Sentences with phrase «about the disease of»

There is this temptation at corporate headquarters, if I write a book it's going to be about the disease of corporate headquarters, if I write a book it's going to be about the disease of corporate headquarters that the staff takes care of everything, don't worry about it, Jamie, we took care of that.

I have been deeply concerned about the disease of the church at a time when it has such remarkable opportunities for global leadership.

«This toolkit is a valuable resource for communities, school districts and families across our state to help start serious conversations about the disease of addiction and the inherent dangers of drug use and experimentation.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo launched a new public service announcement to educate New Yorkers about the disease of addiction and inform them that help is available.

Masanori Aikawa, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, describes the new technology as «a monumental contribution» that should help researchers develop new treatments and learn more about diseases of endothelial tissue such as atherosclerosis and diabetic retinopathy, which can cause blindness.

Biomedical research has produced vast stores of knowledge about the diseases of old age, but scientists still don't understand why our bodies begin to deteriorate when we reach our thirties.

The programs also seek to integrate neuroscience and clinical disciplines with public health initiatives in order to disseminate and implement novel findings from research centers of excellence, as well as conduct community outreach to raise awareness about the diseases of aging.

That is a very interesting post about this disease of the teeth.

Retreat's Family Education Program is designed to educate loved ones about the disease of addiction and the dynamics it creates.

There is virtually no education in our medical schools or the schools that train our counselors and therapists about the disease of addiction.

The majority of programs offer individual and group therapy, along with lessons about the disease of addiction.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, about half of all Americans have at least one chronic disease, which is accounting for 80 % of the healthcare costs.

About 69 million employees in the U.S. say they miss work because of health problems every year, which reduces economic output by $ 260 billion per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

With a sturdy, adjustable - height tabletop and a range of 0.6 to 6.5 kilometres per hour, I would soon be typing and talking without worrying about the «sitting disease» epidemic that's killing North Americans.

That means that, for the first time ever, Americans won't have to get a prescription to receive plain - English medical reports about their chances of developing diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, celiac disease, and other disorders based on analyses of their genetic makeup.

The project's launch featured a prominent ALS patient and research advocate: Pat Quinn, co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, an initially - derided social media stunt that went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for ALS research and may have spurred important new discoveries about the disease's genetic roots.

Eric Dolan, co-founder of software company Neutun Labs, is clear about the importance of the disease that led him to become an entrepreneur.

In a recently recovered interview with Steve Jobs, he talks about the disease that grips most people, which he explains is «thinking that a really great idea is 90 percent of the work.

Even though there are about 3,500 of mosquitoes worldwide, many aren't capable of transmitting disease - causing pathogens or parasites to animals.

«The idea of being able to use biology to design and engineer living things that can do things like cure disease or eliminate organ waiting lists, or even revert climate change, or help us live on other planets — that's more what was exciting about it,» he says.

Urovant is one of the member companies under Vivek Ramaswamy's Roivant Sciences umbrella, which contains about a half dozen firms, each of which is focused on a different disease treatment space.

Congress's failure to resolve the Zika funding impasse may reflect a larger political reality: Most Americans just don't care about it or else feel they are safe from the possible spread of the disease.

One of the main problems with Alzheimer's drug research — despite the money, the interest, and the need — is that there's still uncertainty about how to control the disease in the first place.

Traditional lab companies like Quest have also started talking about using blood tests for a personalized medicine approach to the early detection of diseases.

About Alkermes plc Alkermes plc is a fully integrated, global biopharmaceutical company developing innovative medicines for the treatment of central nervous system (CNS) diseases.

«Through this collaboration with the cancer community's leading clinical and pathology experts, thousands of more patients can potentially benefit from the world's growing body of knowledge about this disease,» said IBM Research and Cognitive Solutions senior vice president John Kelly in a statement.

Bloom syndrome is one of about 250 conditions and diseases that 23andMe's original DNA kit claimed to help screen for by analyzing users» genetic code.

Inovio's vaccine against HPV is currently in Phase II clinical studies, and Kim says «about 50 percent» of the subjects in that trial are defeating the disease.

U.S. autism prevalence has grown, according to a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report, with about 1.7 percent of 8 - year - olds affected in 11 states.

Frey's team did not train their system to predict diseases, but instead to take measurements of contents within a cell (metrics such as the concentration of a specific protein) and draw conclusions about the cellular system as a whole.

Almost 49,000 people are diagnosed with the disease every year, and every one of them has an equally sad story to tell about the diagnosis.

These figures are as large as they are partly because 60 % of sufferers don't comply with their medication or treatment regimen — for any number of reasons including cost, stress, work patterns or lack of education about how to self - manage the disease.

Breathing a concentration of a few hundred parts per million can kill a person in about half an hour, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

«Although China will be switching over to renewables by 2039, concerns about unhealthy air will be so intense after two decades of respiratory diseases that they could likely pioneer buildings with filtered air, oxygen supplements and artificial light to replace lost sunlight,» said Jacques Gordon, LaSalle's head of global research and strategy.

In 2008, the National Institutes of Health spent $ 80 million on SCI research — about the same amount that went to inflammatory bowel disease — compared with $ 5.6 billion for cancer and $ 3.6 billion for infectious diseases.

The gene - silencing strategy, in the form of RNA interference, has also showed promise against an uncommon neurodegenerative disease called hereditary ATTR amyloidosis, as my colleague Sy Mukherjee wrote about in Fortune's year - end Investor's Guide.

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About Nohla Therapeutics Nohla Therapeutics is a leading developer of off - the shelf cell therapies for the treatment of cancer and other critical diseases.

Sitting on his patio at his summer house in Boulder, he pulls out his iPad to forward me an article on a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found that only about one in 10 Americans eats the recommended minimum five servings a day of fruit and vegetables.

Government organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been warning about the rise of antibiotic resistance, saying we'll soon be in a «post-antibiotic era.»

«I know how awful it is to watch people you love struggle as the disease robs them of their mental capacity... It feels a lot like you're experiencing a gradual death of the person that you knew,» he said in a blog post about the dementia investments.

By comparison, Americans, on average, get about 50 % of their calories from carbs, 15 % from protein, and 30 % from fat, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A new, extensive five - year study on the effects of cocoa flavanols on cardiovascular disease is slated to begin in 2015 and will hopefully reveal more about the antioxidant's impact on memory.

Though the Canadian Business of the 1930s covered many topics that wouldn't seem out of place in the 21st century — rising taxes, truth in advertising, the imminent death of the airline industry — it also ran many stories the editors of 2013 likely would never touch («The story of safety glass») or would at least think twice about («The «social» diseases and business: what is syphilis costing Canada?»).

Dutch disease is not about reallocation of capital.

Between 2000 and 2014, the number of Americans who were a century or older increased by about 44 percent, according to a 2016 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

While most of the attention on pharmaceutical prices has been on new drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment.

What we can do today has led to a host of unanswered questions about what we should do: How can big data help us personalize disease prevention and wellness?

It's worth noting that our primary focus was on technologies that aided and improved primary care, which is about half of the U.S. market in terms of revenue dollars (there is no question that digital tools will successfully impact specific acute diseases / disorders, but it's our intuition these are best left to 100 % focused HC investors).

There are a lot of pieces of the healthcare market or healthcare services that could be pulled out, like LASIK, and one thing that some places, and I think when we get to Singapore we can talk more about this, too, is primary care can be treated very, very differently than more specialty care or more catastrophic or chronic disease care.