Sentences with phrase «serious epidemic diseases»

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Three years after an Ebola epidemic swept across West Africa, researchers have found a clue to how the virus may live on in the eyes of survivors suffering from uveitis — one of the more serious and common complications of the disease.

Seasonal influenza is a serious respiratory disease that causes annual epidemics in humans worldwide, resulting in about three to five million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths, according to the World Health Organization.

«This potential mismatch in timing could significantly diminish the usefulness of vaccination for mitigating the epidemic and could place many at risk of serious disease,» predicted the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in a report the White House released on 24 August.

As the Zika epidemic spreads to the United States, the potential for contracting the disease via blood transfusion has emerged as a serious concern.

Periodic outbreaks of the disease in sub-Saharan Africa, including an epidemic between 2013 and 2016, caused major loss of life and serious economic disruption in the three countries where it occurred: Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

Fat is one of your body's main building blocks, yet for decades we followed a low - fat diet according to U.S. dietary guidelines, which became a high - sugar, high - refined - carb diet — contributing to an epidemic of insulin resistance, obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and many other serious health problems.

Over time, a blood sugar imbalance can lead to serious diseases like type 2 diabetes - which is now an epidemic in the U.S. with over 12 % of the adult population now considered diabetic according to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Over time, imbalances in blood sugar can lead to serious diseases like type 2 diabetes, which has sadly become an «epidemic» in the U.S with over 12 percent of the adult population now considered diabetic according the US Centers for Disease Control.

This serious health issue has been impacting the lives of most people on the planet, not just evidenced by large rates of obesity and diabetes, two modern epidemics, but also many preventable conditions such as Alzheimer's, cancer and heart disease.

Available since FDA approval in 1942, Premarin has caused an estimated 15,000 cases of endometrial cancer, representing the largest epidemic of serious iatrogenic disease ever reported.

The Medical community will soon recommend liver transplant as a solution to this deadly epidemic: — RRB - Diabetes is a very serious disease — you are at high risk of heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, impotence, cancer, amputation, blindness, gastroparesis, dementia and painful polyneuropathy.

Over consumption of processed sugar has been blamed for contributing to serious health problems like type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and the obesity epidemic, which has been sweeping western nations.

There may be a serious, deadly disease that is destroying lives and becoming an epidemic among professional athletes (if it isn't one already).

A serious disease called «feline hyperthyroidism» has risen to epidemic proportions since the first cases were diagnosed in 1979.

Such programs may deal with the contingency of a lack of medication in the event of a serious epidemic of disease, or may be part of efforts to ensure that disease treating drugs, such as AIDS drugs, are available to countries which can not afford the drug owner's price.»