It is possible that one or more debilitating wartime exposures led both to termination of active duty status and increased risk of siring an affected child; if so, the choice of study population leads to bias against observing an association.
While Dow Chemical claims that it has no liability in the Bhopal disaster and now seeks backroom deals to create an "appropriate investment climate" for itself in India, the people of Bhopal continue to suffer debilitating illnesses from exposure to contamination in their water, soil and air.
Evening light exposure debilitates the circadian rhythm and elicits sleep disturbance.
The experimental design as discribed provides a model of CNS dysfunction due to lead exposure without debilitating histopathologies.
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic, debilitating condition for which Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy is highly efficacious.
was significantly debilitated after a periods of exposure to a sub-lethal concentration of mercury (0.3 mg/L).
Worldwide, millions of people suffer debilitating health effects from inorganic arsenic exposure, including cancer and vascular, pulmonary, hematologic, neurologic, and developmental disorders [ Heck et al. 2008a; International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) 2004].
Extinction training is the basis of exposure therapy for people with debilitating phobias, but its effects aren't permanent.
Therapists use a similar method called exposure therapy to help people overcome debilitating fears, such as claustrophobia.
6 The growing population of long-term survivors has brought to the medical forefront a host of chronic and debilitating conditions attributed to toxicity from pre-transplantation exposure, transplantation conditioning regimens, chronic immunosuppression and graft versus host disease (GvHD).
