Sentences with phrase «emerging diseases in»

«Discovery of viruses and virus transmission is important because it can help us understand common and emerging diseases in animal and people.

«The Division wishes to make it clear that the free medical outreach is not a vaccine intended to infect monkey pox or any major contemporary or emerging diseases in Nigeria to the people of South East or any part of the country.

Researchers are using the unprecedented outbreak to study the emerging disease in real time.

«Canine distemper virus: An emerging disease in rare Amur tigers.»

In addition to paying close attention to recent research on this potentially emerging disease in humans in the United States, we can play an active role in controlling mosquitoes and reducing chances of people and pets being bitten by Aedes mosquitoes through eliminating breeding sites, using repellents, and reducing exposure.

«Epizootic of beak deformities among wild birds in Alaska: An emerging disease in North America?»

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During a naled campaign in Puerto Rico in the 1980s, farmers complained the chemical was hurting their bee population, according to emerging infectious disease expert Duane Gubler, who oversaw the program.

Yes, biopharma M&A drama swept industry observers today as reports emerged that the rare disease drugmaker had rebuffed a $ 62.5 billion takeover bid from Takeda but that Botox maker Allergan was also interested in getting in on the action.

Instead, Dr. Baselga said researchers and scientists are making strides in what he calls precision medicine, an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in environment, lifestyle and genes for each person.

Bala Cynwyd, PA — January 31, 2017 — Chondrial Therapeutics, Inc., an emerging biotechnology company focused on the treatment of rare mitochondrial diseases, announced today that it has secured up to $ 22.6 million in Series A financing led by Deerfield Management and has appointed Carole Ben - Maimon, MD, as the company's president and chief executive officer.

[25][26] Visceral Leishmaniasis Research The foundation awarded the He - brew University of Jerusalem Ku - vin Center for the Study of Infe - ctious and Tropical Dis - eases a $ 5 million grant in 2009 for research into vis - ceral leishmaniasis, an emerging pa - ra - sitic disease in Ethiopia where it is frequently as - sociated with HI - V / A-IDS, and a leading cause of adult illness and death.

For example, in the last quarter of the twentieth century there suddenly emerged the frightening new disease of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

The sugar industry funded the research to cover up warning signs, which emerged in the 1950s, that sugar caused heart disease (1).

Over the last 50 years CSIRO has saved and will continue to save Australian agriculture billions of dollars in impacts and reduced environmental degradation from nationally important emerging infectious diseases.

Working with government and industry, we're protecting our agricultural industries from emerging infectious animal diseases entering and establishing in our waters and on our land.

Much else could be written about health in the Asian Century, including the need to implement a sophisticated surveillance and control system for emerging infectious diseases.

Some new research about the effects of gluten in those without coeliac disease is emerging, and while it's too soon to draw any real conclusions, it's certainly something to watch.

Early warning signals of the coronary heart disease (CHD) risk of sugar (sucrose) emerged in the 1950s.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

Emerging research shows that bacteria are absolutely vital for human health, and science has linked an imbalance in the human microbiome with multiple chronic non-transmissible diseases.

Rumours emerged Wednesday that the first case of the disease has been recorded in Accra, a month after the Ghana Health Service issued a public health alert warning Ghanaians of a possible outbreak in the country.

Multiple specialty manufacturing plants in eastern Rensselaer County and North Bennington, Vt., used the chemical for decades before studies emerged a decade ago linking it to cancer and other serious diseases.

Sumner says that lnc - RNAs are still a rapidly emerging field, and we are just beginning to learn what they do and their role in disease.

An emerging fungal disease threatens the last eastern massasauga rattlesnake population in Illinois.

The memorandum of understanding identified four areas in the life sciences where AAAS and the Cuban Academy of Sciences will seek opportunities for sustained cooperation: emerging infectious diseases, brain disorders, cancer, and antimicrobial drug resistance.

«It started to become quite evident to me that a research career in infectious disease epidemiology and mathematical modeling would be a fairly perfect combination of my longstanding interests in math and biology and medicine, as well as my emerging interest in infectious disease transmission and public health more generally,» she says.

The dramatic rise in emerging infectious disease outbreaks of international concern has created an unprecedented challenge for the global community.

The report says that preimplantation genetic diagnosis should be allowed in cases where a couple want to have a child, but a pregnancy is likely to lead to a baby with a serious and incurable genetic disease, including those that first emerge in adulthood.

The reviews required recruitment of experts in fields including neurology, animal behavior, advanced mathematics, emerging diseases, and computer science and security.

The results, published online in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, strengthen the case that transgenic Huntington's disease monkeys could be used to evaluate emerging treatments (such as this) before launching human clinical trials.

Research into the disease only began when it emerged in monkeys in the US.

A genetic mutation protecting against kuru — a brain disease passed on by eating human brains — only emerged and spread in the past 200 years.

He reckons the apparent adaptations in people with the disease «emerged to protect people that do not conform to facial norms».

«Social media data have been suggested as a way to track the spread of a disease in a population, but there is a problem that in an emerging outbreak people also use social media to express concern about the situation,» explains study team leader Sherry Towers of ASU's Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center.

Putting together the emerging lines of evidence, Quik decided to treat Parkinson's disease in squirrel monkeys by administering nicotine.

In other words, she says, personality constructs emerging from the basic biology of the brain can be yet another marker that the individual is at risk for TILT, and easier to sensitize to the disease.

In a study published today [Jan 26, 2016] in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the team documents a disease trajectory that started with nine positive patients and has now spread to more than 13,000 infected individuals in that countrIn a study published today [Jan 26, 2016] in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the team documents a disease trajectory that started with nine positive patients and has now spread to more than 13,000 infected individuals in that countrin the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the team documents a disease trajectory that started with nine positive patients and has now spread to more than 13,000 infected individuals in that countrin that country.

In research that has implications for diabetes and other metabolic diseases, an international study based at UT Southwestern Medical Center found that the protein connexin 43 (Cx43) forms cell - to - cell communication channels on the surface of emerging beige fat cells that amplify the signals from those few nerve fibers.

It could be argued that syphilis is one of the most important early examples of globalization and disease, and globalization remains an important factor in emerging diseases.»

The Sigatoka disease complex is a cluster of three closely related fungi — yellow sigatoka (Pseudocercospora musae), eumusae leaf spot (Pseudocercospora eumusae) and black sigatoka (Pseudocercospora fijiensis)-- which emerged in quick succession during the last century as destructive pathogens on banana.

She adds that a lot of what's emerging in orthopedics is for the moment being targeted to treat those with muscle - wasting diseases, as well as a younger population with injuries due to athleticism.

Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD) is a rare contagious facial tumour, which emerged from a neural (Schwann) cell in a single Tasmanian devil more than 18 years ago.

No one know how many birds succumb each year to the wildlife trade since much of the trafficking is illegal, but within Southeast Asia alone, it is likely «in the order of tens of millions,» says Kelly Edmunds, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in England who investigates the emerging infectious diseases amongst bird sellers in Asia and was not involved in the study.

This pattern of cross-infection from animals to humans is par for the course in emerging infectious disease.

Morse is credited with creating the term emerging infectious diseases in the late 1980s to explain viruses that can exist for years in an animal host without causing illness.

«From other studies ***** we know that epigenetic modifications of the DPP4 gene, which are associated with an increased production of the enzyme, have a negative impact on the liver metabolism already in young mice, long before fatty liver disease emerges,» says Baumeier.

And this disease, for want of a better term, may be emerging in places far from the Great Barrier Reef.

The research fits neatly into an emerging paradigm that helps explain a recent alarming increase in food allergies and other conditions, such as obesity and autoimmune disease, and hints at strategies to reverse the trend.

The EID2 database used in the study was created by University researchers in the Institute of Infection and Global Health to bring a «big data» approach to emerging diseases.

The results suggest that worsening anxious - depressive symptoms may be an early predictor of elevated amyloid beta levels — and, in turn AD — and provide support for the hypothesis that emerging neuropsychiatric symptoms represent an early manifestation of preclinical Alzheimer's disease.