Sentences with phrase «prevent more deaths»

To prevent more deaths caused by negligent design, government agencies, consumer groups, as well as individual consumers must collaborate to raise awareness.

Only Jewel can get them the information they need to solve the string of murders and to prevent any more deaths...

Can treatment reach people fast enough to prevent more deaths?

Churches and Christians divided by race and culture have the opportunity to work together on the front lines of the fight against spiritual darkness and nurture the hope and faith that might prevent more deaths like the one Freddie Gray suffered.

He said a quick response from the local civilian guards and security forces prevented more deaths.

That first parvovirus vaccine may have prevented more deaths than it caused but who would know - there were no reporting requirements back then, not even for Adverse Reactions.

Not exact matches

We examined mortality figures for children under the age of 5 in Ethiopia and Guatemala and found that adoptions to the U.S. likely prevented the deaths of more than 600 children between 2005 and 2011.

More from Modern Medicine: 6 amazing medical advancements to expect in 2018 Third - leading cause of death in US most doctors don't want you to know New treatment aims to prevent hair loss in cancer patients

Since routine vaccination was introduced in the United States, more than 160,000 polio deaths and about 1.1 million cases of paralytic polio have been prevented.

A 2016 study by health and environmental organizations found phasing out coal by 2030 would prevent more than a thousand premature deaths and some 870 hospital visits in Canada, while saving nearly $ 5 billion in costs to society, including healthcare expenses and lost productivity.

(Want to know more about Kyle's death — and how it might have been prevented?

I personally don't see it as killing a potential baby (or more generally to»em bracing a culture of death») to prevent ovulation!

Absurd attempts to conflate atheism with despotic dictators eg:» Atheists have tortured and murdered more people in the last 100 years than were killed in all previous centuries» or slightly less inaccurately: «Atheists killed more than 100,000,000 people in the 20th century» The syllogism: — Communist despots ordered or failed to prevent the deaths of millions in the 20th century — Not believing in God is a tenet of communism — Therefore, atheists killed millions in the 20th century deliberately misrepresents atheism.

Sometimes the progress of reason is more easily measured by the discernment of unreason and by the struggle that it is destined to undergo in order to prevent the fruitless death of its possibilities.

(For an interesting global perspective on contraception, be sure to check out Rachel Marie Stone's post on the topic, where she cites this powerful statistic from USAID: «Family planning could prevent up to 30 percent of the more than 287,000 maternal deaths that occur every year, by enabling women to delay their first pregnancy and space later pregnancies at the safest intervals.

Religion bothers me because it causes more death than it prevents.

The little gelding's death has focused debate more than ever on the causes of racetrack breakdowns and on what, if anything, can be done to prevent them.

Through this partnership, we will be able to educate many more about the global maternal healthcare challenges and also raise funds to support programs that improve access to quality maternity care that can prevent unnecessary deaths at birth.»

First, it would almost certainly lead to more deaths than it would prevent.

The FACT is... more women DO die in hospital births (from things that could be prevented, or from unnecessary interventions) than in home births, and that women were NOT «dying in droves» from home births back in the day... death during birth was fairly uncommon until women were forced into dirty birth centers with doctors knocking them out and delivering their babies without being held to any sanitation standards because promiscuity was on the rise and we had to keep the «dirty women» separate from the rest of the hospital.

There are ten things a community should know to prevent sudden cardiac death, which kills an estimated 350,000 people in the United States each year, more than all forms of cancer.

In Toronto, movie much celebrated The children's agency UNICEF estimates that the deaths of more than 800,000 infants could be prevented in developing countries, especially through breastfeeding instead of bottle - feeding.

«There needs to be more education for health care providers and trainees on how to prevent suffocation deaths and to reduce SIDS and other sleep - related infant deaths — our goal is to ultimately eliminate these deaths completely.»

Even more troubling is that many of these deaths could have been prevented had the smoke detectors been operating.

Sands support anyone affected by the death of a baby and work to prevent more babies dying unnecessarily.

They conclude that risk reduction messages to prevent sudden infant deaths should be targeted more appropriately to unsafe infant care practices such as sleeping on sofas, bed - sharing after the use of alcohol or drugs, or bed - sharing by parents who smoke, and that advice on whether bed - sharing should be discouraged needs to take into account the important relationship with breastfeeding.

And it seems there couldn't be a more obvious choice — to use a baby monitor — to prevent every parent's worst nightmare, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

There would have to be one or more complications of low risk homebirths that result in death in the first week that can be prevented by being in hospital, and death from these complications would have to occur more often than low risk deaths at planned hospital births.

But following these guidelines could reduce the chances of death in at - risk babies until scientists can more fully understand how to prevent it in the first place.

While the AAP still recommends back - sleeping to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS (the Back to Sleep campaign has reduced SIDS - related deaths by more than half!)

While great progress has been achieved in recent years in preventing child occupant deaths and injuries, and increasing the correct use of child safety seats, booster seats and safety belts — thanks in no small measure to the tireless dedication of NHTSA and its many partners in the child passenger safety community — more work needs to be done to protect child occupants who remain at heightened risk.»

Whilst breastfeeding can't prevent all these issues, it certainly supports many — breastfeeding reduces sudden infant death by more than a third and it has benefits for intelligence and protection against obesity and diabetes.

More information about these recommendations can be found in a 2013 report titled: «The Inter-Association Task Force for Preventing Sudden Death in Secondary School Athletics Programs: Best - Practices Recommendations.»

Analysts estimate that population - wide reductions in sodium could prevent more than 100,000 deaths annually.

After Roosevelt's death, it was decided to amend the Constitution to formally prevent any future President from serving more than two terms.

Hounding rough sleepers out of city centres may make shoppers and tourists feel a little more comfortable while they go about their business, but it does nothing to prevent these deaths.

Many residents of the conservative - leaning borough oppose some of his more progressive policies, particularly lowering the citywide speed limit to prevent traffic deaths.

We mourn the deaths of those shot and killed, and we support those who were injured and the families of the victims, but we must also do more to prevent future shootings in our schools and on our streets.

«One in 11 Americans has diabetes, and in the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than tripled,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Making small, healthy changes to our diets and lifestyle as we age can go a long way toward preventing the onset of this terrible disease, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.»

It does not mention the one thing which would do more than any other to prevent these deaths: scrap drug testing.

The review team will bring together domestic violence - related professionals to review domestic violence homicides, in an effort to understand more fully the factors involved and determine how the system can be improved in order to help prevent future deaths.

Although motor vehicle occupant deaths among children in the United States have declined in the past decade, more deaths could be prevented if restraints were always used.

These deaths are even more tragic because they could have been prevented.

«The thinking was this: it looks like more children are dying, so as a first step, let's prevent the deaths,» Offit says.

During the 2012 - 2013 season, when H3N2 viruses were dominant, the high - dose flu vaccine was 36 percent more effective at preventing deaths in the Medicare beneficiaries studied, compared to the standard - dose vaccine.

That would mean preventing more than 59,000 deaths, the team reports in a paper published online in the American Journal of Public Health.

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report recommended actions the FDA, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and health - related organizations should take — which include promoting more judicious prescribing of opioids, expanding access to treatment for opioid use disorder, preventing more overdose deaths, weighing societal impacts in opioid - related regulatory decisions, and investing in research to better understand the nature of pain and develop non-addictive alternatives.

Cancer screening and routine tests are critical for preventing cancer deaths because cases caught early are often more treatable.

The study, spearheaded by Dagfinn Aune, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Imperial College London, shows that 7.8 million deaths worldwide could be prevented each year if people ate more fruits and vegetables.

The process saves lives: among children born in the past two decades, vaccinations will prevent more than 20 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.