Sentences with phrase «debilitating diseases caused»

One report says «The International Association of Firefighters supports bans on these chemicals because firefighters have been shown to be at much higher risk of cancer, heart, lung and other debilitating diseases caused by the dangerous gases created when fire retardants burn.

Currently, there is no cure for the debilitating diseases caused by defects in these genes.

MS is just one of many debilitating diseases caused by auto - immune reactions, where the immune system attacks the body's own tissues.

Though stricken with terminal bone cancer, Farnsworth continued to make public appearances — at film festivals, award ceremonies, and even the National Cowboy Symposium — until the debilitating disease caused him to take his own life at his New Mexico home in October 2000.

Lyme disease is a debilitating disease causing joint pain and arthritis, decreased appetite, fever, lethargy, and in more rare cases, kidney or heart failure

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Otonomy is also testing a steroid gel to treat Ménière's disease, which causes debilitating vertigo, tinnitus, and hearing loss.

And as we now know, chronic inflammation can cause a host diseases and debilitating conditions, including rheumatoid arthritis, heart disease, digestive disorders (from IBD and IBS to Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease), asthma, ulcers, sinusitis, atherosclerosis, periodontitis, hay fever, active hepatitis, diabetes, Alzheimer's and even cancer.

Deep brain stimulation is used in Parkinson's disease to trigger brain cell activity and prevent the abnormal signalling that causes debilitating tremors, but placing the electrodes required is highly invasive.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects two per cent of the Australian population, causing debilitating joint pain and damage.

There is no cure and researchers have been unable to pin down its cause and no drug has been proven to stop the progression of the disease, which causes tremors, stiffness and other debilitating symptoms.

Crohn's disease is a chronic, potentially debilitating, condition of the gastrointestinal tract which can cause abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and weight loss among other symptoms.

Every year, snakebites kill up to 90,000 people, mostly in impoverished, rural tropical areas, as well as causing thousands of debilitating injuries to survivors, in part the reason that snakebite has the status of a neglected tropical disease.

These chemicals, called cytokines, drive the inflammation in the brain, attracting more immune cells, and causing the debilitating disease marked by loss of neurological function.

«While symptoms can be severe or even debilitating, the mechanism by which Giardia infection causes the disease symptoms remains unclear,» said Dawson.

In Parkinson's the pathways are thought to be out of balance, with interrupted motor cells causing the debilitating tremors and loss of movement control symptomatic of the disease.

When sickle cell disease progresses, it can delay puberty and cause acute and chronic complications, including debilitating pain, life - threatening infections, damage to vital organs, and stroke.

BIG BITES An aggressive biter, the Asian tiger mosquito can carry a variety of pathogens that cause debilitating diseases in humans and some domestic animals.

She said: «Identifying a fault in Complex I, one of the building blocks of mitochondria which is responsible for causing disease combined with our custom gene capture and the latest sequencing technology means we can screen many more genes to diagnose this debilitating disease.

The parasites can infect the lungs, kidney, brain, muscles, eyes, sinuses, or intestines, and can cause gallbladder disease and a debilitating array of gastrointestinal symptoms, including chronic diarrhea and wasting.

Dozens of genetic variations act in concert with environmental factors to cause the debilitating neurological disease.

«The findings that we found most interesting were the microRNAs that reflect the extent of the neuron death in the brain, since it is this process that causes the debilitating symptoms of the disease and eventually leads to the death of the individual,» explained senior author Richard H. Myers, PhD, Director of the Genome Science Institute at BUSM.

Ulcerative colits is a debilitating autoimmune disease that causes chronic diarrhea.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) afflicts 1.6 million people in the United States, causing abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, rectal bleeding and other potentially debilitating symptoms.

Spinal muscular atrophy is a debilitating disease that causes weakness and wasting of the muscles.

However, some scientists also believe that estrogen may contribute to the development of autoimmune diseases, which overwhelmingly impact pre-menopausal women, causing debilitating and deadly symptoms.

The ticks that transmit Lyme disease, a debilitating flulike illness caused by Borrelia bacteria, are spreading rapidly across the United States.

Patients with Parkinson's disease experience gradual neuronal loss, leading to cognitive and motor impairments that damage their ability to walk and cause debilitating, often fatal, falls.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease — or COPD — is a debilitating lung disease that causes breathing difficulties and persistent coughing.

MS is a debilitating neurological disease caused by the destruction of oligodendrocytes, cells that build the myelin sheaths that surround the signal transmitting axons of neurons.

* Parkinson's disease commonly starts after the age of 50 and causes a combination of debilitating symptoms, including shaking and other abnormal movements, loss of balance, low blood pressure, bladder and intestinal problems, sleeping disorders and dementia.

Curis Inc. in Cambridge has received a $ 5.4 million, three - year grant from the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation to identify therapeutic compounds to treat spinal muscular atrophy, a debilitating neuromuscular disease that is the leading genetic cause of infant and toddler death.

In the 1950s, the US military developed artillery shells and bombs armed with a bacterium that causes a debilitating flu - like disease in humans.

A UC San Francisco - led research team has identified the likely genetic mechanism that causes some patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) to progress more quickly than others to a debilitating stage of the disease.

Dr Søren Tvorup Christensen (Department of Biology) and Professor Lars Allan Larsen (Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine) at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with colleagues in Denmark and France, have spearheaded the recent discovery which sheds new light on the causes of a range of debilitating diseases and birth defects.

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Ongoing research includes efforts to identify more of the mutant genes and proteins that cause the various disease subtypes, efforts to discover the mechanisms of nerve degeneration and muscle atrophy with the hope of developing interventions to stop or slow down these debilitating processes, and efforts to find therapies to reverse nerve degeneration and muscle atrophy.

Lyme disease can potentially cause persistent fever, rash, headaches, chronic joint pain and swelling, allergic reactions, and even serious and debilitating neurological disorders.

Smokers are four times more likely as those who never smoked to develop this chronic — and sometimes debilitating — disease, which can be painful, causes frequent diarrhea, and can require intestinal surgery.

Smokers are four times more likely as those who never smoked to develop this chronic — sometimes debilitating — disease, which can be painful, causes frequent diarrhea, and can require intestinal surgery.

There are many, many other health consequences to consuming MSG, namely due to it causing inflammation, which researches have found is the basis for the majority of diseases and chronic debilitating health conditions.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, but cancer may be the most - feared chronic illness in developed countries because of its relatively slow and painful debilitating process.

After seeing many specialists to determine what was wrong, I was finally diagnosed with lyme disease, a chronic debilitating infection caused by a tick bite.

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Individuals with Celiac Disease, consumption of gluten causes an autoimmune response in which the body attacks and debilitates villi (which are responsible for nutrient absorption) on the small intestine.

Lyme disease — caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi — is transmitted to humans through the bite of infected blacklegged or deer ticks, and can have lifelong debilitating effects such as arthritis, fatigue and even neurological deficits.

Epstein - Barr is a virus that causes mononucleosis (commonly called «Mono»), a debilitating viral infection that is common among college students, and is also known as the «kissing disease,» because individuals are exposed to the virus through saliva of those who are infected.

Around 4,000 deaths each year are attributed to four main diseases caused by asbestos: mesothelioma (which is always fatal); lung cancer (almost always fatal); asbestosis (not always fatal, but it can be very debilitating); and diffuse pleural thickening (not fatal).

Aged cats sometimes develop arthritis, neurological, and other debilitating diseases that also cause them to break their litter box training.

This disease is not fatal but can cause great pain to the affected dog and slowly, methodically, debilitate the animal.

If the dog has an immature or overburdened immune system, the trophozoites continue to multiply by dividing and can cause the debilitating disease.