Kogan wrote in the email that he wanted to create statistical models that could accurately identify people at risk for various
diseases and illnesses by examining their Web browsing and purchase behaviors, and combine that with medical data from Harvard.
Kogan wrote in the email that he wanted to create statistical models that could accurately identify people at risk for various
diseases and illnesses by examining their Web browsing and purchase behaviors, and combine that with medical data from Harvard.
Not exact matches
But a team of researchers affiliated with the National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. is working to change
disease diagnosis capabilities
by developing a piece of technology that patients blow into, so a sensor can analyze the biomarkers in their breath — a breathalyzer that screens for
illness.
Studies show that
by just walking a few miles a day, you lower your risk of life threatening
illnesses like heart
disease, cancer,
and diabetes.
Each day 9,000 children around the world die from
diseases such as acute respiratory
illness and diarrheal
diseases which can be prevented
by washing with soap.
These
illnesses were replaced
by diabetes, heart
disease, stroke, mental
illness,
and cancer as the greatest medical threats to life
and well - being.
Yet there are rare circumstances where one partner or the otiter is rendered sexually incompetent
by physical
disease, accident, or
by mental
illness, so that the remaining partner is forced to choose between abstinence
and the violation of the sacred bond of marriage.
Further, all
diseases were believed to be caused
by witches
and their spells, storms
and other natural events were attributed to witches
and mental
illness was explained
by possession
by witches.
So according to the Bible, prayer
and faith will heal the sick, mental
illnesses are caused
by demon - posession,
and if you see a doctor, if you're sick, it's your own damn fault for not loving god enough,
and if you see a doctor instead of god for your
diseases, your
diseases will never heal.
A cure for cancer or heart
disease or Alzheimer's is not a cure for death from social pathologies or a guarantee that life without
illness and disease will necessarily be marked
by greater happiness.
We can work against
illness and disease,
by the use of such knowledge
and techniques as are acquired through the study of those ills.
I think insurance should be provided
by all employers, but I think it should be for
illnesses and chronic
disease, not voluntary or unnecessary procedures / pills.
In a world in which we inevitably suffer from
illness and disease, in which many fear that they will also suffer from the technological expertise of their caregivers,
and in which some therefore seek death on their own terms
and at a time of their own choosing, it is good to be reminded that affliction
by itself does not necessarily produce good character.
Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust
and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded
by long, painful
illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or
by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's
disease;
and the kinds of events described
by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight
and then blowing its brains out.
These digestive benefits may help to enhance the body's cleansing process
by eliminating waste
and toxins, which in - turn promotes a healthier / stronger defense against
illness and disease.
Also has an autoimmune
disease that affects his brain
and was triggered
by these
illnesses.
By maintaining positive health
and making lifestyle choices that prevent chronic
illness, older people can maintain independence, recover from
illness and reduce their risk of
disease.
About Kawasaki
Disease: KD is a serious
illness characterized
by inflammation of blood vessels throughout the body that primarily affects young children
and infants.
Since its inception in 1989, Project Angel Food has delivered more than 10 million meals to men, women
and children who are debilitated
by disease and struggling with life - threatening
illnesses such as cancer, heart
disease, renal failure
and HIV / AIDS.
Breastfeeding promotes strong families
by giving kids a healthier start in life, less risk of
illness and disease.
Centers for
Disease Control
and Prevention investigations linked consumption of Nakaochi scrape sushi to about 250 diagnosed cases
and an estimated 6,000 or so undiagnosed cases of
illness caused
by two rare strains of salmonella.
Cesarean delivery has been associated with an increased risk for obesity, asthma, celiac
disease,
and type 1 diabetes mellitus,16 - 19 whereas breastfeeding has been related to decreased risks for
illnesses such as asthma, obesity, infection, metabolic syndrome,
and diabetes compared with formula feeding (reviewed in the article
by Ip et al20).
Guardian Angels founder
and WABC radio personality Curtis Sliwa says he's been treating his chronic Crohn's
disease by smoking pot,
and he's going to make it legal on 4/20 — the aptly chosen day he'll officially begin a medical marijuana regimen to fight the
illness» nausea
and pain.
«So many Western New Yorkers have been impacted
by these
diseases,
and now I am looking forward to getting to work with my colleagues to develop policies
and identify resources to educate the public
and improve outcomes for families affected
by these
illnesses.»
Mayor Bill de Blasio attempted to shift the focus from an outbreak of Legionnaires»
Disease in the south Bronx
by addressing the problem of homelessness
and mental
illness.
He said the
disease was a viral
illness by a group of viruses that included chicken pox
and small pox.
He said more than 27,000 people in the country were affected
by the
illness and dengue
and chikungunya, two other
diseases transmitted
by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
Both of New York's U.S. senators traveled upstate last month to voice support for efforts to address Lyme
disease and other
illnesses spread
by deer ticks, including Powassan virus, a rare
disease that has infected three Saratoga County residents this year, killing one of them.
ECDOH public health sanitarians» food facility inspections protect the public health
by assuring that food service establishments are operated in a manner that eliminates food safety hazards to prevent foodborne
disease and restaurant - associated foodborne
illness incidences in our community.
Kwaku Addo, a 16 - year - old student of a prominent high school in Accra expressed his dismay when I disclosed that every year, more than 5000 people in Ghana are killed
by tobacco - related
diseases and that half of all smokers will die from tobacco - related
illness according to the latest Tobacco Atlas (2018).
Both of New York's senators traveled upstate last month to voice support for efforts to address Lyme
disease and other
illnesses spread
by deer ticks, including Powassan virus, a rare
disease that has infected three Saratoga County residents this year, killing one of them.
Tribes like the Mashco Piro have had limited contact with strangers
and foreign pathogens for at least a century,
and so are extremely susceptible to
illness and exploitation; many newly contacted tribes have been all but wiped out
by the flu or other common
diseases.
Lyme borreliosis, or Lyme
disease — the most common vector - borne
illness transmitted
by insects — is prevalent in the Northeast
and upper Midwest regions of the United States.
«In part, some of the results are explained
by more effective treatments for cancer
and heart
disease, with advances in medicine making such physical
illnesses easier to treat, whilst there have been less advances in the treatment of neurological conditions»
Millions of
illnesses and more than 1,000 deaths every year in the U.S. are attributable to foodborne
illness caused
by known pathogens, according to the Centers for
Disease Control
and Prevention.
Since many human
diseases can be explained
by perturbations of molecular interactions within cells, interactomes will drastically change how we think about human health,
and how we set about designing drugs
and preventive measures to counter
illness.
Cortisol is a stress hormone produced
by the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA)- axis which, if overproduced, can contribute to a host of chronic ailments including cardiovascular
disease and mental
illness.
There are four types of blast trauma injury: 1) primary injury caused directly
by the pressure wave, which can travel through tissue at velocities close to that of sound in water, 2) secondary injury caused
by objects put in motion
by the blast, 3) tertiary injury caused
by an individual thrown into motion
by the blast
and hitting surrounding objects,
and 4) quaternary injury caused
by burns, explosion - related injuries,
illnesses and diseases not attributed to the other three blast trauma types.
However, although people are living longer, they are not necessarily healthier than before — nearly a quarter (23 %) of the overall global burden of death
and illness is in people aged over 60,
and much of this burden is attributable to long - term
illness caused
by diseases such as cancer, chronic respiratory
diseases, heart
disease, musculoskeletal
diseases (such as arthritis
and osteoporosis),
and mental
and neurological disorders.
The researchers say their findings also shed new light on how kidney
disease leads to an abnormal thickening of heart muscle tissue called hypertrophy, which is a leading cause of death in people with kidney
disease caused
by high blood pressure, diabetes,
and other
illnesses.
By studying strains from different past E. coli outbreaks with his techniques, Eppinger is able to measure the amount of toxin produced in each strain, which is a direct mediator of
disease and shows how severe the resulting
illness could be.
Between pictures, words like
illness and strong would appear on the screen,
and subjects had to choose their relation to
disease or health
by pressing keys, again with the left or right hand.
Ingestion of gluten
by persons with celiac
disease causes inflammatory damage to the small intestine, which can cause gastrointestinal
and nongastrointestinal
illness.
Applied more broadly, data collected
by self - trackers could help them find better treatments for
diseases and even predict
illness before symptoms become obvious.
There is a lot of work still to do,
and many potential pitfalls before it could be applied to human patients, but in principle almost any
illness caused
by damaged or ageing tissue — heart
disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's
and dozens of others — could be fixed this way.
Mitochondrial
diseases include Leigh syndrome, a progressive
and fatal disorder characterized
by lesions on the brain that may lead to heart, kidney, vision
and breathing complications,
and Alpers
Disease, a neurologic
illness that causes seizures, dementia, spasticity, blindness, liver dysfunction
and cerebral degeneration.
The UI team compared the data from the smart thermometers to influenza - like
illness (ILI) activity data gathered
by the Centers for
Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) from health care providers across the country.
Thus the virulence of a
disease transmitted
by the human flea should markedly increase, producing a more rapid course of
illness and a higher death toll.
«We were able to tell the difference between early Lyme
disease and Southern Tick - Associated Rash
Illness by using biomarkers that show us how the body reacts to these
illnesses,» Belisle said.
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.