When diseases like cancer and AIDS are impacting millions of people each year and rare but
deadly infections like Ebola are moving faster than treatment, the race to make effective drugs becomes a sprint.
Not exact matches
How the healthcare and medical research industries respond to threats
like the escalating occurrence of unique viral
infections,
deadly cancers, and neurodegenerative diseases
like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, which have vexed scientists for generations.
Milk banks are a little
like blood banks in that they carefully screen donors; milk is safely processed and shipped to NICUs where it lowers the risk of
infection and
deadly diseases.
Finally, Kumar adds, the case emphasizes the importance of good antibiotic stewardship, which can help prevent patients from developing sometimes
deadly secondary
infections like this one.
«Injectable immunotherapies that use programmable biomaterials as a powerful vehicle to deliver targeted treatment and preventative care could help fight a whole range of
deadly infections, including common worldwide killers
like HIV and Ebola, as well as cancer,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D. who is also Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS.
Streptococcus pyogenes, a spherical bacteria that typically grows in long chains, can cause minor
infections like impetigo to potentially
deadly diseases
like streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
There are currently no vaccines available for any fungal
infection, which can be extremely
deadly to patients under treatment for diseases
like HIV, AIDS and cancer.
During his visit to the BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Isa learned about the research that Dr. Lavoie and his team do to find ways to protect infants born prematurely
like Isa, from
infection - related complications in the NICU and from
deadly viruses during the first year of infancy.
«To me, this looks
like a very early step in a whole line of research that can really help us understand what are some of the driving forces in developing antibiotic - related diarrhea, in general, and C. difficile, specifically,» says Marya Zilberberg, MD, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, whose research has helped show that C. difficile
infections are becoming more common — and more
deadly — in the United States.
Vaccinations are the best weapon against many viral and bacterial
infections, preventing
deadly diseases
like canine parvovirus and rabies.
When clients voice concerns
like these, I remind them that today's preventive medications are extremely safe, and I reeducate them about how
deadly heartworm
infection can harm their pets.