Sentences with phrase «old diseases such»

Old diseases such as cholera and measles have developed new resistance to antibiotics.

Not exact matches

With that in mind, Bruno launched Hometeam, a homecare technology startup that pairs older adults — many of whom suffer from diseases such as Parkinson's, dementia, or multiple sclerosis — with in - home health aides.

THE FOUR HOUR HBO SPECIAL sponsored by the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME featuring a impressive variety of old men and women credibly performing their classic tunes is guaranteed to warm the (diseased) hearts of middlebrow Americans in their fifties and sixties (such as myself).

Such a leap, yet people die of cancers, depression, suicides and other old and new diseases.

In language that the medical layman can easily understand, he unflinchingly, unsparingly, and in detail describes the process by which diseases such as heart failure, Alzheimer's, and cancer will eventually kill us all, and, if they do not, old age surely will.

One such report, published in 2010, showed a 42 year old woman with Sjogren's syndrome (autoimmune disease) and premature ovarian failure have a restoration of normal menses after using an elimination diet protocol.

Experts are saying older men shouldn't worry about their higher risk of fathering a child with bipolar disorder (men 45 + are 25x more likely than a man in his 20s to father a child with bipolar disorder) because it's such a rare disease but recent studies show it's not rare at all and affects 4 - 5 % of the population.

Diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke and non-insulin dependent diabetes are more likely to develop in older children and adults who are obese.

Previous research has connected adverse childhood experiences to problems such as cancer, heart disease and mental illness in older people, but no one had looked at whether those stressful experiences are linked to health problems in adolescents.

«Black children were slightly older at the first admission than white children, which could represent a subtle marker of diminished access to medical care or a delay in disease recognition,» said Dr. Dotson, who explained other studies have shown that the role of biology in health disparities in chronic diseases is often modest, and there are many other factors, such as access to care and health literacy, that contribute to disparities in care.

The team has used meta - analysis before to show that brain training is useful in other populations, such as healthy older adults and those with Parkinson's disease.

For older adults, physical activity is apt to shield against cognitive decline and forms of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease (AD).

The findings suggest that although wild animals may be important for the transmission of new diseases to humans, humanity's oldest companions — livestock and pets such as cattle and dogs provide the vital link in the emergence of new diseases.

Such physical activity leads to a higher metabolism and better circulation, reducing the risk of conditions and diseases common in older age such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroSuch physical activity leads to a higher metabolism and better circulation, reducing the risk of conditions and diseases common in older age such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and strosuch as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease and strokes.

«Our target might be a population that was ineligible for the trial, such as older patients or patients with other concurrent diseases,» they write.

The factors that may differ between the groups, such as older age, obesity, smoking and diabetes, are known and can be controlled for, providing for comparison groups that may provide more information on the impact of heart failure on subsequent cancer occurrence than other heart disease groups.

Twenty - five years from now, our kids will only know some diseases, such as osteoporosis, from old books, and by then we will probably know how to repair tissues with stem cells.

The people with pneumonia were older and had more comorbidities such as heart disease, diabetes, dementia and other diseases.

If countries have enough vaccine, they can reduce disease and death by vaccinating groups at higher risk, such as pregnant women, those with chronic health conditions, or even all healthy young adults between 15 and 49 years old, the age group that appears most vulnerable.

Stern also added that these findings suggest that the diagnosis of dementia in older individuals with a history of repeat brain trauma may be difficult because many of the symptoms of CTE are similar to other diseases such as Alzheimer's.

When they do die, the cause is often an attack — hit by acar or mauled by a raccoon — or one of a number of infectious diseasesthat kill these turtles at all ages in seemingly equal proportions.While certain ailments, such as cancer and heart disease, strike olderhumans more often than they do younger ones, Congdon's animals don'tseem to become more vulnerable to disease as they grow older.

As the world faces new agricultural challenges — shifting climate, bugs and diseases that have developed resistance to old defenses — such genetic resources are likely to become increasingly valuable.

There is currently no treatment, and accelerated ageing means these children suffer from conditions normally characteristic of old age, such as heart disease and diabetes, and often die around 13.

The skinny on fat: Too little is more dangerous than too much Overweight people are at no greater risk than normal - weight folks of dying from heart disease or cancer and are actually less likely to fall prey to some other causes of death, such as accidents and Alzheimer's, according to freshly analyzed data on 2.3 million adults 25 years and older as of 2004.

Might common diseases of old age such as Alzheimer's and osteoarthritis be associated with a genetic advantage in youth?

«This is significant to stroke care because many stroke risk factors — such as high blood pressure, heart failure, coronary artery disease — are more common in old age.

Faced with an aging population and rising rates of chronic diseases, Singapore has been forced to revisit how best to finance health services for the Pioneer Generation and is interested to understand the perspective of those most at risk, which includes older adults and patients with life - limiting illnesses, such as advanced cancer.

In this way, age - old genetic maladies such as Tay - Sachs disease, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy or Huntington's disease could be eliminated completely from family trees.

«Results from our observational study in young adults with normal kidney function may not translate into a clinically meaningful difference and may be insufficient to inform decision - making concerning marijuana use; however, it is possible that the association between marijuana use and kidney function could be different in other populations such as older adults or patients with kidney disease, so additional research is needed,» said Dr. Ishida.

Watts said easy - to - walk communities resulted in better outcomes both for physical health — such as lower body mass and blood pressure — and cognition (such as better memory) in the 25 people with mild Alzheimer's disease and 39 older adults without cognitive impairment she tracked.

In today's issue of Science Translational Medicine, he and his colleagues present a more efficient way of finding such new uses for old drugs: by bringing together data on how diseases and drugs affect the activity of the roughly 30,000 genes in a human cell.

Having shorter telomeres is connected to the early onset of illnesses such as cardiovascular disease and cancer, with mortality in older adults and, as CMU's Sheldon Cohen first discovered, predicts susceptibility to acute infectious disease in young to midlife adults.

The standard treatment for Lyme disease is a course of antibiotics, such as oral doxycycline if the patient is older than 8 years old or amoxicillin if the child is younger than 8 — typically two weeks for early symptoms and longer for late symptoms.

The authors say that the intervention, which combines the physical and cognitive aspects of walking, could potentially be used in gyms, rehabilitation centres or nursing homes to improve safe walking and prevent falls in older adults or people with disorders which affect movement such as Parkinson's disease.

Older mice seem to benefit from such an arrangement, developing healthier organs and becoming protected from age - related disease.

Johns Hopkins University biologists have found that a protein that plays a key role in the lives of stem cells can bolster the growth of damaged muscle tissue, a step that could potentially contribute to treatments for muscle degeneration caused by old age and diseases such as muscular dystrophy.

A new analysis of 100 million Medicare records from U.S. adults aged 65 and older reveals rising healthcare costs for infections associated with opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens — disease - causing bacteria, such as Legionella — which can live inside drinking water distribution systems, including household and hospital water pipes.

As in prior studies among older adults, we found that obesity was associated with a decreased risk of dementia, consistent with the hypothesis that, while obesity in mid-life may increase risk for later - life cognitive decline and dementia, obesity at older ages may be associated with cognitive and other health advantages.25 - 27 The trend toward a declining risk for dementia in the face of a large increase in the prevalence of diabetes suggests that improvements in treatments between 2000 and 2012 may have decreased dementia risk, along with the documented declines in the incidence of common diabetes - related complications, such as heart attack, stroke, and amputations.11 Our finding of a significant decline between 2000 and 2012 of the heart disease - related OR for dementia would also be consistent with improved cardiovascular treatments leading to a decline in dementia risk.

The scientists infected 1 - day - old C57BL / 6 mice with Zika virus and found that they develop symptoms of neurological disease, such as unsteady gait and seizures that gradually fade over two weeks.

But Baker suggested that the world also needs new proteins to meet new challenges that loom on the human timescale, such as the diseases of old age, dwindling energy supplies, and a warming planet.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicdisease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicDisease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Seasonal influenza can cause severe illness and life - threatening complications in older people, young children, pregnant women and people with on - going respiratory diseases such as asthma or heart disease.

Lastly, increased systemic inflammation seen during ageing is also apparent in chronic infections such HIV or cytomegalovirus, 10,15 obesity7 and individuals enduring chronic psychological stress.16 Similarly, the main features of immunosenescence are apparent in many of these conditions, including decreased antibody responses, increased infections, malignancies and also incidences of inflammatory associated disorders such as cardiovascular disease.7, 10,15,16 Inflammation and premature immunosenescence are, therefore, prevalent features of many common conditions of modern life, such as obesity and stress, and could have negative health consequences for large proportions of society well before old age is reached.

In older people, the flu is more likely to lead to serious complications, such as a lung disease known as pneumonia.

Patients including older people with conditions such as dementia and motor neurone disease are being hit with huge care bills because a postcode...

In a proof - of - principle study published in the journal Cell Stem Cell, the researchers report that defects in the regeneration of the myelin sheaths surrounding nerves, which are lost in diseases such as multiple sclerosis may be at least partially corrected following exposure of an old animal to the circulatory system of a young animal.

Because many diseases, such as leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and myelodysplasia, are more common in older patients, mini-HCTs allow these patients to potentially benefit from transplant.

Rural, older Floridians encounter a multitude of factors that put them at higher risk for developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) such as limited education, decreased health literacy, low income, increased heart disease, lack of insurance, and limited access to health care.

The â $ œcancer stem cellâ $ hypothesis has invigorated the neuro - oncology field with a breath of fresh thinking that may end up shaking the foundation of old dogmas, such as the widely held belief that glioblastoma tumors are incurable because of infiltrative disease.

April 18, 2011 Elderly diabetes patients with very low glucose levels have slightly increased risk of death A new study of older diabetes patients has found that well - controlled blood sugar levels were associated with a lower risk of major complications such as heart attacks, amputation and kidney disease, but the very lowest blood sugar levels were associated with a small but significant increased risk of death.