Sentences with phrase «as a disease called»

Medical science, they believe, regards heavy drinking as a disease called alcoholism.

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To this end, Calico has also forged a partnership with a Chicago - based biopharmaceutical company called AbbVie, in order to develop drugs that will tackle aging and age - related diseases such as neurodegeneration and cancer.

Demographers call this reduction in the typical span of age - related illness «the compression of morbidity» and attribute it primarily to improvements in the treatment of common ailments such as heart disease.

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.

The outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa in 2014, and the worldwide panic it caused, served as a wake - up call: We as a human race are still extremely vulnerable to fast - spreading, infectious diseases.

But company leadership also maintained that the drug is a «best - in - class anti-inflammatory disease - modifying therapy,» as Chief Executive Officer Stuart Peltz said on the company's earnings call.

we as believers have a commission: Then Jesus called together the Twelve [apostles] and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases, And He sent them out to announce and preach the kingdom of God and to bring healing.

If there is a sense in which addiction can be called a disease, it might be as the «disease of modernity,» a symptom of humanity's escalating disenchantment with authority, especially divine authority.

What we call a «miracle» is something we either don't understand (so called spontaneous remission of diseases) or regard as very lucky (a cute little girl surviving a tornadoe).

We still have no clue whatever as to why what we call «disease» should exist at all.

Besides, many of the so - called abortion drugs are used for cancer and auto - immune disease treatment, so it is not as simple as just not covering a specific drug.

If he believed, as it seems he did, in disease as caused by supernatural beings called demons, that does not mean we also must believe this.

Saint Marianne Cope, as she will soon be known, may be best remembered for her work with patients suffering from Hansen's disease — or lepers, as they were called at the time.

In regarding mental illness as symptomatic of the diseased general condition of humankind, faith relativizes the simplistically absolute distinction between the sick and the well, and calls attention to a deeper, less obvious level of selfhood.

And, even though the Bible clearly refers to drunkenness as sin, most Christians have hopped onto the AA bandwagon of faith and believe that habitual drunkenness is due to a disease called «alcoholism» or «addiction» rather than to sin» (p. 74).

Practically, however, you all recognize the difference: you understand, for example, the disdain of the methodist convert for the mere sky - blue healthy - minded moralist; and you likewise enter into the aversion of the latter to what seems to him the diseased subjectivism of the Methodist, dying to live, as he calls it, and making of paradox and the inversion of natural appearances the essence of God's truth.

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.

She insists that what she calls «the problem that has no name» — that is, the fact that American women are denied full development as persons — is far more threatening to this country's physical and mental health than any known disease.

has not only caused incredible harm to the environment, but respiratory disease, cancer and other ills, so - called «accidents» that murder and maim many people — and other domestic and wild animals, the poor things dismissed as «roadkill», and heinous wars.

I suffer from an autoimmune disease called Ulcerative Colitis as well as IBSD, and feel that this would aid me in making wholesome food that will prevent future flare - ups.

And pineapple has an enzyme called bromelain, which can reduce irritation in allergic diseases such as asthma.

And once people get their body cleaned from poison, they will find, that they no longer have anything called «Allergies», as it is not diseases at all, just like all the other stuff in life, it is just conditions... Artheritis, Asthma, Cancer etc, all reversable, and all preventable!

He called himself a «botanic physician» and believed that most diseases were caused by cold and cured with heat, so it was no wonder that he loved cayenne and prescribed it as a warming herb.

There are many people, such as my sister, who suffer from the serious disease called «celiac disease», where only traces of gluten can have severe consequences for their health.

The United Nations recently recognised the threat of these non-communicable diseases as a global public health crisis, and called for decisive preventative action from government leaders.

This intimate chronicle of his struggle with liver disease and cancer is a series of conversations with Sweetness (as Payton was called), his friends and family, transcribed by Yaeger, an associate editor for SI, around the time of Payton's death last November at age 45.

Patients who had experienced four or more adverse childhood experiences (or ACEs, as they came to be called) were twice as likely to have been diagnosed with cancer, twice as likely to have heart disease, twice as likely to have liver disease, and four times as likely to suffer from emphysema or chronic bronchitis.

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.

Some mothers have what are called «autoimmune diseases», such as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, autoimmune thyroid disease and many others.

However, the organization also called for more research regarding the benefits of 6 vs 4 months of exclusive breastfeeding.25 Thus far, several studies in industrialized countries revealed that a shorter duration of breastfeeding increases the risk of common infectious diseases, such as respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections.8, 19,24,26, — , 32 However, in these studies, various definitions of the exclusiveness of breastfeeding were used24, 27,28,30 or the combination of duration and exclusiveness of breastfeeding was not taken into account.8, 31

From the viewpoint of Waldorf Education, three things are traditionally seen as helping a child become an individual: childhood diseases, what author Edmond Schoorel in his book «The First Seven Years: Physiology of Childhood» calls «naughtiness» (which made me chuckle!)

If you refer to your baby as «Old Faithful» because of his regular and impressive oral eruptions, he might have gastroesophageal reflux disease, often called GERD, a more severe form of acid reflux.

Congenital infections also call for close medical follow - up to watch for any effects of the disease that may develop as the baby grows.

Buffalo School Board member Carl P. Paladino's latest inflammatory comments to a weekly Buffalo paper saying he wished death by mad cow disease upon President Obama, referred to the first lady as a man and said he'd like her to be «let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla» prompted calls for his removal from the board and sparked outrage from Buffalo to the state capital.

NY1 story on BP Adams» Type 2 diabetes diagnosis serving as an unexpected wake - up call and a push to combat the disease on a grander scale (part 2 here).

A coalition including cooling industry representatives and environmental activist Erin Brockovich called on the state to enforce federal water regulations, regularly test the water supply and improve New York's water infrastructure, as data show the state has the highest number of Legionnaire's disease cases in the nation.

A state Senate task force has called for a comprehensive plan to combat Lyme disease and other tick - borne illness, as well as a legislative commitment to fund research and arm patients with information needed to advocate for adequate treatment.

The Reverend said, however, that while he was struggling to raise the money, the hospital management called to inform him that the Sickle Cell Foundation of Nigeria had contributed N260, 000 to fund the operation as part of its efforts towards the treatment of the disease.

As the South Bronx reels in what the city is calling the worst outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in New York history, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration today announced that state and federal agencies were getting involved in the fight — which up until now has been in the hands of Mayor Bill de Blasio and Health Commissioner Mary Bassett.

To better understand their findings, the team examined the animal model for APS1 (i.e. mice with the same genetic defect as human patients with the syndrome) and found that male mice spontaneously developed an inflammatory disease in their prostate glands — a so - called prostatitis — and reacted to transglutaminase 4.

«Virtual house calls for chronic diseases like Parkinson's are not only as effective as in - person care but broader adoption of this technology has the potential to expand access to patient - centered care,» said Ray Dorsey, M.D., the David M. Levy Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and lead author of the study.

For unknown reasons our immune system attacks healthy cells, tissues and organs in a process called autoimmunity, which can result in diseases such as multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes, lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.

Degenerative brain diseases like mad cow disease (officially known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), scrapie in sheep, and vCJD in humans are thought to be caused by prions, misfolded versions of a normal cellular protein called PrPC.

The study found that a mother mouse can pass along to her offspring a susceptibility to intestinal disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease, by way of a gut - residing bacterium called Sutterella, the researchers reported in the journal Nature on Feb. 16.

Though this research focused on the form of the disease called Leber congenital amaurosis 2, or LCA2, the scientists and engineers involved in the study believe the technology holds promise for other forms of LCA as well as other inherited diseases that lead to severe vision loss or blindness.

V: An addiction has been classically understood as a disease of the primitive limbic brain, not of the cortical areas that are involved in what we call executive function.

The review calls for improved global surveillance strategies to combat the emergence of infectious diseases such as the recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa that has claimed the lives of 122 people in the countries of Guinea and Liberia.

The initiative, called Safe Genes, comes at a time when so - called «gene drive» systems, which override the standard rules of gene inheritance and natural selection, are raising hopes among some scientists that the technology could alter or suppress populations of disease - carrying insects or other pests in as few as 20 generations.

Preliminary results of the study were presented at a World Health Organization (WHO) evidence review group meeting, while UNITAID has issued a call for further research into the use of endectocide class drugs, of which ivermectin is currently the only one registered for human use, as new vector control tools in the fight against malaria and other mosquito borne disease.

Still, he's open to more animal testing of the idea — and calls on others to be as well, especially given the dearth of treatments for mitochondrial diseases.