Sentences with phrase «lives than disease»

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They found that the people who took vitamins did not live longer or have fewer cases of heart disease or cancer than people who did not take them.

And when the disease gets out of control because most of the population live on less than one dollar a day?

Consider the 10 million people living with Parkinson's disease and the more than 44 million people living with Alzheimer's disease, and factor in that the frequency of both is expected to increase considerably as people live longer.

More than 5 million Americans are currently living with the disease, and that number is expected to triple by 2050, placing a staggering burden on society.

More than 10,000 Albertans are living with Parkinson Disease, a degenerative disorder with symptoms like tremors and speech impairment that affect every person differently.

It's true also that poverty, oppression, disease, and hunger have always been far from me, and that I often choose to live in blissful disregard of them rather than think upon and sacrifice significantly to aid those in need.

Mormon volunteers in Ghana, for example, arranged for 1.5 million text messages to be sent to fellow citizens in support of the country's launch of vaccines against pneumonia and rotavirus, two diseases that together claim the lives of more than 2 million children around the world every year.

Rizal Mercado, Hawking has lived longer with this disease than should be physically possible, and in fact perhaps the reason why he went so far in the world of science rather than other interests was BECAUSE he had the disease.

For amid all the advantages of contemporary life, where fewer people suffer disease, hunger, or lack of opportunity than in years past, there still is probably no increase in the sum total of human happiness and very slight advantage, if any, in the main business of making sense of one's life.»

Well, the truth is, the cow industry is inhumane, (the overcrowded transportation conditions alone lead to to great suffering, severe cruelty and broken limbs), unhealthy (cows are pumped full of hormones, adrenalin from the fear from when they know they will be killed and anti-biotics — because the unhealthy conditions they live in promote infection and disease) and inefficient (cows must be fed 3 times the edible human grain than their bodies produce in meat).

Cookies for Kids» Cancer was founded by two OXOnians (OXO employees) who were inspired by their son Liam's battle with pediatric cancer, a disease which claims the lives of more children in the US than any other disease.

The movement can help save many lives and billions of dollars by preventing disease rather than for us waiting to have it treated.

They found that the Kuna people had a significantly lower incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer than people living on the mainland who did not drink cacao.

If hunger (responsible for more deaths every year than war or disease and the loss of more lives than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined) is not attributable solely to inadequate production of food, but rather insufficient availability of food, why isn't more being done to reduce the shameful levels of food loss occurring in developing countries?

Since its inception in 1989, Project Angel Food has delivered more than 10 million meals to men, women and children who are debilitated by disease and struggling with life - threatening illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, renal failure and HIV / AIDS.

According to Baleka, the average life expectancy for a long - haul truck driver in the U.S. is 61 to 64 years (10 to 15 years less than the average American male); truck drivers have the highest rate of obesity of any occupation in the U.S. (86 % are overweight, 69 % are obese); they have one of the highest rates of metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes; in some years they have had the highest number of fatalities of any occupation, making trucking one of the most dangerous and unhealthy occupations in the U.S.

There are many complications that have presented through the years in accordance with the erra, to which is no fault of the mother butbthe conditions in which she lived, there are far more diseases and illness's these days than ever before, far more reasons for a women to most deffinatly seek medical help for her birth, to ensure her and her baby» s health, but that defiantly does not include all women, none of us havebthe same problems or complications.

They demanded that I live in the dorm, and their awareness was more about peanut allergies than celiac disease or other intolerances.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, those children who live with chronic conditions like asthma and diabetes are five times more likely to be hospitalized than their healthier counterparts.

In a nation where kids are born with shorter estimated life expectancies than their parents due to diet - related disease, Chef Ann has been a constant champion of school food reform as an important avenue through which to improve childhood nutrition.

From the last study «The incidence of invasive early - onset GBS disease decreased by more than 80 % from 1.8 cases / 1000 live births in the early 1990s to 0.26 cases / 1000 live births in 2010; from 1994 to 2010 we estimate that over 70,000 cases of EOGBS invasive disease were prevented in the United States.»

Furthermore, it is now clear that all kinds of crying (i.e. fussing, crying and inconsolable crying) is prolonged, that this prolongation occurs only in the first few months, and that inconsolable crying is almost unique to the first few months of life.3, 40 The «unpredictability» of the crying, and of the caregiver's ability or inability to soothe the infant is most likely due to the facts that (1) the infant cry in the first few months is a reflection of the organization of its behavioural states (crying, awake alert, sleeping), rather than an intentional «signal,» 14 (2) that behavioural state changes occur in «steps» rather than due to increases or decreases in arousal7, 41 and (3) infants are resistant to behavioural state change unless they are in a transitional phase in which they are «ready» to change state.7 Finally, there is now good evidence that the proportion of infants that have evidence of organic disease to explain their crying is less than 5 %.8, 42,43 In the absence of other compromise, infants with «colic» have as good an outcome as infants without «colic.»

But forcing a child to eat more than he wants sets up unhealthy eating habits and could even contribute to health problems, like obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, later in life.

less than or equal to lamivudine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Antiretroviral therapy, usually means 1 - 2 drugs, used in early studies Antiretroviral zidovudine (also known as ZDV) Breastfeeding Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Breastfeeding and HIV International Transmission Study Combined antiretroviral therapy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deoxyribonucleic Acid Exclusive Breastfeeding Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay Food and Agrigulture Organization Fixed dose combination ART, e.g., lamividine, stavudine, and nevirapine Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, 3 or more drugs for more effective treatment used in later studies Human Immunodeficiency virus International Atomic Energy Agency Infant feeding Infant and young child feeding Lopinavir cubic millimetre Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV Non-governmental organization Nevirapine Polymerase Chain Reaction People Living with HIV Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission Replacement Feeding Ritonavir Ribonucleic acid, one of the three major macromolecules (along with DNA and proteins) that are essential for all known forms of life single dose NVP United Nations Agencies Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS United Nations Population Fund United Nations Commissioner for Refugees United Nations Children's Fund U.S. Agency for International Development World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action United Nations World Food Programme World Health Assembly WHO 2010 Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding World Health Organization Zidovudine (same drug as AZT)

Rather than different ARV regimens being decided on the basis of an individual HIV - positive mother's disease progression, a clear recommendation is now made for provision of ARVs to all HIV positive pregnant women from the time that they are first diagnosed with HIV and continued for life.

«Children with low levels of vitamin D were more likely to have high blood pressure and lower levels of high - density lipoprotein, also known as good cholesterol — two factors that are considered major risk factors for heart disease later in life «Children with low vitamin - D levels also had higher levels of parathyroid hormone than their counterparts with adequate vitamin D in their blood.

There is consistent evidence of a protective effect of exclusive breast feeding against diarrhoeal disease in the first 4 — 6 months of life.4 Likely causes are the immune properties of breast milk and less exposure to pathogens in contaminated milk, food, bottles, or teats.5 Contamination and inadequate sterilisation pose less of a problem in developed than developing countries, and this explains the greater protection of breast feeding in developing countries where poverty, poor hygiene, and infectious diseases are common.

Cookies for Kids» Cancer was founded by two OXOnians (OXO employees) who were inspired by their son Liam's battle with pediatric cancer, a disease which claims the lives of more children in the US than any other disease.

His bill would limit its application to epilepsy, intractable skeletal muscular spasticity, traumatic brain injury, glaucoma, cachexia, wasting syndrome, Dravet syndrome, HIV / AIDS, Cancer, ALS, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Crohn's disease, and terminal illnesses if a patient has a prognosis of less than 12 months to live.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention («CDC») estimates that more than 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV infection.

In Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life, he concludes that old age is a privilege to be savored, rather than a disease to be cured or a condition to be denied.

In August, Diaz Jr. reportedly phoned Cuomo, with whom he has had a long - standing relationship, asking him to help with a Legionnaires» Disease outbreak that claimed more than ten lives because he felt the de Blasio administration's response was not effective.

And tobacco use, the number one preventable cause of death in the United States, claims more than 400,000 lives and $ 50 billion in direct medical costs each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«Consuming more than five drinks a week could shorten your life: Even moderate alcohol drinking linked to heart and circulatory diseases, study finds.»

«Stories of the Irish Potato Famine were no more likely to boost support for disease - resistant genetically modified crops than were our generic crop - disease descriptions,» said Katherine A. McComas, professor and chair of Cornell's Department of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Children have many more years in future life than we adults, and if they are exposed to asbestos, for example, they've got five, six, seven, or eight decades to manifest any disease.

He and his colleagues wanted to see whether certain risk factors might make these species more susceptible to the disease than the dozens of other types of snakes that live in the region.

More than 200 million people are currently affected, with 600 million who live in tropical regions with inadequate water supplies and sanitation in danger of contracting the disease.

Among farm children, the disease is increasing less dramatically than in the case of their friends who live in the same village, but not on a farm.

The mutation was discovered after comparing DNA from 152 Fore who had succumbed to the disease with DNA from more than 3000 living Fore, including almost 560 who ate brains (New England Journal of Medicine, vol 361, p 2056).

«There are more than eighty autoimmune diseases, ranging in severity from mild to life threatening in some cases.

«Rather than putting America's health first, this budget instead puts the health and safety of all Americans — but especially our nation's most vulnerable, such as lower - income Americans, children and those living with a lung disease like asthma — in jeopardy.»

«Crucially it is not just because people are living longer to get diseases they previously would not have lived long enough to develop but older people are developing neurological disease more than ever before.

«What we saw in this trial was not just the physical aspects of the disease clearing up, but people on the new drug also reporting a marked improvement in their quality of life as they felt more confident and suffered less from itching - far more than in the other two groups.»

Hawking lived with the physical effects of this neurodegenerative disease for more than half a century.

Immunotherapy with a live bacterium combined with chemotherapy demonstrated more than 90 % disease control and 59 % response rate in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), according to the results of a phase Ib trial presented today at the European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland.1

Hispanics in the U.S. are on average nearly 15 years younger than whites, so taking steps now to prevent disease could mean longer, healthier lives for Hispanics.

When researchers study centenarians, people who live to be 100 or older — as Barzilai and his colleagues have been doing at Albert Einstein for more than a decade — they find that these well - aged individuals are certainly not immune to chronic diseases, but they get them later in life.

Heart disease and depression are likely to claim more lives than radiation after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident, experts say

Patients who got it lived about 4 months longer, nearly 26 months total, than those who didn't — but that, say company executives, is still more than any other therapy has managed for this disease in a randomized trial.