Sentences with phrase «people against illness»

The scheme, which came into effect in July 1912, was intended to create a national system of insurance for working people against illness and unemployment.

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Early studies have shown some success, although doctors warn against people with mental illness self - medicating with mushrooms bought through illicit means.

Perhaps more disturbingly, it found a pattern of police using excessive force against people with mental illnesses, with little or no follow - up investigation in such instances.

However with all the knowledge we have today about mental illness, we need not make excuses for people who stand behind religion to commit crimes against humanity.

Some people have raised the question as to whether teaching an alcoholic that his drinking is an illness will not give him a heavy weapon to use against those who are trying to persuade him to stop that drinking; saying that he might then be able to shrug the whole thing off with some statement like «How can I help it — it's a disease, isn't it?»

Just as physical illness causes us to cough and have a fever against our will, mental illness causes people to do things they otherwise would not think to do.

He fought against atheism, and thought it to be mental illness, that you could not be a moral person if you did not have faith.

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.

The trend is seen as the result of advances in treatment and medication, and the decades - old mandate against needlessly confining people with mental illnesses.

Researchers concluded that the high - dose vaccine is safe, induces significantly higher antibody responses, and provides superior protection against laboratory - confirmed influenza illness compared to standard dose among persons over 65 years of age.

High - dose influenza vaccine is 24 percent more effective than the standard - dose vaccine in protecting persons ages 65 and over against influenza illness and its complications, according to a Vanderbilt - led study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

Derek Summerfield, a consultant psychiatrist with the British National Health Service, is one of the few people to speak out against the premise that mental illnesses are common in developing countries.

Using virtual tissue technology, researchers at Indiana University have identified a potential new drug target in the fight against polycystic kidney disease, an illness with no effective FDA - approved treatment that affects 200,000 people per year in the United States.

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).

A person who tends to more positively evaluate such factors would be protected against stress - related illnesses over the long term because the frequency and degree of stress reactions in that person would be reduced.

This could be an important breakthrough: Anyone who has survived a dengue - related illness has then acquired immunity against that specific pathogen, but when it comes to the other three strains, that person is at even greater risk.

People with higher levels of antibodies against the stem portion of the influenza virus hemagglutinin (HA) protein have less viral shedding when they get the flu, but do not have fewer or less severe signs of illness, according to a new study published in mBio.

«Our ultimate hope would be to use these findings to create a lipoxin - based drug for obese people to help protect them against associated illnesses, such as kidney and liver disease,» she said.

The bacteria make nisin as a poisonous defense against other bacteria, including those that cause two potentially deadly foodborne illnesses in people: botulism and listeria.

Flu vaccine is the best protection we have against an unpredictable virus which can cause severe illness and deaths each year among at - risk groups, including older people, pregnant women and those with a health condition, even one that is well managed.»

The benefits to the immune system are significant, and with the number of people we come in contact with each day, it simply makes sense to guard against infection and illness.

Following a low carbohydrate high fat diet has been proven very effective against a lot of the chronic illnesses people struggle with.

But even alternative nutritional doctor Stephen Langer, MD, author of Solved: The Riddle of Illness, the follow - up book to Broda Barnes» Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness, advises against taking iodine or kelp supplements for people with autoimmune thyroid disease.

People have used it against numerous diseases and illnesses from epileptic seizures to flu.

It has an impact on your skin, your hair and the ability of your body to move and maintain a stronger immunity against diseases and illnesses that tend to hamper people as they grow older.

As she spoke to the group and listed all the environmental and health problems troubling her people back in Window Rock — contamination, emerging illnesses, and violence against women among them — the women of Imider solemnly nodded their heads; they had been through the same.

Later she became involved with the so - called Waubra Foundation; a group that was trying to make people believe that wind turbines cause illness, that had no connection to the township of Waubra, that used the Waubra name against the wishes of the people of Waubra, and that had no right to call itself a foundation.

How mental health legislation discriminates unfairly against people with mental illness By George Szmukler, Professor of Psychiatry, King's College Mental health legislation, as currently conceived in most jurisdictions, discriminates against people with a mental illness.

Just as a person can litigate against restaurant's careless food preparation, so too can a passenger of a cruise ship file suit after becoming severely ill due to a food - borne illness.

Justice Peter Leask ruled that solitary confinement violates sections 7 and 15 of the Charter, by harming prisoners» life, liberty, and security of the person and by discriminating against Indigenous prisoners and prisoners experiencing mental illness.

I hope that he will go a long way towards indicating that there are very many factors against prosecution in the public interest in cases involving assistance to a person who is mentally capable, where she or he has a terminal illness or incurable disease and decides to have an assisted suicide in a county where it is legal.»

Young people need protection against accidents and illnesses while in a strange country.

In case of critical illness insurance policy, the insured person at his own expense must permit the insurers to perform or do any act of enforcing or securing the criminal rights or remedies against the third party who has caused the loss or injury.

The policy is designed in a way that can easily provide coverage against hospitalization expenses for illness / diseases suffered or injury sustained by the Insured person.

Health insurance premium is the amount charged by the health insurance service provider against coverage of insured person's illness / disease as inscribed in the policy prospectus.

Stronger between - group differences were found in studies with representative samples than in those with convenience samples, and in studies that compared young people with chronic illnesses against a healthy control group.

This course is based on an innovative manual that presents a powerful approach for helping people manage bipolar illness and protect against the recurrence of manic or depressive episodes.

Developing high self - esteem is essential to the young person's long - term psychological outcomes as it may serve as a buffer against the impact of parental mental illness.