Sentences with phrase «risk by the needles»

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We do not get at (or «interfere with») the underlying behavior driving the epidemic; we simply reduce the risk or harm by providing condoms, clean needles, treating the curable sexually transmitted diseases, etc..

Doctors do great disservice by telling women they will likely not be able to handle the pain, and quickly offer a «way out» (that carries the risk of a needle hitting a nerve and causing more long term pain than fully feeling a one or two day labor).

One common cause of false positives are so - called «high - risk» lesions that appear suspicious on mammograms and have abnormal cells when tested by needle biopsy.

This brings us to the second risk, which is that Lancaster's growing scale means that finding new needle - moving acquisitions that fit its disciplined approach and business model could be harder to come by.

To avoid the risk of tumor seeding (spillage of tumor cell clusters and their subsequent growth at a site adjacent to the original tumor) through cystosyntesis (a procedure in which needle is inserted into the urinary bladder of an animal through the abdomen and a sample of urine is removed), urine may be collected by free catch or catheterization.

In light of these matters, why would we want to expend the energy and resources to treat a symptom of planetary CO2 poisoning and take all the risks that LG describes when it pretty clear that the best approach is a wildly ambitious conversion to very low emission energy / transportation / agriculture systems followed by a wildly ambitious global program of CO2 sequestration / removal from the oceans and / or atmosphere to push the needle back down under 400 ppm in a decade or two at most?

Double CO2 climate scenarios increase wildfire events by 40 - 50 % in California (Fried et al., 2004), and double fire risk in Cape Fynbos (Midgley et al., 2005), favouring re-sprouting plants in Fynbos (Bond and Midgley, 2003), fire - tolerant shrub dominance in the Mediterranean Basin (Mouillot et al., 2002), and vegetation structural change in California (needle - leaved to broad - leaved trees, trees to grasses) and reducing productivity and carbon sequestration (Lenihan et al., 2003).

Those who contract the virus through sexual contact or by an accidental needle stick are regarded as lower risk groups than intravenous drug users, for instance.