In the case of colon cancer, however, this kind of magical thinking is life threatening.
Our obesity epidemic causes debilitating illness, life threatening diseases and misery for millions of people.
One-quarter of these problems--which are often life threatening--are caused by preventable medical errors, the study says.
The 12-year-old from Halifax, West Yorkshire suffered serious but not life threatening injuries, police said.
Their minute hairs cause severe skin irritation, allergic reaction and, if breathed in, can be life threatening.
Responses to non-life threatening calls will now be assessed on care provided instead of crew response times.
President Obama is also threatening the people with increased risk of life threatening illness and higher food prices.
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Those who have life-threatening injuries are attended to first, followed by those with serious but less life-threatening injuries.
Also wounded was a 30-year-old woman, whose injury was to her lower body and not life threatening, police said.
Celeste lost both legs in the bombing and Sydney whose injuries were life threatening is expected to recover fully.
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After suffering a heart attack, doctors felt his excess weight of two stone could trigger other life threatening diseases.
During that time, it received calls for "immediately life threatening" incidents requiring a "blue lights" response within eight minutes.
"If the condition was not life threatening I would be more inclined to ask the patient to tolerate the pain".
Familiarity breeds comfort, and hopefully this education will provide some comfort to those newly diagnosed with a life threatening illness.
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Supt Jim Colwell of Devon and Cornwall Police said some of their injuries were "life threatening" as well as "life changing".
Right now, the dollar problem is chronic and debilitating, but it could become acute and economically life threatening at any moment.
The most serious that I am aware of were two women with bad head injuries - one was certainly life threatening.
Their emergency had been categorised as serious, but not life threatening - but still requiring a 30-minute response, in normal circumstances.
United Therapeutics Corporation (UTHR) is a biotechnology company that develops and markets products for life threatening as well as chronic diseases.
They added that she "is believed to have sustained life threatening injuries", and had been taken to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.
We also have to deal with events and incidents that are not only life threatening but ones that are harrowing, filthy, contagious.
It will enable patients with life threatening injuries to be flown from the hospital to the trauma centre at University Hospital Southampton.
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Dialysis is only a temporizing measure, and life threatening complications mount quickly.
It failed a standard of dealing with 75% of 999 calls in life threatening cases within eight minutes by only hitting 74%.
Although it's not life-threatening itself, the disease can lead to life-threatening complications such as pneumonia and swallowing problems, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Murph Guest from West Midlands Ambulance Service apparently wrote on a Facebook forum that he hoped Ms Bailey suffered "a life threatening illness".
Two Capitol Police officers were wounded in the gunfight, but their injuries aren't life threatening because they were wearing bulletproof vests, police said.
National guidelines state that an emergency response vehicle should reach 75% of patients deemed to be in a life threatening condition within eight minutes.
In fact, we have treated thousands of patients for free because they have a life threatening illness and it is the right thing to do.
But it said the requirement only related to patients in life threatening conditions - who make up a fifth of 999 calls to the trust.
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