Sentences with phrase «when epidemic»

It's important to remember that when epidemic concerns exist, many local hospitals and doctors may still expect patients to pay cash up front for services.

The exhibition captures the despair, rage, and unbelievably sense of loss that afflicted the community when the epidemic was at its height.

It's in San Francisco that we meet other fiery, passionate young people yearning to find some sense of community, including Roma Guy (Emily Skeggs as a youth and Mary - Louise Parker as an adult) who becomes a women's activist and is married to Diane (Fiona Dourif and Rachel Griffith), a nurse who stepped to the forefront to take care of AIDS patients when the epidemic hit.

When an epidemic of vampirism strikes and his family is slaughtered, young Martin (Connor Paolo) is taken under the wing of a grizzled, wayward hunter (Nick Damici) whose new prey are the undead.

The allergy to sleeves, which prevents women from properly wearing their jackets, has stricken Olivia Palermo, and, and there's no telling when this epidemic will end.

«Also, RCTs are less likely to be biased when an epidemic is as complex as the current Ebola outbreak.»

«With this new theory, we can reconstruct outbreak origins with higher confidence, compute epidemic - spreading speed and forecast when an epidemic wave front is to arrive at any location worldwide,» said theoretical physicist Dirk Brockmann, who developed the ideas for this research at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO).

Another factor in the Serengeti may be that the lion population was at an all - time high when the epidemic hit.

The next likely target is the Southeast, with its sweltering temperatures and plentiful mosquitoes, but no one knows when an epidemic will come or what toll it will take.

But their findings come at a time when an epidemic of schistosomiasis in Senegal has proved difficult to treat.

When an epidemic outbreak — such as those caused by the H1N1, Zika or SARS viruses — takes place, containment measures may seem to be the most reasonable solution.

When the epidemic took off among straight people in Africa, the difficulty of confronting the different patterns of sexual relationships became clear.

Sitting beside Mr. Cuomo, Congressman Hakeem Jeffries — an increasingly vocal critic of Mr. de Blasio and rumored 2017 primary challenger — attacked the city Health Department as apparently unprepared when the epidemic struck.

When the epidemic ended in 1995, infant feeding practices were quite different.

The vaunted doctor allegedly traveled to Bermuda in 1864 when an epidemic of yellow fever broke out.

Baindlas were priests assisting at dalit festivals and sometimes at sacrifices for the whole village when epidemics like cholera visit the village.

Parkinson was born in 1755 — a time when epidemics festered in dirty, overcrowded tenements, one in two children died in infancy, bleeding was considered a cure - all, and medications containing mercury and other toxic substances did more harm than good.

«It happens nearly every holiday season and in summertime when epidemics of parvovirus occur,» she told NPR.

Not exact matches

The agents were particularly interested in the facility's practices when it came to an even smaller subset of those scheduled drugs: the highly addictive pain medicines containing oxycodone and hydrocodone that have been at the center of the nation's opioid epidemic.

Pharmacies weren't allowed to take back prescriptions until 2014 when the Drug Enforcement Administration issued new regulations in response to the growing opioid epidemic.

Some argue that when the agency did choke the supply, the epidemic simply got worse, as addicts turned to heroin.

When Sherry Turkle looks at how obsessed people have become with their personal devices, she sees the traces of another public health epidemic: obesity.

He points out a couple factors that make it hard to assign blame when it comes to the opioid epidemic — pain meds are lawful drugs, approved and regulated by the federal government, and there are «a whole lot of intermediaries: in the distribution process.

When our son came of age during the height of Florida's pill mill epidemic, Oxycontin and similar pain pills flooded the halls of our middle schools and high schools, offering cheap, quick escapes for teens struggling to find themselves.

That being said, he says he has been getting a lot of tenant interest on the phone, but it seems there has been an epidemic of «flat tires» that leads to a text message from the potential tenant letting him know they are not going to make the appointment — the last one today was outside at the curb when she sent the text:O.

Certainly, there are signs of renewed uncertainty — or at least of an approaching bear market — but it's a far better, more hopeful economy than what the nation faced in 2008 - 2009 when unemployment was growing like an epidemic and no one knew exactly where the bottom might be found.

This number is only the beginning of the problem: students across the country battle fear every day when boarding the bus in case we are the next victims in America's ongoing epidemic of school massacres.

«The premier said the right things when she promised 500 new addiction treatment spaces in the 2013 election campaign, but now we know that not only has she missed her own deadline, but she has actually reduced addiction treatment spaces for youth over the past three years while the overdose epidemic was growing,» said Horgan.

Many experts say the prescription painkiller epidemic started when physicians began over-prescribing powerful opioid medications, a well - meaning attempt to more aggressively treat patients» pain.

These viatical settlements were rare in the United States up until the late 1980s, when the AIDS epidemic peaked.

Justin, Sam and Claire also discuss the front cover feature on Christians fighting the knife crime epidemic in London, whether evangelicalism can survive the era of Trump and what to do when God doesn't heal.

A year or so ago, when I first heard of the heroin epidemic in my little Ohio town, I asked the county sheriff what the source was.

When a journalist friend asks him to cover the «suicide epidemic» in Kars, he jumps at the chance.

He testified to the court of his great anguish in having to do things in the «interests of the community» when confronted by the «hard necessity» of finding ways to protect the population against death and epidemics.

This was in the late 1980s, when the AIDS epidemic was decimating the gay community.

Yet when a local denominational leader challenged the area churches to do something about the AIDS epidemic, she had a nagging suspicion God would not leave her at the cushy clinic job.

The way to stop floods is by building dams and controlling the flow of rivers; plagues and epidemics are conquered by more precise knowledge about bacteria and viruses: why pray when through the controls made possible by our knowledge of the cause - and - effect linkage we can do for ourselves as much as can be done?

The prescription drug epidemic too off when the ads started on TV.

There is an epidemic of disillusionment, loneliness, and despair among youth.4 Learning to turn toward people, rather than away, when the roof caves in, is part of the answer.

And when I started looking into health statistics, I realized that there is a major health epidemic among Black women in this country that is hidden under the veneer of strength.

A recent article in the Times details the injurious effects of an overly - focused single - sport athletic regimen when commenced too early: «The heightened pressure on child athletes to be, essentially, adult athletes has fostered an epidemic of hyperspecialization that is both dangerous and counterproductive.»

Each word on its own is harmless, even positive, but when brought together the phrase conjures a host of controversial and unpleasant images — from the glaring fluorescent lights to greasy meals eaten in the car, meat that might not be meat and milkshakes that definitely aren't dairy, all the way up to the obesity epidemic.

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The researchers were surprised with the findings: «This was a major surprise for us — that soybean oil is causing more obesity and diabetes than fructose — especially when you see headlines everyday about the potential role of sugar consumption in the current obesity epidemic.

I notice you use a lot of olive oil in your recipes and it is a very misconception that olive oil is «healthy» when in fact it is a powerful contributor to the epidemic of obesity.

Chile, facing its own obesity epidemic, was the first country to legislate such warnings to go on the «front of the pack» where consumers can clearly see them, indicating with a simple and easy - to - understand black stop sign when foods are unhealthily high in sugar, fats, salt or calories.

Jane Martin: Well, it's very complex and it's very difficult for people to understand and we need to empower people and give them the tools to make these healthier choices when people's diets are very poor, we have an overweight and obesity epidemic and associated chronic disease.

The origin of Aromatique dates back to 1828 when it was conceived as a remedy during an epidemic in Germany's Thuringia region.

In fact you could make the agrument that racism against Newton has jumped the shark - Its a media fabrication like the heroin epidemic, when actually I've never used it so please stop telling me about how «bad» it allegdly is.

The Pelicans, who in their first year of play in 1870, as amateurs, lost to the Cincinnati Red Stockings 51 - 1, in 1887 issued first rain check in professional baseball (existing custom had been to take a fan's word for it that he had suffered from a rain - out), stoutly continued to play during raging yellow fever epidemic of 1905, stumbled on even when their home park was sold out from under them for a motel site in 1958.