Depression is a medical illness - a health problem related to changes in the brain.
There is no question that medical illness makes depression worse.
We think medical illness is one of the causes, and his work seems to indicate that.
Those with serious medical or psychiatric illnesses are not good candidates.
I asked him whether internet addiction is a medical illness.
Depression is a medical illness, not a sign of weakness.
Like any other medical illness, these conditions may need to be treated.
These terms are generally used in association with people who do not have a medical illness.
Other questions may deal with medical illness in your family and what medicines you are taking.
"But they should take a religious or spiritual history on all patients with significant medical illness."