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It was about conquering polio and other disabling but preventable diseases, not only for myself, but for the millions of children who have been and still will be afflicted by vaccine-preventable diseases.
As many of you know, individuals afflicted with ADHD also have learning disabilities.
And the kids that you see here all volunteered to be part of this, 28 of them, and you can see as soon as the picture comes up that they are in fact a remarkable group of young people all afflicted by this disease, all looking quite similar to each other.
And once we know how those molecules have changed, whether they've increased in number or changed in pattern, we could use those as targets for new drugs, for new ways of delivering energy into the brain in order to repair the brain computations that are afflicted in patients who suffer from brain disorders.
We must stop stigmatizing disease and traumatizing the afflicted.
Once upon a time, there was a dread disease that afflicted children.
We need noble researchers like Rick Doblin working on this, but we also need the selfish jerks who are way more numerous to appreciate the fact that acute suffering will soon endanger all of us, not just those afflicted.
And rich men are afflicted.
All and all, the only reason I can think of that anyone would ever want to view this film is if they had just murdered their entire community and is looking for some self afflicted punishment that will haunt you for all following years to come!
Perhaps the weakest film in the "Kharis" series, despite the presence of John Carradine (miscast as an Egyptian high priest) and George Zucco (as his predecessor, hilariously afflicted by a bad case of Parkinson's Disease) supporting Lon Chaney Jr. as the titular creature - if indeed it was him under the bandages, as his contribution is negligible at best!
it seems to me whomever made this movie is afflicted to the extent of becoming trapped in a permanent morbid trance, unable to contemplate anything else but death and destruction.
Treatment for such afflicted individuals is sorely needed in this country, as so many people have completely lost their minds to the fantasy of religion.
The fact is, this entire family is plainly and perpetually afflicted and overcome by an extremely zealous and candid cupid in all of their lives.
It shows two men who love each other and how being afflicted with AIDS is affecting the quality of their every-day lives.
Instead of turning it's victims into mindless zombies; it leaves the afflicted aware of their situation, albeit with a hunger for human flesh.
Other people get afflicted with the pesky ole' stigmata.
Everything about it is clumsy and hackneyed; it feels like a just-graduated-from-film-school offering from a bright (but ADHD afflicted) young woman.
Anthony Head is his diabolical repo man, Nathan, who seeks out those who have signed a contract with Rotti for an organ they needed to live..if these people fail to pay for their repaired organ, it'll be collected(..when Nathan viciously removes the organ, surgically, we can see the bar code!) Rotti took advantage of a terrible plight sweeping across the country, organ failures, and offered those afflicted hope, with a price.
Strasberg plays a woman afflicted by the cinema's most annoying peach blouse....er, make that a huge knot on the back of her neck, which is getting bigger and bigger with each passing day and confounding all the doctors examining it.
Eric Stoltz plays Rocky Dennis, a teen afflicted with a horribly disfiguring disease.
Even reputable fact-checkers disagree on the origin of the famous admonition to journalists: “Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable!”
America’s drone strikes in Pakistan reflect an arrogant frame of mind that fails to distinguish between the guilty and the innocent, between the perpetrator and the afflicted, and between the criminal and the aggrieved.
None of these problems has afflicted the region’s other large countries – or at least not to anywhere near the same extent.
In countries afflicted by religious conflict, such as Nigeria, this means helping religious leaders to develop strong inter-community relationships.
Combating KonzoEAST LANSING, MICHIGAN – Too many preventable diseases, from AIDS to yellow fever, have long afflicted Sub-Saharan Africa.
If rich countries in Europe and North American cannot effectively tax the rich, they have little chance of preserving social democracy and offsetting the surge in inequality that has recently afflicted their economies.
But, while it is clear that the euro area will have solid and well-equipped quarantine wards should it once again be afflicted by financial contagion, a vaccine to prevent the infection would be far more effective.
On an extended trip this summer through rural areas of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa on behalf of the United Nations, I visited countless villages afflicted with extreme hunger and struggling to survive against the odds.
In most foreign-exchange crises, the afflicted country’s government can turn to the IMF and other countries for financial support as it pursues necessary reforms.
Ideally, the international humanitarian-aid regime would more accurately reflect the political realities in countries afflicted by civil war, and the UN would be able to work with all parties that control territory.
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