That's why I introduced H.R. 85033, the Life-Sustaining Prescription Drug Relief Act of 2019, which would lower the cost of life-sustaining prescription drugs for seniors and others on Medicare.
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"We're still in life saving, life sustaining mode," Long said.
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Anthony Black's play is about the life-sustaining power of creating art.
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Life-sustaining medications were on the market, for people who could pay.
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But marriage isn't the life-sustaining partnership that Frances needs to thrive.
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Advocates say the substances can be life-sustaining for millions of patients.
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This life sustaining power system is huge but it is also fragile.
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Guyger did little to provide life-sustaining aid to Jean, despite her training.
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Direct care workers are providing critical life-sustaining services to individuals and families.
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For many farmers, turning their land into a destination has been life sustaining.
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Together, they rake in billions while patients dangerously ration this life-sustaining medication.
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This is especially troubling when the prescription is for a life-sustaining drug.
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Tom Wolf issued an order Thursday for all "non-life-sustaining" businesses to close.
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Tom Wolf issued an order Thursday for all "non-life-sustaining" businesses to close.
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Tom Wolf (D) shuttered all businesses that are not considered "life-sustaining" effective Thursday night.
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They face a cruel choice: basic, life-sustaining services, or denial of relief and deportation.
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Throughout the night, the cow-ladies' utters swell with the growing yield of life-sustaining liquid.
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Beauty is omnipresent in my works, as the essence of life sustaining processes supporting our planet.
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Moreover, he will be forever dependent on life-sustaining measures, unable even to breathe for himself.
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So did engaged Democrats who watch MSNBC and treat Twitter like a life sustaining oxygen machine.
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But Obamacare protections, he says, ensure his son will keep getting the life-sustaining treatment he needs.
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No provider anywhere is required to prescribe medical-aid-in-dying medication or withdraw life-sustaining support.
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Tom Wolf ordered all businesses except those that are "life-sustaining" to shut down until further notice.
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But the data shows the market for many prescription drugs is broken, especially for life-sustaining medications.
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"We are still in response mode, that so that means life-saving, life-sustaining" operations, Bossert said.
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This essential funding will provide life-saving and life-sustaining shelter, medical care and nutrition to refugees.
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Check out our news Stream for more news (like Mars's possibly life-sustaining moon) with smart brevity, here.
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"This is very much still a life-saving, life-sustaining response effort," two senior FEMA officials said Tuesday.
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"The priority in the affected areas should remain focused on life-saving and life-sustaining activities," it added.
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For my patient's guardian to discontinue unwanted life-sustaining therapies, she had to petition a probate court judge.
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People with Type 1 diabetes are dying in this country because they cannot afford their life-sustaining medicine.
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Non-life-sustaining businesses were ordered to close their physical locations in Pennsylvania, per the CBS Philly affiliate.
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That ambiguity can raise ethical questions about how to manage or ultimately end such a person's life-sustaining care.
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Accordingly, the state orders that his life-sustaining measures be withdrawn for the very purpose of ending his life.
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Thankfully, President Trump's new national security strategy would protect electric grids and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures from EMP.
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But the reality is that many people remain uncomfortable with (natural, necessary, life-sustaining) public pumping and breast-feeding.
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The governor later updated the state's list of "life-sustaining businesses" to include gun stores -- but with some limitations.
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Fema is actively supporting TX with search & rescue, mass care, disaster medical services, temp power, and life sustaining commodities.
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Neither the Pope nor the Catholic Church simply insist upon life-sustaining measures, regardless of a patient's condition or circumstance.
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The term applies to someone receiving CPR, in respiratory arrest, or requiring and receiving life-sustaining ventilator or circulatory support.
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But he still needs to discover a potentially life-sustaining planet, and now he has to do it from home.
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The governor of Pennsylvania ordered all non-life-sustaining businesses to close their physical locations as of 8 p.m. Thursday.
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The Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) plan to enforce the closures of non-life-sustaining businesses that were ordered by Gov.
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In fact, it's a policy so poorly designed that it's negatively impacting patients and businesses that provide life-sustaining care.
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They are being denied coverage for life-sustaining or curative treatment and being offered less expensive assisted suicide drugs instead.
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Trump's recent decision to cut off millions in life-sustaining aid to Palestinians has only seemed to make things worse.
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They can request palliative sedation, refuse artificial nutrition and hydration, or request the removal of life-sustaining medical treatment or equipment.
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They just want to drink a few life-sustaining sips and leave before anyone shows up with garlic and a crucifix.
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In the United States, we generally let patients and their families, rather than courts, decide when to terminate life-sustaining treatment.
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In each of these cases, a family member was requesting "continued aggressive life-sustaining treatments, things like multiple amputations," she said.
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Your baby continues to decline to the point that he requires life-sustaining measures, including artificially assisted food, fluids, and ventilation.
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Life-sustaining businesses that may continue to operate include gas stations, farms, health care facilities, and transit systems (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
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He said he was overwhelmed by the pain of a broken bone and worried his life-sustaining air would run out.
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Such an extreme radiation environment can easily fry life-sustaining electronics that get near it ("near" here meaning millions of miles).
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To remove life-sustaining treatment from this child is not murder; it is simply an act of kindness and humane sympathy.
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The reason there are no life-sustaining devices in our romantic musings of death is that there just weren't any available.
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Dripping in Balmain is a luxury, certainly, but it pales in comparison to hoarding life-sustaining natural resources for their aesthetic value.
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He omitted to add that, as with love, many people have a strong moral aversion to paying for the life-sustaining liquid.
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There's no moral justification for insulin—or any life-sustaining medication—to be kept from anyone on the basis of money alone.
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And as water temperatures rise, vast expanses of life sustaining coral, such as Australia's Great Barrier Reef, are also bleaching and dying.
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They want to keep fighting for Charlie and appear not to regard his disability as a warrant to discontinue life-sustaining measures.
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They permitted the removal of life-sustaining therapy when a competent patient made a choice based on their perceived quality of life.
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"Who are you?" the mother asked, peering at this stranger holding her swaddled son, life-sustaining wires taped to his tiny cheek.
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Without this charitable aid, hundreds of thousands of Americans would not be able to access their life-saving and life-sustaining treatments.
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" He added: "The United States should not be a place where children seeking life-sustaining medical care are at risk of apprehension.
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They have been blessed with a unique planetary patrimony, whose value is intrinsic and life-sustaining as much as it is commercial.
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Being sick is not a crime that warrants death, yet Alfie's condition was treated as justification for withholding basic life sustaining care.
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Patients should also document their preferences for conservative measures in advance directives, including state P.O.L.S.T. (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment) forms.
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I spent weeks in the ICU leading up to the transplant and utilized every piece of life-sustaining medical equipment to stay alive.
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The Congressional EMP Commission has called for hardening the U.S. electric grid and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures against EMP and cyber-attack.
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" Rosselló said there have been "investigations" into the "proper management" of resources, but "our efforts still at this moment are life-sustaining efforts.
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They "must pay all or at least a portion of an artificially inflated price for their life-sustaining insulin," according to the lawsuit.
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Extrapolating the math, NASA scientists now believe that there are tens of billions of potentially life-sustaining planets in the Milky Way alone.
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"The degree to which some of our own manufacturers rely on China to produce life-saving and life-sustaining medications is inexcusable," Sen.
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We need to stand up for seniors and give Medicare the tools it needs to drive down the prices of life-sustaining drugs.
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But now, thank god, some mad scientist has figured out a way to fry the purest, most life-sustaining property there is: water.
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"We are still in response mode, and that means lifesaving, life-sustaining," homeland security adviser Tom Bossert told reporters at the White House Thursday.
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If it's not a life-sustaining substance, or an item required to build something I need immediately, I have no problems leaving it behind.
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For example, patients waiting for kidney transplants are often placed on dialysis as a life-sustaining solution, which is a difficult and costly treatment.
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Studying the data, Seager supported the discovery and agreed that it might boast a life-sustaining — or at least non-life-threatening — surface temperature.
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I introduced this legislation because seniors who rely on life-sustaining drugs can't simply vote with their wallet to fight back against price-gouging.
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With so many life-sustaining technologies now able to keep us alive almost indefinitely, many believe that a "natural" death is a good one.
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But hydropower dams on the river are hurting fish stocks and eroding soil fertility, potentially jeopardizing the Mekong's future as a life-sustaining ecosystem.
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In the final months of school, I'd worked in the ICU, taking care of critically ill patients who required breathing tubes and life-sustaining machines.
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Clair's mother described how their family decided to turn off her husband Amos' life-sustaining machines in a heart-wrenching blog on the family's website.
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He claims he is not a "vitalist" and accepts the right of competent adult patients to refuse life-sustaining therapy, when death is not sought.
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Life-sustaining approach: Organic farmers invest in truly life-affirming techniques, which build crop resilience, soil health, biodiversity, increased farm jobs and no toxic chemicals.
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"Physician orders for life sustaining treatment," or POLST, forms are a relatively new option for consumers to dictate their end-of-life wishes, Florian said.
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Baby Simon was born with a Trisomy 85033 — a serious congenital illness that required life-sustaining medical treatment, but one that is not necessarily fatal.
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And not just in the West; the life-sustaining dynamics are at play in the mountains of Europe, the Andes, the Himalayas and New Zealand.
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Failure to work collaboratively to address medical data vulnerabilities would be failing the patients — the millions of Americans — who rely on these life-sustaining devices.
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It also said that a review of its records from 2012 onward found no indication that anyone at the address required life-sustaining medical equipment.
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Charlie's parents appealed further to the European Court of Human Rights, which on June 27 concurred that the hospital could legally remove life-sustaining therapies.
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Cook Children's Medical Center must provide the girl with life-sustaining care until the courts make their final decision or issue other orders, he said.
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It's a precursor to setting up a process for the secretary of HHS to review the cost of life-sustaining prescription drugs for excessive pricing.
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Attached to the wall of the uterus, the placenta is what allows life-sustaining oxygen and nutrients to pass from the mother to the fetus.
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Millions of pounds of hippo feces are deposited into Africa's rivers every year, and without this massive payload, they would be starved of life-sustaining nutrients.
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He explained that shortages in medicines and supplies are persistent and widespread and people with chronic diseases are dying because they cannot access life-sustaining treatments.
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Since they seem convinced that nothing can restore such functioning, the only "beneficial" intervention is to terminate Charlie's life-sustaining measures and for him to die.
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A play about the life-sustaining power of art-making and the soul-extinguishing peril of selling out, it valorizes suffering in the pursuit of greatness.
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They were convinced that he would never recover higher cognitive functioning nor be restored from his state of profound dependency and reliance upon life-sustaining measures.
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Wolf said Thursday that all businesses had to close amid the pandemic, except for "life-sustaining" businesses like grocery stores, gas stations, farms and transit systems.
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In the history of Mars exploration ever since, the more we learn, the more we think it could have had a watery, perhaps life-sustaining past.
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The wall would obstruct wildlife from migrating to breeding and nesting sites, displace hundreds of species, prevent gene flow, and alter the life sustaining hydrologic cycle.
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We are completely dependent upon our electric grid to help us sustain, not only food distribution, but also water, sanitation, heat, and most life sustaining essentials.
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In each of these cases, coverage for the more expensive, life sustaining or curative treatment was denied or delayed and assisted suicide drugs were offered instead.
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A single satellite, if nuclear-armed, detonated at high-altitude would generate an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) capable of blacking out power grids and life-sustaining critical infrastructure.
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I stand ready to work with any of my colleagues and an administration that wants to develop thoughtful changes that maintain protections for this life-sustaining resource.
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The diabetic community became increasingly active online, with activists like Laura Marston acting as go-to curators of news and analysis related to their life-sustaining drug.
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People who read and write literature like to invoke the myth that storytelling is an emancipatory, even life-sustaining, exercise, but in Topics its potential feels suspect.
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Some cities, like Miami, also offer programs for those who are unable to evacuate on their own (such as homebound residents or those on life-sustaining medical equipment).
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Maria downed electricity and wreaked havoc on the ability of Puerto Ricans to meet their life-sustaining needs by disrupting access to health services, safe water, and transportation.
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A living will is a separate legal document that states whether or not you want life-sustaining treatment if you're incapacitated and can't make decisions on your own.
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And, most importantly, we should always resist the temptation to terminate life-sustaining measures because of our judgment that the disabled patient's life is no longer worth living.
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That 1987 treaty, the Montreal Protocol, began phasing out the production and use of ozone-depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which were harming our life-sustaining atmosphere.
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While 77 percent of the patients considered high risk by physicians said they would consider LVAD, 66 percent of them said they would decline other life-sustaining therapies.
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This stimulates the dopamine system, which tries to reward life-sustaining activities with pleasurable feelings, but in these cases are thought by some to cause an addictive euphoria.
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Measurements made by NASA's late-great Cassini probe indicate the presence of life-sustaining chemicals within the plume, including organic and nitrogen-bearing molecules, salts, silicates, and molecular hydrogen.
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"Further study of the [EEG] during the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies will add clarity to medical, ethical and legal concerns for donation after circulatory determined death," they said.
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While the answer remains unclear, there's a tonne of research being conducted to determine just what life-sustaining planets beyond Earth might exist — and what they might look like.
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Currently "implantable, life-sustaining, or life-supporting devices" that are intended to be used more than once are required to include UDIs on their packages and the device itself.
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Parents are rightly at the "heart" of decisions made about life-sustaining treatment for critically ill children, noted Dominic Wilkinson, director of medical ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre.
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We break down camp rapidly, packing gear in the back and anything life-sustaining—food, water, the propane heater—up front, in case we get stranded on the road.
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This can happen on a number of fronts, for example, when insurers have denied or delayed coverage for expensive life sustaining care but offered coverage of lethal drugs instead.
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Because life-sustaining NIV technology doesn't operate itself, respiratory therapists must use their expertise to maintain, troubleshoot, and update the machines as necessary for the entire duration of treatment.
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I'm thinking through the state's sovereignty on violence, and how repeated arbitrary violence has been used against Black folks in particular as a life-sustaining practice for the dominant culture.
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Bad wigs are the noxious fumes that crowd out everything else; they slowly fill the frame until that's all you can focus on, that distinct lack of life-sustaining oxygen.
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From the image thus formed (though by a mechanism as yet unelucidated) Synechocystis can thus work out which direction the life-sustaining light is coming from, and travel towards it.
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"If you have life-sustaining treatment you're going to provide it," said Dr. Lainie Friedman Ross, a pediatrician who is a professor of medical ethics at the University of Chicago.
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But by destroying electric grids and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures, the indirect effects of EMP can kill far more people in the long-run than nuclear blasting a city.
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"It just didn't seem like people were taking it all that serious.." Starting March 23, Governor Tom Wolf ordered all non "life-sustaining" businesses in the state to shut down.
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Workers who are experiencing harassment or endangerment could press their bosses for concessions without fearing that losing their job automatically means becoming unable to afford life-sustaining prescription drugs, for example.
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It has even been courted by modern day figures like entrepreneur Peter Thiel, who makes no bones about his desire to inject himself with the life-sustaining fluids of the young.
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Today is World Water Day, intended to highlight the importance of fresh water, promote its sustainable management, and focus on actions needed to protect and conserve this critical, life-sustaining resource.
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Loss of economic activity because businesses can't open, schools closed, perishable foods going bad, mobile phones can't be charged and people with medical dependencies unable to plug in life sustaining equipment.
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Lilly, along with other major insulin makers, Sanofi SA and Novo Nordisk, has been under mounting pressure from patients and politicians over the rising cost of the life-sustaining diabetes treatment.
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On Thursday, Judge Sandee Bryan Marion ruled that Cook Children's Medical Center can end Tinslee's life-sustaining treatment, after doctors concluded her condition would never recover and that Tinslee was suffering.
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This step will place an already vulnerable population at a high risk of no longer being able to access this life-sustaining equipment and services outside of long-term care institutions.
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Our favorite life-sustaining breath molecule also sustains life below the ocean's surface, so add this to your stack of reasons we should be doing something, anything at all, about climate change.
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Even though denied official registration, L.G.B.T.I. groups have bravely sprouted up as informal associations in most parts of Uganda; they provide social and other forms of life-sustaining support to their peers.
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Consider that white and any doctors engage much more in the actual facilitating of the deaths of their patients when they remove life sustaining treatment, a feeding tube, ventilator, cardiac device, etc.
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They live in a nation that, because of the free market, gives great incentives to drug companies to spend millions of dollars on research to find life-sustaining and life-prolonging treatments.
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Although liquid water, that all-important life sustaining substance, might exist on the surface of this planet, its 11-day orbit and strong radiation would create a climate very different from Earth's.
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So listen up cool kids who secretly crave the life-sustaining refreshment of H2O, now you can show that you care about staying properly hydrated without sacrificing any of your street cred.
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As a result, many a hiker has strayed off-trail to tinkle and found mountain goats lurking, eager to lick a rock or eat a plant drenched in fresh, life-sustaining urine.
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Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) would require drug manufacturers to report imminent or forecasted shortages of lifesaving or life-sustaining medical devices to the FDA, as they currently must do for pharmaceuticals. Sen.
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Despite the Gards' express desire to continue life-sustaining measures and to travel abroad, the Great Ormond Street Hospital went to the British courts in April seeking permission to remove life support.
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Gorsuch then declares, baldly — and quite falsely, in my view — that physician-assisted suicide, as opposed to the withdrawal of life-sustaining care, always involves a doctor who intends to harm his patient.
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A puree of life-sustaining goop syringed into your mouth by a friendly, non-unionized stranger might seem far-fetched now, but recall that two-day shipping was similarly unimaginable before Amazon Prime.
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New York, which uses forms called Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment, or MOLST, has a different system, a web-based application that allows completion of and access to forms at sites statewide.
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This mass surveillance is causing eligible families not to apply for life-sustaining supports like food stamps, to avoid getting the health care they need and to pull their children out of school.
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In a landmark ruling in 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court found unanimously that the father of Karen Ann Quinlan had the right to decide to forgo life-sustaining treatment on her behalf.
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"Inmates are at the mercy of their jailers for basic life-sustaining necessities like water, food and medical care," a court filing signed by Kurt Benkley, an assistant district attorney, said in March.
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And high out-of-pocket costs, absurd hospital billing practices and ever-rising prescription drug prices have forced too many people to skip crucial treatments, avoid emergency rooms and ration life-sustaining medications.
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A team of Australian researchers found that bees buzzing around biodiverse, wooded areas had higher metabolic rates, meaning their little furry bodies were performing life-sustaining functions faster than bees in a deforested landscape.
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The main priority was treating injuries from the war, including burns from incendiary and "bunker buster" bombs, and eastern Aleppo's 30 doctors were having to focus on life-saving and life-sustaining care only.
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"We are deeply concerned by the humanitarian consequences of this decision on life-sustaining assistance to children, women and men in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip," the letter said.
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Not only the aftermath of games, ritual objects, and gifts left behind, but also what was rich and ebullient soil slowly losing its life-sustaining properties to the harshness of the brittle city air.
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A 2010 New York State law, for instance, lets the legal guardians of people with intellectual disabilities withdraw life-sustaining therapies as long as doing so fits the guardian's sense of the patient's wishes.
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After doctors in California declared her dead, McMath was transported to a hospital in New Jersey, which kept her on the life-sustaining treatment until she finally died of liver failure on June 22.
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Still widely consumed in the Andean highlands, locals homebrew the concoction through a series of methodical steps involving the germination of jora (a type of yellow corn), a crop revered for its life-sustaining attributes.
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In the otherwise barren space 220 miles above Earth&aposs surface, a capsule of life-sustaining…Read more ReadEvidence from earlier spaceflight has shown that E. coli and salmonella grow faster and stronger in microgravity.
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In New Hampshire, where I practice, and in many other states, legal guardians of people with intellectual disabilities can make most medical decisions but, by law, they cannot decline life-sustaining therapies like mechanical ventilation.
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On Thursday, Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf ordered all businesses in the state that are not "life sustaining" must shut down, or face strict penalties, as the number of people infected by the novel coronavirus increases.
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With the support of their four children, he authorized Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, known as a Molst form, stating that if his wife's heart or lungs failed, she should be allowed to die.
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"Here we are months after this storm and we are debating if we should still be sending these emergency -- really emergency, and life sustaining -- supports, or (should we) transition into this recovery process," Peek said.
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African-Americans tend to have a greater preference for life-sustaining treatments — perhaps due to mistrust of the health system because of prior injustices — and are more willing to exhaust personal finances to extend life.
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Many patients may lose access to life-sustaining equipment and clinical support soon due to the inclusion of complex breathing machines (noninvasive ventilators) in a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) competitive bidding program.
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Last Thursday, Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf ordered all businesses in the state that are not "life sustaining" must shut down, or face strict penalties, as the number of people infected by the novel coronavirus increases.
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Dr. Anderson points to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a cornerstone of modern psychology: The need to belong and become part of a group comes immediately after our life-sustaining basic needs — like food, water, and safety.
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Not long after the shock of Laurie's fatal accident, the news came of a 14-year-old Wisconsin girl with S.M.A., Jerika Bolen, who was planning to end her own life by refusing life-sustaining treatment.
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Research shows that younger doctors are more likely to discuss important but difficult issues with critically ill patients such as prognosis, preferences for life-sustaining treatments, hospice and the place where patients may want to die.
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But there is a newer and more comprehensive document, covering a variety of health care choices beyond resuscitation and carrying legal weight in any setting, called a Polst (short for "physician orders for life-sustaining treatment").
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Still others resort to desperate measures to make sure they can afford their life-sustaining drugs, including selling their houses or cars, moving in with family, or staying in unhappy marriages or jobs for the insurance.
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Historically, the practice has been "if in doubt, err on the side of aggressive, life-sustaining treatment," said Thaddeus Pope, who directs the Health Law Institute at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minn.
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Conservative politicians oppose the 10-day rule and say it should be families of the people on life support, not hospitals, that should decide if and when a person is removed from the life-sustaining technology.
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The Danish company is pinning its hopes on a relatively new treatment for type 22.03 diabetes as its older insulin drugs face political pressure over the soaring cost of the life-sustaining medicine in the United States.
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But, fundamentally, choosing against a life-sustaining measure because it is unduly burdensome or futile with the foreseeable consequence of an earlier death is not the same thing as declining or discontinuing care to directly facilitate dying.
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It is estimated that up to 40 per cent of women between the ages of 15-30 with Type 1 diabetes will not give themselves the life-sustaining insulin injections they need in order to lose weight.
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The dispatcher will have the discretion to determine whether a situation qualifies as urgent and "life sustaining," and the program will cover things as minor as grocery shopping and as major as a medical emergency, Cochran says.
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An EMP attack will kill far more people than nuclear blasting a city through indirect effects — by blacking out electric grids and destroying life-sustaining critical infrastructures like communications, transportation, food and water — in the long run.
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As our physical and virtual worlds continue to meld, bad actors are not only attempting to steal sensitive information but also manipulate life-sustaining internet-connected medical devices, such as internal defibrillators, pacemakers and automated insulin pumps.
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Researchers also assessed whether patients were willing to consider other life-sustaining therapies to treat advanced heart failure, such as ventilation to help with breathing, dialysis to do the job of failing kidneys or a feeding tube.
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To withdraw all forms of life-sustaining treatment is simply a humane act as well as saving large amounts of scarce medical expenses in the millions that can be used to aid those who can be helped.
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This scenario occurs all too frequently in the neurosurgical I.C.U. Doctors often delay the withdrawal of life-sustaining supports such as ventilators and IV drips, and nurses continue these treatments — adhering to protocols, yet feeling internal conflict.
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Here are some other Australian ecosystems to keep in mind: Stretching 27,000 square miles along Australia's southern coast, this life-sustaining seaweed forest could be decimated by the end of the century, according to a recent study.
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Alonzo Peña, who served as deputy director of ICE during the George W. Bush administration, told POGO that undocumented immigrants could be deterred from seeking life-sustaining services if they knew immigration officials were using facial recognition software.
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When the earthquake brought down the Mexico City building in which the locksmith was working, Mendez was trapped for 453 hours, overwhelmed by the pain of a broken bone and worried his life-sustaining air would run out.
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The data also shows that minorities tend to be more willing to invest substantial financial resources into life-sustaining treatments, but simply changing this mindset and increasing hospice enrollment will not eliminate racial disparities observed within hospice care.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two powerful U.S. lawmakers sent letters to the three leading insulin manufacturers on Wednesday requesting information on why its cost has skyrocketed in recent years and how much the companies profit from the life-sustaining diabetes treatment.
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Children's Books To my 4-year-old, I'm either the sun — the central, life-sustaining force around which his whole existence orbits — or he himself is the sun and his father and I are mere rocks circling him ceaselessly.
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It's not hyperbole to say that this interconnectivity carries the potential for catastrophic risk given society's increasing dependence on internet-connected systems — such as self-driving cars, industrial machines, or medical devices — for critical or even life-sustaining functions.
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If your family rejects you and your peers reject you, it is possible to develop negative ideas about yourself and your identity, and these damaging views can last a lifetime, leading the trans person away from life-sustaining resources.
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The Texas Second Court of Appeals granted a motion for emergency relief Friday evening, ordering Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth not to withdraw life-sustaining treatment for Tinslee Lewis until it makes a decision on the case.
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To me, if a human being is in the hospital with intensive, life-sustaining therapies such as artificial respiration, nutrition or dialysis sustaining them with little hope of recovering reasonable brain function, such a state could be considered necrosis.
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In both parts of the then-undivided peninsula, my grandmother lived according to the rhythm of the changing seasons; in her later years, she loved recalling the harvests of her youth, when Korea's fields were bursting with life-sustaining golden grain.
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After painstakingly convincing my husband that he'd still have access to his precious, vital, life-sustaining ESPN through any number of streaming services, we made the irreversible leap to the land of the cordless, and my GOD, it has been wonderful.
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According to the Congressional EMP Commission, a single warhead delivered by North Korean satellite could blackout the national electric grid and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures for over a year—killing 9 of 10 Americans by starvation and societal collapse.
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A White House official's praise of the government response to Hurricane Maria drew a sharp rebuke from the mayor of San Juan, as Puerto Ricans grew desperate in the aftermath of the storm, struggling to obtain basic life-sustaining supplies.
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"If we do not get the needed fuel within the next 48 hours, we will not be able to continue water service for public health and safety, such as fire suppression and other life-sustaining activities," the water utility said.
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Judge Sandee Bryan Marion of the Tarrant County district court sided with Cook Children's Medical Center that Tinslee Lewis's life-sustaining treatments should end after doctors said the infant is in pain and will not get better, The Associated Press reported.
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The Danish firm is pinning growth hopes on a relatively new treatment for type 2 diabetes as its traditional insulin drugs are in the firing line amid political pressure over the soaring cost of the life-sustaining medicine in the United States.
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The Congressional EMP Commission warns a North Korean high-altitude EMP attack could blackout the grid and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures nationwide for months or years, killing 90 percent of the population through starvation and societal collapse—with a single warhead.
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After an ethics committee determined that further treatment for Tinslee "would be inappropriate and should not be continued," the hospital invoked a state law that gives families 10 days to find another medical facility for a patient before it withdraws life-sustaining treatment.
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Last year, Congress passed the Critical Infrastructure Protection Act, which requires DHS to develop plans to protect and recover the electric grid and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures from EMP, and to work on pilot projects demonstrating the grid can be protected.
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The drugmaker has been working to retain its position as a leader in diabetes care with newer drugs like Trulicity, Jardiance and Basaglar, as its top-selling insulin product Humalog faces increased competition and political pressure over the soaring cost of life-sustaining insulin.
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It provides life-sustaining health coverage to low-income Americans and life-enabling support to both children and adults with disabilities, giving them the tools they need to live independently within communities, to go to school and to seek work in their chosen fields.
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EMP hardening would mitigate worst-case cyber and other threats to the electric grid (at a projected cost of $85033 billion to $4 billion) and other life-sustaining critical infrastructures (costing $10 billion to $20 billion) — using private money, at no cost to government.
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These individuals, who seek to privatize veteran health care as an alternative to government-run V.A. care, unfortunately fail to engage in realistic plans regarding who will care for the more than 9 million veterans who rely on the department for life-sustaining care.
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The next day, we began to learn how several congenital defects had made Violet's heart ''incompatible with life,'' and how a cardiothoracic surgeon could cut apart veins and arteries and sew them back together in a life-sustaining pattern over the course of three open-heart operations.
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As the number of Americans with these conditions has markedly increased, we've found ourselves treading water – trying to ensure access to quality treatment for those who need care, slow the number of new diagnoses, and identify ways to continually improve upon (and fund) life sustaining care. Rep.
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"Our immediate focus is on providing life-saving resources including: urban search and rescue teams, generators for temporary power restoration to critical infrastructure, and life-sustaining commodities such as food and water," said William Booher, director of public affairs for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
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Pennsylvania previously ordered the closure of all businesses except those considered "life-sustaining," and Philadelphia's new order on Sunday clarified some of those categories while also ordering people to stay home except to get groceries, care for family members, obtain medical attention, or other essential personal activities.
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"The Rohingya have little left besides their group name after years of statelessness, discriminatory restrictions on movement and access to life-sustaining services, and being targeted by a military subjecting them to ethnic cleansing and atrocities," said Phil Robertson, deputy director for Human Rights Watch in Asia.
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Horrifying stories of Hurricane Maria's impact on Puerto Rico's sickest and most vulnerable are now trickling in: a newborn who couldn't get a scheduled surgery for her heart defect because the storm closed down her hospital, an elderly woman with diabetes struggling to keep her life-sustaining insulin cool.
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"All patients admitted to the hospital for a stroke should have a conversation with the clinical team about their goals of care, which should include a discussion about life-sustaining interventions," said lead author Dr. Maisha T. Robinson of the neurology department at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida.
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"Patients who have not documented their preferences for life-sustaining treatments and who are unable to engage in the conversations during the hospitalization due to cognitive or functional impairment must rely on their designated health care surrogates or their proxies to make decisions on their behalf," Robinson said.
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"We're going to go back for more and ask for that in the form of an emergency supplemental to provide money into the fund that does this life-sustaining effort and even some of the early recovery efforts," Bossert said during a press briefing at the White House.
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And in the rural communities where these cuts are now hitting hardest, home respiratory therapy providers are serving their neighbors, friends, and family members – fighting to find ways to continue providing this life-sustaining care without going out of business while they work with Congress to find a solution.
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But the temporary restraining order granted Thursday gives dialysis providers more time to fight a rule that they say will "dramatically disrupt" patients' ability to get private insurance that is suited to their needs, and interfere with their access "to life-sustaining medical treatment," while hurting the bottom lines of providers.
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The study will likely add to a debate among astronomers about whether the search for life-sustaining conditions beyond our solar system should focus on exoplanets around red dwarfs - accounting for 75% of all stars in the Milky Way - or less common, larger, hotter stars more like our own sun.
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A manmade or natural EMP event poses an existential threat that could black out life-sustaining critical infrastructures, damage and destroy civilian and military electronic systems across North America — or worldwide, as in the case of a solar superstorm such as the 22019 Carrington Event — and doom our electronic civilization.
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The findings, published in JAMA Cardiology last October, highlight the critical importance of not waiting until your heart sends a clear message that its life-sustaining ability has been compromised; instead, acknowledge the presence of coronary risk factors and take preventive measures to bring them under control before it's too late.
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His concerns are not far from those expressed by Ta-Nehisi Coates in "Between the World and Me," albeit filtered through the life-sustaining energy of music (the score is by Tommy Shepherd, who also performs) and dance (the choreography, which often draws from soccer moves, is by Stacey Printz).
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sanofi SA said on Wednesday it will cut the cost of its insulin products to $99 per month for uninsured patients and others who pay cash for it in the United States, as the French drugmaker contends with intense criticism over the high price of the life-sustaining diabetes medication.
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"Decisions regarding extending or limiting life-sustaining therapy after acute ischemic stroke are very dependent on patient and family preference, stroke severity, prognosis, and whether protocols are in place to prompt discussion," said Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, who was not part of the new study.
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"Ohio criminal law defines 'an unborn human who is viable,' as a 'person' and, in turn, defines viability as 'the stage of development of a human fetus at which there is a realistic possibility of maintaining and nourishing of a life outside the womb with or without temporary artificial life-sustaining support," they say.
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"Earth Potential (Earthworm, Earth)" (2017), for instance, pairs a photo of our planet made up of satellite imagery manipulated to highlight life-sustaining natural forces (ocean currents, fresh water sources, etc.) with an extreme closeup photo of an earthworm, another vital element of our ecosystem not visible in such detail from orbit or even ground level.
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"The domestic courts concluded that it would be lawful for the hospital to withdraw life sustaining treatment because it was likely that Charlie would suffer significant harm if his present suffering was prolonged without any realistic prospect of improvement, and the experimental therapy would be of no effective benefit," a press release from the court announcing the decision said.
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"The domestic courts concluded that it would be lawful for the hospital to withdraw life-sustaining treatment because it was likely that Charlie would suffer significant harm if his present suffering was prolonged without any realistic prospect of improvement, and the experimental therapy would be of no effective benefit," the court said in a news release.
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"For critical products like antibiotics as well as life-sustaining drugs like blood pressure medicine, China, directly or indirectly, is the major or potentially sole supplier of those products to the U.S." Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last week called on the Government Accountability Office to investigate the capability of the United States to manufacture finished pharmaceutical products and active pharmaceutical ingredients.
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In addition, in the wake of a landmark right-to-die case in which the court held in 1976 that a respirator could be removed from a comatose patient, Karen Ann Quinlan, Justice Garibaldi, in three rulings in 1987, expanded the right of individuals to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment, granted immunity for individuals involved in making those decisions "in good faith," and provided guidelines for doctors, patients and their families.
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After arguing that the law as written is inconclusive, and that past precedents and leading moral theories cannot settle the assisted suicide issue, Gorsuch endorses Finnis's theoretical defense of the intention/foresight distinction — a defense that classifies all intentional harms as categorically wrong — and claims that it offers the best moral reading of why the law punishes the murderer but not the doctor who withdraws life-sustaining treatment to fulfill a dying patient's wishes.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenDemocratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump invokes son Barron while attacking Warren at rally Overnight Energy: Fish and Wildlife Service to review allegations over Trump Jr.'s Mongolian hunting trip | Groups challenge EPA decision on slaughterhouse rules | Greenpeace gives Bloomberg D-plus on climate MORE (D-Mass.), on Tuesday introduced a bill to study the effects of a recent sex trafficking law on the health and safety of sex workers in the U.S. The SAFE SEX Workers Study Act, which calls for the government to conduct a wide-ranging study into the experiences of sex workers, emerges in response to evidence that a sex trafficking bill signed into law last year has dismantled vital online ecosystems for people engaged in consensual and often life-sustaining work in the sex industry.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenDemocratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump invokes son Barron while attacking Warren at rally Overnight Energy: Fish and Wildlife Service to review allegations over Trump Jr.'s Mongolian hunting trip | Groups challenge EPA decision on slaughterhouse rules | Greenpeace gives Bloomberg D-plus on climate MORE (D-Mass.), on Tuesday introduced a bill to study the effects of a recent sex trafficking law on the health and safety of sex workers in the U.S. The SAFE SEX Workers Study Act, which calls for the government to conduct a wide-ranging study into the experiences of sex workers, emerges in response to evidence that a sex trafficking bill signed into law last year has dismantled vital online ecosystems for people engaged in consensual and often life-sustaining work in the sex industry.
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