epidemic

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At the same time, chronic pain remains a widespread and costly condition, often described as a 'silent epidemic.'

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

The outcome of the trial is expected to establish a precedent for resolving other lawsuits that blame social media for fueling an epidemic of mental and emotional trauma.

From Barron's • Mar. 21, 2026

A scruffy-faced Radcliffe, twinkling accessible geniality in jeans and a sweatshirt, zips up and down the cavernous theater as though waging a one-man campaign against the isolation epidemic.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

The findings signal “we have this epidemic of cardiovascular risk,” said Dr. Karen Joynt Maddox, a cardiologist, professor and health-policy researcher at Washington University in St. Louis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Among animals, too, epidemic diseases require large, dense populations and don’t afflict just any animal: they’re confined mainly to social animals providing the necessary large populations.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond