You said, «LinCA obviously you are not aware that alcoholism is
identified as a disease by the AMA.»
LinCA obviously you are not aware that alcoholism is
identified as a disease by the AMA.
More than a decade after AIDS was first
identified as a disease, «Philadelphia» marks the first time Hollywood has risked a big - budget film on the subject.
Alzheimer's was the unmaking of his identity, including
identifying himself as diseased.
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As part of that effort Marsh is studying the ecosystem of
disease —
identifying the factors, like hopelessness and isolation, that are at the root of health problems.
Google's pill aims to change the strategy from reactive to proactive — adopting a «preventative maintenance» approach — by continuously monitoring the body for
disease triggers, so they can be
identified and treated
as soon
as they appear.
That number needn't be so low,
as many carriers offer online programs to help
identify risk factors for common chronic
diseases (e.g.: diabetes, congestive heart failure, asthma, obesity, cancer) and offer prevention programs.
The collaboration, facilitated by Johnson & Johnson Innovation, will explore the potential for online psychometric tests, such
as the Cogniciti brain health test, to help
identify adults at risk of developing dementia, including Alzheimer's
disease.
As research advances, scientists hope to determine the precise location of a given gene so they can test entire populations to
identify carriers of the
disease gene.
As with physical illness, for example heart
disease, if the cause of an illness is correctly
identified, the correct treatment can be offered.
Identifying with Spiritual Experiences: In this
disease, the ego
identifies with our spiritual experience and takes it
as its own, and we begin to believe that we are embodying insights that have arisen within us at certain times.
«They also are more likely to require more mental health therapy;
identify themselves
as homosexual; choose cohabitation; be unfaithful to partners; contract sexually transmitted
diseases; be sexually molested; have lower income levels; drink to get drunk; and smoke tobacco and marijuana.»
Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to
identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such
as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such
as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such
as Alzheimer's
disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such
as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.
Includes details and pictures of 23 beneficial insects and the nine exotic pests and
diseases identified as the top risks to the Australian industry
If you or the father has an autosomal dominant disorder such
as Huntington's chorea, an amniocentesis will be able to
identify if your child will be affected by the
disease.
If one parent tests positive for an inheritable
disease, they are
identified as a carrier.
The Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention has
identified the gap
as a significant health disparity.
In an interview with the writer Ron Suskindthis year, Obama even described his policy - wonk predilections
as a «
disease,»
identifying with Democratic former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
Still others told stories of years — and sometimes decades — of misdiagnoses before their illness was correctly
identified as Lyme
disease.
The owners of a Bronx hotel
identified as a potential source of Legionnaires»
disease hit the roof, slamming the «game of one - upsmanship» between city and state officials for sowing misinformation about the health scare.
The James Lind Alliance have worked with clinicians and patients in this way to
identify priorities for research on specific conditions, such
as pressure ulcers, alcohol liver related
disease, epilepsy and asthma.
According to the Centers for
Disease Control, 193 travel - related cases of Zika Virus had been
identified in the United States
as of March 9.
Protein misfolding and aggregation had been
identified as a major factor in mad cow
disease, and research using yeasts
as model organisms played a large role in those findings.
To fully understand CTE, scientists need a way to
identify and follow the
disease as it progresses.
Individuals were classified
as high risk for Alzheimer's if a DNA test
identified the presence of a genetic marker — having one or both of the apolipoprotein E-epsilon 4 allele (APOE - e4 allele) on chromosome 19 — which increases the risk of developing the
disease.
After the Lyme pathogen was
identified, scientists in the Northeast traced the relatively simple two - year life cycle of the
disease in nature,
as depicted below.
«We're also looking at
as many genes
as possible in the wild banana and screening them to
identify other resistance genes, not only for resistance to TR4 but to other
diseases.»
But epidemiological studies have
identified pesticides
as a risk factor for the
disease.
As he was working to
identify a profitable research direction, his thoughts «all crystallized around rare
diseases.»
Their landmark findings will open the door to
identify gene variants controlling skin microbiota and to define their link to various
diseases such
as skin inflammatory disorders.
According to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, opioid abuse is a serious public health issue, with drug overdoses
identified as the leading cause of injury death in the United States.
Ivan Rodriguez at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and his colleagues have
identified a type of smell receptor in mice that seems to respond to
disease - related molecules produced by bacteria, viruses, or
as the result of inflammation.
The team
identified 345 regions of the genome where they could pinpoint the likely molecular causes underlying a person's predisposition to immune - related
diseases such
as inflammatory bowel
disease, type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
Prof. Severine Vermeire (KU Leuven / UZ Leuven): «In the future, gut bacteria may be used to help
identify PSC patients with a more or less aggressive
disease, or patients that may benefit from microbiota - based therapies, such
as fecal microbiota transplantation or targeted pre - and probiotics.»
These cells play a key role in autoimmune
disease — in which the immune system mistakenly
identifies the body's own tissues
as foreign and attack them.
Through a quirk of regulatory history, many such tests are not subject to the same medical standards
as other tools used to
identify risk for
disease or to definitively diagnose a condition.
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.
«Spontaneous coronary artery
disease identified as inherited.»
«We hope that our work will provide the basis for a larger study of patient samples that may ultimately
identify biomarkers that can be used
as surrogate markers to determine the benefit of therapeutic interventions in diagnosed but asymptomatic HD patients to prevent or delay
disease onset.»
By carefully sifting through medical data from the afflicted regions, he
identified malnutrition and inadequately processed cassava — a tuber used
as food in tropical countries —
as the cause of the
disease, allowing for prevention through better food preparation.
Like many human
diseases, schizophrenia is complex, and no single genetic or environmental factor has been
identified as the cause of the
disease.
The sequences provide researchers access to 96 percent of all peanut genes and provide the DNA map needed to more quickly
identify and genetically tag genes that confer desirable traits, such
as drought - and
disease - resistance.
In addition to running his own lab, he directs the Applied Neurotherapeutic Research Group, a collaborative research initiative funded jointly by SFI and Wyeth, to understand the molecular underpinnings of changes in behavior and to
identify new drug targets for
diseases such
as schizophrenia.
Genetics will almost certainly transform medical practice
as diagnostics are developed to predict
disease susceptibilities and
identify which drugs a patient is most likely to respond to.
More specifically, she focuses on the development and use of multidisciplinary approaches, combining data from different sources, to
identify the determinants of
disease transmission in different ecological settings, providing evidence for the improvement of current control policies,
as well
as the development of new ones.
The Duke medical researchers and ecologists who have joined that project hope to
identify which species flourish in early stages of the human microbiome, how they are influenced by the consumption of breast milk, and what role they play in critical
diseases affecting infants
as well
as in chronic
diseases that occur later in life.
«This opens a new door in
identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds
as a new way to detect the
disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.
Dietary intake information is important both to individuals using nutrition - based therapy for conditions such
as diabetes and heart
disease, and to entire populations for
identifying nutrition and
disease risk.
He hopes researchers will mine the treasure trove for clues about the genetic and lifestyle factors behind
diseases such
as cancer and dementia, and
identify patients who might benefit from new drugs.
It correctly
identified those with the
disease in almost 70 % of the cases, while about 9 % of true negative subjects would wrongly be detected
as positive.