Word: sufferings
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Given the uncertainties -- and the hefty premium Hoffmann-La Roche can be expected to charge for any new diet pill -- medical experts say that use of orlistat should generally be limited to those who need it most. Candidates would include the tens of millions of people who suffer from chronic, intractable obesity and the millions more who are only a few binges away from that plight...
...weeks, since flooding started in some areas as far back as April. People who go through that, Smith notes, react in a different way from those who survive one-shot traumas like fires or plane crashes: they do not experience flashbacks to the disaster or extreme jumpiness but instead suffer prolonged "depression, sadness and feelings of hopelessness." She adds that even people who were only near, not in, the floods may feel a new sense of vulnerability...
...only ones who really suffer from a higher gas tax are our friends the Saudis and Kuwaitis, who will sell us less oil. In a sense, they pay the tax. If only we could find a way to do this with income and property taxes...
Although children who suffer convulsions triggered by fevers have commonly been treated with phenobarbitol, there are concerns about both its efficacy and its side effects. The new and superior replacement is Valium. A six-year study shows that it is safe and effective -- and it also reduces the risk of seizures recurring...
...government make irrational decisions for children to suffer and be condemned." She wants to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. "They're going to walk away just like Michigan did and say, 'Wish we could have done something but there's nothing to do because our laws dictate otherwise.' I wonder if they could take their little two-year-old kids and walk into a black forest and just leave the child and walk away . . . And not feel the pain . . . How not to feel the pain...