Sentences with phrase «for emerging diseases»

«Most of these imported animals originate in Southeast Asia - a region shown to be a hotspot for these emerging diseases.»

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One of Martin Shkreli's former companies has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is pledging to ditch its notorious ex-chief's price hike plans for a rare disease drug.

Instead, Dr. Baselga said researchers and scientists are making strides in what he calls precision medicine, an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in environment, lifestyle and genes for each person.

Can big data and genomic virus sequencing help us track emerging diseases, contain their spread and ultimately find antidotes for the next unknown pathology?

Novavax, Inc. (NASDAQ: NVAX), a small - cap clinical - stage vaccine company that focuses on therapies for both known and newly emerging diseases, has lost some support from a Wall Street analyst.

[25][26] Visceral Leishmaniasis Research The foundation awarded the He - brew University of Jerusalem Ku - vin Center for the Study of Infe - ctious and Tropical Dis - eases a $ 5 million grant in 2009 for research into vis - ceral leishmaniasis, an emerging pa - ra - sitic disease in Ethiopia where it is frequently as - sociated with HI - V / A-IDS, and a leading cause of adult illness and death.

For example, in the last quarter of the twentieth century there suddenly emerged the frightening new disease of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

Much else could be written about health in the Asian Century, including the need to implement a sophisticated surveillance and control system for emerging infectious diseases.

Emerging research shows that bacteria are absolutely vital for human health, and science has linked an imbalance in the human microbiome with multiple chronic non-transmissible diseases.

Multiple specialty manufacturing plants in eastern Rensselaer County and North Bennington, Vt., used the chemical for decades before studies emerged a decade ago linking it to cancer and other serious diseases.

The memorandum of understanding identified four areas in the life sciences where AAAS and the Cuban Academy of Sciences will seek opportunities for sustained cooperation: emerging infectious diseases, brain disorders, cancer, and antimicrobial drug resistance.

«While electrical stimulation of the brain is emerging as potential therapy for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases, little is known about its effect on memory,» says Gregory Worrell, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist and senior author of the article.

It was clear that the Cubans are well positioned to detect emerging infectious diseases of concern to the United States, such as dengue and chikungunya, serious mosquito - borne viral diseases for which no vaccines exist.

The dramatic rise in emerging infectious disease outbreaks of international concern has created an unprecedented challenge for the global community.

Pandemic preparedness is not only critical because of the threat of a future pandemic or an outbreak of an emerging infectious disease, but also because school preparedness for all types of disasters, including biological events, is mandated by the U.S. Department of Education.

Although it is not yet clear how all this is related, these findings are very valuable, since they provide new starting points for clarifying how coronary artery diseases emerge and are thus important steps towards new therapies.

Satellite imagery is used for all sorts of climate study, from identifying conditions that allow infectious diseases like West Nile virus and cholera to emerge, to creating models for predicting hurricanes, to distinguishing natural resources such as wind, water and sunlight.

In other words, she says, personality constructs emerging from the basic biology of the brain can be yet another marker that the individual is at risk for TILT, and easier to sensitize to the disease.

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.

She adds that a lot of what's emerging in orthopedics is for the moment being targeted to treat those with muscle - wasting diseases, as well as a younger population with injuries due to athleticism.

This pattern of cross-infection from animals to humans is par for the course in emerging infectious disease.

Morse is credited with creating the term emerging infectious diseases in the late 1980s to explain viruses that can exist for years in an animal host without causing illness.

Have Plague, Will Travel Once a killer disease has emerged, modern societies offer new ways for it to flourish and spread.

CA - MRSA (Community - acquired MRSA) has now emerged as an epidemic that is responsible for rapidly progressive, fatal diseases including necrotizing pneumonia, severe sepsis and necrotizing fasciitis.

«There's an emerging infectious disease laboratory fellowship and an American Society for Microbiology laboratory fellowship, which generally last one to two years,» she adds.

And this disease, for want of a better term, may be emerging in places far from the Great Barrier Reef.

The results suggest that worsening anxious - depressive symptoms may be an early predictor of elevated amyloid beta levels — and, in turn AD — and provide support for the hypothesis that emerging neuropsychiatric symptoms represent an early manifestation of preclinical Alzheimer's disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae as one of the three most urgent threats among emerging forms of antibiotic - resistant dDisease Control and Prevention named carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae as one of the three most urgent threats among emerging forms of antibiotic - resistant diseasedisease.

Understanding how viruses evolve and how often they jump to new hosts is important for studying emerging viral diseases.

Further, the materials required for the test do not require refrigeration and may be applicable in testing for other emerging infectious diseases.

The results provide the foundation for development of the broad - spectrum cell - directed antivirals or their combinations for treatment of Zika and other emerging viral diseases.

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«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.

Scientists at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute have identified natural human antibodies against the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a step toward developing treatments for the newly emerging and often - fatal disease..

6 April Veratect, a Kirkland, Washington - based company that scours news reports for emerging threats, reports in its subscription - only database that local Mexican health officials have declared an alert because of respiratory disease outbreak in La Gloria, Veracruz state, Mexico.

If replicated, the tantalizing finding could fit with an emerging theory that subpar function by mitochondria, the organelles that provide energy for cells, drives the disease.

If it emerges that it is indeed a «catcher's mitt» for α - synuclein, it could provide a drug target for a disease whose 10 million sufferers are sorely in need of new medicines.

The perspective concludes that modern vaccine technology and improved surveillance in developing countries ultimately can help us better prepare for emerging infectious disease threats.

The rise of modern, deadly plagues such as AIDS and SARS is particularly devastating because the «golden age of immunization during the last half century gave us a sense of triumphalism about infectious diseases,» says Stephen S. Morse, a Columbia University biologist and cofounder of ProMed, a global program for monitoring emerging infectious diseases.

And though it's not a substitute for vaccines, hand washing is critical in preventing and controlling infectious disease, writes Joel C. Gaydos of the Defense Department's Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System in a commentary accompanying the report.

«We're not ready for another emerging infectious disease that may disproportionately affect pregnant women or their fetuses or babies,» she says.

The Zika pandemic is likely to serve as a roadmap for addressing future emerging infectious disease challenges, the authors conclude.

Protecting this microenvironment, or niche, has thus emerged as a new route for the treatment of these diseases, for which there is currently no fully effective treatment.

As those assays have matured, the scientists have begun to optimize additional tests for a number of emerging diseases.

Disease wiki The site excels at natural - language processing, says Larry Madoff, founder and editor of the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED), a global electronic mailing list that receives and summarizes reports on disease outbreaks and that was one of HealthMap's first sources oDisease wiki The site excels at natural - language processing, says Larry Madoff, founder and editor of the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED), a global electronic mailing list that receives and summarizes reports on disease outbreaks and that was one of HealthMap's first sources odisease outbreaks and that was one of HealthMap's first sources of data.

«Many of the diseases associated with childhood abuse typically emerge in middle and later stages of adulthood — decades after the abuse actually occurred,» said Chiang, a postdoctoral fellow with Northwestern's Foundations of Health Research Center and its Institute for Policy Research.

Analysis of clinical samples from suspected Lassa fever cases in Sierra Leone showed that about two - thirds of the patients had been exposed to other emerging diseases, and nearly nine percent tested positive for Ebola virus.

The World Health Organization urges countries to augment their official disease surveillance efforts — which draw information from networks of doctor's offices, hospitals, and public health laboratories — with what's known as «event - based surveillance,» said Dr. Larry Madoff, editor of ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases.

An ill - behaved brain protein that escaped notice for over 90 years has unexpectedly emerged as a major possible cause of Alzheimer's disease.

Among the interesting topics covered in Pathways are: the changing role of the patient in the total health equation and the ways in which decentralized information is affecting their expectations and demands; the dearth of pipeline products among international pharmaceutical companies against a backdrop of increased research and development spending; the dynamics of emerging markets and their rising demand for therapies in chronic disease; the value of drugs and biotechnology solutions within the context of global economic realities.