Sentences with phrase «other disease areas»

Julia talked about how when it comes to funding drug research to treat depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, and other psychiatric disorders, the global pharmaceutical industry prefers to invest its research dollars in cancer, metabolism, autoimmunity, and other disease areas.

Multi-disciplinary approaches, fresh thinking and cross-pollination of ideas set the stage for accelerated success and serve as a model for other researchers in all other disease areas.

Innovative clinical trial approaches that have proven successful in other disease areas such as oncology (e.g., platform trials, umbrella and basket designs) might be employed with stratification of subjects by AT (N) profile, enabling a data - driven approach to identify the biological stage of disease in which an intervention has maximal treatment effects.

In other disease areas, the Parkinson's disease map and the Atlas of Cancer Signalling Network, have already begun the process of integrating knowledge about the involved mechanisms in order to understand the different subtypes of these diseases.

LSDs remain the heart of our company today, but we have also expanded — through both in - house development and strategic acquisitions and partnerships — to other disease areas such as thyroid cancer and multiple sclerosis.

Not exact matches

So, at the end of the day, are companies simply flocking to disease areas like oncology, and rare diseases — which have low chances of approval from phase one trials due to their complexities but carry high margins and high rewards if they do cross the regulatory finish line — at the expense of other conditions?

Without them, we wouldn't understand so many diseases or made so many advances into genetics, among other areas.

Craig maybe the definition of teaching men under authority is limited to that particular area within the church.But that does nt stop God from working outside those constraints.Mother Etta and no doubt other women felt compelled to preach the gospel such as women missionaries.Mother Etta preached the gospel and many were saved people were healed just as in the day of the disciples it is the same Jesus that saves and delivered from from sin and disease not the fact that it was a man who spoke behind the altar.Why do you find it hard to see that God can use women just like he uses men to witness for him.The call to witness for Christ is for everyone not just men and not just in a church situation.When we limit God to a narrow view it limits the effectiveness of the gospel.

Indicators of sexual abuse could be: difficulty walking or sitting, torn, bruised, or bleeding genital areas, venereal disease, pregnancy, unwilling to change clothing in front of others, poor relationships, bizarre sexual behavior.

«However, it is clear that Lyme disease and other TBDs are spreading to new areas of the state — I hear from constituents regularly who have been infected — and we need to intensify our efforts.»

He is presently representing residents around Kennedy Airport who are suing the Port Authority on air quality issues, due to the high incidence of asthma and other respiratory diseases in the area.

Two area U.S. Senators and a Congressman are holding a forum later this morning on Lyme and other tick - borne diseases.

«We want Staten Islanders to take advantage of their beautiful parks and wooded areas, but we remind them and all New Yorkers to check for ticks and take other simple steps to protect yourself from Lyme disease and other tickborne diseases,» health department Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said in a statement.

Childhood Vaccines • In San Francisco's Bay Area schools at least 40 % of kids are not vaccinated, leaving them unprotected against whooping cough, measles and other preventable disease — part of a nationwide trend toward parents withholding vaccinations.

Whether those refusing the vaccine have helped fuel the current pertussis epidemic is uncertain, but their decisions have created a public health tinderbox: in some Bay Area schools, 40 percent or more of the kids are not vaccinated, leaving them unprotected against pertussis and other preventable diseases, such as measles.

This area has not been explored in depth, since experience with other diseases has taught scientists that the loss of one gene copy might not lead to disease symptoms because the second copy provided by the other parent fills in.

It's quite likely that ticks infected with Lyme disease spirochetes are present in other parks in Lyme disease endemic areas, too.»

Children in malaria - prone areas often grow abnormally slowly, but researchers aren't sure whether malaria or other diseases that are prevalent in these areas are to blame.

With the Yosemite tourists having died from this normally high - altitude illness, we spoke with an infectious disease expert to see if hantavirus could spread to other areas of the country

In the Los Angeles area, recent research, mostly conducted by University of Southern California scientists, has found connections between people living near freeways and asthma, reduced lung function, cardiovascular disease, autism and other health effects.

Psychiatry suffers in comparison with other areas of medicine, as diseases of the mind are on the whole less well understood than those of...

On other Hawaiian islands, only high - elevation areas have generally been cool enough to keep out the mosquitoes that spread avian diseases.

Researchers are now studying the effect of this peptide to see in what other areas this type of immune education will prevent disease, such as with food allergies.

Worse still, the results suggest it would be a mistake to use adenovirus - based vaccines against other diseases, such as malaria or tuberculosis, in areas where HIV is common.

Also, it is quite likely that, as global temperature rises, diseases that were previously found only in warmer areas of the world may show up increasingly in other, previously cooler areas, where people have not yet developed natural defenses against them.

Although the disease has not recurred in many areas initially hit, it has since spread to other regions off the Florida coast.

These are indications that areas of diseased tissue could be dying, while other parts of a tumor could be rapidly growing or becoming more aggressive.

Within 20 years, mass chloroquine treatment, along with DDT spraying and other antimosquito measures, removed the threat of disease from more than 500 million people living in formerly malaria - ridden areas.

Based on these findings, Postels said educating the African population and other areas that have similar beliefs is crucial in treating the disease since it's estimated that malaria kills a child on the continent every minute.

For Benevolent's Hunter, today's attempts to find new drugs for ALS and other difficult diseases marks an important test - bed for the future of AI, which is already being deployed in other high - tech areas such as autonomous cars.

Other Epharmix interventions are being used by physicians in the St. Louis area who treat chronic conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, heart failure, and hypertension.

«This opens up a new area of research that would lead to better approaches to prevent transplant rejection as well as to treat other inflammatory diseases.»

Forest Service scientists expect to see continued elevated levels of tree mortality during 2017 in dense forest stands, stands impacted by root diseases or other stress agents and in areas with higher levels of bark beetle activity.

The scientists said the finding strengthens the theory that dark - skinned people who migrate northward from low - latitude, tropical areas with stronger sunlight produce less vitamin D; deficiencies in this vitamin can weaken the bones and immune system, inviting TB and other diseases.

Thus, finding new targets for drugs already in use to treat other diseases, in other words drug repurposing, is an emerging area in developing anti-cancer therapies.

Other explanations, such as a more virulent strain or changes in land use, agriculture, or animal health systems, seemed implausible, they said, and the disease had struck primarily in those areas that had heated up the most.

The next step is to explore in detail the factors and mechanisms that link the two diseases, and confirm that these findings are applicable to other geographic areas, where different environmental and genetic factors are at play.

Their modelling framework can be applied as a tool to analyse risks in case new disease strains should be uncovered in other geographic areas.

The new study will focus on four areas of high public health concern: obesity, birth defects and other early outcomes, neurodevelopmental disorders (such as autism and depression), and airway diseases (such as asthma and allergies).

The researchers report long - term outcomes from the Qidong Hepatitis B intervention Study (QHBIS), a randomized controlled trial of neonatal HBV vaccination that was conducted between 1983 and 1990 in Qidong County, a rural area in China with a high incidence of HBV - related primary liver cancer (PLC) and other liver diseases.

If we choose to regulate the industry, we have to be willing to pay the price for that, which means there won't be cheap antimalarial drugs developed and there won't be potential biofuels developed and other drugs for other diseases and cleaning up the environment and all the things that come from this area.

Other areas of medicine have used this approach to define disease processes using biomarkers, for example: bone mineral density, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes are defined by biomarkers.

Every standard deviation increase in the inflammation score was also associated with a hippocampus volume that was 110 cubic millimeters smaller and the volume of other areas affected by Alzheimer's disease was 532 cubic millimeters smaller.

This could be very important for people who have lost function in areas of their brain due to stroke, injury, or other diseases.

Compared to the people with no elevated levels, people with elevated levels on three or more biomarkers had on average 5 percent lower volume in the hippocampus and other areas of the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease.

Climate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect contact.

Complementing its extensive capabilities, PsychoGenics offers a variety of validated mouse models including in - licensed transgenic models that support research in areas such as Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, Autism spectrum disorders, psychosis / schizophrenia, Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), muscular dystrophy and other muscle disorders.

And this applies to other areas of the brain as well as the hippocampus, where we are beginning to ask questions about how these areas become dysfunctional in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease.

The company plans to develop and commercialize its innovative mRNA drugs — initially for rare diseases and oncology — while partnering drug candidates in other therapeutic areas in order to rapidly deliver this innovation to patients.

Because they can be programmed to travel the body and selectively target cancer and other sites of disease, nanometer - scale vehicles called nanocarriers can deliver higher concentrations of drugs to bombard specific areas...