Sentences with phrase «disturbing increase»

«Esophageal cancer arising from Barrett's is something that has had a very disturbing increase over the last decade and we're not sure why,» Upchurch said.

Charlie Gard's legacy on this earth may well be a disturbing increase in euthanasia.

It's a very small sample, but very sharp and disturbing increase.

«We have all seen the disturbing increase in spending by outside groups in federal, state and even local elections in recent years,» said Rose Gill Hearn, a CFB board member.

Preethi Srikanthan and colleagues from UCLA's Department of Medicine write in a May 2010 issue of the medical journal PLOS, «With the ongoing obesity epidemic in the U.S. and the disturbing increases in the incidence of obesity in children and young adults, our data suggest that we can expect to see sharp increases in sarcopenia and diabetes in the coming years.

A recent feature article in Time Magazine reported on the disturbing increase in early puberty among girls in the US.

But while the researchers found little change from last year in most drug categories, they noted a disturbing increase in the use of several dangerous drugs, particularly cocaine.

, there is also a disturbing increase in the disappearance of many animals, especially black cats, during Halloween.

(a) The Legislature finds and declares that there has been a disturbing increase in lawsuits brought primarily to chill the valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and petition for the redress of grievances.