Sentences with phrase «for pulmonary fibrosis»

Although no definitive cause for the disease has been identified, pulmonary fibrosis affects nearly 130,000 people in the U.S., with about 48,000 new cases diagnosed annually, according to the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis.

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InterMune said Health Canada approved Esbriet as a treatment for mild - to - moderate idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in adults.

Like Gilead, which aims to develop treatments for HIV / AIDS, hepatitis B and C, influenza, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and cystic fibrosis, other top employers accentuate the positive aspects of the life science industry by performing their R&D in entirely new areas.

Experts agree the treatment is transformative for patients with the Cheevers» form of CF. «We have just started using it in practice,» says Henry Dorkin, a pediatric pulmonary specialist and director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center at Children's Hospital in Boston.

«Inhibiting DGKi seems to reverse the effects of cystic fibrosis, but not block ENaC completely,» says Margarida Amaral from the University of Lisboa, «indeed, inhibiting DGKi reduces ENaC activity enough for cells to go back to normal, but not so much that they cause other problems, like pulmonary oedema.»

The connection may open up new treatment options for the disorder, pulmonary fibrosis.

Calling their compound a new therapeutic candidate for people with severe asthma and other chronic airway diseases, researchers say with additional research and development their discovery could lead to future clinical trials for asthma, Cystic Fibrosis and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

The next step, Kaminski said, will be to begin evaluating miR - 29 as a therapeutic for human Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF).

An ongoing clinical trial at NHGRI is testing the drug pirfenidone as a potential HPS treatment for symptoms associated with pulmonary fibrosis.

«Radial Basis Function neural networks classification for the recognition of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in microscopic images»

The Lung Microbiome in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Promising Approach for Targeted Therapies — Fastrès Aline, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Personalised medicine is becoming relevant in the treatment of lung cancer [42, 43] and may have relevance for other lung diseases, like pulmonary fibrosis, asthma and pulmonary hypertension, but disease - related basic research aimed at searching for biomarkers is needed to achieve personalised and patient - specific treatments for lung diseases.

Using translational research methods, the DZL seeks to jointly develop new approaches for the prevention, diagnosis and therapy of serious lung diseases including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis, diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD), endstage lung disease, lung cancer, pneumonia and acute lung injury, and pulmonary hypertension.

Diseases affecting the lung, including emphysema, cystic fibrosis, acute respiratory distress syndrome and pulmonary fibrosis, cause considerable morbidity and mortality in the U.S.. However, there are not many treatment options available for those diseases, in part due to the limited availability of human lung cells for research.

A team of scientists from the UNC School of Medicine and North Carolina State University (NCSU) has developed promising research towards a possible stem cell treatment for several lung conditions, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cystic fibrosis — often - fatal conditions that affect tens of millions of Americans.

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It is for his more last attributes, however, that Coughlin is being best remembered, after succumbing to a rare form of pulmonary fibrosis in July.