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The general assembly of North Korea’s Workers’ Party, now underway for the first time in 44 years, is the clearest sign yet that “Dear Leader” Kim, who is seriously ill, is passing the crown in the hermit kingdom founded by his father, Kim Il-sung.
Even those who get enough overall calories can suffer ill effects, if they are deprived of essential vitamins, minerals, and protein.
Worse, the leader of the German delegation to the EU meeting fell ill and was taken to hospital upon arrival in Brussels.
As the World Health Organization declared: “governments should tax the things which make people ill, not the things which make them well.”
Just before I left Hong Kong in 1997, after departing from my post as the city’s last British governor, I visited a hospital for the mentally ill, where an in-patient asked me an eminently sane question.
Individual needs vary significantly, and private companies are often unwilling to insure the very people who need the most care (such as those who are already ill, or who have conditions like diabetes, which predispose them to other health problems).
The US can also be a force for great ill.
But despite its wealth and military might, America's ability to project political power - for good or ill - will decline in future years, for at least five reasons: America's budget is in crisis.
This may bode ill for traditional politicians of the right who have been waiting two decades for a chance in office.
If social tensions rise, China’s government is likely to respond with greater repression, which will bode ill both for its relations with the West and for its medium-term political stability.
There is no suggestion that Third World patients are deliberately being made ill when research is outsourced – unlike in the Guatemalan case – but that does not attenuate the inherent vulnerability of populations lacking basic medical care or experiencing epidemics.
Mubarak's ill health, widely rumored for years, was never officially acknowledged until November 2003, when it could no longer be covered up.
One evening, when the boy was violently ill with diarrhea, his mother called a taxi to take him to the nearest clinic.
Many of the protesters at the IMF, World Bank, and WTO meetings have been ill informed about the potential benefits of world markets, but they have been absolutely right about the politics of globalization.
North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-il, is reportedly ill.
An entire generation has grown up to be apolitical, even anti-political, which bodes ill for the future.
The EU, by design, increases economic competition, but France is ill equipped.
Berlusconi himself seems captive to his only remaining partner: the Northern League, which is at its popular zenith (though its charismatic leader, Umberto Bossi, is seriously ill).
Symptoms of stress are rampant, and many residents of affected areas firmly believe themselves to be condemned by radiation to ill health and early death.
Should Children Have the Right to Die?PRINCETON – Since 2002, Belgium has permitted terminally or incurably ill adults to request and receive euthanasia from a doctor.
After four years of a presidency supposedly devoted to forging a "dictatorship of law," the rule of law in Russia remains weak and property rights ill defined.
This treatment is very costly (about $50,000) and makes all patients feel quite ill with flu-like symptoms and general malaise.
The aims of the campaign were laudable, but it generated hostility and ill will, undermining its effectiveness.
From an epidemiological perspective, NCD prevalence is determined by the difference between the rate at which previously healthy people become ill (incidence) and the rate at which ill people either recover or die (from any cause).
Saying No to Medical TechnologyAs is recommended for all patients, DeBakey had an advance directive: he had stated, while in good health, what approach to medical care he would want if he became ill and unable to speak for himself.
“I am what you could call a mentally ill person,” he wrote.
How can we understand differences between an inspired voice, an isolated instance of hearing one's own name, and the voices of the mentally ill?
President Yeltsin is ill and erratic.
Admittedly, no developing country ever seems to vote against a big bailout for one of its brethren, no matter how ill conceived.
On September 25, the South Korean media reported rumors that Kim Kyong-hui, the sister of the late “Dear Leader,” Kim Jong-il – and the aunt of North Korea’s twenty-something leader Kim Jong-un – was seriously ill.
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