Sentences with phrase «known as disease»

Critical Illness Insurance Critical illness insurance (also known as disease - specific insurance) is meant to ease the financial burden of a serious illness, such as cancer.

For others, on the other hand, alcohol can approach what might extra correctly be known as a disease akin to most cancers or different bad attacks on our minds and our bodies.

(Methotrexate and other drugs are known as disease - modifying antirheumatic drugs, or DMARDs, because they can actually slow down or prevent RAs damaging effect on the body.)

The laboratory - based study of animals and cells (known as disease models) can be a powerful method for understanding illness.

Not exact matches

Psychiatric diseases, since they are the result of a complex mix of genetics, environment, and behavioral factors, require large numbers of people, or what's known as a large sample size.

As we face future known threats like war and climate change, and unknown threats like an asteroid impact or new disease, Downey said that that's the kind of knowledge we should want to have.

Perhaps $ 75,000 is the threshold beyond which further increases in income no longer improve individuals» ability to do what matters most to their emotional well - being, such as spending time with people they like, avoiding pain and disease, and enjoying leisure.»

Cole's kind, known as Type 1, is an autoimmune disease.

But older people who develop Alzheimer's disease often first enter a stage known as mild cognitive impairment, which involves more serious problems with memory, language, thinking, and judgment.

But aside from raising awareness and more than $ 20 million for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, over the past month, the challenge also may be unleashing a new model for the $ 300 billion - a-year business of charitable giving.

As people start living in more sterile and urban environments their immune systems aren't exposed to microbes and don't know what to do when they encounter allergens or bacteria, making allergies and auto - immune diseases more prevalent, Scientific American's podcast Science Talk explains.

A wealth of recent research, including a new study published this month in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, suggests that any type of exercise that raises your heart rate and gets you moving and sweating for a sustained period of time — known as aerobic exercise — has a significant, overwhelmingly beneficial impact on the brain.

The fifth leading cause of death in Africa is the ischaemic heart disease commonly known as heart attack.

I knew my sister as well as anyone, and even I sometimes had trouble separating the person from the disease.

The video is part of the Ice Bucket Challenge, launched by the ALS Foundation to raise money for fighting ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

It is almost a decade since Gates first dared to revive what in global health circles is known as the «e-word» in relation to this ancient disease.

«I know how awful it is to watch people you love struggle as the disease robs them of their mental capacity... It feels a lot like you're experiencing a gradual death of the person that you knew,» he said in a blog post about the dementia investments.

For example, a 1996 provision known as the Dickey Amendment effectively barred the Centers for Disease Control from tapping taxpayer funds set aside for injury prevention and control for research that could be used for gun control advocacy.

Whilst we can't know the future of course, for financial planning purposes the probability is that life expectancy on average will increase in the future as medicine advances to cure or limit the big killers (cancer, cardiovascular disease etc).

The world economy has been subject to a series of «one - off» events over recent years, the latest of which has been the outbreak of the respiratory disease known as SARS in mid March.

This is hypothesized to happen for many different reasons, including a decline in the competitiveness of other economic sectors (caused by appreciation of the real exchange rate as resource revenues enter an economy, a phenomenon known as Dutch disease), volatility of revenues from the natural resource sector due to exposure to global commodity market swings, government mismanagement of resources, or weak, ineffectual, unstable or corrupt institutions (possibly due to the easily diverted actual or anticipated revenue stream from extractive activities).

Could it have been god telling us how to protect ourselves from disease, germs, and bacteria?Couldn't you see a scientist from today's time, going back to the bible days, and trying to explain, the things we as the human race didn't know till modern times?

Did they kill the women and boys because of the known $ exual immorality and associated disease that riddled these tribes that offered their children as human sacrifice and $ ex toys?

[92] In ancient Rome, epilepsy was known as the Morbus Comitialis («disease of the assembly hall») and was seen as a curse from the gods.

However, times are changing and hopefully soon America will rid itself of the horrid mind disease known as Christianity.

Man had made enormous strides in discovering the causes of disease, and is still fighting a long - drawn - out battle against such things as the incredibly minute viruses, and the apparently arbitrary cell - degeneration known as cancer.

I know you can get the same kinds of disease from public but its the same as a public gym shower.

We now know, among many other things, that diseases are not cause by demons as jesus and other myth belivers taught.

Just as arsenicals are effective in an array of diseases, but we know they're way to dangerous to use.

But with the advent of the Industrial Revolution, the urban setting became known as the site of disease, pollution, crime, squalor and ugliness.

In 1999, we are no longer reduced to «guessing» whether he was inspired or speaking only as a man: • adultery has lost its moral significance and become commonplace; • chastity has become a symbol of unhealthy development; • contraception in expectation of fornication is taught to children in the schools; • respect between the sexes has been replaced by mutual exploitation and / or competition; • marriage has lost its sacramental nature and its enduring promise; • statistically, divorce is common, teenage pregnancy is widespread, single parent and serially parented families increase, sexual disease is epidemic, intercourse is recreational, abortion is ubiquitous.

In a description of a sleep disorder known as RBD, in which patients enact their dreams through movement, he notes that a deficiency of dopamine (a specific brain neurotransmitter) is one key marker of Parkinson's disease.

Gregory as well as Luther and Calvin knew that man lacked many other things besides the one thing needful and that the cure of all his other diseases would not ensue automatically on the healing of his deepest wound.

Their best guesses were either sleeping sickness (also known as trypanosomiasis) or «Rip Van Winkle disease» (officially known as Kleine - Levin syndrome), which sounded more kosher to me.

= > «killed» no, as tragic as it is, we must acknowledge the truth that the vast majority died due to disease, which you can not possibly equate with murder (as in atheists murdered over 100million in the last 100 years).

As I have come to know hundreds of spiritual teachers and thousands of spiritual practitioners through my work and travels, I have been struck by the way in which our spiritual views, perspectives, and experiences become similarly «infected» by «conceptual contaminants» — comprising a confused and immature relationship to complex spiritual principles — that are as invisible, yet as insidious, as sexually transmitted diseasAs I have come to know hundreds of spiritual teachers and thousands of spiritual practitioners through my work and travels, I have been struck by the way in which our spiritual views, perspectives, and experiences become similarly «infected» by «conceptual contaminants» — comprising a confused and immature relationship to complex spiritual principles — that are as invisible, yet as insidious, as sexually transmitted diseasas invisible, yet as insidious, as sexually transmitted diseasas insidious, as sexually transmitted diseasas sexually transmitted disease.

Still don't know what I am going to end up doing as unfortunately I waited till I was so burnt out that I am currently not much good for anything as I'm suffering severe adrenal fatigue, chronic fatigue, auto immune disease etc..

Saint Marianne Cope, as she will soon be known, may be best remembered for her work with patients suffering from Hansen's disease — or lepers, as they were called at the time.

How were the firstborns to die — tangible murder, or a disease brought about by poor birthing conditions engineered by the medical community of the time, or by a pulse from the Anananunki planet that could be attributed to a weak, ineffectual god assigned to this sector of the universe and passed off as omnipotent because He thought he was, or knew he had to pretend to be, to give humans Any Hope AT ALL?

Paul assumes that venereal disease is the divine punishment for homosexual behavior; we know it as a risk involved in promiscuity of every stripe, but would hesitate to label it a divine punishment, since not everyone who is promiscuous contracts it.

If the woman's mate is too similar to her immune system, these cells are known to cause autoimmune diseases such as scleroderma.

Luckily for the rest of the world the majority of US citizens are educated enough to realise they are being flooded by big - business - led propaganda such as Fox news and CNN who don't know the difference between Foot and Mouth disease and Mad Cow disease!

History is known as the Living Buddha of Mongolia's largest served «Religious leader» life is not long, the short - lived on the third world die before the age of 16 baffling disease.

With the advances in knowledge that are almost certain to be gained from the Human Genome Initiative — or, if its critics should win the day and it lose support, from more piecemeal genetic - research — we will know more and - more about genetic factors causally related to health and disease and to other important aspects of life, such as intelligence and emotional states.

Two factors above all have contributed to implant and to foster this hesitancy: on the one hand, the very structure of the discipline which serves as a sort of introduction or preparation, to the science of religions (one knows that the majority of historians of religions are former philologists, archeologists, historians, orientalists, or ethnologists); on the other hand, the inhibition created by the lamentable failure of the vast theoretical improvisations of the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth (mythology considered a «disease of language,» astral and naturist mythologies, pan-Babylonism, animism and pre-animism, etc.).

«We know that many disgraceful things have happened in this Holy See for many years now, such as abuses in spiritual matters, surfeit of financial demands, and everything used perversely... it is hardly surprising if the disease has gone from the head to the members, from the chief bishops to the other lower prelates.

She insists that what she calls «the problem that has no name» — that is, the fact that American women are denied full development as persons — is far more threatening to this country's physical and mental health than any known disease.

This included visiting the sick, «helping them prepare either for a fruitful life or a happy death,» but it also had as its objective becoming «acquainted with the state of all our people as fully as we can..., for if we know not the temperament or disease, we are likely to prove but unsuccessful physicians.»

My thoughts were no more impure than they are to - day, although my belief in the necessity of illness was dense and unenlightened; but since my resurrection in the flesh, I have worked as a healer unceasingly for fourteen years without a vacation, and can truthfully assert that I have never known a moment of fatigue or pain, although coming in touch constantly with excessive weakness, illness, and disease of all kinds.

I hate labels and have always refused to say I Am one thing or another, but as someone with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (an autoimmune disease) I know I'm not supposed to eat gluten and the only way I'll totally stop eating it is by using the I Am.