Sentence examples for illness against from inspiring English sources

While medical products manufacturers pay for clinical trials of their own products, such studies often compare a drug or device's effectiveness in treating an illness against a placebo or no treatment, rather than against a competing product or treatment.

"Comparative effectiveness" studies, which compare one treatment for a particular illness against another to determine which works better, have received a lot of attention and billions of dollars in federal support in the last few years.

As a former minister of health for Mexico, I met with Mexican officials this week to consult with them on their response to the influenza, and I was impressed by how medical scientists in the country quickly perceived the unusual trend of illness against a background of standard flu and then analyzed the virus and alerted global health authorities.

The play is a series of six scenes that pits the musician enfeebled by illness against a largely taciturn north London psychiatrist, Dr. Feldmann, who, in Henry Goodman's performance, stares, eyes ablaze, at his boots while his patient alternately goes on the attack and recoils fearfully, tearily into herself, issuing boilerplate paeans to the power of art.

Measuring economic costs weighs the expense of both vaccination and illness against the net present value of the future earnings of someone who would otherwise die from the disease.Yet no matter which outcome was looked at, nor which pattern of epidemic was chosen, the result was the same.

(several answers possible): to cure some illness, against stress, to sleep, to get some stimulation, for a party, because of a traumatic event, other reason)?

Antibiotics are often prescribed for illnesses against which they are ineffective, the authors say, but even when they are properly used, the elderly and frail can be particularly susceptible to their side effects.

Immunoglobulin (Ig) M against dengue virus was present at days 4 and 35 of illness; IgG against dengue was absent on day 4 and present on day 35.

But perhaps this is where Whitaker's background as a science writer (he is the author of "Mad in America," a highly praised history of the treatment of mental illness) works against him.

He short-circuits one day on the Boston subway, losing his memory temporarily, and his search for a cure for his mysterious illness unfolds against a parallel narrative involving the execution of Socrates in ancient Greece.

Resolution of symptoms and lack of development of radiographic evidence of pneumonia by the 2nd week of illness argue against the diagnosis of SARS.