Drought and heavy rainfall events can make drinking water vulnerable to contamination and can ruin agriculture, leading to increases in incidents of water - borne
infections and diseases like cholera, as well as malnutrition and hunger when damaged farms fail to provide enough crops for the people who rely on them.
Through our Guardian Angel Program, thousands of animals each year are treated for various
infections and diseases like heartworm, bordetella and upper respiratory, as well as treatment of injuries such as broken legs, torn ligaments, physical therapy and more.
Not exact matches
Across the provinces
and territories, vaccination rates for preventable
diseases like influenza, pertussis (whooping cough)
and pneumococcal (pneumonia)
infections are well below national immunization uptake targets of around 80 percent.
How the healthcare
and medical research industries respond to threats
like the escalating occurrence of unique viral
infections, deadly cancers,
and neurodegenerative
diseases like Alzheimer's
and Parkinson's, which have vexed scientists for generations.
how many of you with neurological conditions
like autism, multiple sclerosis, etc, have actually gotten tested for lyme
disease, mycoplasma, herpes viruses,
and other tick borne
infections?
People were claiming that virgin coconut oil was healing many of their
diseases, from diabetes, to antibiotic resistant pathogens, to heart
disease, to thyroid
diseases, to digestive
diseases, to fungal
infections like Candida, to neurological
diseases like Alzheimer's: people were reporting tremendous health improvement
and even cures to these
diseases.
Blueberries softens dry skin, boosts your brain, fight urinary tract
infections, may even prevent cancer
and lower risk of age related
diseases like Alzheimer's
disease.
Research indicates that breastfeeding is beneficial for both you
and your baby — you experience lower risk of ovarian cancer, postpartum depression, breast cancer
and diabetes, while your baby receives all the good nutrients
and also has a lower risk of
diseases like diabetes, obesity, asthma
and lower respiratory
infections.
«Breast milk contains many of the same beneficial bacteria found in a woman's vagina,
and breastfeeding infants are less likely than those consuming formula to develop respiratory
and gastrointestinal
infections and allergies as well as chronic
diseases like diabetes, obesity
and inflammatory bowel
disease.»
Milk banks are a little
like blood banks in that they carefully screen donors; milk is safely processed
and shipped to NICUs where it lowers the risk of
infection and deadly
diseases.
Today it's important to get your child vaccinated to protect them from dangerous
diseases and infections like meningitis.
We diagnose
and treat kids with a range of kidney problems
like urinary tract
infections, structural abnormalities, cystic kidney
disease and renal failure.
Not only does spacing out vaccines leave kids vulnerable to
infections for longer than necessary — putting them at risk of exposure to
diseases like measles
and whooping cough while they wait to be vaccinated — but they also require more frequent visits to a doctor's office where they could catch other
diseases as well.
Research indicates that feeding your baby human milk helps ensure he / she receives proper nourishment
and is protected from
diseases like lower respiratory
infections, asthma, obesity
and type 2 diabetes.
The list for your baby includes improved immunity
and respiratory health associated with a 50 % SIDS reduction, fewer allergies, asthma,
and ear
infections, a better vaccine response,
and reduction of chronic
diseases like Crohn's
and Diabetes.
For the study, the investigators calculated the current costs of 10 pediatric
diseases for which there is evidence of a protective effect of breastfeeding — including eczema, middle - ear
infections, lower respiratory tract
infections like pneumonia, asthma, type 1 diabetes
and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
When
diseases like cancer
and AIDS are impacting millions of people each year
and rare but deadly
infections like Ebola are moving faster than treatment, the race to make effective drugs becomes a sprint.
If we are looking for the real engine for
infection — the driver of the
disease factory, if you
like — we have to understand what human - to - human transmission is,
and how it turns an animal
disease into a human one.
Along with mosquitoes, ticks, mice,
and other carriers are likewise surviving milder winters
and fanning out across the country, spreading an encyclopedia of pathogens: Lyme
disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, equine encephalitis, St. Louis encephalitis, anaplasmosis,
and babesiosis, a once uncommon malaria -
like infection in the United States.
Beard explained that Zika
infections,
like almost all
diseases spread by mosquitoes, hinge on two variables: infected hosts
and capable carriers.
But we think these
infections have spilled over from a
disease reservoir among domestic dogs, or common wild carnivores
like badgers
and foxes.»
Diarrhoea, gastrointestinal problems
and respiratory
infections can be common,
and children who have been unable to get all their vaccinations may be vulnerable to
diseases like measles.
Researchers targeting colorectal cancer stem cells — the root cause of
disease, resistance to treatment
and relapse — have discovered a mechanism to mimic a virus
and potentially trigger an immune response to fight the cancer
like an
infection.
Hidden
infections are now thought to be the basis of still other stubbornly elusive ills
like chronic fatigue syndrome, Gulf War syndrome, multiple sclerosis, lupus, Parkinson's
disease,
and types of cancer.
Notably, research groups might be able to apply the approach described in this study to develop treatments for other blood
diseases such as β - thalassemia, severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), chronic granulomatous
disease, rare disorders
like Wiskott - Aldrich syndrome
and Fanconi anemia,
and even HIV
infection.
Their location
and structure provide the ideal environment for bacterial growth,
infection or viral deposition, often leading to
diseases like chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS).
Now, this thinning of the adrenal gland cortex was a very unusual abnormality for us, that has not been previously reported in dolphins in the literature... now, aside from chemical exposure, conditions that can cause the adrenal gland to become thin include things
like cancer, autoimmune
disease, fungal
infections and tuberculosis.
According to Dr. Rosamilia, early treatment not only can reduce the pain
and severity of the
disease, but also can help prevent potential side effects
like eye problems,
infection,
and a condition called post-herpetic neuralgia, which causes pain, numbness, itching
and tingling.
At the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, then at the University of California, Irvine,
and since 2001 as director of the Center for
Infection and Immunity at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Lipkin has developed groundbreaking techniques that have helped a new generation of
disease detectives sleuth out the infectious roots of mystery ills, chronic
disease,
and neuropsychiatric disorders
like autism
and OCD.
Like anthrax, diphtheria
and botulism, C. diff
infection is a toxin - mediated
disease.
The solution, developed by Haselton
and colleagues at Vanderbilt University, was the extractionator, a tool that keeps body fluids sterile while tiny magnets extract
disease biomarkers,
like proteins or bits of DNA, that can be the telltale sign of an
infection.
That finding suggests that the immune - related genes of the ancient Tsimshian were well - adapted to local
diseases but not to novel
infections like smallpox
and measles, the team reports today in Nature Communications.
An overreactive immune system helps fend off
infections, but it could also explain why we suffer from immune - system
diseases like bronchial asthma, chronic hepatitis,
and type I diabetes, which don't affect chimps.
Infection rates of
diseases like malaria, dengue fever
and West Nile virus are likely to rise as a warming climate creates more mosquito - friendly habitats
Spread of infectious
diseases in healthcare settings adds billions of dollars to healthcare costs in the U.S. Infectious
diseases like influenza, antibiotic - resistant bacteria,
and C. difficile can spread when
infection control measures are insufficient or if recommendations are not followed.
And in 1923, one patient developed a serious heart
infection,
like some young animals with the
disease.
Using a model of Parkinson's
disease in which the toxin MPTP, made famous in book «The Case of the Frozen Addicts,» induces Parkinson's -
like symptoms in humans
and mice, Dr. Smeyne showed that mice infected with H1N1, even long after the initial
infection, had more severe Parkinson's symptoms than those who had not been infected with the flu.
In developed countries, though, the combination might benefit children
and adults whose immune systems are impaired because of cancer treatment or
diseases like AIDS
and who are vulnerable to rotavirus
infections.
This discovery, details of which have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), opens the door to new ways to treat patients with septic shock caused by viral or bacterial
infection as well as people with auto - immune
diseases like rheumatoid arthritis
and lupus.
After
infection, some healthy people experience a month or more of flu -
like symptoms, but the
disease can cause seizures
and potentially fatal encephalitis in the immunocompromised, including patients receiving transplants, those with HIV / AIDS, cancer patients, the elderly,
and young children.
It explains why the
disease waxes
and wanes
like a chronic
infection.
Through this research, a rough account is emerging of how HERV - W could trigger
diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder,
and MS.. Although the body works hard to keep its ERVs under tight control,
infections around the time of birth destabilize this tense standoff.
The team also investigated the risk of
infection while taking into account the duration of current or former statin use, 90 - day cumulative dose,
and specific sub-groups of patients who were prescribed statins for different chronic conditions
like previous myocardial infarction, peripheral arterial
disease, chronic heart failure, chronic kidney
disease,
and diabetes.
This finding, recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), creates a promising avenue for the development of innovative strategies to treat a wide variety of
diseases and hospital - acquired
infections like pneumonia, bloodstream
and urinary tract
infection.
The mRNAs are delivered to the body
and direct cells to produce
and express both antigenic proteins on the cell surface, much
like a native
infection would do but without the ability to cause
disease or spread.
The mRNA directs cells to produce
and express the proteins on the cell surface, much
like a native
infections would do, but without the ability to cause
disease.
The vaccines deliver mRNA encoding for hemagglutinin to the body's cells, directing them to produce
and express this viral antigenic protein transiently on the cell's surface, much
like a native
infection would do, but without the ability to cause
disease.
Evaluations of an inactivated whole virus vaccine in ferrets
and nonhuman primates
and a virus -
like - particle vaccine in mice induced protection against
infection but challenged animals exhibited an immunopathologic - type lung
disease.
There are currently no vaccines available for any fungal
infection, which can be extremely deadly to patients under treatment for
diseases like HIV, AIDS
and cancer.
Since the early signs of
disease are common childhood issues
like ear
infections and learning disorders, the
disease is usually not immediately recognized,» Esko said.