Sentences with phrase «in diseases like»

Many of these mutations are harmless, but others can result in diseases like cancer.

These are antioxidants that have been linked to a reduction in diseases like cancer and heart disease.

Antioxidants have been linked to a reduction in diseases like cancer, diabetes, and even neurological disorders.

The rise in diseases like syphilis and gonorrhea is a constant reminder of what this hookup culture has become and reiterates that we can not grow complacent.

In diseases like MS I recommend supplementing NAC or glutathione, which are sulfur - containing antioxidants which work great against infections.

Increased levels of neurotoxins may be a factor in diseases like chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and — you guessed it — conditions like insomnia.

Antioxidants have been linked to a reduction in diseases like cancer, diabetes, and even neurological disorders.

She conducts clinical trials to expand research on the role of diet in diseases like MS and developed her plan to reverse MS into a book, The Wahls Protocol.

This relationship, know as neurovascular coupling, could play a major role in diseases like Alzheimer's.

Despite what you might have been told, we've known for some time that neurogenesis (the growth of new neurons in the brain) can occur in the hippocampus of the brain, which plays a critical role in diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia and influences emotional behavior and cognition.

ADAM17 is crucial to normal blood vessel development but high levels also are suspect in diseases like Alzheimer's and arthritis.

DNA / RNA - binding proteins, a fancy type of protein that «guards» the genetic instructions running brain cells, are known to be important in diseases like Alzheimer's and motor neuron disease.

What's more, the genes mutated in diseases like cancer or heart disease are often the same genes that are hijacked by invading viruses.

In diseases like leukemia, a kind of cancer, the bone marrow produces abnormal blood cells.

«Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made an important discovery toward the development of drugs to treat age - related memory loss in diseases like Alzheimer's.

FOXM1 triggers excess inflammation and mucous in diseases like asthma and COPD.

Teams around the world are working on strategies to prompt stem cells to replace dead cells in diseases like Parkinson's or diabetes.

«How male and female sex hormones can affect the immune system is important for understanding the molecular and cellular basis of sex differences in diseases like asthma,» says Nicola Heller, an immunologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine not involved in the study.

While axonal degeneration appears to be a major culprit in diseases like multiple sclerosis, it also paradoxically plays an important role in properly wiring the nervous systems of developing embryos.

In diseases like Huntington's, mental decline is also associated with peripheral metabolic defects and muscle decline.

Today, though, they may be implicated in diseases like obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease.

She and her colleagues will be exploring the role of YY1 further, using clinical samples as well as mouse models, to look at the protein in diseases like lupus to deepen their understanding of how autoimmunity could result from the «escape» of immune genes from X chromosome inactivation.

Gibson's cautionary tale points to the alarming rise in diseases like diabetes, asthma, and Alzheimer's, warning that more than half of us will die from our genetic vulnerabilities if we stay the course in our do - nothing, eat - a-lot lives.

That may explain why infection persists in diseases like cystic fibrosis, she said.

The finding is far from definitive evidence of safety, but it's some of the first published animal research supporting the use of this type of RNA as long - term therapy in diseases like methylmalonic acidemia (MMA).

«We know that processes involved in damaging the brain in a disease like Alzheimer's can start many years before changes become apparent on brain scans or people experience any symptoms.

«Research progress in a disease like IBC, requires vision, creative thinking and action.

Not exact matches

Made by companies like Gilead, AbbVie, Merck, and others, drugs that treat the disease are listed at tens of thousands of dollars in the U.S..

Like in 1989, when, two months after her husband's inauguration, she visited a residential home for babies infected with AIDS and publicly kissed a child and hugged an adult diagnosed with HIV, defying the conventional wisdom at the time that the disease was contagious.

You have said that when grunge hit, it was like being a doctor specializing in a disease they just found a cure for.

Omada's digital therapeutics platform attempts to address disparate health care needs that can be particularly cumbersome for people at risk for chronic diseases like diabetes through a combination of data analytics, user engagement, and the broad goal of preventing these kinds of conditions from developing in the first place.

Political instability and dangerous conditions in Syria have made it difficult to wage a large - scale public health campaign against infectious diseases like polio.

The technology's possibilities are staggering — in theory, allowing medical scientists to do everything from cure genetic disorders like sickle cell disease to identify gene targets for combating HIV.

Such pollution, as Business Insider's Lydia Ramsey explained in 2016, «is especially dangerous because it can get lodged in the lungs and cause long - term health problems like asthma and chronic lung disease.»

Why have we made more progress on certain diseases while other mass - scale killers, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are largely off of people's radars and so difficult to treat in an age of therapies which can resemble magic?

In addition to writing several best - selling books like The Road Ahead, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has raised billions of dollars to combat infectious diseases and elevate the quality of life for impoverished nations around the globe.

While the virus is often symptom - free and usually mild, it can also cause birth defects like microcephaly in babies and trigger immune diseases like Guillain - Barre syndrome in adults.

The psoriasis field is among the most lucrative (if not the most lucrative) in biopharma, thanks to a combination of a massive patient pool and the ways in which these treatments can extend to somewhat related immune and inflammatory conditions, like arthritis and Crohn's disease.

In the Fresno experiment — the largest one of its kind in the US so far — the Debug Project is targeting the Aedes aegypti mosquito, an aggressive invasive species that can transmit nasty diseases like dengue, Zika, and chikungunyIn the Fresno experiment — the largest one of its kind in the US so far — the Debug Project is targeting the Aedes aegypti mosquito, an aggressive invasive species that can transmit nasty diseases like dengue, Zika, and chikungunyin the US so far — the Debug Project is targeting the Aedes aegypti mosquito, an aggressive invasive species that can transmit nasty diseases like dengue, Zika, and chikungunya.

Regulators also took issue with a number of claims used to market the technology, particularly calling it a «first step in prevention» against diseases like diabetes, heart disease and breast cancer.

Perhaps $ 75,000 is the threshold beyond which further increases in income no longer improve individuals» ability to do what matters most to their emotional well - being, such as spending time with people they like, avoiding pain and disease, and enjoying leisure.»

In Walsh's case, the disease attacked her brain, setting off a chain reaction of symptoms that mimicked those of other mental illnesses like depression and schizophrenia.

While Kallyope hasn't given too many specifics about its drug programs, the company's initial focus will be in metabolic conditions, like obesity, as well as neurologic conditions like Parkinson's disease.

While the world has made incalculable gains in the struggle against mosquito - borne diseases, new challenges — like resistance to artemisinin treatments for malaria — are now threatening to turn back the clock.

And while some, like a 2013 study in the journal The Lancet and a 2015 paper in the journal Nature, have yielded promising clues, none have been able to spot any precise, reliable genetic markers of the disease.

As the most common cause of dementia, it's the sixth leading cause of death in the US, behind conditions like heart disease and cancer.

But they've been hampered by somewhat skeptical physicians who still aren't sure that the drugs are worth their price (their topline costs are around $ 14,000 per treatment course); part of the problem is that it's unclear whether or not those dramatic cholesterol reductions actually translate into broader health outcomes like a reduced risk of stroke or heart attack in heart disease patients.

The decision drew immediate backlash from prominent medical and advocacy groups; Mugabe's appointment in the largely symbolic position was reportedly meant to raise awareness of non-communicable diseases like heart disease in Africa.

When Jedd Wolchok, a cancer doctor and immunologist leading a Yervoy trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering, examined a melanoma patient's scan 12 weeks after he'd received his course of treatment, the results were utterly disappointing — just like those of any other metastatic patient in the final throes of the disease: The tumors had gotten bigger, and there were more of them.

In addition to people who are paralyzed, the website for the Eyecan says that the creators of the device hoped to improve the quality of life of people with conditions like Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) and Locked - In Syndrom (LIS).