Sentences with phrase «of victims of these diseases»

BY GEORGE J. DACRE With author Mary Crescenzo in the audience, a cast of 13 portrayed the secrets, thoughts and frustrations of victims of the disease - Alzheimer's - that saps memories and revealed how programs can help the victims to some degree.

Not exact matches

It is also restricted almost entirely to Africa, which, unfortunately for its victims, makes it a less attractive target for big drug companies than a host of non-fatal diseases (think erectile dysfunction) that are more common in rich countries.

«We expect the incoming Trump administration to uphold the EPA's commitment and honour the past, current and future victims of asbestos - triggered diseases.»

Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease and famine, with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ.

The reason that no one died of yellow fever due to Blackburn's actions is that the disease can not be transmitted via the clothing or bedding of its victims, though no one knew it at the time.

It focuses on helping victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine.

According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims than children from other racial groups.

I am hence very sensitive to what I perceive to be attitudes of callousness toward the victims of this disease.

Adventists have been slow to become involved with the victims of this disease, for they have associated it with unworthy people.

Seriously, look into the eyes of a suffering victim of any of the multiple disfiguring, debilitating, painful diseases that your «loving» god has purportedly created.

It is said that the atomic bomb disease is not inherited by the second generation, but strangely, the children of A-bomb victims suffered unexplained physical illnesses.

Number of god's creations who died horrible deaths from the following diseases: (or were they victims of their experimentation or surprise?)

He was a typical case of the psychopathic temperament, sensitive of conscience to a diseased degree, beset by doubts, fears, and insistent ideas, and a victim of verbal automatisms, both motor and sensory.

She was frequently the victim of ill health (including breast cancer and Graves Disease) and had what we would now consider depression.

How can we believe that the one who freely forgives does not also freely choose to champion victims of disease and disability?

Death's brutality over the greater part of the last two millennia cast a long shadow over everyday life as disease, famine, and infant mortality claimed victim after victim.

Far from being passive victims of the super-size-it food race, we hustle toward the finish line of obesity and heart disease, even though our gait is slowed by our girth.

He is present with his wound and in his rejection in all the companions whom in our great disloyalty we make the victims of our distrust of God and our diseased loyalties.

Look into the eyes of a suffering victim of any of the multiple disfiguring, debilitating, painful diseases that your «loving» god has purportedly created, or those of a starving innocent child in Africa.

Never mind all the people I am not so expert in getting out of trouble, all those victims of natural disaster and disease and crime.

I watch newscasts about homeless people here and abroad, about war torn countries where people are slaughtered or sold into slavery, about children who are born with aids and die before they have a chance to live, about victims of earthquakes in China, orphanages, starving children, disease, and the list goes on and on and on.

He described the process of tracking the outbreak to Jindi as «an important piece of investigative work» that involved obtaining detailed food histories from victims, multi-jurisdictional intelligence from the federal government's food - borne diseases surveillance unit, OzFoodNet, and bacterial DNA «fingerprinting» to determine the exact strain of listeria.

Without a more diverse pool of genes to pull from, your plants are much more likely to fall victim to some inherited disease.

2 billion are victims of diseases related to food that is nutritionally imbalanced and deficient.

According to him, the ministry immediately sent its Rapid Response Team, RRT, which consisted three Doctors, Disease Notification Officers, DNOs, and an Epidemiologist to examine the victim and take sample of his blood.

«Whether it's lowering the cost of living, forcing polluters to clean up the Hudson River, or helping victims of Lyme Disease, I look forward to taking on these challenges and delivering results for the people of the Hudson Valley.»

I share the fury of ex-miner Ian Lavery, now Labour MP for Wansbeck in Northumberland, after a Con - led Government in the pocket of the insurance industry condemned victims of this terrible lung disease to die in poverty.

The coordinator said the agency in collaboration with some aid organisations assisted the victims with shelter and evacuated carcasses of dead animals to guard against outbreak of diseases.

Experts and victims of the debilitating illness recently met at Ryder Park in DeWitt in an effort to put a personal face on the disease.

People who have never been exposed to the disease also run the highest risk of infection, so mosquitoes may spread malaria to countless new victims as they follow the rains into fresh territories, say experts.

The Latin American insects are named after their habit of night time feeding on the face of the victim, often spreading the deadly Chagas disease.

But what we don't see are all the failures: the countless numbers of creatures that died in the egg or in the womb, or hatched or were born with terrible defects, or fell victim to predators or disease because of some weakness.

But over the last decade or so, the bees have fallen victim to a number of problems like parasites, pesticides, and disease, causing their numbers to dwindle 30 % each year since 2006.

Some victims had ALS - like symptoms, others exhibited the rigid posture of Parkinson's disease, and still others displayed the mental fogginess typical of Alzheimer's.

Overhyped microbes include anthrax (famous for the U.S. mail attacks in 2000), the Ebola and Marburg viruses (which can cause dramatic bleeding and high fever in their victims), and the prion agent of mad cow disease (otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), which kills people by making their nervous systems degenerate.

In the style of HIV, it can keep the disease carrier alive for a long time, infecting new victims over the course of months or years.

Uganda and South Sudan, where nodding disease is prevalent; map courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / CIA World Factbook A strange illness has been killing thousands of young people each year, and recently it has started claiming even more victims in Africa.Called nodding disease, it usually strikes children at the age of 4 or 5 years and starts with occasional bouts of uncontrolled nodding.

«The treatment of alcoholism involves a complete psychological, spiritual and emotional shift, whereby victims of the disease are released at the core of their being from the compulsion to drink.»

The disease can confer a kind of early dementia and may shorten its victims» lives by 20 years.

The study comes out as chronic diseases are rising rapidly and Alzheimer's disease is called «the disease of the century» — expected to rise from 5 million victims in 2008 to 12 million in 2030.

Tali Sharot, a University College London neurology researcher, and her colleagues asked 19 individuals between the ages of 19 and 27 to estimate their odds of experiencing 80 unfavorable events, such as contracting various diseases or being the victim of a crime.

The multi-author study, by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control's Partners for Rabies Prevention Group, also shows that annual economic losses because of the disease are around 8.6 billion US dollars, mostly due to premature deaths, but also because of spending on human vaccines, lost income for victims of animal bites and other costs.

The most dangerous and virulent pathogens, like the Ebola virus, kill their victims too quickly, so an infected person is able to spread the disease to only a relatively small number of people before succumbing.

Stealthy Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite responsible for Chagas disease, mixes its DNA with that of its victims.

The second problem terrorists face is how to infect victims with their disease of choice.

The more years of education people have, the longer it takes for them to fall victim to memory - robbing diseases like Alzheimer's.

DALYs, aptly enough, rhymes with tallies, and the metric allowed important new comparisons: not only between what kills you and what merely makes you sick, but also between, say, life in Latin America and the Caribbean; between homicide and heart disease victims; and between the relative risks of iron deficiency and alcohol abuse.

But, ultimately, these cities died; most likely a victim of the diseases brought by European explorers in the early 16th century, according to Heckenberger.

Promoting a radical new therapy, they liken the diseases to the torture endured by prison camp inmates and encourage victims, with the aid of first - person narratives, to resist the voice of their inner dictator.

Preventing an outbreak of disease among survivors has become a top priority as hope for victims not already found in the rubble dwindles to nil.