Sentences with phrase «number of deaths resulting»

The percentage increase in number of deaths resulting from enhancement was similar for males and females.

He proved that until public intolerance of the number of deaths resulting from road traffic accidents became critical, drivers would take advantage of any new safety features installed in cars to drive faster and more recklessly.

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The data results of a Social Security number verification can contain the state of and approximate year of the number; status as an invalid, nonissued, or misused number; status on whether the number has been used to file a death claim; address (es) of the user; employer (s) of the user; the year of birth or age of the user.

NEW OS&H regulations have been introduced in an attempt to curb the number of workplace deaths resulting from falls.While most of the changes apply to the demolition industry, some also affect the building and construction industries.

Does the risk of false positive results outweigh the benefit of preventing a small number of deaths from breast cancer?

Trump wants to eradicate the threat of terrorism as eagerly as he once said he wanted to eradicate the threat of sharks — even though, in a population of more than 320 million, neither generally results in a particularly large number of deaths in the United States.

Thomas Laqueur of the University of California at Berkeley reviews a number of books on smoking (meaning, mainly, cigarette smoking) and concludes with this: «They are the result of a new vision of what health means, or more precisely, of what death does not mean.

Ironically, the a significant number of the 5,000 or so deaths (over 500 years) resulting from the Inquistion were the execution of pedophiles.

Everybody receives a birth certificate and a social security number that keeps your name out of the book of life and to the end result of the death certificate.

First, this category usually includes deaths as a result of spontaneous abortion, otherwise known as miscarriage, giving a distorted picture of the number of women who are dying as a result of induced abortion.

This has resulted in a huge number of horses being left out to pasture, with not enough feed and starving to death because people can't afford to keep them and have nothing to do with them.

As a result there are now digital signs displayed in several places above major expressways that keep a running count of the number of highway deaths.

The problem there is that babies who are transferred too late due to the incompetence of a homebirth midwife or merely being too far away and then die in the hospital (most certainly as a result of the homebirth) are counted as hospital deaths and therefore the number is far too low.

However, very large numbers of unnecessary C - sections will result in unnecessary complications and unnecessary deaths.

They also analyzed the deaths associated with sleeping on couches separately so that those numbers did not bias the results of BEDsharing (as opposed to accidentally falling asleep with a baby on the sofa).

Although diarrhoea is less common in the UK and often less serious than in developing countries, a number of babies do die every year in the UK as a result of diarrhoeal dehydration, deaths which could easily be prevented by the timely use of ORT.

Falling kites have led to a number of blackouts, followed by the recent Kite Festival resulted in the death of a child.

The number of civilian deaths as a result of Al Shabaab activity nearly doubled between July and August 2013.

Moreover, while moratoria on executions should be welcomed, if they are not accompanied by a change in judicial practice, long - term moratoria result in a large number of people languishing on «death row», a condition which may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

Under the current opt - in system the ability of the organ donation service to help people is limited by the number of organ donors that come forward, resulting in 500 deaths last year.

At the same time, US President Barack Obama authorised a three-fold increase in the number of drone strikes targeting AQAP operatives in Yemen in 2012, resulting in the deaths of a number of senior figures, including Shihri, the deputy leader.

Of that number, 38 resulted in deaths.

Since the start of 2016 there has been a countless number of residents overdosing on the drug, resulting in death for several individuals.

After determining the proper dosage of tamoxifen — an early trial resulted in a number of mouse deaths due to overactivation of Mecp2 — researchers settled on a four - week regimen of ramping up the gene's function.

While clomiphene is a first - line treatment used to induce ovulation in women with PCOS, it has downsides — namely that in a significant number of women it does not lead to improved ovulation or live births, and if it does induce ovulation, it frequently results in pregnancies with multiples who face much higher negative outcomes including death.

Their results reveal that nearly a quarter of people who experienced SUDEP carried mutations linked to cardiac sudden death, suggesting that irregular heart rhythms may underlie a significant number of deaths in epilepsy.

Since people often find it difficult to determine the relevance of relative risks, Mons and her colleagues also used an alternative method to assess the results of their meta - analysis: They calculated the number of years by which smoking accelerates death from heart disease.

The results of the study by Marc Baguelin and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, Public Health England, and Athens University of Economics and Business, show that the current flu vaccination policy that targets people aged 65 years and over and also those in high risk groups has reduced the number of flu infections and associated deaths in these groups over the past 14 years.

Focusing on flu outbreaks in the U.S. between 2003 and 2008, Justin Ortiz from the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington and colleagues from CDC and PATH, a Seattle - based nonprofit health organization, found that Google Flu Trends deviated greatest from CDC surveillance figures for laboratory - confirmed flu rates during the 2003 — 2004 flu season, which saw a high number of flu - related deaths in children and, as a result, was a hot topic in the media.

These are worked out by combining the number of years of life lost as a result of early death and the number of years lived with disability.

Experts aim to halve the number of deaths from a type of meningitis by changing drug treatment as a result of a new medical study.

Chiu pointed to a number of serious and unexpected animal - to - human disease transmissions over the last 10 years, including SARS in 2003, the H1N1 influenza in 2009, and the current outbreak of H7N9 avian influenza, which already has resulted in more than 20 deaths in China.

Researchers used the data to calculate the number of years lost due to ill health, disability, or early death — a proxy for estimating total disease burden — and found that 320,000 disability - adjusted life years are lost annually in West Africa as a result of snake bites.

As documented by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the 2012 bloom resulted in the mortality of 293 endangered Florida manatees, the greatest number of red tide - related manatee deaths recorded from a single bloom.

The research team looked at the number of injuries, severity of injury, type of hospital interventions, patient deaths and costs - per - patient in children with gunshot injuries compared with children whose injuries resulted from other mechanisms, including stabbing, being hit by a motor vehicle, struck by blunt object, falls, motor vehicle crashes and others.

In the past 40 years, Africa has seen a number of isolated Ebola outbreaks, but the current one, which at the time of publication had resulted in more than 4,800 deaths, is the first epidemic.

«Estimates from this study indicate that reducing indoor tanning would be effective in preventing a substantial number of melanoma cases and deaths, and result in melanoma treatment cost - savings,» the researchers wrote.

When adjusted for initial stroke severity, there was no difference in the number of cases resulting in brain hemorrhage, death, or long - term outcomes between the telemedicine or telephone groups.

In January 2016 an estimated number of 2000 Turkish academics from more than 90 Turkish Universities signed a petition criticizing the Turkish military for the operations that resulted in civilian deaths among the Kurdish population in the southeast of the country.

The number of organs donated as a result of overdose death has increased 24-fold since 2000 and transplants with those organs have similar outcomes to transplants with organs donated after trauma or natural death.

Although great strides have been made against smoking, «there are still 40 million smokers in the U.S., so we can continue to expect large numbers of cancer deaths and heart disease as a result,» he pointed out.

He might have added that studies in which cholesterol levels were lowered through either diet or drugs have consistently resulted in a greater number of deaths in the treatment groups than in controls - deaths from stroke, cancer, intestinal disorders, accident and suicide.

This is one of the number one reasons it's hard to take «alternative» practitioners seriously, despite their good intentions: That is to say that we have such great control over our bodily pH. We don't (unless you were to, say, eat a box of baking soda or something), and the body regulates this very well, as a drop or gain of tenths of magnitude simply would result in coma and death.

The ensemble drama is told through a series of vignettes that begins with the first New York Times report on the mysterious «cancer» that had resulted in the deaths of a growing number of homosexual men and ends eight years later, after the disease has thoroughly and devastatingly affected the movie's close - knit core group of characters.

Detroit looks like it will focus primarily on a specific incident at the Algiers Motel, an encounter between the motel's guests and local and national law enforcement that resulted in the deaths of three African American civilians, and injury to a number of the motel's other guests.

The number of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) on U.S. roads in 2016 increased by 2.2 percent, and resulted in a fatality rate of 1.18 deaths per 100 VMT - a 2.6 percent increase from the previous year.

ESC is meant to reduce the number of deaths and injuries resulting from crashes in which the driver loses directional control of the vehicle, including those resulting in vehicle rollover.

This increase in demand — up 58 % since 2009 — combined with antiquated infrastructure has resulted in an increasing number of brownouts and blackouts, such as the one resulting from the 2013 ice storm that caused 27 deaths, loss of power to over a million residents and more than $ 200 million in damages.

The increase in demand — up 58 % since 2009 — combined by antiquated infrastructure has resulted in an increasing number of brownouts and blackouts, such as the 2013 ice storm / power outage that resulted 27 deaths, loss of power to over a million residents and over $ 200 million in damages.

Ohio also has 12 breeders listed, with one of the breeders being noted for having a barn fire that resulted in the death of «an undisclosed number» dogs.