Sentences with phrase «disease ravages»

So I hope we can find a cure so my own children and theirs are not left watching the pieces of the people they love fall away, and are not left holding the bag as this insidious disease ravages our nation and the world.

A girl dying of cancer suffers no pain or distress as the disease ravages her body.

Joel Edgerton and Carmen Ejogo star as a couple holed up in a remote cabin as an unnamed disease ravages the world outside, with Kelvin Harrison, Jr. as their 17 - year old son, whose nightmares serve as the audience's portal to the horror closing in on their family.

So I hope we can find a cure so my own children and theirs are not left watching the pieces of the people they love fall away, and are not left holding the bag as this insidious disease ravages our nation and the world.

But recent technological advances and a series of remarkable discoveries in the past two years have provided key clues about how Alzheimer's disease ravages the brain.

Similar problems result when Alzheimer's disease ravages the hippocampus.

Not exact matches

Biblical law offers a means for limiting the ravages of the disease of avarice, and as a result it is the Church, not economists, that must lead in offering the corrective.

Certain situations in life give rise to particular needs, when our frail bodies find themselves defenceless before the violence of others or the ravages of disease.

When the world seems to be crumbling, when churches seem to be failing, when natural disaster after natural disaster ravages our world and every day we hear of a new disease or terror that is about to strip us of our health, we sometimes are tempted to ask, «Where are you, God?

When this has gone on for a while, the «pull» of increasing production in the form of new jobs, greater availability of materials to meet basic needs and more money for investment will lift the bottom line of poverty above destitution and eliminate the worst ravages of hunger, disease and deprivation generally.

He will help them to get well if he can, and he thinks that on their part they should try: «Few people faced with a diagnosis of potentially remediable malignant disease should be willing to give up the struggle if there is any reasonable chance that some promising form of treatment is available to lessen the ravages of the disease or cure it.

Ditto for the billions who have died horrible deaths from the ravages of diseases and wars.

We could have TV spots featuring someone like Rock Hudson at a stage of the AIDS disease where its ravages are unmistakable.

Science teachers in middle and high school nurtured her interest in science, and witnessing the ravages of cancer in her own family — her father died of the disease — cemented her career plans.

Extending that approach to the social sciences more generally could help us develop forecasting tools to assess a whole range of problems threatening human society — not just the ravages of the markets, but wars, disease and demographic change.

A team of researchers from the University of Saskatchewan has developed two caffeine - based chemical compounds that show promise in preventing the ravages of Parkinson's disease.

As director of the United Nations» Millennium Project, he works to save billions of people from disease, hunger, and the other ravages of extreme poverty.

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

As the disease progresses, it ravages our memories.

We all know that there are people who are youthful folks in their seventies, eighties, and even beyond, physically and mentally, and people who we feel are prematurely old, either from disease or just because the ravages of time have worked more quickly on them.

In the brain, these sticky barnacle - like proteins are believed to be the culprits behind the memory - robbing ravages of Alzheimer's disease.

According to Neil Buckholtz, director of the NIA Division of Neuroscience, the investment reflects a shift toward trying to prevent the disease before it ravages the brain, rather than reverse its effects, and a commitment to testing the amyloid hypothesis properly.

Scientists have found a new approach to treating lupus, an autoimmune disease that ravages kidneys.

So if healthy genes could be sent into the lungs, Collins and Tsui reasoned, they could cure the worst ravages of the disease.

Some people's brains can withstand the ravages of the disease by elongating the connections between brain cells — a process that seems to counter mental decline.

He suspects that centenarians lack genes that predispose them to geriatric diseases and possess genes — as yet unidentified — that protect them from the ravages of time.

In early October, the Singularity Summit took place on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a conference that highlighted the prospects for abolishing the ravages of aging and disease.

Having witnessed the ravages of conventional cancer therapies — chemotherapy especially — Lynn was adamant about taking a different approach to her disease.

A new paper published Wednesday by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Nobel Prize - winning Susumu Tonegawa provides the first strong evidence of this possibility and raises the hope of future treatments that could reverse some of the ravages of the disease on memory.

The hippocampus is known to incur some of the earliest and most severe ravages of Alzheimer's disease.

Thanks to the protection provided by vaccines, parents haven't seen the ravages that can be wrought on children by diseases like chicken pox, measles, meningitis and polio, said Dr. Claire McCarthy, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Traditionally, researchers have been looking for ways to treat plaques and tangles in the brain and other ravages of Alzheimer's disease.

A lovingly devoted couple feel their unshakable longtime bond begin to unravel thanks to the ravages of Alzheimer's Disease in this remarkable tour - de-force of acting and powerfully emotional writing from first - time director Sarah Polley.

That's a weird concept to wrap one's head around, especially for those who have seen the ravages of the disease.

She's one of the finest and most versatile actresses of our generation, and her performance in «Still Alice» as a linguistics professor who slowly suffers the ravages of early - onset Alzheimer's disease is one of her most delicate and precise.

Perhaps you are inadvertently exposing them to the ravages of the 21st century illnesses: the immune deficiency diseases.

Distemper is often fatal in rescue dogs and puppies, not only because of the ravages of the disease as it progresses to neurological impacts but because shelters are often not equipped to quarantine sick animals and must resort to euthanasia to stop the spread among the population.

Often thought of as the canine equivalent of Multiple Sclerosis, this progressive neurological disease affects the spinal cord and ravages muscle coordination.

This material is especially useful in dealing with the ravages of periodontal disease.

For the exhibition, Goldin chose works by artists who were directly affected by the AIDS crisis and whose works fearlessly portrayed the ravages of the disease and the widespread cultural indifference to AIDS patients.

His own death came in 1999: one of a generation lost to the ravages of the disease.