Sentences with phrase «diagnosing early disease»

For horses in early stages of disease with clinical signs, the Thyrotropin Releasing Hormone (TRH) Stimulation test may be performed (with ACTH levels measured before and after administration of TRH) as this test may be more helpful in diagnosing early disease.

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In early 2015, Wipp was hospitalized and diagnosed with a rare lung disease.

Still, more drugs are in late - stage trials that could have an impact on the disease, and researchers are pinning hopes on diagnosing the disease early, before symptoms even show up.

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.

In late 2013 his father, Riley Bechtel, who had served for 24 years as CEO, retired four years early at 61 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

New advances in the world of sensors, chips, hardware devices, swallowable cameras, 3D printing, artificial organs, data mining technologies, and more could help us diagnose diseases earlier, provide better treatments to patients, and even ease things like chronic pain and depression.

The first time that happened, it was in early last year, when Juan was first diagnosed with Celiac disease, which meant that we would have to cook without gluten at home.

CSU Monterey Bay in conjunction with UC Riverside is conducting a research project to help growers diagnose avocado salinity stress and root rot disease early on.

We were both diagnosed earlier this year with celiac disease and I've been overwhelmed with what to bake in the way of treats and cookies and this is a nice healthier alternative.

Unfortunately earlier this year, at the age of 19, he was diagnosed with cat alzheimer's disease.

The experienced striker, who now plays his club football in the Middle East, was admitted to hospital in Equatorial Guinea on Saturday night, but because the disease was diagnosed so early he was able to be released the next morning.

Also, a newborn screening blood test is done before the baby leaves the hospital to look for PKU (phenylketonuria), congenital hypothyroidism, and other diseases that need to be diagnosed early in infancy to ensure successful treatment.

This reproductive technology is used with an in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle and can be used to diagnose genetic disease in early embryos prior to the implantation in your surrogate mother.

He had been on medical leave from the chamber since early this year after he was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, a rare, degenerative and fatal brain disorder.

Badillo, who was diagnosed in 2012 while she was 30 weeks pregnant at age 32, said that she hopes the ads convince women to start getting tested earlier to be able to catch the disease and treat it.

Each year, approximately 150,000 people are diagnosed with colorectal cancer - but the early indicators of this deadly disease can be caught before it is too late.

The inventor, composer and MIT professor created the technology behind the popular video game series, but for Machover, music is not just entertainment: It's a tool with potential health applications ranging from diagnosing early Parkinson's disease to retraining stroke victims to speak.

The earlier diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration and glaucoma — the three most prevalent diseases causing blindness — can be diagnosed, the more successfully they can be treated.

In particular, Parkinson's disease happens to be something that, before you can diagnose early stage Parkinson's in any other way, you can literally take someone speaking over the telephone and analyze it really quickly.

He had started thinking about rare diseases a few years earlier when, while he was doing his postdoc, his stepsister was diagnosed with one.

Many treatment options for Parkinson's are only effective when doctors diagnose the disease early, and when symptoms are very noticeable it may be too late.

«An estimated 220,000 men are expected to be newly diagnosed with prostate cancer each year in the United States, and the majority will have early - stage disease at low risk for recurrence,» Lee said.

These newer studies are beginning to uncover the reasons why men are much more susceptible to neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and ALS; why autism, dyslexia, stuttering and early onset schizophrenia are three to four times more prevalent in boys; and why attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is diagnosed 10 times more often in boys.

«Patients diagnosed with early - stage prostate cancer — and that's the vast majority of patients with this disease — face many treatment options that are thought to be similarly efficacious,» said Ronald C. Chen, MD, MPH, UNC Lineberger member and associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology.

Earlier studies have demonstrated that cocoa flavanol intake improves the elasticity of blood vessels and lowers blood pressure — but, for the most part, these investigations have focused on high - risk individuals like smokers and people that have already been diagnosed with conditions like hypertension and coronary heart disease.

Furthermore, the levels of Runx2 expression among a larger group of 351 newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients were significantly higher in patients who had a high risk of early disease - related death, as compared with lower - risk patients.

Although tau imaging is still in its earliest stages, Ryan hopes that such imaging will accelerate drug development and that finding a blood - based biomarker for Alzheimer's to reveal risk (much like cholesterol serves as a marker for cardiovascular risk) will change the field dramatically in terms of how doctors can diagnose the disease.

«The disease is here and can be highly lethal, though also highly preventable if diagnosed early,» she says.

Redfield has a long history of publishing reports about his work: In 1988 he co-wrote a Scientific American feature article about early HIV research (available via subscription only), which emphasized the importance of studying the progression of HIV into AIDS, and of diagnosing the viral disease as early as possible.

He continued: «Ischaemic heart disease should be diagnosed at an early stage so that preventive therapies can be given.

Patients diagnosed with early - stage disease face a choice between monitoring with treatment if relapse does occur or upfront chemotherapy with its associated long - term side - effects.

Most patients are initially diagnosed with an early stage disease.

«Our review draws attention to the critical need to properly diagnose spinal cord disease to initiate appropriate therapy early on and avoid unnecessary and potentially harmful treatments,» says B. Mark Keegan, M.D., Mayo Clinic neurologist and senior author.

Once stem cells can be grown and differentiated in a controlled way to replace degenerated cells and repair tissues, medical science may then be able to diagnose and cure many intractable diseases at their earliest stages, such as type 1 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, various cardiovascular diseases, liver disease, and cancer.

Doctors have had little success diagnosing ovarian cancer at its earliest, most treatable states or identifying women at risk for the disease, for example.

There is not only a great interest worldwide to understand the causes and consequences of fatty liver disease, but also to diagnose fatty liver disease at an early stage.

The next thing I want to do is figure out how to accurately diagnose the disease very early, because that way I could save a patient who still had some functioning.

We're working on ways to accurately diagnose the disease early.

In current clinical practice, no biomarkers exist for diagnosing early - stage disease.

«Very early on in this disease — at a time when outside a study like ours the majority of people would not have been diagnosed with COPD — patients appear to be losing lung function,» said lead author Mark T. Dransfield, MD, medical director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Lung Center.

Bad timing puts babies at risk: When carried out in early pregnancy, a minor operation used in diagnosing inherited disease in the fetus has been linked to birth defects

«This is important because Parkinson's disease is difficult to diagnose, especially at the early stages.»

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.

Researchers also found that those with any form of traumatic brain injury were diagnosed with Parkinson's disease an average of two years earlier than those without traumatic brain injury.

They included China's ambitious 15 - year plan aimed at understanding the neural basis of cognitive functions while developing the tools to diagnose and treat brain diseases early; it is likely to be funded with $ 1 billion over the first 10 years.

Half of multiple myeloma patients diagnosed in the earliest stage of the disease don't survive beyond about five years after initial treatment because the cancer becomes resistant to treatments.

The three - quarters of patients who are diagnosed early have much better outcomes than those whose disease is diagnosed late.

As such it is important that we find new ways to diagnose the disease early, giving us a chance to investigate and instigate new treatments before irreversible damage is done.»

But while this approach is good at diagnosing the disease at later stages, it can miss the disease early on when antibody levels are low.

These methods have since been used for all sorts of different problems — from probing how greenhouse gases affect the climate to diagnosing early onset Alzheimer's disease.