Sentences with phrase «cause of a wide range of diseases»

The approach should be applied to finding the cause of a wide range of diseases, he says.

Not exact matches

We lack fundamental knowledge about the global distribution of a wide range of disease - causing species from viruses and bacteria to parasites.

There are eight human herpes viruses, and they cause a wide spectrum of diseases, ranging from common cold sores to cancer.

When the immune system is imbalanced, either due to overly - active cells or cells that suppress its function, it causes a wide range of diseases, from psoriasis to cancer.

While canine distemper has been known for many years as a problem affecting domestic dogs, the virus has been appearing in new areas and causing disease and mortality in a wide range of wildlife species, including tigers and lions.

These vulnerable patients, whose immune defenses have taken a dramatic double hit from both their original disease and the treatments required to repopulate their immune system with donor cells, are especially susceptible to a wide range of infections that typically don't cause major problems in healthy people.

«So it is gratifying to see our global health community with our Haitian colleagues rallying to the cause and providing the many insights we need to not just eliminate cholera but to conquer a wide range of water - borne diseases.»

«We're hopeful this technique will eventually alleviate pain and suffering, perhaps even save the lives, of DMD patients who have a wide range of mutations and, unfortunately, have had no other treatment options to eliminate the underlying cause of the disease.»

Why the disease has such a wide range of effects isn't completely understood, but in recent years a potential cause — the loss of hormone - producing neurons, possibly through an autoimmune response — has been identified.

A wide range of diseases are caused by an accumulation of misfolded proteins.

Thus, this rational transcript engineering approach may represent a unique therapeutic opportunity for a wide range of diseases caused by mutations in the mitochondrial genome for which current effective therapies are lacking (2)

Depending on their location in the genome and the proportion of cells they are present in, these mosaic mutations can cause a wide range of genetic disease syndromes and predispose carriers to cancer.

If your bar is full of synthetic ingredients and is missing key nutrients, the meal that you are replacing will fail to meet your basic daily requirements, and over time nutrient deficiencies can cause a wide range of diseases.

Though they were once spurned as the predominant cause of goiter — a thyroid disease that in its most severe form produces a large swelling of the neck — many modern nutritionists now enthusiastically embrace glucosinolates as our most powerful insurance against a wide range of cancers.

It's not easy living with a disease that causes such a wide range of symptoms with virtually no pattern to them.

An antibiotic with activity against a wide range of disease - causing bacteria.

As can be gathered by reading a snippet of the inflammation study preceding this article, inflammation can actually cause a wide range of diseases, some of them fatal.

The Role of Hidden Food Allergy / Intolerance in Chronic Disease Alternative Medicine Review 1998 (Apr); 3 (2): 90 — 100 ~ FULL TEXT A large body of medical literature has indicated that hidden food allergy is a frequent cause of a wide range of physical and mental conditions.

Fasting can cause problems similar to shift working, which is associated with a wide range of disorders and diseases, due to disruption in the HPA (hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal) axis and resulting hormone and autonomic imbalance.

UK About Blog The aims of ME Research UK are to advance scientific knowledge by funding biomedical research into the causes, consequences and treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME / CFS), and to provide high quality information on all aspects of the disease for a wide range of audiences.

We all want our new puppies to be protected from infectious disease, but it's important to know that vaccines can be just as harmful to your dog and can cause a wide range of health problems, from minor fever to respiratory diseases to cancer.

My ticker is certainly happy to hear this dog news: according to a recent wide - ranging study done in Sweden, owning a dog is associated with a twenty percent lower risk of death from any cause and a twenty - three percent lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease.

Few diseases cause this wide a range of serious symptoms.

These pesky parasites live on an animal's skin and can cause a wide range of skin diseases...

This is a very complicated disease with a wide range of symptoms and causes.

Coughing is a relatively insensitive indicator of the presence of heart failure and can also be caused by a wide range of diseases affected the airways or lungs.

Bartonella was recently recognized a being able to cause a wide range of diseases in cats including chronic respiratory tract inflammation.

UK About Blog The aims of ME Research UK are to advance scientific knowledge by funding biomedical research into the causes, consequences and treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME / CFS), and to provide high quality information on all aspects of the disease for a wide range of audiences.

The WHO notes that PM2.5 were thought of as a respiratory problem, but more and more, it is being recognized as a cause of a wide range of cardiovascular diseases and a major cause of death.

At field realistic doses, neonicotinoids cause a wide range of adverse sublethal effects in honeybee and bumblebee colonies, affecting colony performance through impairment of foraging success, brood and larval development, memory and learning, damage to the central nervous system, susceptibility to diseases, hive hygiene etc..

This disease is highly contagious, and it can cause a wide range of health problems, including fever, sore throat, cough, runny nose, nausea, diarrhea, headache, body ache, fatigue, and chills.

UK About Blog The aims of ME Research UK are to advance scientific knowledge by funding biomedical research into the causes, consequences and treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME / CFS), and to provide high quality information on all aspects of the disease for a wide range of audiences.

There is evidence that maltreated children are at greater risk for lifelong health and social problems, including mental illnesses, criminality, chronic diseases, disability1 and poorer quality of life.2 A history of child maltreatment is also associated with lower adult levels of economic well - being across a wide range of metrics, including higher levels of economic inactivity, lower occupational status, lower earnings and lower expected earnings.3 Existing research suggests a ripple effect caused by lower educational achievement, higher levels of truancy and expulsion reducing peak earning capacity by US$ 5000 a year4 or an average lifetime cost of US$ 210012 per person1 when considering productivity losses and costs from healthcare, child welfare, criminal justice and special education.