What happens is your immune response goes haywire and then your body starts to attack itself, so theres a failure to shutdown.

VOA: special.2010.03.16

He told them: "The war for the Union is, in your hands, a most bloody and costly failure.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

When there is crop failure because of a drought or flood, farmers receive a text message.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

A main concern is that the failure of some banks or governments to pay their debts could send a financial shock across many countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.06

She writes that academic cheating is a result of communication failure between students and professors.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

"Now I say to you gentlemen that this college is a failure.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

Senator Joe Lieberman is chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee: "By any measure, SBInet has been a failure."

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

Heart failure is caused by high blood pressure or coronary artery disease, a narrowing of the arteries in the heart.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

A new device, no bigger than a paper clip, could revolutionize the way heart failure is managed.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

The continued interest in the mission, and the Apollo program in general, is no surprise to Jim Lovell, the man who helped make Apollo 13 a "successful failure."

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

"It is very important," "I think the failure to pass health-care legislation this year will be a tremendous setback for the administration and for the leadership in Congress."

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

Mohammad Akhter,Executive Director of the National Medical Association, said reform is needed to deal with an explosion of chronic disease in the United States, adding that failure to pass a bill now would mean more expense for the country later.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21