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...aware of your family's health history. If Alzheimer's, stroke or other degenerative illnesses run in your family, you are a prime candidate to buy coverage while in your 50s. Once an ailment surfaces, expect to pay 10% more right away--and that's if you can get coverage...
...brain disorder. "I was born with it," he says. "I went to the Mayo Clinic, and the doctors said, 'We have found a dozen or so other people with this. There's no name, so maybe we'll just call it the Warren syndrome." He describes the ailment's chemistry as an inability to process his body's own adrenaline. Its symptoms are tremors, disorientation and pain, and, as he says, "it makes my brain move very fast." I ask - since a colleague of his has asserted it - whether Warren also has attention deficit disorder. Warren laughs heartily...
...legal assistant, calls the $21,000 he received after filing a FEMA claim for his home and belongings "pretty good help," adding, "It's bought me quite a bit of time to figure out what I'm going to do." But Tom Slaymaker, who has a back ailment and is unemployed, says he has received only $1,200 and hopes for more. The family not only lost the rental home where they lived but another home they own (and were on the verge of selling, Slaymaker says). They did not have renters or flood insurance. The family also wants...
...lads, in this instance, being the medics of D-company, 2nd Battalion of Britain's Parachute Regiment, stationed here at Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge -and the few groupies who have caught on that the medical center is good for more than an aspirin or treatment for a stomach ailment...
...clinically diagnosable mental disorders in a given year - including depression or an eating disorder - and such disorders are the leading cause of disability among U.S. workers under age 45. In 2005, research by Kessler showed that 60% of Americans with a mental disorder got no treatment for their ailment...