Sentences with phrase «few other diseases»

Here are a few other diseases your cat runs the risk of developing if regularly exposed to secondhand smoke:

Dogs have a few other diseases we worry about.

As you can see, quite a few other diseases, especially diseases that involve the liver, may cause the same signs as listed above.

Because gluten may also be linked to a few other diseases and symptoms, some people without celiac disease may feel better if they avoid gluten (59).

For years afterward, geneticists viewed Charcot - Marie - Tooth — and a few other diseases of similar origin that turned up later — as an aberration.

Not exact matches

«The GUIDES indicators that focus on some overall macroeconomic indicators,» Chisa recommends, plus «a few other topics that get you a lot of bang for the buck: British Colonialism, nations versus states, Dutch Disease (resource curse), Sovereign Wealth Fund, import substitution, current account balance, fiscal deficit, IMF austerity measures, and the «trilemma» of free - capital flows, independent monetary policy, and fixed exchange rates.»

Perhaps this will include research and development of drugs for other diseases, albeit with fewer researchers, but to date, neither the amount the company will save nor its specific use of these freed - up resources has been detailed.

Disease, as in the very few people who have smoking related cancer or death, and the one or two who die from drugs, and the other one from alcohol, they need education.

Despite a nationwide drop in abortions, Planned Parenthood's rates remain steady as it gains market share; meanwhile, the number of patients seen annually has dropped from 3 million to 2.4 million since 2008, due to fewer women coming in for other services, according to the NRLC report, which is based on numbers from Planned Parenthood, the affiliated Guttmacher Institute, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

So the discovery of the bacteriological cause of paresis brought few cures; more often it only reinforced the hope that specific cures (or diagnoses inviting means for cure) could be found for the other «diseases.»

Replacing the holy wars of the Old World have been religious patterns that left few dead bodies, though competitive denominational missionaries in many a new suburb have come down with ulcers, heart disease, endocrine disturbances, alcoholism arid, as they say, «other specifically Christian diseases» in their scrambles.

Many say that the antioxidant action provided by superfoods protects against cancer and heart disease, among a host of other ills — while others point out that few carefully controlled studies have been conducted.

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These yield advantages have been attributed to more efficient use of nutrients, water and light and a combination of other factors such as the introduction of new regenerative elements into the farm (e.g. legumes) and fewer losses resulting from pests and diseases.

One of these, IgA, which is present in highest amounts in the first few days of life, contains many antibodies against viruses, bacteria and other disease - causing organisms.

She has celiac disease along with multiple other severe food intolerances (beef, pork and lemon to name a few).

after reading them and a few others i have embraced my disease (it's out though) and feel liberated!!!

Furthermore, it is now clear that all kinds of crying (i.e. fussing, crying and inconsolable crying) is prolonged, that this prolongation occurs only in the first few months, and that inconsolable crying is almost unique to the first few months of life.3, 40 The «unpredictability» of the crying, and of the caregiver's ability or inability to soothe the infant is most likely due to the facts that (1) the infant cry in the first few months is a reflection of the organization of its behavioural states (crying, awake alert, sleeping), rather than an intentional «signal,» 14 (2) that behavioural state changes occur in «steps» rather than due to increases or decreases in arousal7, 41 and (3) infants are resistant to behavioural state change unless they are in a transitional phase in which they are «ready» to change state.7 Finally, there is now good evidence that the proportion of infants that have evidence of organic disease to explain their crying is less than 5 %.8, 42,43 In the absence of other compromise, infants with «colic» have as good an outcome as infants without «colic.»

To begin with, if you nurse your baby for the first few days after birth, baby will receive a healthy dose of colostrum, which is different from milk, and provides important disease fighting nutrients that are not available to your baby from any other source.

These include the infant with galactosemia, 53,54 the infant whose mother uses illegal drugs, 55 the infant whose mother has untreated active tuberculosis, and the infant in the United States whose mother has been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.56, 57 In countries with populations at increased risk for other infectious diseases and nutritional deficiencies resulting in infant death, the mortality risks associated with not breastfeeding may outweigh the possible risks of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus infection.58 Although most prescribed and over-the-counter medications are safe for the breastfed infant, there are a few medications that mothers may need to take that may make it necessary to interrupt breastfeeding temporarily.

During the first few days after birth, baby gets a good dose of colostrum, the liquid that precedes milk and provides disease fighting antibodies that the baby can't access from any other source.

Breast - fed babies have fewer allergies, fewer cavities and may be at lower risk for obesity, diabetes or other chronic diseases.

The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung disease in some few days passed organised its 20th Conference of the Union Africa Region at the Accra International Conference Centre, Accra Ghana with the focus on Accelerating Implementation Through Partnership to END, TB / HIV Tobacco and other related NCD's.

The disease is part of a group known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, which includes mad cow and a few other rare diseases.

Three other lines modified with RGA2 showed strong resistance, with 20 % or fewer plants exhibiting disease symptoms in three years

The initiative, called Safe Genes, comes at a time when so - called «gene drive» systems, which override the standard rules of gene inheritance and natural selection, are raising hopes among some scientists that the technology could alter or suppress populations of disease - carrying insects or other pests in as few as 20 generations.

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.

And in a few couples in which one was schizophrenic and the other bipolar, 27 % of the children were diagnosed with one or the other disease, the authors report in the March issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.

«A burger on a white bun may have fewer calories, but when you're talking about cancer prevention or other chronic diseases, you have to look beyond calories,» Turner - McGrievy said.

While the disease can take many forms, recent advances have better characterized how lymphoma cells proliferate and interact with other cells and tissues, leading to the development of powerful, targeted therapies with fewer side effects than traditional approaches.

Over the past few months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and city and state researchers have been monitoring mosquito populations in sewers, abandoned hangars, swimming pool utility rooms, and other likely winter shelters.

Other diseases claim limbs or organs; Alzheimer's devours the self, making it one of the few afflictions widely regarded as being worse than death.

A new study appearing in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) found that these surgeries are generally safe with mortality rates decreasing for total hip (THR) and total knee (TKR) replacement and spinal fusion surgeries, and complication rates decreasing for total knee replacement and spinal fusion in patients with few or no comorbidities (other conditions or diseases).

The ultimate consequence of the disease is that there has been a huge reduction in sunflower stars and a few other large starfish species.»

Although this has worked in a few cases — with penicillin, for instance — in many other experiments drug - resistant bacteria survive and continue to be a problem, says Dan Andersson, a microbiologist at the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control in Uppsala.

Dr Andersen said the study was important because, although there have been other studies looking at the effects of endurance exercise on various cardiovascular problems such as ischemic heart disease and stroke, there have been only a few, smaller studies of its effect on heart rhythm disturbances, and they have tended to look at people who are less physically active, or compared very sedentary people with those who were very active.

However, in other groups such as leaf - cutter ants, it is the workers that produce antimicrobials, so disease can only explain a few instances of soldier evolution.

The combination of large population - based studies and the rapid development in genotyping technologies will probably help us understand a great deal more about cardiovascular disease, and other diseases, in the next few years.»

Streamlining the regulatory process for developing genetic and other treatments for rare diseases, recognizing the time - consuming difficulty of acquiring a critical mass of patients for clinical trials for disorders affecting very few people.

This was already known for hantavirus, Lyme disease and a few others, where losing biodiversity means losing predators of disease - bearing mice, or species that caught but didn't spread the infection.

But we're focusing on brittle bone disease first because it's particularly debilitating and because there are so few other options for those kids.»

In contrast, most lab - based medical researchers focus on a few genes or a particular disease model, blinding themselves to other possibilities, Butte says.

Wayne Hellstrom, a urologic surgeon at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana, who regularly treats men with Peyronie's disease and other penile problems, wanted to offer his patients a surgical intervention with fewer side effects.

«It is becoming increasingly clear that the average person's fiber intake in a Western country has drastically reduced over the past few decades,» says Fredrik Bäckhed, who studies the role of the normal gut microbiota in metabolic diseases at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and is a co-senior author of the other paper.

Populations that arise from just a few individuals, however, tend to have members that share a relatively high percentage of DNA — a lack of genetic diversity that can strip them of the evolutionary resources that they may someday need to respond to a deadly new disease, a change in climate, or some other challenge.

«We found that adding in a specific antibiotic to the medical treatment also resulted in fewer recurring infections, fewer infections in other places on the body and fewer people passing on the infection to other members of the household,» said Dr. David Talan, the study's lead author and a professor in the department of emergency medicine and department of medicine, division of infectious diseases, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Olive View - UCLA Medical Center.

In work that confirmed earlier research by others, Ross presented compelling evidence showing that rats fed restricted diets not only lived longer than their fully nourished counterparts but also suffered from fewer diseases.

Some of the studies contained too few people to detect what could be a tiny increased incidence in disease; in others, it is unclear what dose the individuals received.

These are just a few examples of other types of infectious diseases for which genomic advances may play a role in prevention and control, with corresponding ELSI issues.

With the help of the few books I found on heredity in our small town library (pre-internet), I composed an essay on basic Mendelian inheritance, in which I discussed why some children in a family develop a disease and others do not.