Sentence examples for devastating birth from inspiring English sources

A17 Folic Acid and Birth Defects A government decision to add folic acid to enriched grain products has reduced the occurrence of two devastating birth defects, but more needs to be done, according to recently published reports.

"A safe and effective vaccine to prevent Zika virus infection and the devastating birth defects it causes is a public health imperative," Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a statement.

The Zika virus began spreading quickly in the Americas last year and, by last fall, doctors in northeast Brazil were linking the infection to microcephaly, a devastating birth defect in which babies are born with shrunken heads and brains.

Despite having the potential to significantly reduce the passage of many lethal diseases and devastating birth defects, mitochondrial replacement therapy a controversial medical procedure in which mitochondrial RNA from a healthy female replaces the mitochondrial RNA from the intended mother in vitro will have no place in the United States anytime soon.

Although folate is present in a variety of leafy green vegetables, fruits, legumes, and meats, until the late 1990s, many Americans didn't get their RDA of 400 mcg from foods — and folate deficiencies during pregnancy sharply increase the risk of devastating birth defects.

Meanwhile, a week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the link between the Zika virus and a devastating birth defect, House Republicans have yet to act on a $1.9 billion White House request for emergency funding to combat the tropical epidemic.

"Agent orange", a mixture of chemicals including herbicides and dioxin, used by the US Army in the Vietnam war, not only caused devastating disabilities and birth defects in the Vietnamese population, it also affected the offspring of exposed US soldiers.

Over the past few years, as impacted coal mining residents have pleaded for basic civil rights and environmental protection, around 20 peer-reviewed studies have suggested higher risks and links between reckless strip mining and devastating health impacts, including birth defects, cancer and chronic heart, lung, and kidney disease.

But I hope it's all right to say that, managed with such gentleness and sensitivity by the staff, Helen's death felt oddly like the labour of birth: exhausting and devastating, yes, but natural too and, in some strange way, productive.

We have given birth to a devastating global financial crisis that has plunged millions of innocents into starvation, joblessness and homelessness.

(FG 3) " The default assumption that all parents in the labor and delivery suite are celebrating the joyous occasion of a healthy birth can be devastating for parents who have a stillbirth, and physicians in the discussions appreciated this tension and described efforts to offer privacy.