Sentences with phrase «of fatal illnesses»

In the case at hand, Judge Miner and his colleagues determined that the relevant class was «all competent persons who are in the final stages of fatal illness and wish to hasten their deaths.»

Working under the deadline of a fatal illness, the Odones created a novel treatment for adrenoleukodystrophy, which disrupts fat metabolism, primarily in boys.

Currently six coronaviruses are known to cause disease in people, but so far only two of them — SARS - CoV and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus — have caused large outbreaks of fatal illness in people.

She befriends houseguest Alex Parrish (Jeremy Irons), a writer in the last stages of a fatal illness who is lifted out of his depression by a violent crush on Lucy.

The plans pay out a sum based on the policy you choose upon death or diagnosis of a fatal illness.

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He experienced, in rapid succession, blows of the sort that can send a disturbed, isolated young man hurtling into a spiral of instability: forced to move out of his lifelong home, spurned by a girlfriend, bounced from school to school, then suddenly losing his mother, his closest companion, to a fatal illness.

This book is highly recommended to anyone interested in the question of assisted suicide» and to anyone who expects ever to suffer from a fatal illness.

Julian was an English anchoress who, at the age of thirty and before entering a convent, suffered a nearly fatal illness.

As GLBTQ folks experiment, trying to satisfy the unsatisfiable, they begin to pursue extremely unhealthy behaviors that place them at high risk, way beyond the straight population, for the transmission and reception of fatal and debilitating illnesses.

The premise is straightforward enough: A woman's husband contracts a fatal illness from a quarantined region known as the Shimmer, so she goes in with a team of scientists to find the source of the Shimmer and save his life.

In many cases, this is a health and well - being issue for women and families, either to space children or to avoid pregnancy during a time of illness which could be fatal to the mother or transmitted to the child.

At our last lunch, on Lexington near 60th, not long before his final illness, he noted with disapproval the anorexic waitresses and expatiated engagingly on why the fashions of androgyny are part and parcel of the propensity for abstraction that is the fatal flaw of Western culture.

I see this happen a lot in the church when Black women suffer tragedies such as financial struggle, a terminal or fatal illness, and the death of a child or spouse.

The American Heart Association has warned people against too much consumption because it is known to raise the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and other fatal illnesses.

«Honey can contain spores of a bacterium called Clostridium botulinum, which can germinate in a baby's immature digestive system and cause infant botulism, a rare but potentially fatal illness.»

There were non-mystical factors at play: finances (#always), the practical experience of knowing how much one child takes out of you, and the fact that my husband and I were both cystic fibrosis carriers, which meant that our children had a 1:4 chance of being born with the chronic, often fatal illness.

Though it is uncomfortable, it is not a fatal illness, and as long as baby is monitored and kept at home, instead of daycare, to recover fully (that is no fever and all spots gone), they should end up doing fine.

Honey can contain spores of a bacterium called Clostridium botulinum, which can germinate in a baby's immature digestive system and cause infant botulism, a rare but potentially fatal illness.

Find out how to protect your child from Reye's syndrome, the symptoms of this often fatal illness, and how Reye's syndrome is c...

By not vaccinating you're putting everyone at risk of serious, and even fatal illness.

It's become an annual tradition: the loved ones of New Yorkers who died from painful, terminal illnesses come to the state Capitol to push for a law authorizing people with fatal diseases to seek life - ending medication from a doctor.

Less than 1 % of infected people will develop a serious, sometimes fatal, neurological illness.

But scientists are making progress in refining these therapies, and the first ever trial of fetal stem cells injected directly into the brain is currently under way in children with Batten disease, a rare and fatal illness of the nervous system.

Flash forward one decade: There are no new wonder drugs — penicillin injections are still the primary treatment and cure of the rarely fatal illness.

Why can mosquitoes carry deadly viruses without succumbing to them and live on to give humans West Nile, dengue fever, and a host of other fatal illnesses.

The findings shed new light on the causes of the rare but predominately fatal horse condition and could help to develop new tools for diagnosing the illness.

A homeless person with mental illness has a 24.5 per cent chance of having a heart attack, a fatal or non-fatal stroke or sudden cardiac death over 30 years, said Dr. Agnes Gozdzik, a research associate in the Center for Research in Inner City Health of St. Michael's Hospital.

According to Wilson, monoclonal antibodies from (deliberately infected) animals were routinely used in the first half of the 20th century to try to treat diphtheria (an upper - respiratory illness that killed roughly 15,000 people annually in the early 1920s until a vaccine was formulated against it in 1924) and tetanus (a potentially fatal infection also known as lockjaw, because one of the muscles it destroys is in the jaw).

But for poorly understood reasons, subsequent exposure to a second dengue serotype increases the chance of the illness progressing to the severe and sometimes fatal dengue hemorrhagic fever.

The viruses were isolated from the first two fatal cases of pandemic influenza in the country and one patient with severe illness.

It is a serious illness caused by infection of the colon by the bacteria, C. difficile, which produces toxins that cause inflammation, severe diarrhoea and can in the most serious of cases be fatal.

Those trials tested whether an ASO delivered to the spinal fluid could help improve the condition of babies born with this horrible fatal illness.

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Although it is true that due to your disability, which could be by birth, as a result of a fatal accident or even illness, you are mostly socially isolated, it can be changed.

In 1965, Gazzara starred as Paul Bryan, an ex-lawyer with only a short time to live, on the TV popular series Run for Your Life; in spite of his character's fatal illness, Gazzara was able to remain with Run for three healthy seasons.

As she walks, she begins to sort out the various demons she has been wrestling with, including living with an abusive alcoholic father, losing her mother (Dern, When the Game Stands Tall) to a fatal illness, as well as the details of her own personal tailspin in her relationships.

In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, Terminal follows the twisting tales of two assassins carrying out a sinister mission, a teacher battling a fatal illness, an enigmatic janitor and a curious waitress leading a dangerous double life.

The film will chronicle the beginning of Jane and Stephen's relationship in the 60's when Hawking was diagnosed with a fatal illness, and will likely make you cry.

David is also in the middle of interviewing for the high - profile weatherman job on «Hello America,» while dealing with his father's fatal illness.

Which is about all that we ever get from him as much of his screen time is given over to young Harry Osborne so that he can convincingly morph into the dreaded Green Goblin (thanks to a fatal genetic illness we learn about literally the first second he is introduced to us) and proving the modern adage that more than one super villain is too much for one of the films to juggle.

The most memorable are Raleigh St. Clair (Bill Murray), a bearded intellectual who has been married to Margot for years but does not begin to know her; Eli Cash (Owen Wilson), who lived across the street, became like a member of the family, and writes best - selling Westerns that get terrible reviews; Henry Sherman (Danny Glover), who was Etheline's accountant for 10 years until they suddenly realized they were in love, and such satellites as Pagoda (Kumar Pallana), Royal's faithful servant (who once in India tried to murder Royal and then rescued him from... himself...) and the bellboy Dusty (Seymour Cassel), who impersonates a doctor when Royal fakes a fatal illness.

Set in the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, «Terminal» follows the twisting tales of two assassins carrying out a sinister mission, a teacher battling a fatal illness, an enigmatic janitor and a curious waitress leading a dangerous double life.

The official synopsis from RLJE Films reads: «In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, «Terminal» follows the twisting tales of two assassins carrying out a sinister mission, a teacher battling a fatal illness, an enigmatic janitor and a curious waitress leading a dangerous double life.

SYNOPSIS: In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, TERMINAL follows the twisting tales of two assassins carrying out a sinister mission, a teacher battling a fatal illness, an enigmatic janitor and -LSB-...]

If you are moved by the drama of the everyday, if you appreciate a sustained narrative willing to follow its characters to their best and worst places, or if you have ever watched someone who suffers from a fatal illness, or the inevitabilities of aging, lose all quality of life due to the marvels of medicine - and then wondered if medicine always is so marvelous, you will want to give this book a chance.

In fact, there is only one fatal illness, The Mildew, and if you catch that, there is nothing but The Green Room, a chamber of soothing shades that lead you comfortably, painlessly and euphorically to a place where you are no longer a burden.

THIS FACT, BEING ABSOLUTELY contrary to life's rules, provoked enormous and, in the circumstances, perfectly justifiable anxiety in people's minds, for we have only to consider that in the entire forty volumes of universal history there is no mention, not even one exemplary case, of such a phenomenon ever having occurred, for a whole day to go by, with its generous allowance of twenty - four hours, diurnal and nocturnal, matutinal and vespertine, without one death from an illness, a fatal fall, or a successful suicide, not one, not a single one.

This coverage provides a lump sum to repay outstanding payments in case of death or fatal illness.

Wet tail is one of the most fatal illnesses a hamster can get.

Your puppy will need a number of vaccinations and medications to stay healthy and avoid potentially fatal illnesses that can be caught from other dogs.