Sentences with phrase «as a disease affecting»

It is unclear how this would translate to people, says Rich, as the disease affects mice differently to humans.

A new book provides a summary of many research techniques over a hundred years that have led to a more complete image of HD as a disease affecting the entire brain.

30 % of the proceeds are donated to the Endometriosis Coalition to help raise awareness and research, as the disease affects 1 in 10 women and often goes undiagnosed.

Not exact matches

However, as American Addiction Centers reminds us, addiction truly is a disease, affecting how the brain's reward centers function.

Qualified medical expenses include payments for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or cure of disease — as well as payments for treatments that affect any structure or function of the body.

One of the two groups of the study also showed that using liquid meal replacements instead of food actually affected more weight loss as well as a greater reduction of the risk indicators of heart disease than the intermittent fasting diet with food.

Although bearing the same gay stigma in the public mind as does the disease, these groups typically are broadly based, receive public as well as private foundation funds, and seek to serve without discrimination all who are affected by AIDS.

Access to birth control and education on the proper uses (like, even if you're on birth control, the guy should still wear a condom) of it, as well as true education about intercourse, what causes disease and how giving birth affects the female body is one of the most responsible things we can help the poor with.

If left untreated, or if the disease does not respond to treatment, complete baldness can result in the affected area, which is referred to as alopecia totalis.

The symptoms are caused by different diseases, which affect the brain, such as Alzheimer's.

As in a human body, when an organ becomes diseased or infected, the whole body is affected, so it is in Christ's body.

When a prohibited substance is applied to a certified operation due to a Federal or State emergency pest or disease treatment program and the certified operation otherwise meets the requirements of this part, the certification status of the operation shall not be affected as a result of the application of the prohibited substance: Provided, That:

The Government has finalised compensation for just three farm businesses out of 31 claims for destroyed cattle affected by the Mycoplasma bovis disease outbreak as Federated Farmers says farmers are feeling financial stress.

As someone who is affected by the disease of addiction in my family, this article and others like it hurt my heart.

Much the same point is made by the authors of the new BJSM editorial and in Back in the Game, where Kutcher and Gerstner argue that suicide rates among former National Football League players, can be and have been affected by messaging in the media — a phenomenon called the «suicide contagion» — and note how, in its coverage of the suicide of players such as Junior Seau and Dave Duerson, the media has consistently ignored all seven of the recommendations of the Centers of Disease Control on how to avoid spreading that contagion, including not presenting simplistic explanations for suicide, not engaging in repetitive, ongoing, or excessive reporting of suicide, and not sensationalizing suicide.

If you or the father has an autosomal dominant disorder such as Huntington's chorea, an amniocentesis will be able to identify if your child will be affected by the disease.

You'll be offered some screening tests during pregnancy to try to find any health problems that could affect you or your baby, such as infectious diseases, Down's syndrome, or physical abnormalities.

The team also analysed whether introducing peanut, egg, milk, fish or wheat early into a baby's diet affected their risk of autoimmune diseases such as coeliac disease.

Tertiary prevention works to minimize the impact of the disease on the affected person — to make living with the disease as easy as possible.

For those with AR - PKD, our pediatric nephrologists work closely with the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology at Floating Hospital, as this disease commonly also affects the liver.

For more than 10 years now she has served as the president of the Italian Parkinson's disease organization, advocating and representing those affected by PD.

Insulin — used to treat type 1 diabetes - was discovered using dogs, which are also affected by the disease - there are 14,000 diabetic dogs alive in the UK as a result of insulin.

In Ghana, figures from the Veterinary Services Directorate show that the disease has affected about 66 poultry farms across the country as of May this year.

It went on to say that, «Wear Red Day is an important effort on the part of the American Heart Association to help women understand the reality that heart disease affects people of both genders, so that they can assess their own personal family history and lifestyle risk factors as well as make health choices that will enhance life for themselves and their families.»

Most Muslims live in deprived inner city conurbation and, as such, they are disproportionately affected by many social diseases such as drugs, criminality and mental health problems.

CHICKENPOX COMMON AMONG CHILDREN DESPITE VACCINE The highly contagious varicella - zoster virus (VZV), commonly known as chickenpox, often affects children under age 12 and sometimes even after they have been vaccinated against the disease, Oneida County Health Department officials warned today following reports of an outbreak in Herkimer County.

The disease usually affects the lungs, but can impact other body parts such as the lymph nodes, kidneys, bones or joints.

But occasionally, such as during isolated outbreaks in a refugee crisis, the world receives a vivid reminder of how the disease still affects people.

Ekstein went after the other recessive diseases affecting his community, such as Niemann - Pick, familial dysautonomia, and Canavan disease.

She has had experiences with reporters who thought the scientific community «didn't know anything» when she expressed caveats and uncertainty around a complex topic (such as how mosquito - borne diseases in the U.S. - Mexico border region may be affected by climate change).

Standard approaches also struggle to find combinations of multiple genes that affect disease risk in complex ways (known as genetic interactions).

Early detection and treatment with antibiotics can prevent long - term effects such as pelvic inflammatory disease that can affect the fallopian tubes and lead to infertility or ectopic pregnancy.

For much of the past century, they have evaluated disease outbreaks with a comparatively simple set of equations that divide people into a few categories — such as susceptible, contagious, and immune — and that assume perfect mixing, meaning that everybody in the affected region is in contact with everyone else.

But epidemiologists are increasingly turning to agent - based models to include factors that the equations ignore, such as geography, transportation networks, family structure, and behavior change — all of which can strongly affect how disease spreads.

Today in Cell and associated journals, 24 research studies from the landmark BLUEPRINT project and IHEC consortia reveal how variation in blood cells» characteristics and numbers can affect a person's risk of developing complex diseases such as heart disease, and autoimmune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, celiac disease and type 1 diabetes.

Two protein molecules that fit together as lock and key seem to promote the abnormal formation of blood vessels in joints affected by rheumatoid arthritis, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, who found that the substances are present at higher levels in the joints of patients affected by the disease.

«Historically, type l diabetes has been considered a disease that affects primarily white youth; however, our findings highlight the increasing burden of type l diabetes experienced by youth of minority racial / ethnic groups as well,» the authors write.

For one thing, many questions remain open, such as how other aspects of people's lifestyles affect the risks of disease from alcohol, including diet, smoking, exercise and, of course, medical histories.

Defects in mitochondria, and as a consequence reduced energy levels, are a factor in a number of diseases that affect the nervous system including Parkinson's and Motor Neuron Disease.

The researchers plan to apply their technique to unsaturated fatty acids to help clarify their role in conditions such as inflammation, and diseases affecting the heart, blood vessels, and nerves, etc...

The research is also the first to demonstrate beneficial effects of UDCA on dopaminergic neurons, the nerve cells affected in Parkinson's disease, in a fly model of Parkinson's disease which carries the same genetic change as some patients with the condition.

Although researchers do not yet know the biological significance of these discoveries, they say that fully cataloguing the genome may help them understand how genetic variations affect the risk of contracting diseases such as cancer as well as how humans grow from a single - celled embryo into an adult.

Other treatments, such as radiation, can affect the heart arteries and cause the development of coronary artery disease or blockages.

I wanted to find out about cancer — not just as a word in the «Background» section of grant proposals, but as a disease which could affect as many as one in three of us during our lifetimes — and how scientific research is being applied in the clinic.

These changes affect normal brain processes, such as development or memory, and abnormal brain processes, such as depression, drug dependence, and other psychiatric disease — and can pass down to subsequent generations.

The researchers analyzed how the changes affected indicators of cardiovascular health, such as blood pressure, heart rate and other markers for heart disease and stroke, like high «bad» cholesterol levels.

«As climate changes, and even with many of our weather patterns, [it] directly affects the distribution of disease,» Ford says.

«Previous studies have shown that black people are more likely to have a poor sense of smell than whites and yet may be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease,» said Chen, who is part of MSU's Global Impact Initiative, an effort to help accelerate research in key areas affecting the world such as health and energy.

Genzyme, for example, is committed to developing innovative therapies for diseases such as malaria and sleeping sickness that have largely disappeared in the industrial nations but affect millions in Third World countries.

«Our studies suggest that excessive TNF drives heart valve — rather than heart muscle — diseases, and may be worth investigating for inflammatory diseases affecting the heart valves, such as rheumatic heart disease.»