Sentences with phrase «small number of illnesses»

New York's medical marijuana program is limited to a small number of illnesses, including cancer, HIV / AIDS, ALS, Parkinson's as well as severe epilepsy, among others.

It would permit a limited experiment, dispensing medical marijuana at a few hospitals for a smaller number of illnesses.

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David Magnus, PhD, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and professor of medicine and of biomedical ethics, said those concerns resonate beyond treating SMA patients, who represent a relatively small group of people, because competition is fierce for resources to treat patients with any number of illnesses for which new and more expensive treatments are emerging.

At the same time, we can not rule out that the difference in the number of contacts is caused by a small group of children who have more frequent contact with their GP because of illness,» explains Anne Mette Lund Würtz.

Although the numbers of people affected by these illnesses are relatively small, the specialist nature of their care and the risk of severe complications adds up to a significant cost - burden for their treatment.

HOWEVER, they are also more likely to suffer illness with a small number of worms, for the same reason.

[10] The Vizsla is considered to be a robust dog, but some localized breeding programs using a small number of dogs have led to heritable illnesses in some offspring, including:

Much as with our equine friends, we provide small livestock — primarily sheep and goats — with general health exams and are able to treat a number of minor illnesses and injuries.

In general, influenza infections have become less common in recent years with the exception of a small number of shelters and communities in which illness has become endemic.

However, due to the small number of studies per type of illness (N = 4 — 13), effect sizes were not tested to see if they differed significantly from zero or if illnesses differed from one another.