Since neuroendocrine tumors are less lethal than true pancreatic cancer, doing so may not have made much difference.
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The less lethal the weapon at hand, the less likely death will follow.
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Men rarely take pills, but their favoured methods have become less lethal, too.
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The Defence Scientific Advisory Council's sub-committee on the Medical Implications of Less Lethal Weapons (DOMILL), an independent group of medical experts, has issued four statements on the medical implications of the use of the Taser.
It means that researchers have found that some earthly bacteria that live in literally poisonous environments are adapted to find the presence of arsenic dramatically less lethal, and that they can even incorporate arsenic into their routine, familiar chemistry.
Dr David Gunnell and colleagues from Bristol University point out that the method of suicide favoured by women - drug overdose - has become less lethal owing to the replacement of barbiturates by the less toxic benzodiazepines in the 1980s.
In the end, less-lethal weapons don't mean police use less force, according to Chris Stone, a criminal justice professor at Harvard who worked on the Stern report.
In this country, many police departments dealing with crowd control are embracing so-called less-lethal weapons.
His report says three policemen began shooting so-called less-lethal pepper pellet guns into the crowd.
Sid Heal is an expert on less-lethal weapons and a commander with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
In Oakland, California, the police department is now barred from using a number of less-lethal weapons for crowd control.
Professor CHRIS STONE (Harvard University): They're sometimes using a less-lethal weapon when they wouldn't have used any weapon at all.
It will be up to Congress to fund programs to assess the safety of less-lethal weapons and set the standards for using them.
The Patten Report on police reform in Northern Ireland recommended research to find an acceptable, effective and less potentially lethal alternative to plastic bullets.
But he said he is close to making a decision on whether or not to give pilots less than lethal weapons such as Tasers.
Attorney Michael Haddad says police should consider using less-lethal force sparingly.
They developed less than lethal weapons - guns that hurt but do not kill - as a means of resolving conflict without causing serious or fatal injuries.
Except that, whatever he says for public consumption, he seems to know the truth is that privacy invasion, for most consumers, is less like a lethal electrified rail than like a very hot bath: they just need to be eased into it.
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He said some prisoners used "improvised weapons" and in response "four less-than-lethal rounds" were fired.
The crisis has entered what may be a less volatile but more lethal phase.
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The U.S. guards responded by firing "four less-than-lethal rounds, " the military's Joint Task Force Guantanamo said in a statement.
Some prisoners used "improvised weapons" and were met with "less-than-lethal rounds", camp officials said, but no serious injuries were reported.
Some prisoners used "improvised weapons" and were met with "less-than-lethal rounds", a military spokesman said, but no serious injuries were reported.
Guards responded by firing four "less-than-lethal rounds, " he said.
His goal is nothing less than a cure for the most lethal kid cancers.
The death penalty in two states was more or less put on hold over concerns that executions by lethal injection had been botched.
The sonic devices could prove less deadly than so-called "non-lethal" weapons such as Tazers and pepper spray guns that have actually caused some fatalities.
For example, we legally deny the right to drive lethal automobiles to those whose history of wreck less behavior poses a risk to others.
As they do so and renounce the development, production, acquisition or use of chemical arms and pledge not to help others acquire them or produce them, our troops will be less likely to face one of the battlefield's most lethal threats.
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