Sentences with phrase «adult dies as a result»

Every hour an older adult dies as a result of a fall.

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I think my good gut bacteria died off and I ended up with leaky gut and adult onset food allergies as a result.

The incidents of infants dying while «co-sleeping» with adults, as documented by the CPSC, include the following: children getting trapped between the bed and the wall, or the bed and another object; entrapment that involves footboards or bed frames; soft bedding - related hazards, such as suffocation on a pillow; falls, sometimes into a pile of clothing or plastic, resulting in suffocation; a child or adult accidentally lying on top of the baby.

In another analysis of CPSC data it was found that of 515 deaths in an adult bed, 121 of these were the result of overlying and 394 children died as a result of entrapment in the structure of the bed (Heinig, 2000).

Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.

The news comes as the British Humanist Association (BHA) has announced that it is applying to intervene in an appeal to Tony Nicklinson's right - to - die case, and a day after the BHA released the results of a new survey showing 81 % of adults support a change in the law.

The portion of the adult brain responsible for complex thought, known as the cerebral cortex, lacks the ability to replace neurons that die as a result of Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and other devastating diseases.

Although they may hide behind the guise of conversation or education, Pay To Play businesses are really just exploiting animals for money - and at great expense to the animal.Many baby animals die as a result of excessive handling, because they are constantly exposed to germs and ca» t get the rest needed to develop into a healthy adult.

When an adult or child sustains a personal injury or dies as a result of the negligence of an individual or entity, the negligent party may be held liable for the damages suffered by the injured victim or victim's family in a negligence or wrongful death action brought against the responsible parties.

If an adult or a child dies as a result of their accident, bereaved relatives may bring a claim on their behalf within three years of the date of their death.

In Carter v Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 5, [2015] 1 SCR 331, for example, the Court struck down the criminal prohibition of physician - assisted dying, finding that it violated the s. 7 rights of competent adults seeking such assistance as a result of a grievous and irremediable medical condition causing enduring and intolerable suffering, and that this violation was not justified under s. 1.