Sentences with phrase «better than illness»
Health is better than illness, but illness is not necessarily worse than death.
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He argued that doctors may be in a better position to treat illness than retail executives.
«If those with seriously illnesses are going to be subsidized, and there is widespread agreement in Congress that they are going to be subsidized, I think [it's] far better for that to happen from direct tax revenue rather than forcing a bunch of other people to pay much higher premiums,» Cruz told me last week.
The shipment contained more than 3 tons of urgently needed medical aid for patients with storm - related illnesses and injuries, as well as chronic disease medicine to replace medications lost in the storm.
Looking at addiction as «sin» hasn't done mankind very much good for almost two thousand years; treating addiction — and other mental illnesses — as sickness rather than as moral failings or demonic possession has a much better track record, and it took less than 150 years to get there.
@ total non sense Perhaps we're splitting hairs here, but I was trying to be kind by implying that rather than treating religiosity as a mental disability, for which the supposedly clinically sick can receive insurance benefits and evade personal actionable responsibility by claiming illness, it would be better to treat religiosity as a societal functional disorder which can be addressed through better education and a perceptional shift towards accepting scientific explanations for how the world works rather than relying on literal interpretations of ancient bronze age mythologies and their many derivations since.
If that were the case the numerous lies people tell themselves (I'm a better driver than average, I'm better looking than average) would all be mental illnesses.
Many illnesses are mainly derived from nerve strain, some completely so, and these have no better cure than the psychological rest that comes from prayer.
And right now, I can say that I'm a better person for it, in appreciation of other people's needs and illnesses, than I ever was when I was working that rat race back and forth day to day.
But one can sympathize with Nuland when he says of himself, «The conditions of my illness may not permit me to «die well» or with any of the dignity we so optimistically seek, but within the limits of my ability to control, I will not die later than I should for the senseless reason that a highly skilled technological physician does not understand who I am.»»
In many cases where the clergyman is specially trained or usually sensitive and perceptive, he may be able to provide healing in many cases of functional mental illness as well as, or better than, many psychiatrists.
Richard Ferre, a psychiatrist in the LDS Church's Missionary Department, is quoted as saying that «there are better ways to cope than to hide illness or to presume [those who come home early] lack faith.»
Facing a life of chronic illness I made a conscious decision to take responsibility for my body and my illness; rather than waiting and expecting doctors and their medicine to pick me up and make me feel better, I instead began to look at things that I could do myself to help my body to heal and live the best life that it can.
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His record of consecutive Premiership appearances ended at 164 (five better than previous record - holder David James) on 28 December 2005, when he sat out a match against Manchester City due to illness [7].
I am enjoying my life and doing things that I haven't done in years and even though my husband is suffering from illness and that our sex life is zero I am discovering sex toys which I must admit are at times better than the real thing!
Research has long shown that breastfeeding is good for babies, providing optimal nutrition, strengthened immune systems and fewer illnesses than formula milk feeding.
There are some underlying illnesses when your baby is sweating more often than normal and she's feeling exceedingly uncomfortable with her sweating as well.
If he refuses milk for more than a day, it's probably a good idea to see the doctor to rule out injury or illness.
I don't really think that was any better for Ike than just attacking the illness as hard as I could from the start.)
Overall, the introduction of formula milk as well as any breast feeding for less than six months were found to be significant risk factors for hospital, doctor, or clinic visits and hospital admissions specifically for upper respiratory tract infections and wheezing lower respiratory tract illness.
Late NYPD detectives Steven McDonald and Miosotis Familia, as well as more than 20 other department officers who died from illnesses contracted at Ground Zero will be honored Friday at police headquarters in Manhattan.
There are currently more than 6.6 million households across the UK who can not afford to heat their homes, putting them at risk of serious health problems such as heart disease, strokes, respiratory illnesses - such as asthma and bronchitis - and exacerbating common ailments like colds and flu as well as increasing the likelihood of falls and other accidents.
It is well known that Neanderthals sometimes provided care for the injured, but new analysis by the team at York suggest they were genuinely caring of their peers, regardless of the level of illness or injury, rather than helping others out of self - interest.
«Even though they have these illnesses, they handle them better than other people and have better protective mechanisms,» says Thomas Perls, a geriatrician at Boston University and director of the New England Centenarian Study.
Study results show that patients with prior knowledge of MGUS had better overall survival (median 2.8 years) than patients with MM who didn't know when they had MGUS (median survival 2.1 years), although patients with prior knowledge of their MGUS status had more coexisting illnesses.
The incidence of new chronic illness onset increased over time as well, with more husbands than wives developing serious health problems.
«The existing totality of evidence suggests an urgent need to increase the use of varenicline in the general population as well as in those with serious mental illness who on average die about 20 years earlier than the general population, in part, because their smoking rates may be as high as 75 percent,» said Hennekens.
In the United States, nearly half the antibiotic prescriptions given for respiratory infections are inappropriate: for illnesses caused by viruses rather than bacteria, antibiotics won't help the patient get better.
The industry, by and large, has regarded the studies done to date — a number of which claim to have found higher rates of illness among residents living close to drilling wells — as largely anecdotal and less than convincing.
When they exposed the treated mice to the influenza virus, the animals recovered from the illness even better than healthy mice infected with flu that had not undergone the treatment.
People living with serious illness who receive palliative care have better quality of life and fewer symptoms than those who don't receive palliative care, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Botulinum neurotoxin is probably best known to Americans as BOTOX, a cosmetic medicine, rather than as a cause of potentially dangerous foodborne illnesses.
We're putting better psychiatric services in at King's, but we also want to get more physical care to those on the other side of the road, because we know that people with severe mental illness are dying much earlier than they should.
Low mental wellbeing is strongly linked to mental illness and mental health problems, but high mental wellbeing is more than the absence of symptoms or illness; it is a state in which people feel good and function well.
And the unsupported assumption that antidepressants are more effective than cognitive - behavior therapy for the long - term treatment of depression can dissuade individuals from seeking the most beneficial interventions for their illness [see «The Best Medicine?»
In a 2008 presentation, Dunn stated «I assert that warm is good for human health and that global warming, even the most extreme estimates, will not create heat illness or death increases and certainly no changes that are more important than the basic public health measures of vector control, water, nutrition, sewage and water quality, and housing quality.»
Dr. Romy Quijano, a medical doctor who heads the Philippine Action Network, also believes that the sensible approach to preventing vitamin A deficiency is to see that the vulnerable sectors of the population are empowered enough to access natural sources of vitamin A. «Effective nutrition education is much better than adding yet another source of vitamin A which most likely will not be equitably distributed anyway; improving livelihood; providing better health care system; addressing malnutrition, communicable diseases and other illnesses that make children more vulnerable to vitamin A deficiency.
Rather than enjoying the youth and virility of my 20s, some of the «best years of my life,» I suffered from a decade of chronic illness.
It's better than knowingly putting vulnerable people at risk for illnesses that modern science has the power to prevent, too.
When anti-vaxxers argue that it's better to possibly expose your child to thoroughly preventable and potentially deadly illnesses than possibly «give» them autism, they're not just threatening the herd immunity that comes with sufficient vaccination rates.
It's not recommended for those with pre-existing mental illness or emotional difficulty because spending too much time in your head can do more harm than good.
In fact, researchers recently discovered that it is a better treatment for giardia than the prescription drug commonly prescribed to treat the illness.
So maybe you do nt enjoy everything youre doing, but its still better than staying home and focusing on your illness.
By looking at the root cause of illness rather than just symptoms and promoting health and healing through natural therapies, naturopathic medicine is a successful non-invasive way to prevent acute and chronic illness as well as reduce reliance upon prescription medications (and all of their side effects).
Therefore, it seems quite possible that CS taken prophylacticly offers better protection than CS taken only at the onset of illness.»
In functional medicine, the focus is on treating the entire patient and promoting general good health, rather than on treating a particular injury or illness.
and the interesting thing is, not only is there natural products working better than medication which has no sides but substances which will protect the body from illness, let you live longer, have hair grow back, prevent visible and internal aging etc..
She expressed a desire to help patients become well by addressing and evaluating the underlying causes of their conditions or illnesses rather than treating symptoms only, or by prescribing treatments that further contribute to other problems in the body.
What is very well known is that those that suffer from schizophrenia and other mental illnesses are at higher risk than the general population for cardiometabolic diseases, such as high blood pressure, metabolic syndrome, heart disease, etc..