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  • Radiolab's publicists assured one and all that the lucky contestant must have been laid low with the flu, or the victim of sudden-onset amnesia, or that something induced him to confuse or forget the date.

    Friendship Via the Radio Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • The FDA also underscored that LABAs do not relieve sudden-onset asthma symptoms, and recommends instead using a rescue inhaler, such as albuterol inhaler, instead.

    Asthma drug concerns prompt new safety restrictions 2010

  • The FDA also underscored that LABAs do not relieve sudden-onset asthma symptoms, and recommends instead using a rescue inhaler, such as albuterol inhaler, instead.

    Asthma drug concerns prompt new safety restrictions 2010

  • She was eight months pregnant at the time of the final exam, representing a case of “sudden-onset hypertension in a young woman.”

    After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010

  • My wife read "The tenor with a bad ear" [July 27] concerning ear-injection treatments for sudden-onset hearing loss, and fortunately she did not share it with me.

    Injection to prevent deafness is worth the risk of pain 2010

  • On the other hand, things like pneumonia, sudden-onset pneumonia a result of exposure to this air-conditioning unit, that would typically take longer.

    CNN Transcript May 11, 2009 2009

  • Far from merely inducing or aggravating a pathology for RSSpectating in global disaster events, the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System “combines existing web-based disaster information management systems with the aim to alert the international community in case of major sudden-onset disasters and to facilitate the coordination of international response during the relief phase of the disaster.”

    The cartography of disasters and post-impact relief 2006

  • Far from merely inducing or aggravating a pathology for RSSpectating in global disaster events, the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System “combines existing web-based disaster information management systems with the aim to alert the international community in case of major sudden-onset disasters and to facilitate the coordination of international response during the relief phase of the disaster.”

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • From the start, the fund has given two-thirds to jump-start operations in sudden-onset emergencies and one-third for neglected and underfunded ongoing crises.

    A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008

  • From the start, the fund has given two-thirds to jump-start operations in sudden-onset emergencies and one-third for neglected and underfunded ongoing crises.

    A Billion Lives Jan Egeland 2008

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