To advance their cause, they have emphasized the medical hazards rather than the moral issues.

Suddenly, the increased popularity of her daughter's team threatened to pose a medical hazard.

This drives up costs and increases exposure to a vast array of medical hazards.

Then there is the odd, occasional medical hazard.

The inventors maintain that bar codes on pills could eliminate many medical hazards that arise from drug mistakes.

Others have pointed to the medical hazards of the new devices, and the deaths and illnesses of women which have resulted.

But over all the recruits remained dead serious as the instructors outlined the medical hazards that childbirth can present for the mother, the baby and even the officer, through the risk of infection.

On the site's interactive Ask the Surf Doc section, a doctor handles questions regarding surfing-related medical hazards, like one visitor's worrisome "weird tan thing" and another's "funky numb toes."

While most of them have seen exotic medical hazards of travel, Embassy physicians get a distressingly clear picture of the immediate and disastrous consequences of travelers' inadequate preparation for health emergencies.

The book wastes no time in stressing in its first paragraph the medical hazards of climbing these mountains, on which one can rapidly gain height up the accessible tourist routes to altitudes high enough to cause acute mountain sickness.

(The notion of showing a lot of neck and chest during the day is a relatively recent phenomenon; when the casual triangular opening called the V-neck first appeared in 1913, it was denounced as both a spiritual and medical hazard.)

The purpose of these centers is to terrorize women into bearing children, with fabrications and gross distortions about the medical hazards and emotional devastation of abortion and the relative safety and ease of pregnancy, childbirth and putting a baby up for adoption.

Now, in a civil trial that started on Tuesday in New Haven Superior Court, the doctor contends that the needle puncture does not represent an unavoidable medical hazard but is instead the result of faulty training and supervision by Yale University, which is affiliated with the hospital.

Another way to brief yourself on medical hazards that could occur on your vacation is to read a pamphlet like "Travel With Health - II," which tells you everything from what medicines to take with you to common diseases that you may contract to how to find a doctor if you become ill while traveling.