Sentences with phrase «more illness and death»

Among the reports new conclusions on health: «An increased frequency and severity of heat waves is expected, leading to more illness and death, particularly among the young, elderly, frail, and poor.»

And more heat waves mean more illness and death, as the normally cool Bay Area lacks air conditioners on the scale seen in other parts of the country, the group said.

Not exact matches

According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, antibiotic - resistant bacteria cause more than two million illnesses in the U.S. every year and 23,000 deaths.

Researchers expect that as climate change makes wildfires more likely over the course of this century, deaths and illnesses attributed to pollution from wood smoke will rise too, even offsetting gains made from cleaning up emissions from industry.

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

In its milder forms it produces loneliness and unhappiness; in more severe forms, it causes the personality distortions of emotional malnutrition; in extreme and protracted forms, it produces relational - starvation and the eventual death of creativity and coping, as seen in mental illness.

More than 24,000 infections, 5,600 hospitalizations and 120 deaths were reported last year in the US, according to foodborne illness surveillance data.

«When a tragedy strikes in the form of a death or a life - changing illness or an accident, or when our lives are suddenly turned upside - down due to a divorce or other major life event, we need to grieve the loss of our old lives, our old «normal,» our younger, more carefree, and unwounded selves, so that we can embrace our new normal and learn to live fully and joyfully again.

One study indicates that babies fed a combination of formula and breastmilk are roughly 4 % more at risk for death due to diarreahal illnesses, and babies that are exclusively formula fed are about 14 % more at risk for death from diarreahal illnesses (Victoria, 1989).

Another said he became more reflective on his work when his father's illness and death coincided with his transition from a first term to a second.

Similarly, Balboni wrote, the cancer patients who relied on private, unspoken religious beliefs to manage their illness were «nearly three times more likely to receive intensive life - prolonging care near death and less likely to enter hospice during the final weeks of life» than those without a pronounced religious sense.

If greenhouse - gas emissions are not curtailed, heat - related deaths in Chicago alone could rise tenfold by the end of the century, government scientists say, and the Midwest and the South could swelter with triple - digit temperatures for much of the year, leading to more heatstroke and other heat - related illness and death.

He found that the added air pollution caused by each degree Celsius increase in temperature caused by CO2 leads to about 1,000 additional deaths in the U.S. and many more cases of respiratory illness and asthma.

Millions of illnesses and more than 1,000 deaths every year in the U.S. are attributable to foodborne illness caused by known pathogens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It is certain that from the day that D. Hernando Cortés, the Marquis del Valle, entered this land, in the seven years, more or less, that he conquered and governed it, the natives suffered many deaths, and many terrible dealings, robberies and oppressions were inflicted on them, taking advantage of their persons and their lands, without order, weight nor measure;... the people diminished in great number, as much due to excessive taxes and mistreatment, as to illness and smallpox, such that now a very great and notable fraction of the people are gone...

Out of nearly 48 million cases of foodborne illnesses every year, 128,000 result in hospitalizations and more than 3,000 result in deaths in the U.S. alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Thus the virulence of a disease transmitted by the human flea should markedly increase, producing a more rapid course of illness and a higher death toll.

Poor diet is one of the biggest risk factors for death and illness in the United States, responsible for more than 600,000 deaths in 2010 alone, researchers say.

«More research is needed to evaluate the efficacy of this use of a cancer medication to alleviate risk of sudden cardiac death, but we are hopeful that what we observed in mice will translate effectively to humans, providing patients and clinicians with a new paradigm for treating this common and life - threatening illness,» Dudley said.

As early as the 1930s, researchers noticed that children born in winter were more prone to health problems later in life: slower growth, mental illness, and even early death.

«West Africa will see much more suffering and many more deaths during childbirth and from malaria, tuberculosis, HIV — AIDS, enteric and respiratory illnesses, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and mental health during and after the Ebola epidemic,» they write.

In addition, infants born to mothers with a broad and potent antibody response were more than three times as likely to have serious illness or death post-partum,» explained corresponding author Manish Sagar, MD, associate professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM).

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the United States, implicated in more than 500,000 deaths each year, according to public health officials.

A recent study by EPA researchers showed that, in 2010 alone, the Clean Air Act prevented more than 160,000 premature deaths, 130,000 cases of heart disease and 1.7 million asthma attacks, not to mention 86,000 hospital admissions and millions of respiratory illnesses.

When blood from vaccinated subjects was then transferred to mice, more than 90 percent of the animals were protected from death and illness despite being exposed to a lethal dose of the Zika virus.

In a 2008 presentation, Dunn stated «I assert that warm is good for human health and that global warming, even the most extreme estimates, will not create heat illness or death increases and certainly no changes that are more important than the basic public health measures of vector control, water, nutrition, sewage and water quality, and housing quality.»

COPD is a serious and potentially life - threatening illness: It is responsible for more than 130,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.

Heart disease accounts for more premature deaths than any other illness, and is almost completely preventable by simply changing diet and lifestyle.

While we've known for decades that perceived social isolation, or loneliness, is a major risk factor for chronic illness and death, only more recently have we gained deeper clues into why loneliness is such a health risk.

Learn more about FEMA's citizen responder oriented programming to help you and your Protect Yourself from Influenza Influenza (flu) causes millions of illnesses, hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths each year

He sings and chants a few passages and repeats such refrains as «I should have done more,» regarding his mother's illness and subsequent death....

And, more recently, seeing the UK system up very close and personal during the illness and death of both my parents, I'd say that a socialized system allows everyone in the medical system, including the doctors, to see their patients as people first much more easily than medical professionals in the US, because they do not have to worry about a person's ability to pay, or for that matter have to spend their days embroiled in payment issues with insurance companiAnd, more recently, seeing the UK system up very close and personal during the illness and death of both my parents, I'd say that a socialized system allows everyone in the medical system, including the doctors, to see their patients as people first much more easily than medical professionals in the US, because they do not have to worry about a person's ability to pay, or for that matter have to spend their days embroiled in payment issues with insurance companiand personal during the illness and death of both my parents, I'd say that a socialized system allows everyone in the medical system, including the doctors, to see their patients as people first much more easily than medical professionals in the US, because they do not have to worry about a person's ability to pay, or for that matter have to spend their days embroiled in payment issues with insurance companiand death of both my parents, I'd say that a socialized system allows everyone in the medical system, including the doctors, to see their patients as people first much more easily than medical professionals in the US, because they do not have to worry about a person's ability to pay, or for that matter have to spend their days embroiled in payment issues with insurance companies.

Finally, a couple more benefits of a MEC are that the death benefit on life insurance is tax free and the death benefit can be accelerated due to chronic illness, as a possible alternative or addition to long term care insurance.

If you want more protection, the Preferred plan returns up to 100 percent of tuition and other covered college costs if a student suffers serious covered illness, injury or death, and up to 80 percent if he or she withdraws because of a psychological condition.

For more protection, the Preferred plan returns up to 100 percent of tuition and other covered college costs if a student suffers a serious covered illness, injury or death, and up to 80 percent if he or she withdraws because of a covered psychological condition.

After the Environmental Protection Agency's extensive review of adverse events from spot - on flea and tick products for pets, the agency has given manufacturers six months to change their labels to help prevent even more problems than the 44,000 illnesses and 600 deaths reported in 2008.

But very occasionally more serious illness and death can occur.

That means that a cat with adult heartworm disease may not show any illness, but when the adult worms die and PIM function is restored, the cat gets sick again and faces potential death once more.

As of September 24, 2013, FDA has received approximately 3000 reports of illness, involving more than 3600 dogs, 10 cats, and including more than 580 deaths.

The results do little more than confirm the FDA hasn't identified what is making so many dogs sick, while the number of pet illnesses and deaths linked to the treats has now climbed to over 1,800.

A recent report from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency makes it clear that every commercial flea product can cause illness and even death in pets; the agency is now encouraging more truthful labeling, but it is not requiring safer products.

More than just annoying nuisances, parasites such as ticks, fleas, and roundworms can cause serious illnesses or death among animals.

But for the moment, it's basically no bigger danger to our dogs than kennel cough is, which is to say, in most cases it will cause mild symptoms (or none), but in some dogs, particularly the very young, very old, and immune - compromised, it can cause more severe illness and even death.

In addition, EPA is issuing more stringent regulations on coal plant emissions to reduce chronic respiratory illnesses and deaths caused by coal - fired power plant emissions.

Improving access to clean water reduces water borne illnesses and deaths and cuts the time spent collecting firewood and boiling dirty river water, giving families more time to work, study and play.

By the end of this century, much of the Southeast will experience more than 100 days above 90 °F, which in the absence of adaptive actions is expected to lead to more heat - stress - related illness and deaths, decreased agricultural production, and negative impacts on fish and wildlife.

Extreme heat elevates the rate of death from illnesses like heart attack, heat stroke, organ failure, and more.

The 2009 EPA endangerment findings took into account the public health implications of a warming climate caused by an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, which include more deaths from heat - related illnesses, more serious (and potentially fatal) respiratory illnesses, and more people at risk from catastrophic flooding.

How much more expensive is nuclear when you add in decommissioning (at least equal to building), nuclear accidents, illness and deaths from exposure, subsidies, long - term storage of waste, Hiroshima, etc, e.g.?

Recent research has shown that the issue is more complex than we thought, with a veritable witches brew of pesticides causing the illness and death of bees and other pollinators.