ailment
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MLB teams want to know about every physical ailment their players are dealing with in real time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
The FDA also requires that a drug be tested for its ability to treat a named ailment rather than something more general like “aging.”
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
Commentators gave him credit for handling an eye ailment with more panache than former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who wore an eye-patch in 2023 after injuring himself jogging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Joe Abah, a former boss of Nigeria's Bureau of Public Service Reforms, claimed on social media platform X how a private hospital in the capital, Abuja, urged him to undergo immediate surgery for an ailment.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
While the precise nature of his ailment was kept secret, Alexei continued to be a pale, sickly boy.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Symptoms included stinging eyes, head pain, lung problems and stomach ailments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
We always stayed in touch, almost every week or so and we'd usually talk about our ailments and then about what we'd been doing that particular week.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Some of the most familiar medical problems and ailments arise directly from these inherited constraints.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
There’s no insurance product that will protect all your assets from the unpredictable, multiyear impact of serious health ailments.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026
For Tex and Flo, both forced by ailments to retire from their occupation, settled near Reno, Nevada.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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Chains
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