Sentences with phrase «disease of any member of your family»

With a family floater health plan, you may avail cashless medical treatment for an illness or disease of any member of your family, provided the insured is hospitalized in one of the network hospitals as specified by the insurer.

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Does God send sickness, disease, famines, floods, earthquakes, or the loss of jobs, income, health, or even the death of a family member?

Never have I read anything as moving as Dreher's description of what a family undergoes when one of its members is stricken with a grave disease.

I love that she addresses different needs, such as autoimmune disease or athletic performance, so her book is useful for every member of my family.

If you've just been told that you or a family member has celiac disease, it's likely your head is spinning with information overload and you're in a daze of disbelief.

having other family members with a «history of premature death (sudden or otherwise), or significant disability from cardiovascular disease in close relative (s) younger than 50 years old or specific knowledge of the occurrence of certain conditions (eg, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, long QT syndrome, Marfan syndrome, or clinically important arrhythmias)».

ACEs usually refers to the 10 types of childhood adversity that were measured in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study: physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, a family member who's an alcoholic or addicted to other drugs, a family member diagnosed with a mental illness, witnessing a mother being abused, a family member in prison, and loss of a parent through separation or divorce.

Caregiver duties and responsibilities can include: Assisting with personal care: bathing and grooming, dressing, toileting, and exercise Basic food preparation: preparing meals, shopping, housekeeping, laundry, and other errands General health care: overseeing medication and prescriptions usage, appointment reminders and administering medicine Mobility assistance: help with getting in and out of a wheelchair, car or shower Personal supervision: providing constant companionship and general supervision Transportation: driving to and from activities, running errands, and help getting in and out of wheelchair - accessible vehicle Emotional support: being a stable companion and supporter in all matters personal, health - related and emotional Care for the elderly: orienting or grounding someone with Alzheimer s disease or dementia, relaying information from a doctor to family members Back - up care (or respite) services: providing other caregivers a break Home organization: help with organizing

This is especially true if you have taken a lot of time to educate them on the dangers of smoking, or perhaps they have even seen a family member or friend get unwell or even lose their life to a smoking - related disease.

Many moms, however, report that extreme efforts to promote the benefits of breastfeeding, such as a lower risk of SIDS or chronic disease later on in life, has contributed to a culture that shames mothers who can not exclusively breastfeed, as does judgment from finger - wagging family members and friends.

Now ALL the members of her first family is watching out for this inheritable disease.

Furthermore, more than 70 percent of Alzheimer's disease patients are cared for by a family member and there is always the fear that they will wander,» said Legislator Rath.

The ONEIDA COUNTY LIVING HEALTHY NY Program workshops, are part of the Healthy Choices NY series of initiatives, bringing people with chronic diseases, family members, and care givers together in a community setting to learn healthier ways to live, gain confidence, and motivation to manage their health, and feel more positive about life.

Congressman Chris Collins, along with local medical experts and families living with rare diseases, urged members of the U.S. Senate to pass legislation that boosts funds for research.

Researchers performed liquid biopsies: A small amount of intraocular fluid was extracted from eight eyes of members of the same family at various stages of NIV and, as a control, four eyes with a noninflammatory eye disease.

«Only about five percent of the first degree family members of a person with diabetes will develop occult disease,» Gaglia, who is firm that for the moment this imaging technique should only be used in the context of research.

Family members considered his unexpected passion for homegrown biology frivolous and quixotic, but after watching a once - robust refinery employee slowly waste away and die of stomach cancer, Sabin felt compelled to use his money to cure disease.

They found that patients with Crohn's disease tend to have much higher levels of the fungus Candida tropicalis compared to their healthy family members.

«Patients, family members, and healthcare providers should work together to find solutions to the barriers preventing a patient from participating in a structured exercise programs, because exercise programs can help patients manage their condition,» said Lauren B. Cooper, M.D., lead author of the study and a fellow in cardiovascular diseases at the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.

Shore is a Ph.D. scientist, and yet she and her lab members know most of the patients and families who come to Penn to see orthopedist Frederick Kaplan, one of the few clinicians who specializes in the diseases.

Ex-prisoners, often with improperly treated TB that had mutated into the multidrug resistant form of the disease, moved back into cramped apartment blocs where, during the long, cold Siberian winters, hallways and unventilated apartments provided ideal conditions for airborne transmission to unwary neighbors, friends and family members.

«I'm a breast oncologist, and I've seen too many patients die from triple - negative disease,» said senior author Andrei Goga, MD, PhD, professor of cell and tissue biology and of medicine at UCSF, and a member of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

After concentrating on disorders like Alzheimer's disease, where memory loss is so severe that patients gradually lose the ability to recognise even members of their own family, the industry is now expanding its horizons.

Ilina Krishen became aware of the dangers of smoking and chemical air pollution when she saw the effects of lung disease on family members.

The survey shows that 45 % of respondents had a family member with an autoimmune disease other than Crohn's.

It can determine the status of at - risk family members in families in which disease mutation has been found.

Some members of Cryptococcus, a family of fungus linked to human disease, can have tens of thousands of different mating types.

A deadly form of this disease and a noncancerous but still serious tumor afflicted members of the human evolutionary family nearly 2 million years ago, two new investigations of fossils suggest.

In 2011, Vermeire's group published a study showing that healthy family members of Crohn's disease patients have a slight dysbiosis as well.

It is important for all patients (and family members of patients) with macular degeneration to know that although the disease can injure the central vision of both eyes severely enough to render one «legally blind,» it is extremely uncommon to cause complete blindness in even a single eye.

The APOE4 trial builds on another trial of an anti-amyloid drug in 300 members of a Colombian family who carry a gene mutation that places them at high risk of developing an early - onset form of Alzheimer's disease.

When a disease like macular degeneration is caused by a dominant gene, a number of family members may be similarly affected.

Researchers have discovered that at least a third of people with these conditions have a disease - causing genetic mutation, so early detection can benefit family members who may be at risk.»

That has implications for genetic models that predict how likely it is that members of a family will inherit a trait, whether it's a disease such as schizophrenia or a physical trait, such as height.

They compared the results with data from disease - free family members of the patients as well as healthy, unrelated controls to home in on CNVs unique to the cancer patients.

The hihi is one of the world's most evolutionarily unique birds, classed as the only member of its own family, and were lost from New Zealand's North Island by around 1895 because of introduced predators such as rats, habitat loss due to farming and disease.

After doing a genetic epidemiology research project at McGill, looking at whether family members of head and neck cancer patients had an increased risk of the disease (and finding the topic fascinating), she went to the University of Washington (U.W.) in Seattle to earn a master's degree in epidemiology.

Finkbeiner's team has already characterized a number of these cell lines for differences between people with the disease and their unaffected family members.

Members of a family that includes the apoptosis regulator APAF1 (apoptotic - protease - activating factor 1), mammalian NOD - LRR proteins (also known as NACHT - LRR proteins or CATERPILLERs) and plant disease - resistance gene products.

For instance, Liu uncovered physical features of rhinovirus C that help explain why it is resistant to standard antiviral treatments, how it interacts with cells to cause infection, and why it behaves as a different disease from other members of the enterovirus family.

Using gene sequencing, the researchers learned that every member of the family with congenital heart disease had the same mutation in GATA4 — a change in a single letter in the gene.

Limiting their analysis to family members born before 1955 allowed for 57 years of observation for disease diagnosis.

After losing seven members of his family to cancer over the course of a decade, Ty set out on a global quest to learn as much as he possibly could about cancer treatments and the medical industry that surrounds the disease.

Reaching out to family members of those with the disease, or those who carry the genetic determinant that eventually leads to the disease, was not something I was used to.

I'm thrilled that we've partnered with them and the Department of Pathology to start a Genomics Pediatric Board which will apply panel, exome, and whole genome sequencing to children afflicted with severe genetic diseases and their family members.

The Alzheimer Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) Family Based Study The ADSP has generated whole genome sequence (WGS) data from members of families multiply affected by late onset Alzheimer's disease Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP) Family Based Study The ADSP has generated whole genome sequence (WGS) data from members of families multiply affected by late onset Alzheimer's disease disease (LOAD).

From my own perspective, the combination of heartbreak and inspiration is likely not uncommon among surviving family members who have witnessed the entire trajectory of the disease.

On March 20th, just in advance of CORD's annual Rare Disease Day Conference, dozens of patients, family members and supporters will converge on Parliament Hill to meet with Members of Parliament to deliver one simple message, «National Pharmacare: Let's be fair to rare.members and supporters will converge on Parliament Hill to meet with Members of Parliament to deliver one simple message, «National Pharmacare: Let's be fair to rare.Members of Parliament to deliver one simple message, «National Pharmacare: Let's be fair to rare.»

Nearly a thousand HD family members converged on Baltimore, Maryland for the 2016 Huntington's Disease Society of America's Annual Convention.

The participants in this trial were all Huntington's disease family members who gave up significant time to receive spinal injections of a drug that, at the start of the trial, had never been given to humans before.