In some cases, as with the elderly, pregnant women and children, these older, cheaper drugs may be preferable because they are less likely to have certain side effects.
When they devote their time to representing the indigent, the elderly, battered women or refugees, we do not hesitate to say that those choices tell us something about their values.
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These six groups are nursing home residents, people with chronic medical conditions like asthma, the elderly, pregnant women, health care workers, and children from ages 6 months to 2 years, Butler said.
But we also feel pride for the courage and humanity with which our troops ... have worked and still work to make the situation tolerable for children, women, the elderly and the weak who live in that martyred region.
Criminals are inveterate cowards and bullies who seek the weakest victims possible observe their preferred prey: women and the elderly (and now children).
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The remnants, mainly women, children and the elderly, were squashed into a bakery's back yard with one latrine and little food.
The other members of the class were mostly elderly women, who gave him dirty looks.
At a housing block with Dio painted on the side, six elderly women sit chatting on park benches.
Using knives and axes, they cut throats, butchered children and the elderly, and raped women in a hellish night of demented violence one of the worst in the history of the conflict in Algeria.
The World Conference on Human Rights is deeply concerned about violations of human rights during armed conflicts, affecting the civilian population, especially women, children, the elderly and the disabled.
Sabrina Hadji, a sister of the victim, said police fired shots as people -- including women, children and the elderly -- were gathered for the ceremony.
As firefighters in Eber worked into the night to put out blazes still smouldering beneath the rubble, men stood round fires to keep warm, while women, children and the elderly packed into cars covered with blankets.
And the poverty rate for elderly single women is 23% compared with just 5% for retired couples.
He says that it's mostly the women or the elderly who get separated from their families during the bathing.
Single elderly women are the largest segment of Americans living in poverty.
Even as home health care for the elderly became professionalized, those women continued to be categorized as companions, not eligible for minimum wage or overtime.
However, those older women who still had independent lives may be able to tolerate the treatment and so cancer specialists should not assume all elderly women with advanced cancer cannot cope with the drugs.
Throughout the day, groups of Spanish women, elderly and elegant, take up residence and chatter the day away.
These are the workers - most of them low-income women - who help keep the elderly out of nursing homes.
What I mean is that Betty White is a picture of an ninety year old elderly woman who is self-sufficient , a true golden girl, which is in dramatic contrast to the 1 in 5 women in the United States who live their elderly years in poverty.
During the week-long trial the court heard Ms Young, of Pennine View, Linthwaite, Huddersfield, was alleged to have spat at Margaret Castleton, who was in her 80s, at the care home for elderly men and women.
In Vicksburg, women, children, the elderly everyone and everything endured brutal havoc wrought by new weaponry.
People of all ages enter the ring, from young children to the elderly, and participation is open to women and men alike.
Dr Feher said the results of the large study "demonstrate the effectiveness and safety of chemotherapy in elderly women with metastatic breast cancer".
Men, women, children, the elderly, the infirm and (especially) the inebriated -- they all pair off, wrap their bare hands with scarves, and give each other a friendly hug before walloping each other full-force in the face.
This is not only a costly situation but especially harmful to women, children, the elderly and disabled, who risk their safety visiting public facilities at night. 4.8 million Ghanaians (approximately 1 in 5) have no latrine at all and defecate in the open, and that the poorest quintile is 22 times more likely to practice open defection than the richest.
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External stressors such as joblessness play a role. (National figures on whether suicides increased in the 2008 recession are not in yet, but suicides generally go up in bad economic times.) The very elderly once had the highest suicide rate, but middle-aged men and women, 45 to 54 (see graph, below), have surged recently and surpassed them.
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