Sentences with phrase «delayed diagnosis of any illness»

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Unfortunately, this lack of apparent illness leads to a delay in diagnosis and this delay can be lethal.

These include claims involving birth injuries, missed or delayed diagnosis of cancer and other illnesses, as well as surgical and pharmaceutical errors.

Common examples of illnesses that can cause permanent, catastrophic injuries or wrongful death due to delayed diagnosis or misdiagnosis include:

The negligence of pediatricians, such as the misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis of a serious condition or illness, may also result in severe injury or death to a child.

On first Diagnosis of any one of the 15 Critical Illnesses a Lump Sum Benefit of 10 % of Basic Sum Assured shall be payable immediately and Premium Payment can be deferred up to 2 Years and no Interest will be Charged for Delayed Payment.

Given their typical age of onset, a broad range of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result of aberrations of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.