Sentences with phrase «detect early disease»

In addition to keeping your cat up to date on Vaccines, annual exams can help detect early disease states before signs may be noted prominently at home.

Ben Stanger, MD, PhD, a professor in the division of Gastroenterology, and first author Ravi Maddipati, MD, an instructor in the division of Gastroenterology, say that these results may prove useful in designing better targeted therapies to stop tumor progression and provide an improved non-invasive method for detecting early disease states in this highly lethal cancer.

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Color announced Thursday that it's introducing a Hereditary High Cholesterol Test that can detect a genetic mutation indicating Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH), a genetic disorder which leaves carriers with high cholesterol that often leads to early heart disease.

Biden also used his own family's history to illustrate the importance of detecting disease earlier.

Many people find it hard to believe that most diseases, if detected early, are treatable — and curable.

Through talking to experts in the field over the past year, Gates said he had identified five areas of need: Understanding better how Alzheimer's unfolds, detecting and diagnosing it earlier, pursuing multiple approaches to trying to halt the disease, making it easier for people to take part in clinical trials of potential new medicines, and using data better.

We count very on your highest professional conduct, maximum cooperation and support to prevent, early detect and respond to any emergence or re-emergence of Lassa fever and any other infectious diseases.

It estimates that a vascular check programme would prevent 4,000 people a year from developing diabetes; save 9,500 heart attacks and strokes; and could also detect at least 25,000 cases of diabetes or kidney disease earlier, allowing cases to be better managed and improving outcomes.

«We hope that eventually rheology can be used as a diagnostics tool to detect early signs for cardiovascular disease as well as various other blood diseases,» he said.

«Ultrasound enables you to screen a larger population, and that in turn means that life - threatening cardiovascular diseases can be detected at an earlier stage,» says Magnus Cinthio, senior lecturer in biomedical engineering and one of the researchers leading the work.

«Unfortunately, the current standard laboratory test is often unable to detect Lyme disease at an early stage of the infection,» explains Hannes Stockinger, Head of the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology of the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectionology and Immunology of MedUni Vienna.

This will improve the ability to detect an active infection more easily than before so that healthy people with Lyme disease antibodies in their blood do not receive unnecessary antibiotic treatment and so that appropriate treatments can be initiated at an early stage.

Electrophysiological testing to measure peripheral nerve conduction properties is not a viable alternative because current methods lack the sensitivity required to detect damage to small, unmyelinated fibers, especially in early stages of disease.

«That's why it's exciting that this discovery may allow us to detect the disease earlier, and address the root cause.»

As rates of skin cancer, or melanoma, rise for men and women in the United States, health experts are debating the effectiveness of annual total body examinations in helping to detect the disease in its earlier stages.

The biological molecules increase the sensitivity of the material, meaning it can sense extremely low concentrations of substances, such as antibodies, and thus potentially detect diseases in their earliest stages.

Detecting Alzheimer's disease early on and fighting it with a therapy tailored to the patient would be the ideal strategy.

The AUC for those patients was 0.87 for Stage I / IIA, 0.93 for Stage IIB and 0.89 for all early stages of the disease using the combination, pointing to a potential ability to detect disease in those who lack either of those known risk - raising conditions.

«That was illuminating and will serve to inform future work aimed at understanding and detecting the earliest cognitive manifestations of Alzheimer's disease,» Monti said.

Adding two blood - borne proteins associated with cancer cell migration increases the predictive ability of the current biomarker for pancreatic cancer to detect early stage disease, a research team from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The advance, they say, may provide a more sensitive measure for detecting early signs of Alzheimer's disease.

The first, called bio-bar-code assays, relies on nanoparticles designed to attach themselves to specific disease - causing proteins; these will vastly improve a doctor's ability to detect diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's in their early stages and to identify pathogens like anthrax.

New tests to detect early Lyme disease — which is increasing beyond the summer months - could replace existing tests that often do not clearly identify the infection before health problems occur.

«For many years, the rheumatology and dermatology communities have been trying to understand which patients with psoriasis go on to develop psoriatic arthritis and how we might detect it earlier in the disease course,» explained senior investigator Cheryl Barnabe, MD, MSc, of the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health and the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

«Only about half of all people with diabetes get an annual comprehensive dilated eye exam, which is essential for detecting diabetic eye disease early, when it is most treatable,» said NEI Director Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D..

«It is crucial for every child to be followed up annually until the age of 21 by a pediatrician — as is done in the United States — to detect hereditary disorders and pediatric diseases as early as possible.

Edward Messing, the senior author of the study, says that PSA is capable of detecting the disease earlier, which could, in theory lead to fewer deaths from prostate cancer.

«It is crucial for every child to be followed up annually until the age of 21 by a pediatrician — as is done in the United States — to detect hereditary disorders and pediatric diseases as early as possible,» notes Igarashi.

«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.

In reviewing 13 studies, the task force saw evidence that screening can detect increased fluid pressure and early glaucoma in adults and that timely treatment for fluid pressure reduces the number of people who lose their vision from the disease.

Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate among all major cancers, largely because physicians lack diagnostic tools to detect the disease in its early, treatable stages.

Scientists have now developed a blood test for Alzheimer's disease and found that it can detect early indicators of the disease long before the first symptoms appear in patients.

Pancreatic cancer is hard to detect early, when the disease is most amenable to treatment.

In addition, they could consider early strategies for preventing and detecting chronic conditions that are linked to earlier menopause, such as heart disease.»

«By looking at the genes of the children who participated in TEDDY, we can now identify who among them is at highest risk for celiac disease, and their parents and health care providers can monitor these children to detect the disease early,» said Beena Akolkar, Ph.D., project scientist for TEDDY at the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

However, many cancer deaths could be prevented if the disease was detected earlier.

While vision screening probably isn't harmful, some age - related eye conditions like macular degeneration and cataracts may be difficult to detect before patients have pronounced symptoms because people in the early stages of these diseases may still be able to read eye charts used to test vision.

However, in the early stages of disease these «biomarkers» can be difficult to detect, as they are relatively rare.

If this is true, and an electronic nose can detect which substances the animals recognise, then we could diagnose the disease earlier and increase patients» survival rates.

Detecting important biomarkers in lower concentrations will allow patients to be treated earlier for diseases such as some cancers and neurological disorders, which could increase the chance of survival rate.

Harvard scientists are creating cells capable of detecting DNA damage, allowing extremely early disease diagnosis.

Dr Sarah Bohndiek, scientist at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, said: «This research gives us hope for developing better techniques to detect the disease early.

Now, researchers report that a simple nasal swab may help physicians detect the disease far more accurately and earlier than current methods.

A new medical imaging method being developed at Rutgers University could help physicians detect cancer and other diseases earlier than before, speeding treatment and reducing the need for invasive, time - consuming biopsies.

The intent is to accelerate progress towards preventing and reducing future outbreaks of disease, detecting threats early and providing rapid, effective, coordinated responses to emerging threats.

«Screening with an electronic stethoscope may be able to detect early changes in lung function in individuals without symptoms of lung disease.»

Our test appears to be much more sensitive at detecting disease in an early stage.

When the UNSW approach was used to assess 13 patients with early glaucoma or optic nerve damage, and 42 people without eye disease, greater vision loss was detected in all patients than using the standard test.

The same relationship did not apply to ß - amyloid, suggesting that — although ß - amyloid PET scans can detect early stages of AD — tau is a better predictor of when people transition from the early, nonsymptomatic stages of the disease into mild Alzheimer's disease, Ances says.

Several research teams are now developing ways to trace it to the tissue from which it originated, hoping to detect early stages of a disease or monitor its progression.