The Congressional Record report emphasizes that patients with Lyme
disease need a research agenda that reflects outcomes that matter to patients, namely effective diagnostic tools and effective treatments that restore them to health.
Not exact matches
One of the main problems with Alzheimer's drug
research — despite the money, the interest, and the
need — is that there's still uncertainty about how to control the
disease in the first place.
Though the researcher said there
needs to be more
research into the exact mechanisms of why that is, they concluded that «healthy sleep appears to play an important role in maintaining brain health with age, and may play a key role in [Alzheimer's
disease] prevention.»
We
need a paradigm shift of doctors willing to look at
research by Dr Lustig, Harvard University's Dr Willet and emory university's sugar = heart
disease study http://tinyurl.com/4ryvdv9.
These unformed stem cells have the ability to turn into mature blood cells — and could save the life of someone who
needs a bone marrow transplant, and possibly other
diseases, since stem - cell
research remains in its infancy, really.
Further
research is
needed to determine whether these effects might increase the risk of adult diabetes, obesity and heart
disease.
A state Senate task force has called for a comprehensive plan to combat Lyme
disease and other tick - borne illness, as well as a legislative commitment to fund
research and arm patients with information
needed to advocate for adequate treatment.
The
research in the treatment of the
disease has gone very well, but what the less - developed world
needs, and what we
need, too, is a vaccine.
Right now the
research team is teasing out further details of the
disease mechanism since this will steer researchers on a path towards much -
needed treatment for motor neuron
diseases.
One
research group
needed 20,000 samples for a study of the epidemiology of common
diseases.
Dr. Dotson and her collaborators on the study stress further primary
research in understanding health system barriers and disparities, and standardization of care is
needed to ultimately improve healthcare delivery and minimize healthcare disparities to improve the health and quality of life of children with Crohn's
disease and other chronic conditions.
The most important question for people taking the telomere test, though — whether you can do anything about your shrinking telomeres, if indeed they cause
disease — is the one that still
needs the most
research.
Although further
research is
needed to improve our understanding of how MSCs repair this damage, these findings suggest a promising role for MSC therapy in treating patients with chronic lung
disease.
They said the key messages from the study were that stroke is a highly preventable
disease globally, regardless of age and sex; that the relative importance of modifiable risk factors means there should be development of regional or ethnic - specific primary prevention programs, and that additional
research on stroke risk factors is
needed for countries and ethnic groups not included in INTERSTROKE.
While these results suggest that boosting autophagy in the gut is generally beneficial, Hansen cautions that further
research is
needed: «Before we can consider regulating autophagy to manage
disease, we
need to learn a lot more about how the process works both in a single cell as well as in the whole organism.»
«While much more
research is
needed, it is exciting to consider that pharmacological intervention in these cellular processes might help slow or even prevent
disease progression.»
The findings highlight the
need to evaluate a history of heart
disease in the management of osteoporosis in older people and further
research is also
needed to provide a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms which explain the link between osteoporosis and heart
disease.»
This unmet
need slows basic
research, development of new drug therapies and development of new diagnostic tests to help us detect or treat
diseases.
A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery
disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional
research that will be
needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.
Beppler said more
research is
needed to determine which combinations are optimal for specific
diseases and for specific parts of the body.
And they also suggest further
research is
needed to measure the optimal density of boxes and their specific effect on the prevalence of
disease such as Lyme and babesiosis in ticks and hosts.
And more
research will be
needed to determine whether atheronal levels in the blood speed the onset of heart
disease such as atherosclerosis.
A new narrative review authored by Carl Streed Jr., MD, at Brigham and Women's Hospital, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, discusses how more
research is
needed to better understand cardiovascular
disease (CVD) and CVD risk factors in transgender patients receiving long term cross-sex hormone therapy.
Further
research is
needed to validate SPADE across a wider range of symptoms and
diseases.
Zika infection associated with congenital brain abnormalities is one of the eleven virus
diseases that, according to World Health Organization,
needs urgent
research and drug development attention.
«We
need more
research to better understand how to help people who have had adversity in childhood prevent or delay the development of heart and blood vessel
diseases.»
The fact is, we
need to explore a range of
research avenues in vulnerable populations around the world to learn the best ways to the spread of
disease.
«While further
research is
needed to conclusively demonstrate a link, the dog may indeed be a sentinel for humans — it shares the same environment, exhibits the same range of
diseases, many with the same frequency and responds in a similar way to therapies.»
«The aim is to improve the care of all people with sickle cell
disease, young and old, and to raise awareness among the entire medical profession regarding the
need for better care and more
research, so that someday everyone with sickle cell
disease can receive the best possible care and lead a normal and productive life,» said Dr. George Buchanan, Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine.
«The Roadmap for Discovery and Translation in Lymphoma draws focus to our most pressing
needs, which, if unaddressed, will prevent transformative changes to how we study and treat these
diseases,» said David M. Weinstock, MD, co-chair of the ASH Meeting on Lymphoma Biology Steering Committee that led the development of the lymphoma
research agenda.
«Many
diseases, such as Ebola, severe sepsis, dengue, and others are thought to put survivors at increased risk of persistent health problems, but further
research is needed,» said Dr. Danielle Clark, lead author on the paper and deputy director of the Austere Environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes at the Naval Medical Research
research is
needed,» said Dr. Danielle Clark, lead author on the paper and deputy director of the Austere Environments Consortium for Enhanced Sepsis Outcomes at the Naval Medical
ResearchResearch Center.
But, they write, «the ability to perform targeted and nonlethal sampling of bats for WNS offers a
needed tool to facilitate enhanced surveillance and
research for the
disease.»
In this episode, Scientific American news editor Phil Yam discusses how veterinarians, physicians and multinational food companies
need to work together in the global fight against animal - borne infectious
diseases; and University of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about recent
research tracking the evolution of yeast genes with specific functions descended from a single, duplicated gene with multiple functions.
«I order for us to focus screening efforts on individuals who are at risk of aortic dissection because they are carriers of the
disease - causing mutation, more
research on the genetic causes of aortic dissection is
needed.
By defining the threshold of the amount of virus
needed for transmission, the
research also provides a target that experimental dengue vaccines and drugs must prevent the virus from reaching in order to be successful at preventing the spread of
disease during natural infection.
«Given the serious threat of graft - versus - host
disease, new approaches to make stem cell transplants safer for patients remain a critical unmet
need,» said Dr. Leslie Kean, the trial's principal investigator and associate director of the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer
Research at Seattle Children's.
While further
research is
needed into the connection, physicians treating one
disease should be vigilant for signs of the other and counsel those patients about risk, the authors say.
New preclinical
research on the molecular mechanisms responsible for sickle cell
disease could aid efforts to develop much
needed treatments for this devastating blood disorder that affects millions worldwide.
«Additional
research is
needed to evaluate if periodontal
disease prevention and treatment could help alleviate the incidence of cancer and reduce the number of deaths due to certain types of cancer.»
Although there
needs to be a wide discussion of the safety and ethics of editing embryos and reproductive cells, they say, the potential to eliminate inherited
diseases means that scientists should pursue
research.
Although this is indeed often the case, clinical
research can be as varied as the thousands of
diseases that
need treating.
While the spread of pathogens and
diseases are worrisome, Raghavan emphasizes that more
research is
needed.
They say more
research is
needed to understand whether this level of virus suppression would be enough to halt
disease transmission, and they are working on other experiments to see if they can produce antiviral factors in the gut, which could assist in inducing a stronger immune response and possibly confer resistance to the other viruses.
«More
research is
needed to confirm why heart
disease deaths among rheumatoid arthritis patients have declined, but potential factors include earlier and more vigilant screening for heart problems, improved treatment for heart
disease and rheumatoid arthritis, and in general, more attention to heart health in patients with rheumatoid arthritis,» says lead author Elena Myasoedova, M.D., Ph.D., a rheumatologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn..
«More
research is
needed to better understand how polycystic kidney
disease destroys kidney function over time, and what combination of medications can most safely and effectively prevent or undo the damage caused by this devastating condition.»
Dr Prince said: «Women with coronary artery
disease spend less time sitting for long periods but we
need to do more
research to understand why.
Pinpointing which rheumatoid arthritis patients
need stepped - up heart
disease prevention efforts has been a challenge;
research by Mayo Clinic and others has found that standard heart
disease risk assessment tools may underrate the danger a particular person faces.
«Continental controls
needed to maintain fightback against tree
diseases: New
research calls for tighter controls to fight tree
disease epidemics.»
Hveem, a gastroenterologist, says that «more
research into the exact function of this protein will be
needed to understand the role it plays in these two
diseases, and whether it can be targeted with new drug therapies to reduce risk — or treat — one or both
diseases.»
There is much more future work to be done and further improvements are still
needed, but this
research represents one small step closer to a possible treatment for this devastating genetic
disease.