Sentences with phrase «of curable»

The legislation's namesake, 41 - year - old Brooklynite Lavern Wilkinson, died in 2013 of a curable form of lung cancer that was misdiagnosed.

Is this condition of mine curable?

The effort, which was part of a Daily News campaign in 2015, is named after Lavern Wilkinson, a 41 - year - old Brooklyn mom who died in 2013 of a curable form of lung cancer after doctors at Kings County Hospital misdiagnosed her.

Wilkinson was a 41 - year - old Brooklyn mom who died in 2013 of a curable form of lung cancer after doctors at Kings County Hospital misdiagnosed her.

The bill is named after Lavern Wilkinson, a 41 - year - old Brooklyn mom who died in 2013 of a curable form of lung cancer after doctors at Kings County Hospital misdiagnosed her.

Yeah, Jesus would have been SO down with 1 % of the population holding 90 % of the wealth while children starve and die of curable illnesses because their parents can't afford health insurance.

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I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery.

«We want to shift away from that fear - based marketing and focus on the fact that approximately 90 percent of cancers are curable if caught in stage I.»

Seven years ago Fortune wrote an in - depth profile of Blankfein, who just announced he has «highly curable» lymphoma.

Though JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon characterized his throat cancer as «curable,» it's «not exploitative» to think about his successor, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at the Yale School of Management, told CNBC on Wednesday.

Thanks to a number of new Hepatitis C drugs (Sofosbuvir Ledipasvir, Ladispavir) the disease is curable for many patients.

The detection of melanoma at its most curable stages can result in decades of high - quality life saved, versus the treatment of this terrible disease at late stages, which offers several months of life extension, at best.»

But for these debating Catholics, the question is whether the American situation is curable, by some kind of reform program; or incurable, inherently tending to self - destruction.

Death from some preventable or curable disease from a lack of health care?

If that was true, no plane would ever go down, no child would die of cancer or Tay Sachs, autism would be curable and you would have a brain that worked.

Medical treatment was described by the editor of The Lancet as «haphazard», noting that there was no attempt to keep patients triaged appropriately, and that patients who might be curable were routinely placed with patients who had communicable diseases.

Whatever tendencies Jewish mothers and fathers have to be «superprotective,» and whatever they may do in creating unusual anxieties in their children, these are at worst diseases of moral conflict, which are, after all, curable.

The same association with HIV decline can not be said for condom use, coverage of HIV testing, treatment for curable sexually transmitted infections, provision of antiretroviral drugs, or any other intervention or behavior....

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It only ever «works» when the outcome was going to occur anyway, like a cancer going into remission, a person recovering from a serious, but curable illness, or a person below the 90th floor of the North Tower escaping the 9 - 11 disaster.

If that addiction is «curable,» for lack of a better term, by disuse and whether or not someone has the will power to overcome it does not remove the fact that there is / was and addiction to a particular substance.

As a result of this belief, they have a cemetery full of children who have died from easily curable diseases.

Are they going to look back someday and say, «Woah, I totally get why my child died of that completely curable illness.»

Let us know how the praying works out... while you are there, please pray for the millions and millions of children who die each year by curable diseases... let us know how that pans out?

What about the parent of a child who has a totally curable illness, but because they can't afford to get them treatment, all they can do is pray?

Since celiac disease is, according to the New ENgland Journal of Medicine, a complex auto - immune disease triggered by exposure to gluten, and auto - immune disease are very, very rarely curable, I don't do anything that will increase antibodies against my own cells.

I would say the first trimester was rough because I had bad nausea (curable only by eating lots of white carbs, potatoes and GF crackers all day every day) and then I felt great from Months 4 - 7.5, then I started to feel HUGE and I also experienced prodromal labor for 4 weeks before delivery.

«The doctors are very hopeful and confident that it is a curable and treatable disease,» said Karl of his current bout with cancer.

Tendinitis is NOT curable koscielny will have to deal with it for the rest of his life but there are treatment options to manage the symptoms and I hope he doesn't have permanent damage or disability from it.

There is hope for children with cancer as 75 percent of childhood cancer cases are curable if detected early.

In late April, the 72 - year - old Hinchey released a statement from his doctor, Randall Rissman, of Woodstock, about his «curable» form of colon cancer.

«By identifying and enrolling these men in clinical trials immediately, the hope is to take a prostate cancer that appears to be incurable and make it curable» stated Trevor J. Royce, MD, senior resident in the department of Radiation Oncology at BWH, and corresponding author of the study.

Despite being curable with multidrug therapy, leprosy still persists in many developing countries, with more than 200,000 new cases every year and increasing drug - resistant strains of the leprosy bacterium, Mycobacterium leprae, emerging.

This has important implications, especially for cancers such as melanomas of the skin and of the eye, which are 100 % curable when detected at an early stage.

Although the number of prostate needle biopsies (PNB) has been reduced, patients who undergo PNB are significantly more likely to be diagnosed with high risk disease, and detection of intermediate risk, potentially curable PCa has likely decreased.

DLBCL is an aggressive form of lymphoma that grows rapidly but is potentially curable.

We are experiencing an alarming resurgence of common but no longer curable infections from bugs that developed their resistance in our antibiotic - filled bodies, in animals, in fields, even on our antibacterial - soaked kitchen counters.

But when researchers first printed the lens, its curved layers, made of a photo - curable resin, created a visible stepping.

Over 90 percent of prostate cancers are detected at a curable stage, with men more likely to die of other diseases than from this cancer.

Hodgkin's lymphoma was one of the first cancers to be rendered curable by combination chemotherapy.

That amounted to a 16 percent greater adjusted likelihood of having a potentially curable cancer.

«Early stage disease is curable,» adds co-author Bernadette Cracchiolo, director of gynecologic oncology at the school, «but late stage and recurrent disease have limited treatment options.

MECS are produced using a double - capillary device in which the flow rates of three fluids — a carbonate solution combined with a catalyst for enhanced CO2 absorption, a photo - curable silicone that forms the capsule shell, and an aqueous solution — can be independently controlled.

Over time, the spread of resistance renders antibiotics ineffective for use in patients with otherwise curable infections.

Richard Miller, a biogerontologist at the University of Michigan, says Olshansky's research shows that the average 50 - year - old woman would live to be 95 if cancer, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes were curable.

About two - thirds of the DALYs for women resulted from curable infections like chlamydia and their consequences, particularly infertility, the team reports in the February issue of Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Although the study revealed that fewer patients were untreated over time, a significant proportion of patients still do not receive treatment for «an otherwise highly curable disease,» explained Dr. Kapadia.

Breast cancer is becoming a curable disease when diagnosed at an early stage; however, the majority of cancer - related death is still attributed to metastatic disease.

Tuberculosis (TB) is a curable and preventable disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis and most often affects the lungs of infected individuals.

Active tuberculosis is treatable (and curable), but disease control and treatment adherence are complicated by a variety of factors, including availability of healthcare resources, multidrug - resistant tuberculosis strains and potentially toxic side effects of treatment.