Sentences with phrase «for acute diseases»

Although, the standard model of care works well for acute diseases, trauma, infection, and emergencies, sadly, it fails miserably in the care of the chronic diseases that affect so many of us.

Western medicine is ideal for acute disease diagnostics and surgery.

While pharmaceuticals are better for acute disease and surgery, acupuncture helps chronic conditions.

The tests include both genetic disease indicators, and for acute disease such as brucellosis

Not exact matches

As a result, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends using opioids sparingly for severe, acute pain, and only under special circumstances for chronic pain.

In March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BLINCYTO for the treatment of adults and children with B - cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia in first or second complete remission with minimal residual disease (MRD) greater than or equal to 0.1 percent.

CalciMedica is a privately - held, clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on CRAC channel drug discovery and development for the treatment of acute and chronic inflammatory diseases.

The Xarelto partnership is seeking additional approved uses, with trials underway in patients with acute coronary syndrome, and for reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with heart failure or peripheral artery disease.

Breast milk is a critical source of energy and nutrients during illness and reduces mortality among children who are malnourished.3 It reduces the risk of a number of acute and chronic diseases in early childhood and has long - term benefits for cardio - vascular health.4 In the context of HIV, early cessation of breastfeeding after six months is associated with increased serious morbidity, growth faltering, and increased mortality.5

That's why parents choose the Division of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy at Floating Hospital for Children for the management of respiratory diseases, allergic disorders and other acute and chronic conditions in babies, kids and teens.

The Pediatric Nephrology Division at Floating Hospital in Boston provides expert acute & chronic kidney disease diagnosis and treatment for children.

Epidemiologic research shows that human milk and breastfeeding of infants provide advantages with regard to general health, growth, and development, while significantly decreasing risk for a large number of acute and chronic diseases.

Breastfeeding and hence relactation are important for two reasons: Infant health: research shows that breastfed babies are less likely to suffer from acute respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, and malnutrition.

The Division of Pediatric Nephrology at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston offers a range of services for kids with kidney disease, including renal biopsies, acute and chronic dialysis, 24 - hour blood pressure monitoring, hemofiltration and renal transplantation.

For loss of appetite is a typical manifestation of any acute disease and many chronic ones.

The Preventing Overprescribing for Pain Act would require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue guidelines for the safe prescribing of opioids for the treatment of acute pain.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should issue guidelines for doctors on prescribing opioids to treat acute pain, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Thursday.

Senator Gillibrand's legislation would require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue guidelines for the safe prescribing of opioids for the treatment of acute pain.

Exposure to secondhand smoking can cause a vast array of health and respiratory symptoms and issues in young children, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, including coughing, wheezing, breathlessness, and acute lower respiratory infections.

The interplay between malnutrition and malaria is poorly understood, but the risk of death is certainly higher in children with acute malnutrition, at least among those who make it to a hospital, says Larry Slutsker, who directed the malaria and parasitic diseases program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and now runs the malaria program at PATH in Seattle, Washington.

Scientists study VSV, which causes acute disease in livestock but typically does not lead to illness in people, as a model for viruses that are harmful to humans.

«Meta studies have shown that the controlled grafting of fecal transplantation from healthy donors is a safe and very effective treatment of acute diarrheal diseases caused by the pathogenic bacterium Clostridium difficile,» said Sieglinde Angelberger, gastroenterologist at the University Clinic for Internal Medicine III of the Medical University of Vienna and author of the study: «this was the reason why we applied this therapy for the treatment of patients with chronic intestinal diseases.»

«Considering that no prior research has conclusively demonstrated benefit of corticosteroid therapy for any manifestation of Lyme disease, including neurologic, rheumatologic or cardiac manifestations, we urge strong caution in prescribing corticosteroids in cases where facial paralysis is clearly the result of acute Lyme disease until better evidence is available,» said Dr. Jowett.

In their study, Fiona Havers, MD, MHS, and a team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several other institutions analyzed data for approximately 6,800 patients with acute respiratory illness who were seen at five outpatient care centers in Washington state, Wisconsin, Texas, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

The monkeys were treated early in the acute phase of their disease, soon after they were infected, whereas people in the studies had all been infected for many months or even years.

International guidelines published in 2013 stated that a short course of oral corticosteroids may be helpful to reduce disease duration for acute hives.

SPADE will work best with acute and subacute diseases for which a misdiagnosis that leads to hospitalization, disability or death is likely to occur within six months to a year.

«Strengthened infection control practices and having a powerful active surveillance program for acute respiratory illnesses are key to the rapid and prompt response for emerging respiratory infections,» cautions lead author I.S. Al - Abaidani, MD, Department of Communicable Disease, Ministry of Health, Oman.

Study findings indicate that among older adults who had diabetes for a shorter duration (9 years or less), nonfatal cardiovascular complications had the highest incidence (coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, and cerebrovascular disease), followed by diabetic eye disease and acute hypoglycemic events.

Tuberculosis reached epidemic proportions, and infant mortality rates quadrupled, with acute respiratory diseases accounting for 50 percent of the deaths.

To find out if complications of pregnancy might be associated with the risk of early coronary heart disease, the researchers compared 153 patients with acute coronary syndrome, which includes heart attack and angina, with the same number of healthy people matched for age and sex.

«Detecting genetic associations in cases of acute viral bronchiolitis is the first step toward the development of tests to predict the possible clinical outcome for each patient diagnosed with the disease soon after arrival at the emergency room,» said Fernando Augusto de Lima Marson, a researcher at FCM - UNICAMP and one of the authors of the article.

While death rates from the acute phase of cardiovascular events have decreased, the disease burden remains high in the increasing number of survivors, which is especially important for those affected at a young age.

In the U.S. nearly 3,000 acute cases of HBV were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2012.

Yesterday, director Li Liming of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resigned, along with several lower - ranking officials, after a report by a panel of experts blamed China's most recent outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome on a series of flaws at the CDC's National Institute of Virology in southern Beijing.

A patent application for a drug that could destroy the deadly childhood disease known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia — and potentially other cancers as well — has been submitted by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, the University of Maryland and the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Laboratory safety emerged as a prominent issue in China in 2004, when a series of missteps at China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention led to a renewed outbreak of severe acute respiratory sickness (SARS).

In a paper published in Annals of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued advice for prescribing antibiotics for acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) in adults.

In 2002, the Centers for Disease Control investigated several clusters of acute lymphatic leukemia in both Nevada and Arizona.

Our results establish planarians as an experimentally tractable animal model for research into the pathophysiology of acute porphyrias, and potentially for the identification of novel pharmacological interventions capable of alleviating porphyrin - mediated photosensitivity or decoupling dieting and fasting from disease pathogenesis.

In 2003, DNA sequencing at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Toronto and at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta showed that the virus causing an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China was a new variant of coronavirus.

In one trial involving 53 children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia — the disease that Layla had — for whom conventional therapies had not worked, 29 are still in remission months or years after treatment.

Legionella pneumophila (green), the bacterium responsible for severe acute lung disease inside eukaryotic cells.

By understanding the role stem cells play in the repair of the nervous and cardiovascular systems, we are hoping to develop alternative therapies for acute injury and chronic diseases.

Endari, the first new treatment for patients with sickle cell disease in almost 20 years, Genentech's Hemlibra, the first - ever non-blood product to treat patients with hemophilia A with inhibitors, Actemra, the first treatment for adults diagnosed with giant cell arteritis, BioMarin's Brineura, the first treatment for a form of Batten disease, Benznidazole, the first U.S. treatment for Chagas disease, Novartis» Kymriah to treat certain children and young adults with B - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which is also the first gene therapy to become available in the United States, are some of the drugs that received the FDA's stamp of approval in 2017.

Integrating genetic risk factors with minimal residual disease (MRD) improves the accuracy of risk stratification for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), according to a population - based cohort study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

«Our results show that, in an era in which high - resolution molecular typing for class I and class II HLA [human leukocyte antigen] loci has significantly improved the clinical outcome of unrelated donor HSCT by decreasing the risk of immunological complications, lowering the ATLG dose to 15 mg / kg did not affect the time to engraftment and, more importantly, the incidence of acute or chronic GVHD [graft - vs - host disease], and was associated with an improved probability of event - free survival, mainly due to a reduced risk of nonrelapse mortality,» wrote Franco Locatelli, MD, of the department of oncoematologia pediatrica, IRCCS Ospedale «Bambino Gesù» in Rome, and colleagues.

The Laboratory for Molecular Neuroscience investigates molecular mechanisms involved in the development of acute and chronic neurodegenerative disease, with a focus on the role of glutamate excitotoxicity.

In a Cox proportional hazards model adjusting for age, examination years and all other predictive coronary disease risk factors, blood donors had a 88 % reduced risk (relative hazard = 0.12, 95 % confidence interval 0.02 - 0.86, p = 0.035) of acute myocardial infarction, compared with non-blood donors.

Although medical and surgical treatments available today for the ischemic heart disease patients diminish the risk of acute myocardial infarction and reduce to some extent the incidence of recurrent heart attack, one of the unsolved challenges is to affect myocardium remodeling occurring during ischemic heart failure.