Sentences with phrase «disease detection as»

Early Disease Detection As pets age it is important to acquire a baseline assessment of their kidney, liver, and thyroid metabolic function.

«Now we know that graphene - based assemblies can spontaneously change shape under certain conditions, we can apply this knowledge to see if it changes when exposed to toxins, potentially paving the way for new methods of disease detection as well.»

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21ST - CENTURY DETECTION AND PREVENTION Value Chain Track As the burden of chronic ailments increases along with our aging populations, public health experts are in near - universal agreement that we need to a far better job of preventing disease.

Breast cancer survival rates have increased, and the number of deaths associated with this disease is steadily declining, largely due to factors such as earlier detection, a new personalized approach to treatment and a better understanding of the disease.

While stating that there was a cure for Lassa fever, the minister advised Nigerians to be vigilant as early detection helps in nipping the disease in the bud.

Recent advances in detection, as well as the comprehensive power of clusters of biomarkers, or biomarker signatures, are making the brain more accessible and neurological diseases more treatable.

Early detection and treatment with antibiotics can prevent long - term effects such as pelvic inflammatory disease that can affect the fallopian tubes and lead to infertility or ectopic pregnancy.

Assessment of the 12 - Lead ECG as a screening test for detection of cardiovascular disease in healthy general populations of young people (12 — 25 years of age): a scientific statement from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.

As part of the EU «ID Lyme» project, the infection immunology working group at the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology at the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology at the Medical University of Vienna is working on developing of a new test for early detection of Lyme disease (borreliosis).

The concentration of these components can be a differentiating marker between certain bowel diseases and their accurate detection by way of non-invasive devices such as the electronic nose would be a great step forward for the detection and monitoring of the evolution of these diseases,» explains doctor Pilar Nos, Head of the Digestive System Medicine Department at La Fe hospital.

«Since these touchscreens can detect very small capacitance changes we thought they could serve as highly sensitive detection platforms for disease biomarkers,» says Park.

For current breast cancer screening methods such as mammography, the challenges are access to screening, compliance, detection of some disease that is indolent and need not be treated, detection of noncancerous lesions that undergo biopsy, and failure to detect some disease that does need to be treated.

Recently, breath sensors for early detection of life - style diseases such as cancer and diabetes have been developed, but most of them are large, bulky and expensive.

Pathogens that cause such diseases as cytomegalovirus, Kaposi's sarcoma, sepsis, Lyme disease, and malaria routinely escape detection.

And, given the wide applicability of electrochemical detection to many types of biomolecules, the platform «can be readily extended to the detection of other disease markers such as proteins, metabolites, ions, and nucleic acids,» Liu added.

Also, Alzheimer's diagnosticians might be wise to their adopt cancer colleagues» early detection stance, she said, as Alzheimer's disease appears to start long before amyloid - beta plaque appears and cognitive decline sets in.

During the webinar, our expert panel of researchers will discuss: • Strategies and technologies for successful cancer biomarker discovery through robust detection and analysis of miRNAs in biofluids • Research into analytic and biological variables that impact miRNA measurements in serum and plasma from the clinical pathologist's point of view • The novel application of miRNAs in serum as biomarkers of aging and chronic disease • The answers to questions submitted by the live, online viewers.

Such data has previously been used for the study of personal mobility, urban planning, infectious - disease spread, health detection, extreme situation monitoring and country development as well as crime detection and privacy issues.

«Since this gene has previously been identified as a target for the development of new drugs, in the future, it may be possible that early detection will facilitate better management of this disease.»

The high MAO - B activity consistently observed in patients with Parkinson's disease has been proposed as a biomarker, but there has been a lack of suitable small molecule probes for MAO - B specific detection in live cells and tissues.

For example, these factors might be useful for early detection of the diseases through a simple blood analysis, or even serve as new targets for possible treatment,» concludes the researcher.

«In young and middle - aged adults, our findings suggest that early detection and treatment of mild - to - moderate sleep apnea is warranted in order to prevent future cardiometabolic disease,» said lead author and postdoctoral scholar Yun Li, MD. «Given the stronger association of sleep apnea with metabolic abnormalities in this age group, emphasis should be placed on yearly monitoring of indices of metabolic symptoms and lifestyle interventions, such as weight control, healthy diet, regular exercise, and stress management.»

«This research could help us find biomarkers for early detection, as well as provide information for developing targeted therapies for this devastating disease.»

«Our smart contact lens provides a platform for wireless, continuous, and noninvasive monitoring of physiological conditions, as well as the detection of biomarkers associated with ocular and other diseases,» says Professor Park.

Because diseases such as cancer tend to evade detection by T - cells» receptors, allowing a tumor to grow unchecked, scientists have long sought «intel» on this process as a means of developing therapies that target malignant cells, but leave healthy cells alone.

To reduce the burden of drug - resistant disease, the researchers recommend that treatment be coupled with ways to prevent spread of the disease, such as early detection, reducing the number of patients who do not complete treatment, and providing tailored treatment depending on which drugs the strain is susceptible to.

Besides increasing the proportion of people in the USA covered by medical insurance once the ACA is fully implemented, the authors show that structural and financing reforms introduced by the Act will help healthcare in the USA to transition from a «sick care system,» largely focused on treatment of illness, to a system that includes disease prevention, health promotion, early detection, and public health as integral components.

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a high - resolution live imaging technique that can be used for early detection of retinal diseases, such as age - related macular degeneration, diabetes - related conditions, glaucoma or vascular occlusions, for example.

In addition, other teams at the O'Donnell Brain Institute are designing tests for the early detection of patients who will develop dementia, and seeking methods to slow or stop the spread of toxic proteins associated with the disease such as beta - amyloid and tau, which are blamed for destroying certain groups of neurons in the brain.

Although all women with a documented disease - associated mutation in the CIMBA database were included, some populations use screening for founder mutations as a primary method of mutation detection, such as for the 3 Ashkenazi Jewish mutations.

Antibody microarrays are powerful tools for simultaneous detection of hundreds or thousands of blood - borne protein biomarkers at once, potentially allowing accurate fingerprinting and improved diagnostics of complex pathophysiological states such as cancers, neurodegenerative diseases and autoimmune conditions.

This study is good example of a precision medicine themed approach to showing how a mechanistic understanding of the differential gene expression can yield biomarkers that can be used for early detection of disease, as well as potential therapeutic targets.

The awards span the broad mission of the NIH and include groundbreaking research, such as engineering immune cells producing drugs at the site of diseased tissue; developing a sensor to rapidly detect antibiotic resistance of a bacterial infection; understanding how certain parasites evade host detection by continually changing their surface proteins; and developing implants that run off the electricity generated from the motion of a beating the heart.

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a new way to manipulate a virus shell that self - assembles from proteins and holds promise as a carrier for disease detection, drug delivery, and vaccinations.

Genome - wide association studies are a critical tool in the detection of genes involved in complex diseases such as diabetes and cancer or traits such as height and obesity.

As an international quartet of digital disease detection researchers wrote recently in PLoS Computational Biology: «Current regulatory and ethical oversight mechanisms are ill - equipped to address the entire spectrum of [digital disease detection]- type activities.»

Earlier detection would enable the use of anticoagulation therapy to mitigate the risk of stroke and other complications such as dementia, chronic kidney disease and heart attack.

Biomarkers associated with disease progression show promise as detection tools in public health and biodefense and can guide drug and vaccine designers in their quest to disrupt the microbe's ability to infect.

The new work suggests graphene could also find uses in detection of biologically important molecules, such as toxins, disease vectors or food contaminants, many of which give off infrared light when illuminated.

Harshini Mukundan, of Los Alamos» Nuclear and Radiochemistry group made critical breakthroughs in optical detection techniques of diseases such as tuberculosis, allowing rapid detection in the field, and discovered an entirely new class of diagnostic molecules that led to chemical recognition of various biomarkers.

As a result, the researchers point out that Factor XII regulation likely won't lead to a cure for Alzheimer's, although it could help scientists develop new early - stage detection strategies and medications to stall the progression of the disease.

Neuroblastoma for example, sometimes we see these in stage four, very advanced disease, but a bigger question that we really need to understand is why very early cancers sometimes progress and sometimes don't and as our detection...

For example: • fall prevention and detection events, • body mechanics in movement disorders, such as Parkinson's Disease, • length of time in good posture and cardio activity.

Thus, characterization of the subject comprises characterization of the subject as someone with inflammatory heart disease based upon detection of one or more of the above features, in a manner that is an alternative or supplemental to typical methods of diagnosis.

The author notes that while detection and treatment are important, animal product consumption has been recognized as a cancer risk for more than a century and needs to be addressed in order to prevent the deadly disease.

As future studies solidify the association between inflammatory mediators and different diseases, early detection of cytokine aberrations and anti-inflammatory therapy to reduce disease risk may gain more mainstream acceptance

See UTILITY OF AUTOANTIBODY BIOMARKERS FOR DETECTION OF ALZHEIMER»S DISEASE (Parkinson's was looked at as well) and Neuronal PAD4 expression and protein citrullination: possible role in production of autoantibodies associated with neurodegenerative dDISEASE (Parkinson's was looked at as well) and Neuronal PAD4 expression and protein citrullination: possible role in production of autoantibodies associated with neurodegenerative diseasedisease.

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Our services are designed to assist in routine wellness care for young, healthy pets; early detection and treatment of disease as your pet ages; and complete medical and surgical care as necessary during his or her lifetime.

As the world gets smaller through ease of transportation and increased technological connection, the health professions strive to be on the forefront of disease prevention and detection.