Sentences with phrase «advanced disease state»

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Founder and CEO Social Capital LP and Golden State Warriors Owner Chamath Palihapitiya has a mission which is, «To advance humanity by solving the world's hardest problems including the advancement of human capital, the eradication of disease, solutions to global climate change, and other really difficult things that are non obvious.»

With the advances in knowledge that are almost certain to be gained from the Human Genome Initiative — or, if its critics should win the day and it lose support, from more piecemeal genetic - research — we will know more and - more about genetic factors causally related to health and disease and to other important aspects of life, such as intelligence and emotional states.

A deadly fungal disease that's infecting snakes in the eastern and midwestern United States doesn't appear to discriminate by species, size or habitat, researchers report online December 20 in Science Advances.

To maintain its foothold in large - scale, world - class research, Japan has launched its own Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies (Brain / MINDS) project, in line with the increasing interest in brain - mapping projects around the world, such as the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative project in the United States and the Human Brain Project (HBP) in Europe.

Though uveal melanoma is rare — there are only 2,500 cases diagnosed in the United States each year — about half of patients will develop metastatic disease, and survival for patients with advanced disease has held steady at nine months to a year for decades.

Advances in the prevention and treatment of an often fatal condition called bacterial meningitis appear to be paying dividends in the United States, report infectious disease experts at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

It's my guess that, as a young person, you imagined yourself using your abilities in math or science to solve a problem — perhaps to cure a disease or advance the state of knowledge in an area that interested you.

Of the nearly 200,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer each year in the United States, radiation is a first - line therapy considered for all but the most advanced disease.

Since 1996, major changes in infectious diseases have occurred, such as the introduction of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) / AIDS and West Nile virus into the United States, advances in HIV / AIDS treatment, changes in vaccine perceptions, and increased concern over drug - resistant pathogens.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today declared that recent scientific advances in HIV / AIDS have created a «historic opportunity» to change the course of the pandemic and usher in a generation where no children are born with the virus, the risk of becoming infected plummets for teens and adults, and those who do become infected receive drugs that both ward off disease and make them less infectious.

The anatomical evidence indicated advanced disease, with a level of physical damage that would have reduced most people to a state of total confusion.

Over the past 20 years, the two species known to spread the disease to humans have together advanced into half of all the counties in the United States.

Today, Science strives to cover advances that reveal the specific ways in which the microbiota influences the physiology of the host, both in a healthy and in a diseased state and how the microbiota may be manipulated, either at the organismal or molecular level, to improve the health of the host.

Providing comprehensive, state of the art transplant care to a vulnerable population with advanced kidney disease.

The report outlines specific suggestions for researchers and research funders, United States regulators and policymakers, and international organizations, that could help advance this promising new scientific approach for combatting insect borne human disease and insect agricultural pests while ensuring environmental safety and societal issues are addressed.

Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory and the MDI Biological Laboratory have separately made recent advances in understanding the basics of two of the leading causes of deaths in the United States, colorectal cancer and heart disease, respectively.

Okyanos is proud to offer patients suffering with this difficult disease a new and advanced treatment option that is not currently available in a clinical setting anywhere in the United States.

NYU Langone's Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center offers state - of - the - art, advanced care.

July 24, 1997 New device permits less invasive approach to leg surgery The University of Chicago Hospitals is one of three medical centers in the United States using a new device, developed by Baxter Healthcare Corp., to restore blood flow to the leg for patients with advanced peripheral vascular disease, the leading cause of amputations in the United States.

Promising advances in neurologic diseases often occur when research in one disease state is applied to other disease states.

It's potential as a biomarker of disease and an early objective marker of treatment response is genuine but still to be realized.Resting - state functional magnetic resonance imaging has made some strides in the clinical realm but significant advances are required before it can be used in a meaningful way at the single - patient level.

Studies have found that individuals with Parkinson's disease have an advanced state of mitochondrial dysfunction (13, 14, 15).

We believe that this 10 - lipid phospholipid biomarker panel reflects the breakdown of neural cell membranes in those individuals destined to develop advanced moderate cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease and may mark the transition between preclinical states where synaptic dysfunction and early neurodegeneration give rise to subtle cognitive changes.»

While the beginning states of periodontal disease are associated with plaque and tartar, the most advanced stages can actually affect internal organs.

By knowing the early signs of cat illness you have a better chance of getting professional help before the ailment or disease is in an advanced state.

Many dogs and cats are brought to us in advanced states of dental disease.

Dr. Sara worked for the state government, interned at the Center for Disease Control and has completed advanced training in the Incident Command System for large scale emergency response prior to working in private practice.

Advanced dog heartworm disease in ventricle of heart Source: Dr. Richard Wescott / Washington State University

Due to the highly malignant nature and advanced state of disease (often to other organs), the prognosis for dogs with hemangiosarcoma is quite guarded.

«This year, we will press the United States and other nations to exert strong leadership in advancing an agenda that extends beyond whaling to the broader range of threats that imperil whales throughout our oceans, including ship strikes, chemical and noise pollution, entanglement, oil spills, radioactive contamination, emerging diseases and climate change,» says Kitty Block, HSI vice president, who will be attending the IWC meeting for the 14th time.

[66] Acknowledging this the trial judge responded by broadening the criteria from Oregon's «terminal diseases [that] will produce death within six months» to «in a state of advanced weakening capacities with no chance of improvement.»

In the result, the judge declared the impugned provisions to be unconstitutional and of no force and effect to the extent they prohibited physician - assisted suicide in the case of a «fully - informed, non-ambivalent competent adult patient who: (a) is free from coercion and undue influence, is not clinically depressed, and who personally (not through a substitute decision - maker) requests physician - assisted death; and (b) is materially physically disabled or is soon to become so, has been diagnosed by a medical practitioner as having a serious illness, disease or disability... is in a state of advanced weakening capacities with no chance of improvement, has an illness as determined by reference treatment options acceptable to the person, and has an illness causing enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to that person and can not be alleviated by any medical treatment acceptable to that person».

(a) they have a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability; (b) they are in an advanced state of irreversible decline in capability; (c) that illness, disease or disability or that state of decline causes them enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to them and that can not be relieved under conditions that they consider acceptable; and (d) their natural death has become reasonably foreseeable, taking into account all of their medical circumstances, without a prognosis necessarily having been made as to the specific length of time that they have remaining.

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Increasing numbers of children in the United States (ie, ∼ 200 children per 100 000 population) require intensive care annually, because of advances in pediatric therapeutic techniques and a changing spectrum of pediatric disease.

Increasing numbers of children in the United States (ie, ∼ 200 children per 100 000 population) require intensive care annually, because of advances in pediatric therapeutic methods and a changing spectrum of pediatric disease.1 It has been projected that there will be continued growth in the number of pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) beds well into the new millennium, with a higher level of illness acuity for children occupying them.2