Many are visiting with coughs, colds, backache and upset stomachs, it said.

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About 260, 000 working days are in Northern Ireland due to people staying off work with obesity-related conditions, such as type 2 diabetes even backache.

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Hawkins' biggest backache is dealing with the troubled back-surgery unit.

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The allergy pill Allegra, from Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ), might stop your runny nose but it can also give you a backache.

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The riding position has the seat higher than the handlebars, which is fine if you want to go fast, but just gives the middle-aged cyclist backache after about a mile.

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At 33, about 10% of people who had complained of childhood headaches were experiencing one or more of the following ailments: backache, bad headaches, indigestion, upset stomach, pains in the eyes, heart racing, rheumatism or arthritis.

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Engineers can calculate the most efficient route for a spray-painting robot to take around a car body, work out how quickly parts must be supplied, look for bottlenecks or even tell if a human worker's task is likely to give him backache.

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