them to get good at quickly identifying any injuries,illnesses."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Six weeks after the baby's birth, a mother,who is enrolled in the treatment program, has to bring her baby to the clinic for injections against childhood illnesses, such as measles and polio.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

Head of the International Red Cross Federation's Influenza team, Robert Kaufman, says the impact of a novel virus on a community without immunity is not just about the number of illnesses and deaths.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

"And we think the issue for black women is they are more likely to be obese and have chronic illnesses, like high blood pressure, which put you at higher risk for complications during pregnancy."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

"We provide care for elderly people, for mothers to be, for newborn babies,for children, and we provide long-term care for certain groups of patients who have what we would describe as chronic illnesses,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

"Black women, who are more likely to be uninsured, are living in communities where there is limited access to the healthy foods and exercise and activity that is necessary from childhood on to reduce the likelihood of obesity and chronic illnesses."

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

and also intensify vaccination against all infectious agents, all viruses that are known to be strongly associated with the development of cancer. The government should increase its efforts to prevent illnesses with links to cancer, he says,such as hepatitis, a disease of the liver, and the human papillomavirus, which is transmitted during intercourse and is linked to cervical cancer.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16