But cheaper is not necessarily better if the test comes up snake eyes for high risk for Alzheimer's, Huntington's, diabetes, cancer, depression or blindness for you or your children.
If 20 years later the family gets a more plentiful yet still poor diet (with a lot of calories but not many micronutrients, such as iron or vitamins) she will become overweight or obese, while her children will suffer nutritional deficiency, such as anaemia or blindness.
Infection can be fatal or lead to complications such as blindness or epilepsy, and current drugs are often ineffective.
The most recent researched, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in April, linked fluoroquinolones to retinal detachment, which can cause temporary or permanent blindness.
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During the interviews, the researchers asked parents whether their kids had been diagnosed with autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, cerebral palsy, seizures, stuttering or stammering, hearing loss, blindness, or intellectual disability (formerly known as mental retardation).
Too much mercury in one's diet from any source can cause loss of coordination, blindness or even death.
Yet the odds of life-long disability such as cerebral palsy, blindness or being unable to walk, has not changed, at about one in five.
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Newly-elected members of the assembly managed to make an immediate mark - visibly unencumbered by the City Hall fatigue or Boris-blindness which may have set in elsewhere in the ranks.
Willful blindness or incompetence?
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Regulators also are considering requiring that 2% of contractors' work forces be comprised of severely disabled workers, such as those with total deafness, blindness, or missing extremities.
However, the federal court of appeals based in New York rejected that contention and found YouTube might be liable under either a red flag knowledge theory or based on its willful blindness.
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The judge also pushed the envelope by instructing jurors that they could find Lay and Skilling guilty for "willful blindness, " or closing their eyes to wrongdoing like the frauds perpetrated by former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow .
Too little insulin leads, over a period of years, to blindness, kidney damage or heart disease.
Blue and yellow tones work effectively but not red or green because of canine colour-blindness.
Diabetes can lead to blindness, kidney disease, heart disease or amputations, and it can be fatal.
Symptoms can include seizures and blindness, and treatment may involve surgery, chemotherapy or, ironically, radiotherapy.
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Lawyers who represent employers say that could include hundreds of possibilities from blindness to deafness to the less apparent such as asthma or mental illness.
These conditions can lead to increased risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease and blindness, among other chronic conditions, particularly if left untreated or poorly treated.
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Corporate complacency, in turn, leads into corporate blindness, the failure of management to see that their markets reach saturation or are undermined by alternative products.
In a series of five studies, about 150 heterosexual men (homosexual men and those with red-green color blindness were excluded) rated photographs of women framed in red, white, gray, green, or blue, or with the woman in a red or blue shirt.
By choosing this route, it effectively committed itself to strategic as well as political blindness since it was forced to claim - wrongly - that there was no difference between Madrid and Oslo or between Wye Plantation and Camp David.
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