To examine what long-term cocaine addiction does to the brain, researchers led by neuroscientist Deborah Mash at the University of Miami took advantage of Dade County, Florida's, dismal death toll.
The reported prognosis of these two cases was dismal (death due to tumor recurrence 5 and 8 months after surgery, respectively); however, these cases were advanced tumors which needed total pancreatectomy or multivisceral resection and were difficult to simply compare with our cases.
Africa has the highest burden of maternal mortality in the world and sub-Saharan Africa is largely responsible for the dismal maternal death figure for that region, contributing approximately 98% of the maternal deaths for the region [ 1].
"Deathly Hallows Part 2" is a battle movie — dismal and death-ridden, a sort of "Götterdämmerung" for eight-year-olds.
In the courtroom, the prosecution sought to turn Dr. Kobilinsky's testimony to its advantage, using his reference to the "passive transfer" of DNA to once again go through the catalog of evidence of Nixzmary's dismal life and death.
Story Creation presents me with 12 sequential sections of the story - and already my heart sinks, because we start with The Lovers Together, move through Hero's Bemoaning of Fate and All Looking Dismal - Hero Near Death amongst others, and end with Antagonist's and Hero's Exile or Going Into Sunset.
Benjamin Carter Hett deftly summarizes this dismal period in "The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic" (Henry Holt).
The dismal years between the death of his father and the final move to Paris, in 1937, produced "Murphy," the story of an impecunious Irishman living in London — Beckett's first published novel and also his funniest.
More generally, after six years at the top – and more especially during the two since the trashing of Andrew Lansley's authority established him as the "real" health secretary on the inside – his top-down approach has come to be tainted by association with every NHS failure, including two distinct but equally dismal reports yesterday on death rates and productivity.
He blames drink for the demographic and psychological collapse of the Russian nation, for the empty and rotting settlements that scatter the country, the catastrophic rates of accidental death, and the dismal record of life expectancy and infant mortality.
This sadly brutal conflict, now eighteen months old, has a tally estimated at some thirty thousand dead, and the death rate has a dismal upward spiral.
