Sentences with phrase «big diseases of»

«I think the big disease of our society at the local and national level is the habit of misplaced blame coupled with decaying and eroding personal responsibility, and this spills over into the schools,» observed Nakamura.

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He described the families of people with such difficult diseases as «so close to breaking,» and said that «science is going to catch up... But a big piece of that is... changing the paradigm of [medicine], dealing with costs, and dealing with availability.»
Brian Cheng, executive director at NWS Holdings, said: «We believe Medopad will succeed in revolutionizing the current convoluted methods of disease treatment and prevention into a more succinct ecosystem with the development of its artificial intelligence and big data gathering capabilities.»
It is, in short, a giant iceberg of disease that keeps getting bigger.
The company's shares fell as much as 8.1 percent in after - market trading as sales of its premium non-invasive device, used to replace diseased aortic valves without open - heart surgery, is its biggest growth driver.
Good news: Deaths from cancer and heart disease — by far the two biggest killers of Americans — are on the decline, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as are those related disease — by far the two biggest killers of Americans — are on the decline, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as are those related Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as are those related to HIV.
It is also restricted almost entirely to Africa, which, unfortunately for its victims, makes it a less attractive target for big drug companies than a host of non-fatal diseases (think erectile dysfunction) that are more common in rich countries.
«Genetics plays a very big role in your risk of getting these diseases,» Elinor Karlsson, a geneticist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, told Business Insider.
At a very simplified level, the cause of the diseases might hold the biggest clue.
LONDON / NEW YORK / TOKYO, April 25 - Rare disease specialist Shire said on Wednesday it was willing to recommend a sweetened $ 64 billion offer from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co to shareholders, in what would be the biggest acquisition of a drug company since 2000..
Otherwise, the world will miss out on some pretty outlandish world - changing ideas — from autonomous vehicles to cancer - fighting checkpoint inhibitors to smartphones that can warn of an impending stroke to deep - learning machines that may solve some of the biggest mysteries in human disease.
When Jedd Wolchok, a cancer doctor and immunologist leading a Yervoy trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering, examined a melanoma patient's scan 12 weeks after he'd received his course of treatment, the results were utterly disappointing — just like those of any other metastatic patient in the final throes of the disease: The tumors had gotten bigger, and there were more of them.
Right now, that's where most of the big successes have come from, but that could one day include solid tumors and maybe even autoimmune diseases like Type 1 diabetes, Epstein said.
LONDON / NEW YORK / TOKYO Rare disease specialist Shire said on Wednesday it was willing to recommend a sweetened $ 64 billion offer from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co to shareholders, in what would be the biggest acquisition of a drug company since 2000.
Cholera and other acute diarrheal diseases are the biggest threat post-disaster, putting the lives of thousands of children and the elderly in danger.
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?
Whilst we can't know the future of course, for financial planning purposes the probability is that life expectancy on average will increase in the future as medicine advances to cure or limit the big killers (cancer, cardiovascular disease etc).
What Stephen Hawking Missed: Small Biotechs Developing Promising Cell Therapies for Devastating Disease Source: Streetwise Reports (5/2/18) In the second of a two - part series exploring the disruptive cell therapy space, Maxim Group analyst Jason McCarthy takes a look at small - cap companies targeting big - ticket indications and their potential to drive blockbuster value for both patients and investors.
LONDON / NEW YORK / TOKYO (Reuters)- Rare disease specialist Shire said on Wednesday it was willing to recommend a sweetened $ 64 billion offer from Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co to shareholders, in what would be the biggest acquisition of a drug company since 2000.
Because the Editas process is potentially applicable across a variety of genetic disease indications, it wouldn't shock me if it becomes one of this year's best performing IPOs, and CRISPR / Cas research becomes a much bigger focus of investors than CAR - T in 2016.
A big magic fairy man spoke a spell and then there was earth and light before stars and then a snake talked to a woman and then the big magic fairy man had to sacrifice himself to himself to appease himself by exploiting a loophole in a plan he made himself because of an invisible disease (sin) in an invisble body part (soul) so that he doesn't have to torture us forever in the big fire pit he made even though he doesn't want anyone to ever go there but he just can't help himself.
There is a big study by the University of Arkansas, and another by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and yet another by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
And if you're like a lot of people, malaria seems like one of those diseases from yesteryear — something that was once a big problem, but maybe...
Has anybody on this blog ever read the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.It clearly states that we know only a little about this disease and if you find a better solution our hats are off to you.
«We know it will have a big impact in terms of people with developmental diseases that will not seek treatment until it's often too late.»
Luckily for the rest of the world the majority of US citizens are educated enough to realise they are being flooded by big - business - led propaganda such as Fox news and CNN who don't know the difference between Foot and Mouth disease and Mad Cow disease!
If you were God, would you make this big complex universe, then only focus on only one species on one tiny tiny planet way off on the edge of the immense universe, constantly inflicting them with disasters and disease and evil and war, just to see who obeys you based on your random, occasional help of some of them?
Conservatives make a big deal about abortion but do next to nothing about starvation (1000s die a day), car and road safety, drug and alcohol abuse, gun safety, drug safety, food safety, water safety, preventable disease, etc. all of which kill vast numbers of people.
In the past 20 years the vast majority of small pork producers have given way to big agribusiness, and the big guys resorted to regularly dosing their animals with antibiotics to keep disease from spreading through thousands of hogs kept in close quarters.
One of the biggest inspirations for my blog was my younger sister, who has celiac disease.
It is the biggest source of antioxidants in the diet, and coffee drinkers have been shown to live longer and have a lower risk of several serious diseases, including type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26).
By tossing fresh vegetables and legumes into a big pot and letting them simmer, you can nourish your body with healthy nutrients that have been linked to lowering your risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, blood pressure and high cholesterol.
CA About Blog Diabetes Health magazine, published by King's Publishing in California, United States, is one of the US's biggest magazines focusing on diabetes and the complications that are the every day concern of people with this disease and also their families and friends.
(See: Study: Saturated Fat Not Associated with Risk of Coronary Artery Disease, Coconut Oil and Dairy Fat Healthy and Big Pharma Study: USDA Dietary Guidelines on Fats are Wrong.)
The plant - based sources of these nutrients tend to be low in saturated fat, high in fibre and packed with antioxidants, helping mitigate some of the modern world's biggest health issues like obesity, heart disease, diabetes and cancer, among many others.
I'm not a big gluten - girl (auto - immune diseases), but like you, I love to use a little bit of healthy pasta to give a dinner the «comfort» factor!
High in Antioxidants This pure organic sweetener contains a big number of antioxidant which are a natural protection against dangerous diseases.
«The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, from where the quoted study has obtained their data, suggests that in Australia the biggest causes of mortality or poor health include factors such as obesity, smoking, poor diet and low physical activity.
«Focusing on soft drink consumption alone misses the bigger picture of the causes of chronic diseases.
and a job aswel ye bum your mothers sick of cleaning up your shit after you ya big 45 year old social disease.
However just a couple of years later the big man was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, and the increasing inconsistency he had displayed became completely understandable.
Understandably, folks who are mindful of such things - as we are too - aren't likely to want to move their livestock from pasture to pasture for fear of catching or spreading disease, etc.... not to mention that we were dealing with a goat breed that we didn't know was in such big demand!
After reading the first half of Gary Taubes» Good Calories, Bad Calories I came to the conclusion that saturated fat really isn't a big deal unless you're in the extreme heart disease risk category, which, at 27 and with normal cholesterol levels, I don't think I am.
Rachel has some added medical fun, the big one being 2 1/2 years of Chronic Lyme Disease presenting like Fibromyalgia, plus osteo - arthritis and small fiber peripheral neuropathy (all of which translates into chronic moderate to severe pain).
I will not list out the big advantages of co-sleeping here, but it could prevent your baby from suffering from a so - called disease SIDS.
A new study of 635 children in Massachusetts found that a bigger waist size at age 3 increases the odds that a child will have a marker for liver damage and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease by age 8.
Poor diet is now the biggest underlying cause of disease and death globally — bigger than tobacco, alcohol and physical inactivity — and early child feeding plays a key role in building and reinforcing healthy and unhealthy food preferences so its crucial that sugar levels are lowered.
Poor diet is now the biggest underlying cause of disease and death globally [iii]-- bigger than tobacco, alcohol and physical inactivity, and early child feeding plays a big role in building and reinforcing both healthy unhealthy food preferences.
Bad diet is now acknowledged to be the biggest cause of death and disability and the costs of diet - related diseases are fast consuming health budgets.
Bipolar Disorder is one of the biggest mental health concerns in the United States, but instead of addressing the true, spiritual nature of the disease, the normal course of treatment involves harmful pharmaceuticals.
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