Sentences with phrase «in untreatable»

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

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

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Efforts to control malaria in Asia must be stepped up urgently «before it becomes close to untreatable».

Now, immunotherapy is at the forefront in oncology as a leading therapeutic which has been shown to cure cancer in previously untreatable patients.

A key implication is that conditions previously thought to be untreatable are in fact treatable.

Untreatable STDs sound like the stuff of a nightmarish sexual education class (like the scene in Mean Girls: «if you touch each other, you will get chlamydia, and die»), but the CDC seems to consider their development fairly likely.

If the victim is not in cardiac arrest, or has a rhythm that is untreatable with defibrillation, the AED will make that determination and not allow a user to administer a shock.

What this means is Your child Can not Fail, they may not get the whole process in the time frame you would like, but they will get it, * barring any untreatable medical issue.

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.

In her letter, the chief medical officer said: «Gonorrhoea is at risk of becoming an untreatable disease due to the continuing emergence of antimicrobial resistance.»

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.

Public health officials worry in particular about untreatable strains of antibiotic - resistant gonorrhea on the rise worldwide.

Untreatable depression is on the rise, hinting at fundamental flaws in our understanding of the illness.

The emergence of this MDR parasite is raising the specter of untreatable malaria in the Mekong region and perhaps beyond.

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.

The 206 patients in the study shared a number of characteristics, including stable, untreatable, age - related macular degeneration in both eyes with visual acuity no better than 20/80 but no worse than 20/800, along with good peripheral vision.

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

Once the team derived the stem cells, they identified a cellular mechanism that drives abnormal bone growth in the thus - far untreatable bone disease, called fibrodysplasiaossificans progressiva (FOP).

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.

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

A disaster is looming in Cambodia and the rest of the Greater Mekong subregion: A deadly malaria parasite has become resistant to both drugs used in the so - called artemisinin combination therapy, raising the specter of untreatable malaria.

Resistance to carbapenems makes some bacterial infections untreatable, resulting in minor infections becoming very dangerous and potentially deadly.

First they sealed one eye, essentially instigating a case of untreatable lazy eye in an adult animal.

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 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.

Most causes of untreatable blindness occur due to loss of the millions of light sensitive photoreceptor cells that line the retina, similar to the pixels in a digital camera.

But while the gadolinium - based agents have become the standard, evidence shows that in some very rare cases they can lead to an untreatable condition called nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, which can be fatal.

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.

The condition is not only untreatable, but seems to be peculiar to humans, meaning scientists have been unable to study the disease and seek new treatments by modeling it in an animal like the mouse.

In recent clinical trials, CAR T cell therapy has dramatically improved the outcomes of blood cancer patients with advanced, otherwise untreatable forms of leukemia and lymphoma.

Sleep disorders range from rare but fatal maladies, such as fatal familial insomnia — an untreatable insomnia that leads to hallucinations and eventually to death, to «inadequate sleep hygiene», from which virtually everyone suffers from time to time, Dement told a meeting sponsored by the American Medical Association in New York.

Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a potential treatment which relies on engineering instead of drugs.

In the popular HBO series The Sopranos, the therapist (Dr. Melfi) terminated psychotherapy with Tony Soprano because her friend and fellow psychologist persuaded her that Tony, whom Dr. Melfi concluded was a classic psychopath, was untreatable.

Around the world bacteria are developing new strategies that render them resistant to antibiotics, resulting in an increasing number of patients dying from untreatable infections.

The newfound protein might eventually help patients who suffer from the untreatable prion diseases: When the group mixed their artificial protein fragment with a fragment of the PrP protein that usually kills neurons in petri dishes, the mixture killed only half as many cells as the prion fragment alone.

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

New immune system - boosting cancer drugs have in clinical trials saved the lives of many people with seemingly untreatable melanoma or lung cancer, but the drugs seem useless against colon cancer.

So even if some cancer cells are destroyed, the protected cancer cells may survive — and the disease can recur in a form that is untreatable.

We also connected George with specialists in Asian elephant diseases, and as a result his lab is working on curing a previously untreatable viral disease that is killing many young elephants.

Friedreich's appears in only one American in 50,000, but it's fatal and untreatable, says Ansari.

Using this technology some forms of blindness may be treatable, including macular degeneration and Stargardt disease, a currently untreatable form eye disease that causes blindness in teenagers and young adults.

«Large molecule» therapies, tailored to home in on otherwise untreatable ills, have become medicine's hottest commodity.

Mitochondrial defects are often observed in a variety of diseases, including cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease, and are the hallmarks of a number of untreatable genetic mitochondrial disorders whose manifestations range from muscle weakness to organ failure.

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 prevention of severe early infections is also important in order to reduce the incidence of life - threatening pneumonia or bronchiolitis, which can lead to severe untreatable chronic disease in adulthood, in addition to immediate severe morbidity associated with the infection itself [16, 18, 19].

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.

FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- The media often portrays women with the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia as untreatable, and sadly, in about one - third of cases that may be true, new research suggests.

Nevertheless, the possibility that we can reduce symptoms of untreatable neurological disorders through modifying dietary composition is quite incredible; that a ketogenic diet may benefit physical and cognitive performance in healthy individuals is an even more tantalizing idea.

Despite the common belief that pain in pregnancy is normal or untreatable, physical therapists specializing in pregnancy are experts at correcting the causes of pain and empowering women with exercise and self - care techniques.

Despite the common belief that pain in pregnancy is normal or untreatable,...