starvation

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She says that studies in mice have shown that starvation enhances the animal’s tolerance to chemotherapy doses but can’t cure the disease outright.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Between 1846 and 1851, more than a million Irish people died from starvation or disease.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2026

RZSS, which took the three survivors into its care, said all four lynx had shown signs of starvation.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

Hundreds of thousands face mass starvation across the region.

From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026

In Carvajal’s account, pain and sickness alternate with starvation.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann