Science and Technology: Health and Healthcare, List 2

"I need you to be careful with the flower of immortality when you find it. If you get contaminated by it—if its pollen or sap enters your system—there could be adverse side effects." City of the Plague God

“She has an allergy to certain flowers and she has to take treatments.” 145th Street: Short Stories

Music can affect our heartbeat, blood pressure, and pulse rate, and reduce stress, anxiety and even depression. Music and the Child

The accident left him bent, crippled, and in chronic pain, with a spine damaged beyond repair. A Short History of Nearly Everything

His condition was so serious I took him into the hospital after he had completed his work that morning and kept him there for a week. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

“He has dementia, sweetheart. He doesn’t think clearly anymore. Who knows what might have been going on in his mind when he said that?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus

That’s not to say that either of those drinks are bad choices for your overall health; they are just, in excess, potentially detrimental to your teeth. Washington Post

“You don’t get sugar diabetes from not eating sugar. You get it from eating too much sugar.” Song of Solomon

“There might be some internal bleeding” was the diagnosis, and I spent another night in the hospital. Bad Boy

His speech was extremely slow on account of a learning disability. Krik? Krak!

The doctors thought that Thunder had some kind of terrible blood disease. Bone Gap

I was extremely ill after the last examination; the other, a middle-aged fellow, had some disorder or disease of the kidney, and was dying. The Left Hand of Darkness

The greatest single epidemic in human history was the one of influenza that killed 21 million people at the end of the First World War. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

The blow was fatal and he died at once. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

I suggested to him that I should be allowed to go in as an interpreter just as the hearing impaired have an interpreter doing sign language. Silent To The Bone

They wanted to think that he was incapacitated, injured, unable to make it to the phone. The Chocolate War

She is required by law to wear plastic gloves—I guess in case I have some kind of infection or disease. Out of My Mind

The high blood pressure that accompanied her obesity—she weighed over 300 pounds by this time—caused her to grow light-headed with exertion. The Best of Enemies

Heavy television watching creates a sedentary lifestyle, less activity, more weight gain, even obesity. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age

“Ms. Cooke, under a lot of emotional stress, Sparrow tends to check out from whatever situation she’s in. She might physically be in one place, but mentally she’s pretty far away.” Sparrow