Sentences with phrase «fatal brain»

She could have hit her head hard on the concrete or edge of the curb creating a fatal brain bleed.

Helmets are your best defense against serious or fatal brain injuries.

A CT scan can detect potentially fatal brain bleeds.

It was known then that fatal brain damage could be done to a fetus two weeks after conception, even before the mom knew that she was pregnant.

The fatal brain disease has symptoms as follows: 1.

A video interview with a scientist delves into Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD), the fatal brain - wasting illness associated with mad cow's disease or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy.

Pugs are be predisposed to Pug Dog encephalitis, a fatal brain disease.

«Rabies is a very serious virus that results in a fatal brain disease in people or animals affected,» said Dr. Bonnie J. Sorensen, director of the Volusia County Health Department.

However, there are rare cases of fatal brain inflammation (encephalitis) in dogs given the live vaccine.

This is, until he finds out he has a fatal brain tumor and decides to confess.

He needs to reconnect with his son (Tye Sheridan), who has a fatal brain tumor, and fulfill the kid's wish to meet his mother (Jennifer Ehle).

After a bump on the head and a cursory CAT scan, it's revealed that she has a fatal brain disease, leaving her with about three weeks to live.

The film follows a single father with a fatal brain tumor who takes his teenage daughter on a road trip to find his mother who abandoned him.

Latifah stars as Goergia Byrd, a retail sales clerk for Kragen's, a department store chain that doesn't always look out for the welfare of its employees, which only comes to light in Georgia's mind when she is diagnosed by the company doctor as having a rare and fatal brain disease.

My young husband, Isamu, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor when I was just 7 weeks pregnant with our only child.

Her young husband was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor while she was pregnant with their only child.

Women who use low - dose oral contraceptive pills have a two-fold increased risk of a fatal heart attack compared to non - users.9 Women who take oral contraceptives and smoke have a 12-fold increase in fatal heart attacks and a 3.1-fold increase in fatal brain hemorrhage.10 Women who use the Pill after the age of 45 have a 144 percent greater risk of developing breast cancer than women who have never used it.11

People who have these irregular blood - vessel connections are at increased risk of a fatal brain bleed, blood clot, or stroke — often with little or no warning beforehand.

Why people on immunosuppressant drugs for autoimmune conditions have a higher incidence of an often - fatal brain disease may be linked to a mutation in a common virus, according to researchers at Penn State College of Medicine.

This is the first successful gene therapy treatment to halt a fatal brain disease.

Prion diseases are a group of rare, fatal brain diseases that affect animals and humans.

Washington, D.C. — April 18, 2018 — The Clinical Research (CR) Forum, a non-profit membership association of top clinical research experts and thought leaders from the nation's leading academic health centers, today awarded its most prestigious honor to a Massachusetts General Hospital research team for its discovery of the first successful gene therapy treatment for a fatal brain disease, cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD).

Researchers are reporting what they say is the most compelling evidence, to date, that the infectious proteins called prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or «mad cow» disease, have infected humans, causing fatal brain degeneration.

• Combining stem cells with gene therapy, an international collaboration announced the success of a pilot study to treat X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a fatal brain disease caused by a mutation of the gene coding for the ALD protein.

All are fatal brain diseases with incubation periods that last years.

The scourge of the Fore was a disease they called kuru, a degenerative and always fatal brain disease contracted by eating the corpse of a previous sufferer.

Scientists first discovered prions in the 1980s as the agents behind fatal brain disorders known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.

THE protein behind a group of fatal brain diseases is transformed into a killer by an unidentified partner, according to a study released last week.

That variety cropped up in a different part of the brain than the other strains, and it also produced clumps of proteins akin to the amyloid plaques found in sporadic Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, a fatal brain disease of unknown origin that usually affects those over age 55.

For nearly 30 years, researchers have gathered evidence that a group of bizarre, fatal brain diseases — including mad cow and its human equivalent, Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease — are caused not by a virus or bacterium but by an abnormal form of a protein, called a prion.

Rabbits have long been considered immune to prion disease, but recently scientists have shown that they can — under certain circumstances — get transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (or TSE, the scientific term for the fatal brain disease caused by prions).

There are currently no drugs to halt or reverse the spread of Alzheimer's disease, and researchers have tread carefully in the wake of a failed vaccine trial six years ago that was stopped after 18 patients developed potentially fatal brain inflammation and two of them suffered strokes.

In particular, the influence of warmer temperatures on moose nutritional condition and moose parasites, including a fatal brain worm parasite that is spread by white - tail deer, which have moved farther north into moose territory as the climate has gotten milder.

One in nine Americans aged 65 and older has Alzheimer's disease, a fatal brain disorder with no cure or effective treatment.

He had been on medical leave from the chamber since early this year after he was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, a rare, degenerative and fatal brain disorder.

Athletes can receive serious injury (e.g. fatal brain bleeding and swelling) and possibly permanent impairment from concussions such as neurological disturbances.

The main artery at the back of his neck was damaged during the birth which caused a fatal brain haemorrhage, probably due to the nursing staff wanting me to deliver before the night shift came on duty and their intervention caused the injury to the neck area.

Not exact matches

These days, failing to hear back from a potential customer is unlikely to have fatal consequences, but our brains still freak out like we're about to be tossed naked and unarmed onto the savannah.

The difficulty in ascertaining whether a potential organ donor is dead was exemplified in a University of Bonn Medical Centre study where two out of 113 who were initially thought to be mortally brain - damaged defied the fatal prognosis and made recoveries.

Glenn Beck, you are really whacked and your attempt to drag a huge swath of lame brains into oblivion with you shall prove fatal!

I must show you that the fatal consequence is not coercive, as is commonly imagined; and that, even though our soul's life (as here below it is revealed to us) may be in literal strictness the function of a brain that perishes, yet it is not at all impossible, but on the contrary quite possible, that the life may still continue when the brain itself is dead.

I'm starting to believe there are some people here who have a crush on Xhaka want to brain wash others with his display regardless good or bad and today he was clearly terrible and made two fatal mistakes and if compared to Elneny the later made the 1st goal assist and almost not one touch wrong on the ball despite the few back and side passes which were necessary against a team playing zone defense intimidating any Arsenal player on the ball

This can cause brain damage, and can be fatal for some babies.

At 29 weeks their love bubble burst when they found a brain anomaly and after weeks of waiting and testing they found out that she had a chromosomal disorder with fatal consequences.

Birth defects associated with antibiotics that are within Category X include anencephaly, which means a fatal malformation of the skull and brain, choanal atresia, which means a blockage of the nasal passage, transverse limb deficiency, diaphragmatic

In an affected person, the galactose builds up and will cause kidney, liver, and brain damage, which can be fatal.

When left undetected, concussions can result in long - term brain damage and may even prove fatal.

In some cases, dangerous and sometimes fatal swelling and bleeding can occur inside the brain.

As a result, players and advocates have been increasingly calling for a way to protect the athlete's brain against the potentially fatal head injury.

Mad cow is the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), a fatal disease caused by abnormal proteins (prions) in the brain and nervous system.