These include Rocky Mountain spotted fever, anaplasmosis (sometimes known as «dog fever»), ehrlichiosis and
some emerging diseases with potentially devastating effects.
It could also work for other rapidly
emerging diseases with a high death toll and limited treatment options such as SARS or viral haemorrhagic fevers that might be used as bioweapons, adds Menon.
Not exact matches
As
with many
emerging diseases, the misinformation about Zika started circulating almost as quickly as the
disease itself.
[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.
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.
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.
The population of
disease - carrying deer ticks has been on the increase and
with the warmer weather, these pests tend to
emerge.
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.
SICK SNAKES An
emerging fungal
disease covers snakes (such as this milk snake, Lampropeltis triangulum)
with lesions that can hurt a snake's ability to move and eat.
He reckons the apparent adaptations in people
with the
disease «
emerged to protect people that do not conform to facial norms».
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 country.
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.
The 10,000 - square - foot space features 70 elements,
with plenty of hands - on opportunities to learn about
emerging biotechnology and the causes of
diseases such as cancer and diabetes.
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.
To better manage
emerging diseases — and to detect them before they spread globally — the agency is now working
with dozens of countries to boost diagnostic and testing capabilities.
But within days skeptics
emerged, countering that the tiny remains instead belonged to a small - bodied population of modern humans and that LB1 —
with her tiny brain and other odd features — was a
diseased member of the group.
One of the clearest signs of health risks in a warming world has
emerged in one of the world's most advanced economies, as Canada belatedly struggles to cope
with Lyme
disease's migration in North America
R5 viruses are exclusively associated
with primary infection, and X4 viruses
emerge in later stages of HIV
diseases in half of HIV carriers.
«Test uses nanotechnology to quickly diagnose Zika virus: May be possible to use approach
with other
emerging infectious
diseases.»
The lab was designed and constructed
with French assistance as part of a 2004 cooperative agreement on the prevention and control of
emerging infectious
diseases.
If replicated, the tantalizing finding could fit
with an
emerging theory that subpar function by mitochondria, the organelles that provide energy for cells, drives the
disease.
The
disease emerged in North America in 1999 and circulates between birds and mosquitoes,
with humans infected as bystanders.
«Many of the
diseases associated
with childhood abuse typically
emerge in middle and later stages of adulthood — decades after the abuse actually occurred,» said Chiang, a postdoctoral fellow
with Northwestern's Foundations of Health Research Center and its Institute for Policy Research.
The World Health Organization urges countries to augment their official
disease surveillance efforts — which draw information from networks of doctor's offices, hospitals, and public health laboratories —
with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring
Emerging Diseases.
Individuals previously infected
with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) who receive chemotherapy or immunosuppressive treatment may be at risk of reactivating the
disease according to a summary of report from the
Emerging Trends Conference, «Reactivation of Hepatitis B,» and published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
With skin cancer
emerging as one of the world's most prevalent forms of cancer, researchers are using every tool at their disposal to fight this
disease.
Emerging evidence suggests that transgender women have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular
disease and type 2 diabetes compared
with men and women in the general population.
The UIC Epicenter for Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections will study how healthcare workers can care for patients
with emerging infectious
diseases without putting themselves at risk.
An
emerging approach to treating
disease combines living cells
with plastic membranes that shield the cells from immune attack
North American bats are also plagued
with white - nose syndrome, an
emerging infectious
disease that's decimating their numbers.
Deep - brain stimulation has
emerged as a technique to treat neurologic and neuropsychiatric disorders, including Parkinson's
disease, dystonia, depression, and obsessive — compulsive disorder.2 - 5 The nature of the stimulation - induced modification of the neural circuit that results in improvement in patients
with these disorders is not completely understood.
The sense of smell may provide important clues to help identify patients
with neurodegenerative
diseases before their symptoms
emerge.
But
with new findings about our microbial inhabitants
emerging every month, major breakthroughs for targeting any number of chronic inflammatory
diseases, metabolic and mood disorders may be around the corner.
«The Army was able to move so quickly in developing, manufacturing and testing a Zika vaccine because of its extensive experience
with this vaccine platform and long standing investments in the understanding and mitigation of flaviviruses, like yellow fever, dating back to the founding of WRAIR,» said Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, Zika program co-lead and associate director for
Emerging Infectious
Disease Threats at WRAIR's MHRP.
«Given the Buck's exclusive focus on aging, we believe that there's great potential to increase our understanding of the biology of aging and to accelerate the translation of
emerging insights into therapies to help patients
with age - related
diseases.»
Held at MSU Denver, the conference will welcome a variety of speakers and panelists to discuss the issue in detail,
with a special emphasis on water as well as new
emerging diseases.
It is similar to that taken by cardiologist Arshed Quyyumi and colleagues
with peripheral artery
disease: use a growth factor (GM - CSF), which is usually employed for another purpose, to get the bodyâ $ ™ s own regenerative agents to
emerge from the bone marrow.
With miniscule financial resources the group is successfully carrying out cutting - edge epidemiological research and has identified the predominant MSV genotypes that will confront MSV - resistant transgenics in different parts of the continent, has worked out the rates and pathways of virus spread throughout the continent and defined the specific regions within the continent that appear to be the cradles from which almost all new maize streak
disease epidemics
emerge.
Working
with the infectious
disease scientific community, his team developed functional genomics tools and datasets to advance ways in which systems biology is leveraged to characterize
emerging and biodefense threat - related pathogens.
The program will expand clinical care, education and research opportunities related to adults
with chronic debilitating
disease and poise the institution as a national leader in the
emerging field of palliative care.
Telomeres have recently
emerged as a read - out of human cellular aging and their shortening actually contributes, along
with other factors, to various common age - associated
diseases.
Since the recent discovery of tremendous biological effects of nitric oxide, other small gaseous molecules such as carbon monoxide or hydrogen sulfide have
emerged to be similarly important in cell signaling,
with a great impact on pathophysiology of various
diseases.
The revolution in human genetics has revealed a large number of genes and pathways associated
with these
diseases, and
emerging methodologies are starting to systematically analyze the cellular and molecular circuitry underlying
disease.
Nuclear medicine — a vital component of the rapidly
emerging field of molecular imaging — is a medical specialty that uses small amounts of radioactive materials bound to special compounds (radiopharmaceuticals) in combination
with imaging instrumentation that examine molecular processes in the body to detect and evaluate
disease, such as brain disorders, heart
disease and cancer.
AAV gene therapy vectors are
emerging as the gene transfer vehicle
with high potential for use in the CNS as they transduce post mitotic cells that mediate the sustained, long term gene expression required in chronic progressive
diseases.
Emerging evidence suggests the feeding problems and dietary patterns associated
with autism may place this population at risk for long - term medical complications, including poor bone growth, obesity and other diet - related
diseases (e.g., cardiovascular
disease) in adolescence or adulthood.
With an estimated 55,000 people afflicted with the disease in the United States, Europe and Japan, spinal muscular atrophy, once among the least understood diseases in medicine, has recently emerged as one of the genetic conditions closest to a treatm
With an estimated 55,000 people afflicted
with the disease in the United States, Europe and Japan, spinal muscular atrophy, once among the least understood diseases in medicine, has recently emerged as one of the genetic conditions closest to a treatm
with the
disease in the United States, Europe and Japan, spinal muscular atrophy, once among the least understood
diseases in medicine, has recently
emerged as one of the genetic conditions closest to a treatment.
Myelosuppression is a well - established side effect of current AML therapies,
with prolonged events leading to an increased risk of infections and death.44 Consequently, therapies that preferentially kill leukemic cells over normal bone marrow cells are urgently required, and the overexpression of CD123 on AML leukemic stem cells and blasts compared
with normal hematopoietic cells contributes to its attractiveness as a therapeutic target in this
disease.6, 45 However, severe myelosuppression and myeloablation have
emerged for some investigational CD123 - targeted treatment modalities.