Sentences with phrase «debilitating diseases in»

«Our findings add to the evidence that optimal nutrition helps preserve cognitive function, slow the progression of aging and reduce the incidence of debilitating diseases in healthy aging populations.»

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.

«Non-invasive imaging by MRI of amyloid beta oligomers is a giant step forward towards diagnosis of this debilitating disease in its earliest form,» said Dravid, the Abraham Harris Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Results of the study, published today (19 March) in Nature Genetics, could open the door to new targeted therapies for this debilitating disease in the future.

Chronic orthostatic hypotension can be a severely debilitating disease in the elderly, people with diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), Parkinson's disease, scrofulous growths and in people who take medications that affect the autonomic nervous system.

Babesiosis can cause extremely debilitating disease in some dogs.

(fig. 2 click chart to ENLARGE) «Hook,» as dog fanciers often call it, is a debilitating disease in adults and a frequent killer of pups.

Just like his owner, man's best friend suffers an aching, debilitating disease in his later years: ARTHRITIS.

Find a vet who agrees with me and who is aware of this research and you'll reduce the risk of both infectious and chronic debilitating disease in your puppy — now and in the future.

Just like his owner, man's best friend is destined to suffer an aching, debilitating disease in his later years — ARTHRITIS.

Many dog owners, and some veterinarians, don't agree with this view, and claim to have observed serious debilitating disease in their dogs as a result of infection with Borrelia.

Not exact matches

«If we determine that our [treatment] can prevent or delay the onset of symptoms in healthy yet high - risk populations, this would represent a tremendous breakthrough for those that may face this debilitating disease.»

HINDMAN, Ky. (AP)-- A Kentucky jury has awarded two former coal miners who filed a civil lawsuit claiming defective dust masks led to their debilitating black - lung disease $ 67.5 million in damages.

Valter Longo, the director of the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California, believes that by eating in a specific way, people might be able to live past 100 without developing debilitating diseases.

The disease is characterized by the accumulation of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA) leading to a neurodegenerative disorder that is chronically debilitating and life - threatening, where the most affected tissues are the myelin in the central nervous system (CNS) and the adrenal cortex.

Look into the eyes of a suffering victim of any of the multiple disfiguring, debilitating, painful diseases that your «loving» god has purportedly created, or those of a starving innocent child in Africa.

Since its inception in 1989, Project Angel Food has delivered more than 10 million meals to men, women and children who are debilitated by disease and struggling with life - threatening illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, renal failure and HIV / AIDS.

Smith said that in» 93, while bouncing back from a debilitating bout of the viral disease glandular fever (formally known as mononucleosis), she had begun devoting herself fanatically to the training methods of Erik de Bruin — a Dutchman who became Smith's boyfriend, then her coach and, five weeks before the Olympics, her husband — and that the combination of her hard work and de Bruin's coaching had led to her dramatic improvement.

The first step in that direction will be HHS Director deciding on life / death of the unborn that is diagnosed with some incurable, debilitating disease.

Clostridium difficile has shown a 5 % increase in the community when compared to the same period last year with 15,263 people being affected by this debilitating disease.

But the five companies that the state selected in 2015 to get marijuana into the hands of people suffering from debilitating and sometimes terminal diseases such as cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis tell a different story.

Experts and victims of the debilitating illness recently met at Ryder Park in DeWitt in an effort to put a personal face on the disease.

Findings from a study into Crohn's disease, led by William G. Kerr, Ph.D., of SUNY Upstate Medical University, and his collaborators at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, provide the first evidence that patients with debilitating inflammatory bowel disease lack sufficient quantities of a protein that comes from the SHIP1 gene.

Some of the symptoms she saw in both the mothers and surviving pups resembled those of a debilitating disease called pellagra.

A genetically influenced disease, schizophrenia presents itself differently in everyone it attacks, but it is invariably terrifying, and often totally debilitating.

The country documented 476 cases of the debilitating birth defect from January 31 to November 12, researchers note December 9 in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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.

Researchers report they alleviated the debilitating effects of the neurodegenerative disease in mice and monkeys

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.

University of Queensland researchers have developed a world - first vaccine - style therapeutic approach to treat rheumatoid arthritis, a debilitating disease affecting more than 450,000 people in Australia.

In the end, the identification of microbial species or metabolites that are altered in Parkinson's disease may serve as disease biomarkers or even drug targets, and interventions that correct microbial imbalances may provide safe and effective treatments to slow or halt the progression of often debilitating motor symptomIn the end, the identification of microbial species or metabolites that are altered in Parkinson's disease may serve as disease biomarkers or even drug targets, and interventions that correct microbial imbalances may provide safe and effective treatments to slow or halt the progression of often debilitating motor symptomin Parkinson's disease may serve as disease biomarkers or even drug targets, and interventions that correct microbial imbalances may provide safe and effective treatments to slow or halt the progression of often debilitating motor symptoms.

Alan Flake at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in Pennsylvania is planning a similar clinical trial of maternal stem cells in fetuses with sickle cell anemia, a painful, debilitating disease that often shortens life.

Yet low - level disease persists in many patients, and some still face debilitating pain, says Robinson.

The rare, debilitating genetic diseases, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) and progressive osseous heteroplasia, strike in childhood and lead to years of pain and early death.

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.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

The trial, the largest ever of fetal surgery, randomly assigned those afflicted with this debilitating disease to get surgery either in utero or after birth and tracked them until they were 2 1/2 years old.

What started as the discovery of an unknown disease in Guam has spread to a line of ominous findings about some of our most debilitating conditions and potential toxins lurking in bodies of water around the world.

«Visual hallucinations in Parkinson's disease are frequent and debilitating,» said study author Dagmar H. Hepp, M.D., from the Department of Neurology and the Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences at VU University Medical Center (VUMC) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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.

However, it and other animal groups were less happy with other aspects of the changed directive, especially moves to allow the reuse of animals and the use of nonhuman primates in experiments not directly linked to life - threatening or debilitating diseases.

British newspapers reported this weekend that Ian Wilmut, the University of Edinburgh biologist who led the team that in 1997 cloned Dolly the sheep, is getting out of the cloning business in light of the new findings, which seem to offer researchers a likely new source of stem cell lines for basic research that could one day lead to new treatments and perhaps cures for spinal injuries, diabetes and debilitating disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

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.

Our hope, however, is that ketone ester supplementation will also hold benefits for people who are suffering from debilitating metabolic and neurological diseases by improving energy availability,» said Andrew J. Murray, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, in Cambridge, England.

Among the most debilitating and stigmatized psychiatric diseases, schizophrenia can rob sufferers of their self and their future, often in early adulthood.

Their studies indicate that the two conditions common in sickle cell disease, dramatically increase red blood cells» adhesion to the lining of blood vessels walls and the debilitating pain crises that can result.

Dr. Yasuyoshi Watanabe, who led the study at RIKEN, stated, «We plan to continue research following this exciting discovery in order to develop objective tests for CFS / ME and ultimately ways to cure and prevent this debilitating disease.»

Researchers have discovered tell - tale signs of Alzheimer's disease in 20 elderly chimpanzee brains, rekindling a decades - old debate over whether humans are the only species that develop the debilitating condition.

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

Although there remains no cure for Alzheimer's, researchers hope that testing potential drugs or therapies prior to mental decline will prove to be more successful than previous attempts at finding the most effective treatment in the battle against the debilitating disease.