In fact, the sooner cities moved to limit public gatherings or isolate patients, the less severe their experience tended to be -- as much as an eight- or ninefold difference in case and death rates, he says.
When she did push the hood back, as she had done, the dreadlocks made her seem more dangerous or unpredictable, but less severe.
Most criminal convictions in America come from plea bargains, in which defendants exchange their right to a trial for less severe prosecution or a shorter jail sentence.
School-aged children diagnosed in or after 2008 were more likely to have milder ASD and less likely to have severe ASD than those diagnosed in or before 2007.
Medicare continues to pay in more severe anemia where the level is 10 or less.
Children born between 32 and 36 weeks had more neurodevelopmental and educational problems than children born after 37 weeks, although the problems were less severe than for those born at 32 weeks or earlier.
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And he said that severe clinical depression, or schizophrenia could make the parent less able to cope with the psychological pressures associated with fertility treatment.
One in five consultants questioned also said they had treated less severely ill or disabled patients in preference to those with more severe problems - simply to fulfill waiting list initiative requirements.
The law barred "humiliating and degrading treatment" if a head teacher decided against exclusion and settled for a less severe punishment of taking a pupil away from his or her peer group, she said.
For older patients vulnerable to severe hypoglycemia or who may already have advanced cardiovascular disease, less stringent targets of up to 8% or even a little higher would be sufficient, the guidelines say.
They taught me that punishment would not go away, but would be far less severe if I told the truth about what happened and how or why I veered off the charted course.
In the study that spent two years tracking 4, 162 patients who had already survived a severe heart attack, those on high-dose Lipitor were 16% less likely to die or have heart attacks than those on standard-dose Pravachol.
If lenders had had better information about the borrowing of South Korea's private sector or the reserves of Thai banks, they would have pulled back sooner, and the eventual problems would have been less severe.
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