Sentences with phrase «afflicted children»

Then Spinraza was administered for the most severe form of spinal muscular atrophy, SMA type 1, which afflicts children before they are six months old.

He argues that the law change would tackle «one of the great injustices afflicting children in this country: a widening of inequalities at school caused by lack of food during holidays».

Typically afflicted children start life with poor vision, which worsens as more and more photoreceptors die.

Spinraza, the gene therapy medication, also provides significant improvements in cases with the next most severe form of neuromuscular disease, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), which afflicts children from 6 to 18 months of age.

It appears that mainstream medical science has finally caught on as studies are showing that the extracted compound can effectively treat one of the most aggressive and invasive forms of leukemia that primarily afflicts children.

It may be that much harder to accept that characters behave in an unbelievable way throughout «The Wailing,» especially when faced with perils as dire as a seemingly possessed / heavily afflicted child, and a mountain of corpses.

The report, entitled «State of America's Children Yearbook 1994,» calls for a «cease fire» in the gun violence afflicting children.

In all, the department received 2,068 letters in response to a notice in the Federal Register soliciting comments on how to define the disorder and whether afflicted children are being excluded...

OneBigGame will take five percent of Chime's PC royalties and put those funds toward helping «solve problems afflicting children around the world», donating to charity partners like Save the Children and Starlight Children's Foundation.

This particular intervention is crucial given the potentially aggressive nature of externalization symptoms, and the increased likelihood that police will be involved with afflicted children.

Biopsies of their muscle tissue also appeared similar to those of afflicted children.

Wayne (1987) mentioned that «ADHD is a condition that afflicts children in the age group of 7 to 15» (p. 32).

Panelists for Thursday's vote said the treatment was a clear «breakthrough» for a cruel disease that afflicts children.

Later he would say that «those kinds of questions [to starve the afflicted child] can be answered best by the people who are right there on the scene, if they think clearly and act responsibly.»

While the mainline has a great deal to say about the social - structural evils that afflict children, it sidesteps the impact of family breakdown on child well - being and has very little to say about the responsibilities that parents have to their children.

This is all part of the teen - fection that has afflicted your child.

So it's clear that these cells are not a miracle cure for everything that might afflict a child, nor are they necessarily high - enough quality to be used.

Afflicted children of the Keshan province succumbed to cardiac failure with a dilated, nonfunctional heart, also called cardiomyopathy.

Stevens - Johnson Syndrome Stevens Johnson Syndrome can afflict both children and adults to devastating consequences.

Stevens Johnson Syndrome can afflict both children and adults to devastating consequences.