Sentences with phrase «for women with this disease»

Published early online in CANCER, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the results indicate that larger trials are warranted to determine whether the drug should become part of standard therapy for women with the disease.

«This is the first molecular - targeted and first anti-angiogenesis therapy to demonstrate benefit in this population and, combined with chemotherapy followed by [Avastin] maintenance, should be considered as one standard option for women with this disease,» said lead researcher Dr. Robert A. Burger, director of the Women's Cancer Center at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.

Not exact matches

The Centers for Disease Control is monitoring roughly 280 pregnant women infected with Zika in the U.S., while Brazil has reported nearly 3,600 pregnant women with Zika since the start of the year.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of Thursday has begun monitoring any bad outcomes that come from women who were infected with Zika during the time they were pregnant.

I found this surprising considering that during 2005, the most recent year for which the Center for Disease Control offered statistics, 10 percent of women in the United States between the ages of 15 and 44 were pregnant» about the same percentage of woman in the United States diagnosed with diabetes.

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

She added: «We recognize that there are difficulties women face with pregnancies, especially in cases where the unborn child may be born with a life - limiting disease, but we do not believe that abortion is the answer, and that funding for a free abortion in another country is short - sighted as it neglects any mention of an offer of counselling or care for the woman.»

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Survey of Family Growth, 1 million married women in the United States struggle with infertility (defined as the inability to become pregnant after 12 consecutive months of unprotected sex) and 7.5 million women experience an impaired difficulty to conceive and carry a baby to term.

Nearly all the women I've met who share this disease have been told by a doctor in some form or another that the pain is all in their head, so most women with endo don't get diagnosed for about a decade.

Recent reports tell of a Health Maintenance Organization that wanted to cover the cost of a prenatal test for cystic fibrosis only on the condition that the woman agree to have an abortion if the fetus was afflicted with the disease.

That being said, there is a definite lack of information out there for pregnant and breastfeeding women with autoimmune diseases and I would like to start to help fill in that gap.

When I was doing research for my new course (The Endo Toolkit), I found some research that revealed that cortisol levels are significantly higher in women with advanced endometriosis as compared to women without the disease.

In addition, it is also made known that high levels of caffeine are not suitable for pregnant or lactating women or for people with heart disease.

And in women who have been treated for breast cancer, a history of radiation therapy is also associated with increased risk of heart disease.

I am sure you did not mean to assume that women who are in shelters need formula more than you do, in fact, poor and minority women «need» it less; they are at greater risk for negative health consequences associated with formula like diabetes, obesity, heart disease, etc..

Most women in the world are starving to death, fending off rebels / war / disease, others are living a life of subjugation, some get attacked with acid for refusing to be forced into marriage.

There are many complications that have presented through the years in accordance with the erra, to which is no fault of the mother butbthe conditions in which she lived, there are far more diseases and illness's these days than ever before, far more reasons for a women to most deffinatly seek medical help for her birth, to ensure her and her baby» s health, but that defiantly does not include all women, none of us havebthe same problems or complications.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) encourages and motivates more women to initiate and continue with breastfeeding their newborn babies.

The AAP agrees with the long - standing recommendation that all pregnant women should be screened for Group B streptococcal disease and be treated with intravenous penicillin, ampicillin, or cefazolin although the «certified direct entry midwifery» bill currently awaiting signature by our governor does not allow the CDEM to administer intravenous medications.

The coalition has been awarded three grants over the past five years: Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant with the goal of increasing the number of policies and practices that promote and support breastfeeding - friendly environments; Business Case for Breastfeeding Grant to educate employers on how to comply with the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act and a Women Infants and Children (WIC) Local Agency Breastfeeding Special Project Grant.

As women with PCOS age, the presence of these risk factors increases their risk for heart disease.

Women who breastfeed for a shorter duration or not at all are at higher risk of many diseases, and they experience shorter birth intervals with resulting negative health outcomes.

Rather than different ARV regimens being decided on the basis of an individual HIV - positive mother's disease progression, a clear recommendation is now made for provision of ARVs to all HIV positive pregnant women from the time that they are first diagnosed with HIV and continued for life.

Although the findings point to the possibility of healthy pregnancies for this population, Buyon cautioned women who have high protein levels in urine due to uncontrolled kidney disease could still face significant problems with pregnancy.

Enabling women to breastfeed is also a public health priority because, on a population level, interruption of lactation is associated with adverse health outcomes for the woman and her child, including higher maternal risks of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, and greater infant risks of infectious disease, sudden infant death syndrome, and metabolic disease (2, 4).

Who provides care: lay health workers for caring for people with hypertension, lay health workers to deliver care for mothers and children or infectious diseases, lay health workers to deliver community - based neonatal care packages, midlevel health professionals for abortion care, social support to pregnant women at risk, midwife - led care for childbearing women, non-specialist providers in mental health and neurology, and physician - nurse substitution.

«Especially for women with no prior experience with psychiatric disease, this must come as a bolt out of the blue.»

And some studies suggest that women with severe gum disease are at higher risk for preterm delivery (and a low - birth - weight baby).

In a cohort of nearly 300,000 women in China, mothers who breastfed their babies, compared with women who had never breastfed, had a significantly lower risk of cardiovascular disease, with adjusted hazard ratios of 0.91 (95 % CI 0.84 - 0.99) for coronary heart disease (CHD) and 0.92 (95 % CI 0.85 - 0.99) for stroke, reported Zhengming Chen, MBBS, DPhil, of the University of Oxford in England, and colleagues.

The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.

This innovative way to use mobile technology provides access to knowledge, including for those with low literacy levels, about common childhood diseases, pregnancy, nutrition, childbirth, the first year of life, child survival, growth, learning, development and protection, and empower women to make healthy decisions for themselves and their families.

The cost burden includes the cost of caring for children and women with chronic disease as well as short - term illness (Bartick 2010; Smith 2010).

Cuomo signed a bill into law that will expand treatment options for women with breast cancer and require better access to screenings — an issue that's personal for him, due to his girlfriend Sandra Lee's battle with the disease.

Women's Health Highlighted in May As part of Women's Health Awareness Week, May 12th through the 18th, the Oneida County Health Department joins with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in urging all women to schedule a check - up with their health care provWomen's Health Highlighted in May As part of Women's Health Awareness Week, May 12th through the 18th, the Oneida County Health Department joins with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in urging all women to schedule a check - up with their health care provWomen's Health Awareness Week, May 12th through the 18th, the Oneida County Health Department joins with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in urging all women to schedule a check - up with their health care provwomen to schedule a check - up with their health care provider.

The health department reminds everyone that those most at risk for complications from influenza include people with asthma, emphysema or other chronic diseases; those over 65 years, under 5 years, and pregnant women.

«Double danger: The peril of childbirth for women with rheumatic heart disease.»

In April, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported for 2013 - 2014 that among adults ages 18 to 59, 25 percent of men and 20 percent of women had genital infections with HPV types that put them at risk of developing cancer.

Third place honors and $ 150,000 went to Isani Singh, 18, of Aurora, Colo., for her work toward determining if women with Turner syndrome, a rare disease in which all or part of a woman's second sex chromosome is missing, may have some cells with two X chromosomes.

There was also less than one additional case for every 1,000 women per year for heart disease and for stroke in the hormone - treated women compared with those on placebo.

The declaration states that without action, «there will be fewer options for the protection of people most vulnerable to serious life - threatening infections, especially women giving birth, newborns, patients with certain chronic diseases or those undergoing chemotherapy or surgery.»

However, results for women who decreased their alcohol intake over the five year period were not significantly associated with risk of breast cancer or coronary heart disease.

For example, in the combined hormone therapy trial, treated 50 - to 59 - year - olds had five additional cases of heart disease and five more strokes per 10,000 women annually compared with the same - aged group on placebo.

«For men and women with excess body weight, modest weight loss provides powerful protection against cardiovascular disease, regardless of whether weight loss is achieved by using exercise, a healthy low - calorie diet, or both,» said Edward Weiss, Ph.D., associate professor of nutrition and dietetics at Saint Louis University and the lead author of the article.

Together, the experiments show that bacteria in the guts of people with MS promote disease - causing immune activity, said immunologist Francisco Quintana, of the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who said these were «landmark papers.»

• Since 1948, researchers with the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) have been monitoring a group of men and women from Framingham, Massachusetts for cardiovascular disease risks.

«Our analysis suggests that migraine should be considered an important risk marker for cardiovascular disease, particularly in women,» concludes Prof. Kurth, adding that: «The risk of developing cardiovascular events was shown to be 50 % higher in women with a diagnosis of migraine.

For three years the project followed nearly 6,000 healthy men (ages 55 to 80 years) and women (60 to 88 years) with no history or symptoms of cardiovascular disease.

A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for wWomen's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for womenwomen.

«If we could prevent or treat the interferon response in women with these diseases,» she says, «pregnancy may go better for them.»

Women with the variant were at much higher risk for cancer, had more recurrences, were often hit with multiple cancers and were more likely to die from aggressive forms of these diseases.