Sentences with phrase «fight sleeping sickness»
It may also lead to improved therapies to fight sleeping sickness; current medications used to combat the disease have improved over the past decade but still include an old arsenic - based drug that kills between 5 and 10 percent of the people receiving treatment, said the study's senior author Stephen Hajduk, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
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Sleep is the most important factor that influences your effectiveness during the day, including your body's ability to fight sickness.
Medzhitov's Lab is now looking at the effects of another common sickness behavior — changes in sleep patterns — on how the immune system fights infection.
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA — It's far from the ideal therapy, but scientists say a new combination of two old drugs is an important step forward in the fight against sleeping sickness, a long - neglected tropical disease.