Sentences with phrase «disease at diagnosis»

In this group, patients with elevated CRP had a higher proportion of International Staging System (ISS) stage II and III disease at diagnosis compared to those with normal CRP levels.

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for roughly 85 % of lung cancer and most patients present with advanced disease at diagnosis.

The MBC Project plans to expand its inquiries beyond extraordinary responders to look at patients who have advanced disease at diagnosis, young people with mets and MBC in understudied populations.

Seventy - five percent of these cases are classified as high grade serous type, and they show more advanced disease at diagnosis and are more aggressive.

Not surprising, for almost all cancers, US patients have less advanced disease at diagnosis than in Europe.

Not exact matches

«VCs look to invest in transformative innovations that can significantly improve the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease,» says Brad Bolzon, managing director and chairman of the investment team at Versant Ventures.

The latter look at the global commodity boom and make the grim diagnosis for Canada of «Dutch Disease.»

A diagnosis of Celiac Disease can be pretty overwhelming at first.

It has been a long road, though, starting with her long - delayed diagnosis in 1999, when she learned that the reason she couldn't eat her morning bagel or pasta dinner without wanting to curl up and die was celiac disease, which was relatively unheard of at the time.

Autoimmune diseases and diagnosis are growing at a semi-alarming rate.

This condition, known as Non-Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS) doesn't have any particular diagnostic test the same way that coeliac disease does, but a diagnosis is arrived at after a specialist has ruled out coeliac disease or certain other conditions.

Through his efforts at General Hospital the eye clinic was modernized and an eye disease diagnosis service established.

After 1995, less than 50 % of children diagnosed with celiac disease were under 10 years old, and the average age at diagnosis had risen to about 8.5 years of age.

The Pediatric Nephrology Division at Floating Hospital in Boston provides expert acute & chronic kidney disease diagnosis and treatment for children.

The experienced team of clinicians in the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy at Tufts Medical Center's Floating Hospital for is highly trained in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric asthma, allergies, cystic fibrosis, chronic lung diseases related to premature birth and a wide variety of related conditions in babies, children and adolescents.

The specialists in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston have extensive experience in the diagnosis, treatment and life - long management of Kawasaki dDisease at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston have extensive experience in the diagnosis, treatment and life - long management of Kawasaki diseasedisease.

At 6 p.m., the Senate Task Force on Lyme and Tick - Borne Diseases meets «to continue to focus on improved prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of these diseases to better protect the health of New York residents,»

The first paper, published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, draws from a very large sample population and shows that presently around 20 percent of all dementia cases are diagnosed as HS - AGING at autopsy, although almost none are given that diagnosis during life.

«ELISA is an important technology for biochemical analysis of proteins and hormones and is critical for the diagnosis of many diseases, such as HIV and Lyme Disease,» said corresponding author Anna Pyayt, PhD, assistant professor at the University of South Florida College of Engineering.

Preliminary cellular diagnosis of the disease was made from specimens sent to the University of Georgia, and later by white - nose specialists at the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin.

Most patients, however, present with surgically unresectable or metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis.

In addition, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is looking at expanding readmission penalties to include other diagnoses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and knee and hip replacements.

About 52 percent (34 of 66) of patients had personality - related problems, although sometimes without a formal diagnosis and more than a majority of patients had at least one coexisting illness, including cancer, cardiac disease, diabetes, stroke and others.

In announcing the first rough draft of the human «book of life» at a White House ceremony in the summer of 2000, President Bill Clinton predicted that the genome project would «revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases.»

«This study demonstrates that the road to a mitochondrial disease diagnosis is typically long and hard, involving visits to numerous clinical specialists, conflicting diagnoses, and repeated and sometimes painful and invasive testing,» says Michio Hirano, MD, the paper's senior clinical author and chief of the Neuromuscular Division at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

These programs, which were discussed last month at a rare - diseases conference hosted by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, UK, aim to provide a genetic diagnosis that could end years of uncertainty about a child's disability.

«In the last few months, we've diagnosed several people with the disease years before the diagnosis is typically made, which has changed how we do medicine in our nerve clinic,» says Michael Polydefkis, M.D., professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author on the study.

For example, researchers can now see if body odor reflects other conditions, says Craig Roberts, a biologist at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom: «It's important because it might help with noninvasive diagnosis of disease and potentially for biometric technology using genetically unique and distinct odors.»

The participants were aged between 25 and 42 years at baseline and free from cardiovascular disease and, of them, 17,531 (just over 15 %) reported a physician's diagnosis of migraine.

Sheba Meymandi, a professor of medicine at the University of California Los Angeles, and the director of the Center of Excellence for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chagas Disease who was not involved in the study, had a different take on the results.

«Once this has been achieved,» he explains, «we will be seeing a new era of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis aimed at, identifying disease - free blastocysts, identifying developmentally competent blastocysts among a cohort developing in vitro and achieving single blastocyst transfer in order to avoid multiple births.»

New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) shows that age (or age at diagnosis) and duration of diabetes disease are linked to the risk of death and marcovascular complications (those in larger blood vessels), whereas only diabetes duration is linked to the risk of microvascular complications (in smaller blood vessels such as those in the eyes).

At long last, paleontologists are giving it a diagnosis: septic arthritis, a bone disease that often develops when an injury is followed by infection.

As ICREA Prof. at ICFO Valerio Pruneri comments «the device means a major step forward for light microscopy techniques, especially for microarray platforms since it could definitely be used as a point - of - care tool in the diagnosis and treatment of major diseases such as Sepsis, a critical area where fast and accurate results can translate into life changing health outcomes for individuals.

Algorithms can already outperform specialists at disease diagnosis, but we must come up with a clear framework for what data they are allowed to use

At the start of the study, none of the participants was taking antihypertensive drugs or insulin, none had a prior diagnosis of or current heart disease, renal insufficiency, poorly controlled cholesterol levels or diabetes.

Dr. Jadcherla and his collaborators at Nationwide Children's are now working to develop methods to optimize the diagnosis and management of gastroesophageal reflux disease, dysphagia and feeding intolerance in order to improve overall growth and development in premature infants while also lowering the economic burden of care.

«We also presented data showing the ability to detect people at risk of a future diagnosis for Alzheimer's disease.»

«We know that infants born to mothers with obesity have a greater chance of developing NAFLD over their lifetime, and in fact one - third of obese children under 18 may have undiagnosed fatty liver disease that, when discovered, is more likely to be advanced at the time of diagnosis,» Jonscher said.

«Invasive aspergillosis often is overlooked, but early diagnosis and treatment are key,» said Thomas Patterson, MD, lead author of the guidelines and chief of the Division of Infectious Disease and professor of medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio.

Scientists are not at the point where they can factor in finger length to arrive at a diagnosis, but they've gathered evidence that shows how this prenatal hormone imbalance can affect a person for life, from increasing or decreasing your risk of certain diseases, to predicting how easily you get lost or lose your temper.

«Understanding HCV disease progression rates among people who inject drugs (PWID) is important to setting policy to expand access to detection, diagnosis and treatment, and in forecasting the burden of disease,» said Holly Hagan, PhD, the principal investigator for the HCV Synthesis Project, who also is a professor at New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN) and co-director at CDUHR.

A simple point - of - care testing device for anemia could provide more rapid diagnosis of the common blood disorder and allow inexpensive at - home self - monitoring of persons with chronic forms of the disease.

The device could enable more rapid diagnosis of the common blood disorder and allow inexpensive at - home self - monitoring of persons with chronic forms of the disease.

Poor prognosis was defined as metastatic disease (disease that had spread) at the time of diagnosis or death from the cancer.

The USPSTF also found inadequate evidence on the effectiveness of targeted screening in persons who are at increased risk for celiac disease (e.g., persons with family history or other risk factors), or on the effectiveness of treatment of screen - detected, asymptomatic celiac disease to improve morbidity, mortality, or quality of life compared with no treatment or treatment initiated after clinical diagnosis.

«Artificial intelligence (AI) has huge potential to revolutionize disease diagnosis and management by doing analyses and classifications involving immense amounts of data that are difficult for human experts — and doing them rapidly,» said senior author Kang Zhang, MD, PhD, professor of ophthalmology at Shiley Eye Institute and founding director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Professor Rob Taylor from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research, who also leads the NHS Highly Specialised Mitochondrial Diagnostic Laboratory at the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says: «The diagnosis of mitochondrial disease is often a complicated and time consuming process.

Unfortunately, approximately 85 percent of cancer patients are ineligible for surgery at the time of diagnosis, either because the tumor is entwined in critical vasculature or the disease has progressed too far.

«These findings raise the possibility that by determining the gene expression profile of a patient's tumor, physicians may be able to identify aggressive disease at the outset of diagnosis and start treatment earlier,» said Sungyong You, PhD, an instructor in the Cedars - Sinai Department of Surgery and the first author of the study.