The children are threatened with maiming, paralysis, lifelong disability, and death.

While such injuries may cause lifelong disabilities, he said, the victims would almost certainly have died were it not for the new safety devices.

Many of them are now being treated for continuing respiratory ailments, and some may well face lifelong disability.

She went to the slopes and came home with a lifelong disability.

Many of these infections can cause serious or life-threatening illnesses, and may lead to lifelong disabilities.

But for people facing lifelong disabilities, public assistance is likely to be necessary.

For every woman who dies, many more will survive but often suffer from lifelong disabilities.

These babies are at increased risk of prematurity, low birth weight, lifelong disability and death.

A wounded teenager to lifelong disability and witnesses confirmed that they were shot by the police.

But many more, even with the best treatment, die in infancy or suffer complications that lead to lifelong disabilities.