Sentences with phrase «major health defects»

The result is highly contaminated air and water, and generations of families put at risk for major health defects.

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Those who did so were more likely to cause major health problems for their babies, including low birth weight, preterm birth, and certain birth defects than women who didn't smoke.

By February 2016, the World Health Organization had declared the epidemic a global public health emergency, based largely on the virus» newly - established link to microcephaly and other major birth defects in babies born to infected moHealth Organization had declared the epidemic a global public health emergency, based largely on the virus» newly - established link to microcephaly and other major birth defects in babies born to infected mohealth emergency, based largely on the virus» newly - established link to microcephaly and other major birth defects in babies born to infected mothers.

Birth defects in babies born infected with Zika virus remain a major health concern.

Work done by scientists in the early 20th century on identifying individual nutrients in food and developing ways to manufacture them raised hopes that optimal health could be achieved and diseases prevented by adding them to food and providing people with dietary supplements; while there were successes in preventing vitamin deficiencies, and preventing conditions like neural tube defects by supplementation and food fortification with folic acid, no targeted supplementation or fortification strategies to prevent major diseases like cancer or cardiovascular diseases have proved successful.

Unfortunately, they have become a major cause for a number of health issues, including; ADHD, aging, autism, mental illness, even birth defects and more.

Some of the major health problems the Bulldog is susceptible to are keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS), ventricular septal defect, hip dysplasia, shoulder and patellar luxation, internalized tail, eye and skin problems, and many more.

Be informed of and work diligently toward the elimination of hereditary health problems of the breed by refraining from breeding a dog or bitch if they have, in 2 litters to different partners, produced offspring with the same serious genetic defect, such as: blindness, deafness, PDA, lameness, or impairment of vital functions which prevent these offspring from living a normal, healthy life without major surgical or significant medical intervention.

This way, your puppy will be able to get a clean bill of health, making sure she has no birth defects, infections, major diseases, and that she is well - vaccinated.

Recent instructions include: • Acting as Junior Counsel to Roddy Dunlop QC in a seven figure claim relating to failure by solicitors to obtain a standard security in relation to loan funds advanced by a commercial lender • Acting as Junior Counsel to Alistair Clark QC (as he then was) on behalf of the pursuers, a major commercial lender, in pursuing seven figure negligence claims against solicitors and surveyors relating to their advance of loan funds for the purchase of commercial property • Acting as Junior Counsel to Heriot Currie QC for one of the defenders (a firm of architects) in a seven figure multi-party claim relating to construction and design defects at a major shopping centre • Acting as Junior Counsel to Alastair Duncan QC for one of the defenders in a claim against both solicitors and counsel relating to alleged negligence by family lawyers relating to the preparation of a settlement agreement • Acting as sole counsel for the pursuer in a claim against solicitors for allowing the time bar of her clinical negligence action against a health board