ailments

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Most presidential check-up reports, though, contain details of mundane ailments: "Doctors removed a precancerous skin lesion from the tip of his nose", reads a New York Times report on Bill Clinton's annual checkup from 1996.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

Some local residents have long pressed leaders to act, saying that intrusive noise could worsen post-traumatic stress disorder and other ailments.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2026

Expectations were insanely high for this show — Bieber’s first large-scale concert after a few years he spent in the pop-star wilderness recovering from various health ailments of both the physical and mental variety.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

Woods has grown comfortable with his aging, quasi-emeritus role, cracking wise about the sport’s up-and-comers and his various old man ailments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

And claiming that it is will, in its ignorance, worsen the ecological ailments that activists would like to cure.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann