Sentences with phrase «cause untreatable»

Over the past few decades, the overuse and misuse of antibiotics has been slowly and steadily creating pockets of «superbugs»: antibiotic - resistant bacteria that can cause untreatable infections.

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Until now, this inherited retinal disease that causes visual impairment ranging from reduced vision to complete blindness, has remained untreatable.

Some of these people have vision problems caused by currently untreatable diseases, he notes, but others simply because they can not afford or do not have access to relatively simple fixes such as surgery to remove cataracts (clouding of eye lenses).

• PUBLIC HEALTH Gonorrhea has been developing defenses against drug treatment for decades, which has caused concern that it might become untreatable.

The bacteria can cause urinary tract infections, and the resistant strain is making this widespread ailment untreatable.

Most causes of untreatable blindness occur due to loss of the millions of light sensitive photoreceptor cells that line the retina, similar to the pixels in a digital camera.

Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a potential treatment which relies on engineering instead of drugs.

Some cases do progress, though, and they may cause debilitating and almost untreatable soft - tissue infections like cellulitis and folliculitis, pneumonia, and often - fatal heart infections, or endocarditis.

World health officials have raised alarms that the growing resistance of gonorrhea to antibiotics could cause it to become untreatable.

Using this technology some forms of blindness may be treatable, including macular degeneration and Stargardt disease, a currently untreatable form eye disease that causes blindness in teenagers and young adults.

There are at least 265 different genes in which mutations can cause blindness; breakthroughs in gene therapy are allowing scientists to develop treatments for diseases that were previously untreatable, giving hope to millions.

I was scared of causing myself pain, nervous about untreatable injury, and frightened of failure.

Despite the common belief that pain in pregnancy is normal or untreatable, physical therapists specializing in pregnancy are experts at correcting the causes of pain and empowering women with exercise and self - care techniques.

The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are evolving faster than we can develop effective antibiotics against them, and a return to the era of untreatable gonorrhea could see a rise in the particularly nasty complications that arise from a long - term gonorrheal infection, such as pelvic inflammatory disease and epididymitis.

Marek's disease is an untreatable virus that causes tumors, weight loss and paralysis.