An abortion is medically referred to as a therapeutic abortion when it is performed to save the life of the pregnant woman; prevent harm to the woman's physical or mental health; terminate a pregnancy where indications are that the child will have a significantly increased chance of premature morbidity or mortality or be otherwise disabled; or to selectively reduce the number of fetuses to lessen health risks associated with multiple pregnancy.
Actinobacillus suis is an important disease of pigs of all ages and can lead to severe morbidity and sudden death.
He has been an outspoken critic of politicians supporting 'zero-tolerance' and prohibitionist drugs policy, questioning the evidence of their efficacy in preventing morbidity and mortality from illicit substances.
Early goal-directed therapy was introduced by Emanuel P. Rivers, MD, MPH in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2001 and is a technique used in critical care medicine involving intensive monitoring and aggressive management of perioperative hemodynamics in patients with a high risk of morbidity and mortality.
In some fisheries and aquacultural enterprises the mortality and morbidity among fish stocks can present serious economic and ecological problems.
Cognitive epidemiology, a field of research investigating how intelligence measured at an early age predicts later morbidity and mortality outcomes
It is related to ICD-10 Chapter XX (External causes of morbidity and mortality).
"The Baudelairean imagery of 'Melt' evokes claustrophobic scents of opium, sex and sickly flowers, and lapses into morbidity with lines like, 'You are the melting man and, as you melt, you are beheaded,'" observed Dave Morrison in a review of Twice Upon a Time: The Singles.
For such a philosophy, there could be no better historical background than the Germany of 1848 and after, and Problematische Naturen with its sequel Durch Nacht zum Licht (1862), — although it squanders material for half a dozen novels, idealizes Teutonic morbidity, and forsakes art for tendency, — tells with remarkable vividness the story of the men and women who lived and thought and fought for freedom in Germany's day of hope.
StormBio is developing therapeutics to minimize the mortality and morbidity resulting from Highly Pathogenic Influenza infections, such as H5N1 and H1N1 influenza strains.
TBT Hospital Gboko established by TBT Gwabi (Nig.) Limited, is situated along Captain Downes' Road in Gboko, the heartland of the Tiv nation to provide adequate health care system so as to reduce morbidity and mortality among the people of Benue State and its environs.
"The prevalence and morbidity of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome: a prospective primary care study." American Journal of Public Health 87, no. 9 (1997): 1449–1455.