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Health
Diet
Diet
Healthy eating habits
Unhealthy eating habits
Fitness
Exercise
Good health
Poor health
Illness
Ailments and diseases
Being ill
Injuries
Recovering from illness
Medicine
Complementary medicine
Conventional medicine
Hospitals
Medical equipment
Medical examinations
Medical staff
Medication
Operations
Mental health
Addiction
Mental and emotional problems
Mental health care
abnormality
ache
achy
acute
affliction
aggravate
agonized
agonizing
agony
attack
bad
bedridden
bedsore
bout
burnout
carrier
catch
chronic
cold
collapse
come down with
complain of
complaint
condition
contagion
contagious
contract
crisis
cure
death
debility
delicate
develop
discomfort
diseased
disorder
distressed
door
down
drawn
epidemic
exacerbate
fade away
faint
far gone
fever
feverish
fight
flare-up
flu
foot
fragile
funny
get
ghastly
give
grave
grim
groggy
have
headache
housebound
hurt
ill
incapacity
infect
infection
infectious
infirm
infirmity
inoculate
isolate
isolation
keel over
knee
lay up
life
malady
malaise
nausea
nauseous
niggle
outbreak
pain
painful
painfully
pale
pallid
pallor
pass out
patient
peaked
peaky
peculiar
plague
poorly
queasy
react
relapse
ropy
rotten
run-down
seizure
shake
shaky
shiver
shivery
sick
sicken
sickly
sickness
sore
splitting
spread
stricken
succumb
suffer
sufferer
suffering
symptomatic
temperature
terminal
transfer
trouble
turn
unconscious
unfit
unhealthy
unwell
upset
vaccinate
vaccine
vector
virus
waste away
wasted
weak
weather