Sentences with phrase «for untreatable»

Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC's National Center for HIV / AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, warned that «if resistance continues to increase and spread, current treatment will ultimately fail and 800,000 Americans a year will be at risk for untreatable gonorrhea.»

Australian researchers have made a critical discovery about a gene involved in muscular dystrophy that could lead to future therapies for the untreatable disease.

There is knowledge to be gained by such studies, of course, but it hardly makes for the sort of case embryo - research advocates were advancing just a few years ago — with its miracle cures and treatments for the untreatable.

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Francis is not the first to suggest this; Megan McArdle, for one, floated the idea last year when writing about the advent of seemingly untreatable STDs.

Fortunately, with newer methods of treatment (remotivation, for example), some persons who had been regarded as «hopeless» or «untreatable» for years are now responding.

We knew what a pregnancy would mean for me: bed rest, anemia, crippling and untreatable pain, a pre-term C - section, most likely postpartum depression, but most importantly, cancer.

He asked Shah whether the Cuomo Administration plan would allow for distribution of an oil based derivative, known as Charlotte's Web, which is used in many other states for a previously untreatable form of severe epilepsy.

He asked Shah whether the Cuomo administration plan would allow for distribution of an oil based derivative, known as Charlotte's Web, which is used in many other states for a previously untreatable form of severe epilepsy.

The advent of therapies for genetic conditions considered untreatable could change the way we approach them.

• PUBLIC HEALTH Gonorrhea has been developing defenses against drug treatment for decades, which has caused concern that it might become untreatable.

We recognize the importance of research in developing effective remedies for incurable and untreatable diseases and the great value of contributing to the bank of scientific knowledge.

They hope to go still further and turn the stem cells into treatments for previously untreatable diseases.

Pictures like these provide road maps for surgeons, allowing them to use increasingly precise surgical tools to address previously untreatable diseases without damaging surrounding tissue.

People in the area don't have a single word for depression, and mental illness is considered serious and untreatable.

The findings are potentially practice - changing for a historically «untreatable disease.»

Australian researchers have made a critical discovery about a gene involved in muscular dystrophy that could lead to future therapies for the currently untreatable disease.

What this means, Adashi said, is that parents who are at risk for transmitting mitochondrial disease to their children may now undergo MR and have children who are not born with agonizing and untreatable diseases.

The one for Huntington's disease — a purely genetic disorder that is both deadly and untreatable — is an example of what we can safely call a mistaken gene to which we should owe no allegiance.

For example, creative problem - solving AI could someday make snap decisions that save the lives of the passengers in a self - driving car if its sensors fail, or propose unconventional combinations of chemical compounds that lead to new drugs for previously untreatable diseasFor example, creative problem - solving AI could someday make snap decisions that save the lives of the passengers in a self - driving car if its sensors fail, or propose unconventional combinations of chemical compounds that lead to new drugs for previously untreatable diseasfor previously untreatable diseases.

Results of a phase 2 study published in The Lancet suggest that simvastatin, a cheap cholesterol lowering drug, might be a potential treatment option for the secondary progressive, or chronic, stage of multiple sclerosis (MS), which is currently untreatable.

In a long - awaited success for gene therapy, a research team from the University of Pennsylvania restored sight to two patients suffering from Leber's Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), a previously untreatable form of blindness.

Researchers have proposed potential therapies for a paralyzing disorder once thought to be untreatable

«Many patients who suffer from untreatable chronic diseases, including heart and kidney diseases, are in waiting lists for limited organ transplantation.

And because other foreign molecules can be substituted for the cat protein, the method offers hope for people with currently untreatable allergies such as those to nuts and seafood.

Commenting on the significance of the findings co-lead author Professor Mani Ramaswami, Professor of Neurogenetics at the School of Genetics and Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin said: «Degenerative diseases, such as MND, are a poorly understood and largely untreatable set of life limiting diseases which can leave people unable to do the everyday things that the rest of us, particularly the young, take for granted.

Hookipa is a dedicated team united by the desire to find solutions for people with untreatable cancers and infectious diseases.

As a result, Moderna's platform has the potential to speed the development and manufacture of treatments for many diseases that are currently untreatable with existing pharmaceutical approaches.

Category winner — Simon Johnson For his essay «A Novel Target for Pharmacological Intervention in an Untreatable Human Disease» in the prize category Translational MedicFor his essay «A Novel Target for Pharmacological Intervention in an Untreatable Human Disease» in the prize category Translational Medicfor Pharmacological Intervention in an Untreatable Human Disease» in the prize category Translational Medicine

American Federation for Aging Research Fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York; USA From: Salt Lake City, USA Prize Category: Translational Medicine Essay: A Novel Target for Pharmacological Intervention in an Untreatable Human Disease

Many patients considered untreatable at other institutions have found the care they need at the Center for Gastrointestinal Oncology.

Better understanding of mechanisms underlying skeleton development, adult maintenance, and diseases has led in recent years to new and improved treatments for osteoporosis and a few other conditions, but today most skeletal diseases remain untreatable or incompletely treatable.

The bottom line: we have excellent news for LHON patients and their families about their vision, which is remarkable for a previously untreatable disease,» commented Dr. Robert C. Sergott, Director, Wills Eye Hospital, Neuro - Ophthalmology and Director, William H. Annesley, Jr, EyeBrain Center, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA..

Genetic Roulette implies that untreatable infectious diseases will be promoted because genetically modified crops may contain genes for resistance to antibiotics.

«This study represents an important step towards developing a potential therapeutic option for this devastating and currently untreatable condition.

There are at least 265 different genes in which mutations can cause blindness; breakthroughs in gene therapy are allowing scientists to develop treatments for diseases that were previously untreatable, giving hope to millions.

«It's not as though you have an illness that's untreatable; you just have a society that's not willing to make it easy for you.»

For a person dealing with untreatable depression and anxiety, testosterone therapy could be the answer.

If the medications were only expensive and not life threatening, their use could no doubt be shrugged off as a harmless snake oil pharmaceutical scam; but, in fact, these are thoroughly dangerous medications for both physical and emotional reasons — for physical reasons because their use can lead to serious untreatable diseases such as liver cancer, and for emotional reasons because their use perpetuates the myth that cholesterol is dangerous and evil.

«For us, this is an opportunity to advance essential research in hopes of finding new treatments for the many diseases that are still untreatable.&raqFor us, this is an opportunity to advance essential research in hopes of finding new treatments for the many diseases that are still untreatable.&raqfor the many diseases that are still untreatable.»

No animal should be killed for any reason other than for dire and untreatable medical conditions.

He should have been taken by his family to a vet for humane euthanasia when his painful cancer was untreatable.

All illnesses and injuries are treated except for the medically untreatable.

CASA always searches for safe and responsible alternatives to ending an animal's life, but if an animal is suffering, is ill and untreatable, we will help end suffering.

SRS has also emerged as a viable treatment option for some cancers previously considered «untreatable» based on its ability to target tumors embedded in complex locations.

At the time of publication, seven cats were still in disease remission, a positive step forward for a historically untreatable disease.

We do not euthanize animals at our facility for space issues or poor health unless they are suffering, or have a terminal or untreatable illness.

We will also put to sleep any animal that has a severe, untreatable health condition that makes them unsuitable for adoption.

Animals still may be euthanized when they are highly aggressive, severely injured or have an untreatable medical condition, says Jody Jones, operations manager for Richmond Animal Care and Control.

This house call was for Harpo, a 10 - year - old toy fox terrier with a liver tumor that was diagnosed a year ago as terminal and untreatable.

For example, owner - requested euthanasia is not necessarily a bad thing if it is provided for owners who can not afford veterinary fees and is only done when the animal is suffering and untreatabFor example, owner - requested euthanasia is not necessarily a bad thing if it is provided for owners who can not afford veterinary fees and is only done when the animal is suffering and untreatabfor owners who can not afford veterinary fees and is only done when the animal is suffering and untreatable.