Sentences with phrase «for developing lung»

Consequently, although the causal link between SHS exposure and lung cancer development is well - established 1 — 3, the estimated risk for developing lung cancer consequent to SHS exposure remains somewhat debatable.»

One trial looking at beta carotene supplements found that exceeding the recommended dosage increased the risk for developing both lung cancer and heart disease by 20 percent.

You're most at risk for developing lung cancer from asbestos if you work in a high - risk industry such as construction, especially if the job involves removing asbestos.

Other projects around developmental vascular biology study the mechanisms of closure of the ductus arteriosus as failure of ductus arteriosus (DA) closure after birth is a common complication of premature delivery with consequences for the developing lung and other organs.

Smoking is the most important risk factor for developing lung cancer.

One trial exploring the effects of beta - carotene supplements showed that taking more than the recommended dosage increased the risk for developing both lung cancer and heart disease by 20 percent.

«Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.

Breathing in pollutants released into the air isn't healthy for developing lungs, but a new study says it's harmful for developing brains too.

Not exact matches

The researchers placed extremely premature fetuses into the Biobag, which is made of clear polyethylene and filled with a substance that mimics amniotic fluid, in order to help them survive long enough for their lungs to develop more.

Intuitive has teamed up with China's Fosun Pharma, for instance, in a joint venture to detect lung cancers in their earliest stages, developing a flexible robotic catheter that can navigate into the cavernous regions of the lungs.

For Evolution... Lungs never would have had to develop unless the animal was already on land, in which case, they would die before reproducing.

It took how many aeons for the amoeba to develop lungs?

However, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine now dub 37 to 38 weeks «early term,» because baby's brain, lungs, and liver continue to develop during this time.

However, preterm infants are born with underdeveloped lungs and immature immune systems that put them at heightened risk for developing severe RSV disease, often requiring hospitalization.

The exceptions to this are those who smoke, because the carcinogens exhaled through the night increase the risk of problems for a developing baby's lungs.

The baby's brain is quickly developing and the lungs continue to prepare for breathing air once the baby is born.

Your baby's muscles and lungs are busy getting ready to function in the outside world, and his head is growing to make room for his developing brain.

For example, your baby's brain and lungs are still developing.

The company has applied its expertise in RFID (radio frequency identification) technology to map and locate underground utilities; it has used its understanding of the healthcare industry to develop innovations that help the early diagnosis of heart and lung conditions; and its range of pocket projectors are the ultimate presentation devices for business people on the go.

Taub was honored in a May 2011 resolution sponsored by Silver for «developing unique new treatment algorithms utilizing intracavitary chemotherapy for multimodal treatment of abdominal mesothelioma and for lung - sparing treatment of pleural mesothelioma,» state records show.

One goal of the study (which controls for smoking) was to learn how many miners developed lung cancer.

By, means of al specific nicotinamide - adeninie dinucleotide - dependent prostaglanidin dehydrogenase from swine lung, an enizymatic method has been developed for the assay of prostaglandins.

Joint first author of the study, microbiologist Dr Jo Fothergill said: «We have discovered that the nasopharynx acts as a silent reservoir for bacteria from which more serious infections in the lungs can develop.»

«It is clear that antibiotics are not an effective treatment for these infections once established in the lung, so something else needs to be developed urgently, and targeting the infection at the site of entry before chronic infection develops is one way forward.»

«Process to help personalize treatment for lung cancer patients developed.»

And we continue to work with our clinical colleagues to develop new treatment approaches for treating lung disease.»

Gene variants have been linked to elevated risks for disorders from Alzheimer's disease to breast cancer, and they may help explain why, for example, some smokers develop lung cancer whereas many others don't.

Caucasian and Hispanic children who undergo lung transplantation appear to be at greater risk for developing chronic kidney disease, or CKD, according to a small retrospective study conducted at Texas Children's Hospital.

«We developed Drosophila lung cancer models by targeting Ras alone and in combination with PTEN knockdown in the tracheal system of the fruit fly,» says Cagan, PhD, Professor in the Department of Developmental & Regenerative Biology, Senior Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and Director of the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

The molecular microscope system is now being developed for lung transplant biopsies, with the goal of changing care for those patients as well.

The American Cancer Society estimates the risk of developing lung cancer to be 1 in 13 for men and 1 in 16 for women, including both smokers and non-smokers.

«Aged individuals also have decreased lung function and cough strength, which further escalates the risk for developing pneumonia.»

«If we can find biomarkers informing us that the most vulnerable parts of the lung have already been infected by RSV, then it could be possible to identify much more quickly the children at more risk for developing severe lung disease and to get those babies in a treatment protocol at an earlier time,» Pickles said.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has released the first comprehensive, evidence - based guidelines for management of sickle cell disease from birth to end of life, based on recommendations developed by a nationwide team of experts co-chaired by a UT Southwestern Medical Center hematologist.

Researchers have developed a new approach for growing and studying cells they hope one day will lead to curing lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis through «personalized medicine.»

Because Mycoplasma pneumoniae normally infects the lungs, the team now plans to use their new knowledge to develop therapies based on genetically engineered bacteria for treating lung diseases.

One postdoc presents data on her efforts to develop an organoid model for small - cell lung cancer; another reports progress on culturing hormone - secreting organoids from human gut tissue.

Funded by the U.S. Army, tissue engineers have begun developing designs for replacement organs — kidneys, hearts, and lungs.

Research led by Ed Morrisey, PhD, professor of Medicine and Cell and Developmental Biology in the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and scientific director of the Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine, has identified hundreds of these lncRNAs, sometimes called the «genomic dark matter,» that are expressed in developing and adult lungs.

Investigators also found that these babies were less likely to have prolonged intensive care nursery stays, less likely to need postnatal treatment for respiratory complications, and less likely to develop bronchopulmonary dysplasia, which is a sign of chronic lung disease.

The researchers are planning to test this method to deliver HIV vaccines in nonhuman primates, and they are also working on further developing cancer vaccines, including one for lung cancer.

Since the discovery of the genetic basis for cystic fibrosis in 1989, scientists have developed a variety of viral and non-viral vector systems for delivering a corrected CFTR gene back into lung cells.

The company is also developing techniques for analyzing other lung images, and images of cancerous tumors, to guide treatment using variations of the same technology.

«We are planning to develop a lung cancer - specific comorbidity index using prospective data for the best estimate of the impact of individual comorbid conditions on survival.»

Popcorn's dark side A 53 - year - old Colorado man who ate two bags of microwaved popcorn daily for 10 years apparently developed bronchiolitis obliterans, aka popcorn worker's lung, a debilitating disease previously seen only in popcorn factory workers.

To investigate why checkpoint inhibitors so often stop working, Velculescu; Valsamo Anagnostou, M.D., Ph.D., instructor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Kellie N. Smith, Ph.D., a cancer immunology research associate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and their colleagues at the Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy studied tumors of four patients with non-small cell lung cancer and one patient with head and neck cancer who developed resistance to two different checkpoint inhibitors: a drug called nivolumab that uses an antibody called anti-PD-1, or nivolumab used alone or in combination with a second drug called ipilimumab, which uses an antibody called anti-CTLA4.

Professor Jean - Charles Soria, Chairman of the Drug Development Department at Gustave Roussy Cancer campus, France, will tell the Symposium: «Currently, there are no approved targeted therapies for mutant EGFR lung cancer patients who develop the T790M mutation, which means their disease inevitably will get worse.

«Air pollution is so obviously bad for lungs, heart, and other organs that most of us have never considered its effects on the developing brain.

However, this new study reveals that this is the case for only approx. 50 % of patients with COPD, whereas the remaining 50 % develop the disease with close to normal lung function decline.

Clinical trials with the drugs to date have shown that nearly half of patients with lung cancers eventually develop resistance to this class of drugs for reasons that have been unclear.