Sentence examples for ravaging patients from inspiring English sources

It is a leading cause of death, ravaging patients and their families.

The Oregon law, the first assisted suicide act approved in any state, is a model of carefully controlled compassion for patients ravaged by painful, incurable diseases.

(That's why in patients with H.I.V., which ravages the cells that the body uses to defend itself, tuberculosis becomes particularly deadly).

Unaware that the hospital was filling beyond capacity with patients transferred from facilities ravaged by the tempest elsewhere in the city.

The company did not expect its drug to reverse the disease -- patients' brains were too ravaged for that, said Richard Mohs, Lilly's team leader in Alzheimer's research.

There are new scans and other tests, like spinal taps, to find signs of the disease early, enabling researchers to think of testing drugs before patients' brains are so ravaged.

As I wrote at the time: As the disease ravages the brain and erases memory, patients who have been married for years, even most of their lives, may stop recognizing their spouses.

The same cells that ravage the cartilage of rheumatoid arthritis patients also carry the disease from joint to joint, a new study suggests.

In each case, cholera started after the arrival of patients who fled from the ravaging epidemic in the Artibonite delta.

He also recently lost a close colleague to pancreatic cancer, who like other patients with the disease was ravaged by the side effects of chemo.

Patients with HIV/AIDS have been ravaged by cryptococcosis – an estimated one million new cases occur each year, and mortality approaches 50%.