Sentences with phrase «afflicts people over»

During a 24 - month clinical trial, Colby (and fellow ophthalmologists David Chang of the University of California, San Francisco, Doyle Stulting of Emory University's Eye Center in Atlanta, and Stephen S. Lane of Associated Eye Care in Stillwater, Minn.) developed and tested a preferred technique for implanting the device to most effectively treat bilateral end - stage macular degeneration, which most commonly afflicts people over the age of 55.

SAN DIEGO — A neurodegenerative disorder commonly afflicting people over age 50, Parkinson's disease has so eluded geneticists that many have pronounced it noninherited.

Not exact matches

Now the party needs to get over the intellectual defensiveness which has afflicted it for decades — and reach out to people in English constituencies who have no tribal loyalty to Labour.

It's a potential remedy for a problem that afflicts two - thirds of people over 70 years and 17 percent of all adults in the United States.

The illness afflicts 11 percent of those 65 or older, with the figure soaring to 45 percent for people over 85.

This osteoarthritis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the most prevalent cause of chronic disability among people over 65 and afflicts 40 million people in the United States.

Osteoporosis afflicts some 54 million people over age 50 in the U.S. and is responsible for 2 million bone fractures a year.

Models predict that in the absence of improved testing and treatment, over the next 40 to 50 years, nearly 2 million Americans will develop cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma will afflict 400,000 others, and HCV - related complications will kill about 1 million people.

Founded in 2003 to accelerate the development of a treatment for SMA, which afflicts over 25,000 people in the U.S. and has no known treatment, the SMA Foundation works with leaders in research, industry and government to raise awareness, support and research investment.

T2D afflicts over 400 million people worldwide, but has a disproportionate impact on certain populations, including those of Latin American descent (who are twice as likely as those of European ancestry to develop the disease).

Having practiced adult medicine for over 30 years with the last 5 focusing on adding nutrition and exercise prescriptions to my practice and spending the last 4 years giving educational talks to physicians and lay persons I have come to the belief that a properly done whole foods plant based diet with supplemental B12 is the best diet to avoid many of the chronic diseases afflicting us.»

This website is a platform for people afflicted with these conditions where they can find friendship, love and support from people like them over the internet, without having to reveal their identity.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the number of new cases of Lyme disease in the U.S. doubled over the past decade, now afflicting nearly 18,000 people annually.

Over the years, many hopeless and afflicted people have made long pilgrimages to Yharnam in search of help.

Right now, however, the first four months of 2016 — and indeed, for the past year — water shortages are afflicting a large number of people, over a wide area.

Then they can focus on supporting our most powerful energy sources — coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, and hydro - power — in order to end the scourge of energy poverty that afflicts over one billion people across the world.»

Consider how common a disease type 2 diabetes is - 285 million are afflicted globally - and how many of these people have been prescribed Actos over the years.

Some people see addiction as a disease in which addicts are afflicted and have little power over the cause or onset of addiction - to be a pre-disposition (the «addictive personality»).