Sentences with phrase «as emerging diseases»
As emerging diseases migrate to new areas, they encounter new species, making outbreaks even more difficult to manage.
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As with many emerging diseases, the misinformation about Zika started circulating almost as quickly as the disease itselAs with many emerging diseases, the misinformation about Zika started circulating almost as quickly as the disease itselas quickly as the disease itselas the disease itself.
Yes, biopharma M&A drama swept industry observers today as reports emerged that the rare disease drugmaker had rebuffed a $ 62.5 billion takeover bid from Takeda but that Botox maker Allergan was also interested in getting in on the action.
Bala Cynwyd, PA — January 31, 2017 — Chondrial Therapeutics, Inc., an emerging biotechnology company focused on the treatment of rare mitochondrial diseases, announced today that it has secured up to $ 22.6 million in Series A financing led by Deerfield Management and has appointed Carole Ben - Maimon, MD, as the company's president and chief executive officer.
[25][26] Visceral Leishmaniasis Research The foundation awarded the He - brew University of Jerusalem Ku - vin Center for the Study of Infe - ctious and Tropical Dis - eases a $ 5 million grant in 2009 for research into vis - ceral leishmaniasis, an emerging pa - ra - sitic disease in Ethiopia where it is frequently as - sociated with HI - V / A-IDS, and a leading cause of adult illness and death.
Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2
As new diseases emerge, and older medicines - most notably antibiotics - no longer work as well, that contribution to finding better and safer medicines becomes all the more vitaAs new diseases emerge, and older medicines - most notably antibiotics - no longer work as well, that contribution to finding better and safer medicines becomes all the more vitaas well, that contribution to finding better and safer medicines becomes all the more vital.
Often, pain emerges as a consequence of disease, injury or intense physical demands.
«While electrical stimulation of the brain is emerging as potential therapy for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases, little is known about its effect on memory,» says Gregory Worrell, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist and senior author of the article.
«It started to become quite evident to me that a research career in infectious disease epidemiology and mathematical modeling would be a fairly perfect combination of my longstanding interests in math and biology and medicine, as well as my emerging interest in infectious disease transmission and public health more generally,» she says.
It was clear that the Cubans are well positioned to detect emerging infectious diseases of concern to the United States, such as dengue and chikungunya, serious mosquito - borne viral diseases for which no vaccines exist.
The results, published online in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, strengthen the case that transgenic Huntington's disease monkeys could be used to evaluate emerging treatments (such as this) before launching human clinical trials.
SICK SNAKES An emerging fungal disease covers snakes (such as this milk snake, Lampropeltis triangulum) with lesions that can hurt a snake's ability to move and eat.
«Social media data have been suggested as a way to track the spread of a disease in a population, but there is a problem that in an emerging outbreak people also use social media to express concern about the situation,» explains study team leader Sherry Towers of ASU's Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center.
Satellite imagery is used for all sorts of climate study, from identifying conditions that allow infectious diseases like West Nile virus and cholera to emerge, to creating models for predicting hurricanes, to distinguishing natural resources such as wind, water and sunlight.
The Sigatoka disease complex is a cluster of three closely related fungi — yellow sigatoka (Pseudocercospora musae), eumusae leaf spot (Pseudocercospora eumusae) and black sigatoka (Pseudocercospora fijiensis)-- which emerged in quick succession during the last century as destructive pathogens on banana.
She adds that a lot of what's emerging in orthopedics is for the moment being targeted to treat those with muscle - wasting diseases, as well as a younger population with injuries due to athleticism.
As someone who's been at the forefront of unraveling emerging infectious diseases and the mechanisms of pandemics, what keeps you up at night?
The 10,000 - square - foot space features 70 elements, with plenty of hands - on opportunities to learn about emerging biotechnology and the causes of diseases such as cancer and diabetes.
Emerging diseases are being unleashed as forests are cut.
Other key tasks will include implementing the White House's new plan to combat the opioid crisis as well as staying ahead of emerging infectious diseases.
«Whether we can predict emerging diseases is a whole other question,» Ford says, especially as their vectors or risk factors might take time to assess.
The incidence and severity of both traditional and emerging cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors as well as the response to treatment may differ between men and women.
CA - MRSA (Community - acquired MRSA) has now emerged as an epidemic that is responsible for rapidly progressive, fatal diseases including necrotizing pneumonia, severe sepsis and necrotizing fasciitis.
«Informing citizens about the health of the nation and discussing pivotal science and policy issues such as mental health, chronic and emerging diseases and other public health threats, and vaccine research are important to not only advance the national dialogue but also improve the country's overall well - being.»
The research fits neatly into an emerging paradigm that helps explain a recent alarming increase in food allergies and other conditions, such as obesity and autoimmune disease, and hints at strategies to reverse the trend.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae as one of the three most urgent threats among emerging forms of antibiotic - resistant dDisease Control and Prevention named carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae as one of the three most urgent threats among emerging forms of antibiotic - resistant diseasedisease.
One of the clearest signs of health risks in a warming world has emerged in one of the world's most advanced economies, as Canada belatedly struggles to cope with Lyme disease's migration in North America
As other infectious diseases emerge around the world, similar strategies potentially could be used to develop tests to detect the presence of viruses that may become problematic, according to the researchers.
The lab was designed and constructed with French assistance as part of a 2004 cooperative agreement on the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases.
Blood - sucking flies can act as «flying syringes» to detect emerging infectious diseases in wild animals before they spread to humans, according to research published in the journal eLife.
It will focus on the control of emerging diseases, store purified viruses and act as a World Health Organization «reference laboratory» linked to similar labs around the world.
The rise of modern, deadly plagues such as AIDS and SARS is particularly devastating because the «golden age of immunization during the last half century gave us a sense of triumphalism about infectious diseases,» says Stephen S. Morse, a Columbia University biologist and cofounder of ProMed, a global program for monitoring emerging infectious diseases.
The Zika pandemic is likely to serve as a roadmap for addressing future emerging infectious disease challenges, the authors conclude.
«Despite the delay in airborne precaution implementation, we suspect that high hand hygiene compliance, as a result of continuous implementation of proactive control measures against various viruses and multidrug - resistant organisms, protected frontline healthcare workers against many challenges of emerging infectious diseases.»
Protecting this microenvironment, or niche, has thus emerged as a new route for the treatment of these diseases, for which there is currently no fully effective treatment.
«Being able to track the duration of fevers and the return of fevers could help us learn more about an influenza season as it is emerging and possibly provide information about other infections, including new emerging infectious diseases,» Polgreen says.
Brownstein described HealthMap as «almost like the Wikipedia of emerging infectious diseases» in a March 2010 ScientificAmerican.com article.
As those assays have matured, the scientists have begun to optimize additional tests for a number of emerging diseases.
Plotting help The Children's Hospital Informatics Program launched HealthMap in 2006 as a way of using the growing number of digital resources — the Internet, RSS feeds and e-mail lists, to name a few — to plot information about emerging diseases worldwide on a Google Map.
The disease emerged in North America in 1999 and circulates between birds and mosquitoes, with humans infected as bystanders.
The World Health Organization urges countries to augment their official disease surveillance efforts — which draw information from networks of doctor's offices, hospitals, and public health laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases.
An ill - behaved brain protein that escaped notice for over 90 years has unexpectedly emerged as a major possible cause of Alzheimer's disease.
Other diseases, such as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus, have since emerged.
It could also work for other rapidly emerging diseases with a high death toll and limited treatment options such as SARS or viral haemorrhagic fevers that might be used as bioweapons, adds Menon.
«These results are highly relevant to clinical inflammatory bowel diseases because GMSCF - impaired function is now emerging as one of the best predictors of IBD severity,» said the study's senior author, Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, Professor in the Department of Oncological Sciences, the Tisch Cancer Institute and the Immunology Institute, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
With skin cancer emerging as one of the world's most prevalent forms of cancer, researchers are using every tool at their disposal to fight this disease.
Following the largest Ebola epidemic in history last year, which claimed the lives of more than 11,000 people in West Africa and ultimately spread to the U.S., public health officials remain concerned about healthcare workers contracting Ebola or other emerging infectious diseases such as SARS and pandemic influenza, says Rachael Jones, UIC associate professor of environmental and occupational and health sciences, one of four co-investigators at UIC.
Following the largest Ebola epidemic in history last year, which claimed the lives of more than 11,000 people in West Africa and ultimately spread to the U.S., public health officials remain concerned about healthcare workers contracting Ebola or other emerging infectious diseases such as SARS and pandemic influenza.
The University of Illinois at Chicago has been selected as one of six research centers in the U.S. to help develop a comprehensive new strategy to control Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases in health facilities.