Sentences with phrase «against life threatening»

He further reported there is a test called TiterChek (for dogs) that can show if they are already immune against life threatening diseases.

Our puppies have a 2 year guarantee against any life threatening hereditary or congential conditions.

Not exact matches

While, of course, to some extent this has to be true, especially in life - threatening situations - your employee can lead an evacuation down a fire escape but can't necessarily design standards for what is an acceptable or unacceptable level of smoke inhalation - it's important to simultaneously push against it, to let your employees know what they need to get done but not necessarily how they should go about designing their day and carrying out their duties.

And contrary to the platform plank, which was opposed to all abortions, George was against abortions with the exception of rape, incest and where the life of the mother was threatened.»

When we consider the historical reality and the spiritual imagery together, what we see in Genesis 6 - 8 is the near victory of the forces of evil against the power of God so that the waters threaten to kill everything that has the breath of life.

Even the lowliest insect strives for protection against dangers that threaten its life.

She recognized her submissiveness as granting impunity to the perpetrator of the violence against women — perhaps her only option is to get away from that abusive and life - threatening relationship.

Dr. Altizer's book — also black — is a kind of volcanic eruption against the «Christian death» which threatens the life of faith.

The government should be more concerned about military equipment than bed nets because providing for defense I emphasize defense) of the people of the US against those who would threaten our lives, liberty or property with force is one of it's primary roles; being a charity is not.

«The enthusiasm of everyone at Garden Fresh for the St. Jude mission inspired so many to support our fight against childhood cancer and other life - threatening diseases,» said Richard Shadyac Jr., President and CEO of ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

The 26 - year - old suffered a fractured skull in a game against Chelsea last season, which at the time arguably looked life threatening as well as just career threatening.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger threatened to end his press conference ahead of his sides live Super Sunday game against Manchester United if questions continued on his decision to leave Cech on the bench against Olympiakos on Tuesday.

Hepatitis B Vaccine: A 3 or 4 dose vaccination recommended for all babies against the transmission of this potentially life - threatening disease, recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Although religious practice is nominally free in France, with completely secular state that does not interfere in religious beliefs, there are mechanisms that could be used against «dangerous» cults which threaten rule of law, especially if said cults endanger human life.

Adolescent vaccines protect against serious and potentially life - threatening diseases, including meningitis, septicemia and cancers caused by HPV.

In 1999 Freilich was indicted in Brooklyn on charges of intimidating a witness for allegedly threatening the life of a young woman if she testified against her father, a Russian Orthodox Jew accused of sexually abusing her for years.

QUEENS — A man suffered life - threatening injuries when a hit - and - run driver pinned him against a parked car in Middle Village on Tuesday night, NYPD officials said.

Like the rest on Wall street, He made his first $ 10 Million Dollar's by inside - trading when Solomon Brother's (where he was a partner) was sold to another company (great inside info only reserved for the member's of the inner - circle who have ton's of shares in the company) who sent him packing (in my opinion a ruse (i.e. bonus) to keep the SEC from sticking their nose into the matter) and with that money started his own business & bought his way into City Hall where he now sits on his throne denying benefits to the familie's of those who sacrificed their lives to help other's on 9/11, threaten the political future of community representatives (Councilmember's) who dared to disagree with him or voted against one of his policie's etc., etc..

Today's childhood vaccines protect against serious and potentially life - threatening diseases, including polio, measles, whooping cough, and chickenpox.

A vaccine against rotavirus, a highly contagious bug that causes life - threatening diarrhea in young children, was deemed safe and effective by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Friday.

Previous studies with older children showed that peanut OIT can offer some protection against potentially life - threatening anaphylaxis caused by peanut exposure.

Additional research is planned in part to determine if targeting metabolism might also be effective against other respiratory viruses, including emerging respiratory viruses or others like respiratory syncytial virus, which causes life - threatening infections in infants.

The classic example is the sickle cell gene — people with one copy of the gene are strongly protected against malaria but those with two copies of the gene develop a life - threatening condition known as sickle - cell disease.

Daily baths with a CHG solution remain effective against life - threatening bloodstream infections,» said Suwantarat.

They work best against mild respiratory allergies, such as hay fever, but generally can't be used to counteract severe allergies to certain foods or drugs because of the danger of triggering anaphylaxis, a life - threatening immune reaction.

Chet Susslin / National Journal AAAS CEO Rush Holt underscored the enduring value of vaccinations in protecting children and adults against life - threatening diseases and warned of the risks of...

But when weighing the risks of encountering life - threatening disease against the benefits of receiving a vaccine there's no contest.

Although incidence of HIV among infants is decreasing in South Africa due to improved prevention of the mother - to - child HIV transmission and the use of anti-retrovirals, a large number of HIV - exposed yet uninfected children remain, for whom vaccination against pneumococcal disease may be of particular importance to ensuring reduced risk of life - threatening infections in childhood.

The answer is complicated, he adds, but much of it involves a delicate balancing act among elements of the immune system: while immunity protects us against disease, an overly aggressive immune response may trigger dangerous, even life - threatening, autoimmune reactions in which the body attacks itself.

In search of new strategies against life - threatening tuberculosis infections, a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), as well as Harvard University and Texas A&M University in the USA have found a new ally.

New supercomputer simulations have revealed the role of transport proteins called efflux pumps in creating drug - resistance in bacteria, research that could lead to improving the drugs» effectiveness against life - threatening diseases and restoring the efficacy of defunct antibiotics.

He says that researchers could one day spare scores of lives and nip potential epidemics in the bud by whipping up a treatment within a month from natural antibodies that survivors developed against the threatening disease.

Shkreli's defiant decision to raise the price of Daraprim, a drug that dates to the 1950s and is the standard treatment for a life - threatening parasitic infection, from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per tablet overnight, helped spark more than a year of public outrage and political fulminating against high drug prices.

It is particularly important that pregnant women be vaccinated against pertussis, since infants are at greatest risk for having severe, potentially life - threatening complications from pertussis.

The method, described in the January issue of Nature Medicine, could be of great value in providing better protection to infants and AIDS patients against life - threatening diseases such as pneumonia and meningitis.

Scientists have identified a specific gut bacterium that helps fight against the diarrhea - inducing and sometimes life - threatening bacterium Clostridium difficile.

A class of therapeutic drugs known as protein kinase inhibitors has in the past decade become a powerful weapon in the fight against various life - threatening diseases, including certain types of leukemia, lung cancer, kidney cancer and squamous cell cancer of the head and neck.

«Talented graduate students are a creative and energetic force that will contribute to the kind of innovation required for progress against cancer and other life - threatening diseases.

In the rare, life - threatening disease called paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), patients are stricken with chronic anemia and blood clots, when the oldest part of the immune system — known as complement — turns against its own red blood cells, or erythrocytes.

Your immune system is your first line of defense against everything from minor illnesses like a cold right up to devastating, life - threatening diseases like cancer.

Continue reading to discover six potent berries that you can enlist as powerful allies against life - threatening degenerative disease.

An alkaline diet high in fruits and vegetables can protect against a range of life - threatening conditions.

Alexander VI refuses to allow a Catholic burial for Paolo, despite his doubts about the stable boy's suicide, causing Lucrezia to embark on a hunger strike that threatens the life of her infant son; the French army heads back to Rome, allied with Sforza; Della Rovere slips back into the city unnoticed to launch a plot against the Pope's life.

When the existence of this newfound paradise is threatened, Picard faces a daunting decision - in order to protect the lives of the inhabitants of this alien world, he must commit treason and take up arms against the Federation itself.

As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers — and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.

Each film puts Harry and his friends up against new challenges and life - threatening situations, making us rethink whether wizarding is really as much fun as it sounds.

A man is kicked viciously against a tree resulting in extensive and potentially life - threatening injuries.

Working with a script by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider - Man), Emmerich's other proclivities are evident, including a life or death scenario that threatens the fabric of society, a quest to prove worth against the odds, the reuniting of a fractured family, and the triumph of American values when the stakes are heightened.

The basic plot has retired spy Dick Steele (Nielsen) being forced back into action after the nefarious General Rancor (Andy Griffith, in an inspired bit of casting against type) threatens to launch an explosive rocket into outer space with the daughter (Stephanie Romanov) of Dick's long - deceased love of his life (also played by Romanov, which brings to mind her dual role in the late, lamented soap Models Inc.) strapped onto it.

Not just the way they drunkenly stagger through the war zones, or the way they constantly have their cameras out, ready for The Big Picture to need to be taken at any moment, or even the way they use their cameras as their only defense against the death squads that would probably enjoy killing them (Cassady and Boyle routinely get out of trouble by offering to photograph the petty fascists threatening their lives, offering to make them famous in exchange for not getting murdered).