Sentences with phrase «human afflictions»

Unlike many popular natural remedies, turmeric has been studied EXTENSIVELY for its potent medicinal qualities and potential for helping with a number of human afflictions.

New results reported in this week's Science and at a genome meeting held last week at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on New York's Long Island suggest that our pedigreed canine companions may be a major help in finding the genetic keys to common human afflictions such as cancer, diabetes, and mental disorders.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

We've finally begun beating back a disease that's been called «one of the world's most intractable human afflictions» — and the simple bed net is one of the key reasons for this success.

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

Satan and his devils are familiar personages in the New Testament and to their machinations is ascribed every manner of human affliction, great and small.

«Gleason» — Similar to another documentary previously mentioned, this film sheds a lot of light on a dreadful human affliction.

This is a normal human affliction.

Add a universal human affliction — confirmation bias — and the fit becomes too perfect: law schools tell prospective students what they want to hear, and sure enough, they hear it.

Not exact matches

So it is god changes the DNA of microbes to become resistant to antibiotics, causing many needless deaths and painful afflictions upon the human race, directs the mud to flow to kill a hundred plus children at a school in Wales..

The finer values are withering away; the vision of a universal human family is vanishing; and Eccelsiastes which tells us: the Lord is full of compassion and mercy... and forgive the sins and saveth in time of affliction is now anathema to those who wield power, accumulate wealth and crave after sensual pleasures.

The Nazi doctors had learned the ethic of their profession: that a physician may not relieve one human being's affliction at the cost of another fellow human's suffering.

Here we see the human will of Christ rebelling against the appalling affliction of the cross.

The human condition is dealt with in terms of maladaptation; there is not so much cure as there is management of the affliction.

Imagine if genetic diseases could be removed from the very biological code of our species — a future in which the likes of hemophilia, cystic fibrosis or dozens of other afflictions are simply edited out of human embryos.

For Stephen to have accomplished what he has in the teeth of his dreadful affliction makes him, by my lights, a totem of the human spirit so towering that in its shadow the figure of Lance Armstrong can not immediately be distinguished from that of Tori Spelling.

This and other controversies aside, recent results raise the possibility that PTSD is a less distinctive affliction than originally thought and that its symptoms may arise in response to a plethora of intense stressors that are part and parcel of the human condition.

Early research on the sharpest octogenarians reveals unusually youthful brain regions A nasty affliction sets into humans as they advance in years.

Name an affliction of the human mind, and you can probably find its avatar on this sprucy, secluded island.

That's why scientists find its common name a bit too innocuous sounding; they usually call the affliction human African trypanosomiasis (HAT).

More than 1800 compounds have been identified in human breath, and tests are being developed for diabetes, cancer, and other afflictions.

The 2012 platform also repeats previous calls for expanding federal funding «for the stem - cell research that now offers the greatest hope for many afflictions — with adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, and cells reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells — without the destruction of embryonic human life.»

Afflictions are a common malady among the human beings whether self - inflicted (adhyatmika) or afflicted by another.

It begins with Abby, who suddenly develops a crippling aversion to the human touch — not the ideal affliction for a massage therapist.

Into his life comes a small band of surviving humans, led by Elvis (Willem Dafoe), a former vampire who happened upon a cure for his fanged affliction via vicious car accident, and now wants Edward's help to recreate it.

«We're celebrating human curation over algorithmic rhythms,» said Mr. Silva, who was spurred to open his shop after experiencing a common affliction for London's bibliophiles — the repetitive, grating ring tones of smartphones disrupting the tranquility of his bookshop experience.

Sometimes the size of a pinhead, flea bites have been known to cause such serious afflictions in humans as dermatitis, anemia, Rickettsioses, secondary infection at the wound site and — at their most severe — plague.

Animals can acquire many of the same diseases and afflictions as humans, and diabetes is no exception.

In her beautiful, hard, and certain essay, «The Love of God and Affliction,» the religious philosopher Simone Weil said: «The great enigma of human life is not suffering but aAffliction,» the religious philosopher Simone Weil said: «The great enigma of human life is not suffering but afflictionaffliction.

John P. Holdren, now President Obama's science adviser, wrote in «Science and Technology for Sustainable Well - Being» that when you measure human harm in years of life lost (e.g., a child cut down by disease loses decades; a grandmother dying of a stroke at 80 loses a few years), the major afflictions of poverty and affluence do us in at roughly equal rates.

While it is probably not out completely out of the question that some sort of weather influence may, in part, play some role in the current affliction of the Costa Rica banana crop, to implicate human - caused global warming, you'd have to have gone completely..., well, you know.