Sentences with phrase «effective as a disease»

Both recent experience with immunotherapy for clearance of Aβ in AD, and their own (and Prothena's) experience with AS - clearing immunotherapies in animal models, indicate that in order to be effective as disease - modifying agents when administered alone, therapies that remove proteinaceous aggregates from the brain must be initiated in the early clinical or even preclinical stages of the disease, before the burden of other forms of aging damage becomes entrenched.

Not exact matches

For a century and a half, epidemiology has been an effective strategy for tracing the root causes of infectious disease outbreaks — as John Snow demonstrated in 1854, when he painstakingly mapped cases of cholera in London and eventually traced them to a single contaminated well and water pump in the Soho district of the city.

While Viagra wasn't as effective in treating cardiovascular diseases as researchers had hoped, it was exceptionally potent at doing something else: opening up the arteries in the penis and flooding erectile tissue with blood.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

All of these innovations as well as the discovery of rare diseases and correct diagnosis are essential in providing effective treatment and in some cases, avoid misdiagnosis.

Ionis Pharmaceuticals» mission is to develop safe and effective RNA - targeting drugs for both rare and more prevalent diseases and providing those drugs to the broadest group of patients as quickly as possible.

InvivoSciences will continue to contribute to the improvement of human health by establishing a new paradigm for discovering drugs that focus on diseases with limited treatment options such as cardiac fibrosis, scleroderma, and lupus in a time - effective manner while remaining safe and cost effective.»

Just as arsenicals are effective in an array of diseases, but we know they're way to dangerous to use.

And since losing as little as 5 % of body weight improves a wide array of health factors, it is not so surprising that intermittent fasting is as effective as continuous energy restriction when it comes to warding off heart disease and diabetes.

«At the end of the day we do need traceability to be prepared for exotic disease outbreaks such as FMD but any system has to be cost - effective and practical,» Mr Feldtmann said.

He also «promoted the product as, among other things, an effective treatment, cure and preventative for cancer, heart disease, arthritis and diabetes, and as a means of achieving substantial weight loss of up to 80 pounds in eight months,» according to a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission.

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Breastfeeding support is the most effective method of primary disease prevention ranking far above supports such as vaccinations (see The Lancet Child Survival series) and other interventions that we have available to us.

For those diagnosed with celiac disease, research is revealing that the gluten - free diet is not as effective as once thought, and that many people with celiac disease do not completely heal after going gluten - free.

Dr Henrik Stotz said: «As traditional methods of controlling crop disease become less effective, the need to breed new strains of crops with an inbuilt resistance to the disease pathogens increases.

«Virtual house calls for chronic diseases like Parkinson's are not only as effective as in - person care but broader adoption of this technology has the potential to expand access to patient - centered care,» said Ray Dorsey, M.D., the David M. Levy Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and lead author of the study.

«Telemedicine as effective as in - person care for Parkinson's disease.»

With this technology, scientists could design and rapidly test new peptides to treat cancer and other diseases, as well as more effective variants of existing peptides, such as insulin, Pentelute says.

The more diverse the genes of the MHC, the more effective it is at conferring disease resistance, and in a variety of animals individuals with diverse MHCs are more likely to be chosen as a sexual partner.

Dr. McCabe said nanoparticles are a leading - edge technology also being studied for delivery of drugs for other conditions, such as cancer, heart disease, and bacterial infections, in order to target specific cells to reduce toxicity and side effects of those medications and to make them more effective.

«Furthermore, risk of ischaemic heart disease can be reduced substantially by other lifestyle changes, as well as by drugs such as statins shown to be effective in primary prevention.»

The authors — Martin Llewelyn, a professor of infectious diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and nine British colleagues — point to recent studies that have shown shorter courses of certain drug classes such as quinolones are as effective as the longer courses that have been recommended in the past.

As new disease strains continue to develop, and globalization and travel make it easier to pass disease across geographical borders, the ability to whip up huge quantities of effective vaccine is becoming increasingly important.

As a result, infectious disease experts currently try to find a balance between making sure drugs are effective at knocking out harmful bacteria while keeping the treatment duration to the bare minimum required to stamp out an infection.

Although there is no cure for SMA currently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has listed SMA as the neurological disease closest to finding a cure, due in part to effective drugs like the one developed in Lorson's lab.

The same technology is also likely to be effective for infectious or other diseases, as well as for tissue regeneration, Dong said.

For example, I teach most patients simple breathing techniques that come from yoga, which I have found to be strikingly effective for an incredible range of conditions, from heart arrhythmia and high blood pressure to chronic digestive problems, such as irritable bowel syndrome and reflux disease.

Earlier this month, a network of researchers supported by the National Eye Institute (NEI) found that the drug Lucentis (ranibizumab) can be highly effective for treating proliferative diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that can occur as a complication of diabetes.

«It is expected that this study will lay the foundation for developing a new class of potent and effective cancer therapies and the development of reagents targeting epigenetic events in immune - mediated diseases as well as other epigenetically - influenced diseases,» said Alani, who also is chief of dermatology at Boston Medical Center.

Their approach, in which micro-liters of liquid containing a drug are instilled into the lung, distributed as a thin film in the predetermined region of the lung airway, and absorbed locally, may provide much more effective treatment of lung disease.

As well as the smart contact - lens project, there is the Baseline Study, which aims to collect large amounts of data about people to better quantify health and disease, with the goal of earlier and more - effective preventive carAs well as the smart contact - lens project, there is the Baseline Study, which aims to collect large amounts of data about people to better quantify health and disease, with the goal of earlier and more - effective preventive caras the smart contact - lens project, there is the Baseline Study, which aims to collect large amounts of data about people to better quantify health and disease, with the goal of earlier and more - effective preventive care.

In the end, the identification of microbial species or metabolites that are altered in Parkinson's disease may serve as disease biomarkers or even drug targets, and interventions that correct microbial imbalances may provide safe and effective treatments to slow or halt the progression of often debilitating motor symptoms.

«It showed the strong potential of using a NOX inhibitor as an effective treatment for this devastating disease,» said Brenner.

The research also found that while Vitamin D can be effective at preventing the onset of inflammation, it is less effective once inflammatory disease is established because diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis leads to vitamin D insensitivity.

The finding also suggests that an effective treatment for one neurodegenerative disease might work for other neurodegenerative diseases as well.

«This creates entirely new conditions for our understanding of what happens inside the brain and for the development of more effective treatments for diseases such as Parkinson's disease and chronic pain conditions than can be achieved using today's techniques,» concludes Jens Schouenborg.

«It is important to the treatment of brain diseases such as Alzheimer's that we find a way of circumventing the brain's effective defence.

«It's a significant threat as the fungicides that are currently the only control for this disease become less effective.

The blood - brain barrier is an effective barrier which protects the brain, but which at the same time makes it difficult to treat diseases such as Alzheimer's.

The compound suppresses an inflammatory pathway that is overactive in many autoimmune diseases, suggesting that it may be effective against multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and other autoimmune diseases as well as psoriasis.

This extreme «hygienic behavior,» as it's technically called, is an effective way of containing disease outbreaks in crowded insect colonies.

Over the past few years, Mark Schaller, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, has been developing an intriguing theory that behavior can be just as effective as microbiology at warding off disease.

«Having an accurate overview of how different regions of countries are connected by human movement aids effective disease control planning and helps target resources, such as treated bed nets or community health workers, in the right places.

He adds that the findings, which are published in the online 26 September issue of Nature Medicine, may be applicable to other infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, for which no highly effective vaccine exists.

But scientific and economic obstacles have stymied the development of effective vaccines against many of the developing world's most deadly diseases, such as malaria and HIV as well as pneumococcus, the leading vaccine - preventable killer of children under the age of five.

Scientists hope that ribozymes might be effective weapons against other autosomal dominant diseases such as Huntington's disease and glaucoma.

As part of their work on nutrition and aging, they discovered that large doses of a vitamin called nicotinamide riboside were remarkably effective in countering the progress of the disease in animals.

But he also believes that medical researchers will overcome some of the thorny obstacles to safe and effective therapies — just as once seemingly insurmountable obstacles to kidney transplants were overcome — clearing the way for treatment of diseases such as Parkinson's, blindness, and immune disorders.

Protecting this microenvironment, or niche, has thus emerged as a new route for the treatment of these diseases, for which there is currently no fully effective treatment.

«We need to do everything we can to find effective drugs against the Zika virus, as changes in travel and climate have caused more tropical diseases to move into new parts of the globe,» said Kao, who has also spent 15 years studying the virus that causes hepatitis C.