Sentences with phrase «most challenging diseases»

About Merck Animal Health For more than a century, Merck, a leading global biopharmaceutical company, has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases.

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That last step is the most important, but also one of the most challenging because «when you try to sample a large population of people who you already know have a certain disease, like cancer, it's really difficult to pinpoint all the different biomarkers that will make you fairly sure of the person's illness is detected regardless of environmental conditions,» he says.

Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time.

«This is one of the most common and difficult caregiving challenges that adult kids face,» says Donna Cohen, Ph.D. a clinical psychologist and author of «The Loss of Self: A Family Resource for the Care of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders.»

Findings of the research, published April 22 in the journal Mucosal Immunology, reveal that a substance found in animal and human breast milk called epidermal growth factor, or EGF, blocks the activation of a protein responsible for unlocking the damaging immune cascade that culminates in NEC, a disease marked by the swift and irreversible death of intestinal tissue that remains one of the most - challenging - to - treat conditions.

I strongly believe that some of the most serious challenges in the way of prevention and / or control of diarrhoeal diseases in children and infants are false customary beliefs.

The scientific rationale for ORT, and for continued feeding during diarrhoea, has been established beyond doubt: The challenge now is to place that knowledge in the hands of parents so that they themselves can protect their children against the dehydration and malnutrition caused by childhood's most common disease.

The charity said this was «particularly concerning» as most of these experiments studied human diseases which do not exist in non-human primates, such as Parkinson's Disease, and this they suggested «significantly challenges» the validity of the tests.

Most patients live in suburban and rural areas, have impaired mobility and driving ability, and are faced with the challenge of making frequent trips to the doctor's office — a task that becomes more difficult as the disease progresses.

It has been challenging to study liver cirrhosis, also called end - stage liver disease, because most animals used in experiments do not develop the disease.

Reducing the disease burden by reducing open defecation is extremely challenging because, due to villagers» ideas about purity, pollution and caste, most people reject affordable latrines.

Those on diets, for example, often prefer not to look at the number of calories in a tasty dessert, people at high risk for a disease avoid screening tests that could give them a definite answer, and most consumers of news choose sources that align with rather than challenge their political ideology.

Prof. Maria Luisa Brandi MD, Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Florence, Italy, lead author and Chair of the IOF Working Group on Skeletal Rare Diseases stated, «Due to the rarity of these diseases diagnosis is a challenge, and most patients — who are often children — currently have few choices when it comes to therapy.

Interrupting the spread of TB can be particularly challenging in countries most affected by the disease.

Understanding its molecular causes and risk factors has been challenging because most cases develop sporadically without inherited genetic mutations, and because of the gradual progression of symptoms over the course of disease.

Many of our most intractable health challenges, from heart disease to cancer, have a genetic component.

Since most men with prostate cancer have indolent (non-aggressive) disease for which conservative therapy or surveillance would be appropriate treatment, the clinical challenge is not only how to identify those with prostate cancer, but also how to distinguish those who would benefit from surgical or other aggressive treatment from those who would not.

Understanding and effectively treating Alzheimer's disease and other dementias may be the most difficult challenge for the medical / scientific community this century.

I have the privilege and responsibility to provide strategic vision and leadership to an outstanding team of scientists focused on one of the most crucial biomedical challenges of our time: How do we alter the aging process in order to prevent, delay, or cure the chronic diseases that afflict almost all of us as we grow older?

With the support of the Wellcome Trust, MORU studies and combats some of the most challenging tropical diseases affecting people in the developing world.

«[These] findings from the most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease are challenging much of American dietary dogma.»

The Leadership Council is an advisory group of distinguished individuals who are dedicated to advancing the mission of The Wistar Institute — to solve some of the world's most challenging and important problems in the fields of cancer, immunology and infectious diseases, and produce groundbreaking advances in world health.

Recognizing that communicable diseases and neglected tropical diseases disproportionately affect countries with evolving healthcare systems, Takeda is collaborating with partners to expedite access to its potentially life - saving vaccine candidates, which address some of today's most challenging infectious diseases.

The mission of The Wistar Institute is to marshal the talents of outstanding scientists through a highly - enabled culture of biomedical collaboration and innovation, in order to solve some of the world's most challenging and important problems in the field of cancer, immunology, and infectious diseases, and produce groundbreaking advances in world health.

Esophageal cancer is the eighth most common form of cancer worldwide and treatment of this disease continues to be a major medical challenge.

«The conglomerate of non-communicable diseases all related to eating habits and sedentary life - styles with its impact on health equity is the most important health challenge.

P. falciparum population genetic approaches offer promising tools for understanding transmission and spread of the disease, but a high prevalence of multi-clone or polygenomic infections can render estimation of even the most basic parameters, such as allele frequencies, challenging.

Jan. 22, 2015 — Progress against America's most intractable health challenges, among them heart disease, cancer and diabetes, requires the best minds, the latest tools and the easy collaboration demanded by 21st century science.

Most of you know about my (not so fun) journey with Hashimoto's, a challenging autoimmune disease.

Most women with PCOS deal with multiple health challenges, including insulin resistance, infertility, obesity and increased risk for heart disease.

For many of these patients, lifestyle interventions can change their disease trajectory,8 - 9 yet lifestyle change remains a challenge for most clinicians and patients.10 - 14

The combination of heat stress, dehydration, and exercise imposes perhaps the most - severe physiological challenge for the human body short of disease or serious bleeding (10).

Convincing patients to modify their diets and abandon unhealthy, disease - causing habits is one of the most challenging aspects of being a physician.

«In her latest film Still Alice, she faces one of her most demanding and challenging roles as Alice, a woman diagnosed with Early - Onset Alzheimer's Disease.

Mathematicians are addressing some of our world's most urgent challenges — including tackling climate change, modelling disease transmission and solving the human genome sequence.

With the nation's population aging at an unprecedented rate, three new books help seniors (and near - seniors) get a jump on the physical and emotional challenges of growing older.Alzheimer's disease is undoubtedly the affliction of aging that scares people the most.

Miles says 44 % say managing chronic conditions is the most important patient navigation challenge they face: in addition to dealing with their own chronic conditions, many also are caregiving for aging parents or other loved ones that may be afflicted with one or more chronic conditions, such as diabetes, cancer or heart disease

Liver disease is one of the most challenging groups of conditions to treat and manage.

Our presenters will also address some of the most important challenges in shelters today: infectious disease control, maximizing the veterinarian's role in protecting health and welfare of shelter pets, and development of standard operating protocols that assure quality control and accountability in shelter care.

The most common cause of death in calves before weaning is respiratory disease.1 Are your calves protected against respiratory disease challenges?

How to Best Help Canine Mobility Challenges Most puppies don't experience mobility challenges, but as dogs get older, disease, injury, or just plain aging can takeChallenges Most puppies don't experience mobility challenges, but as dogs get older, disease, injury, or just plain aging can takechallenges, but as dogs get older, disease, injury, or just plain aging can take its toll.

As with most other medical and behavioral challenges we manage in animal populations, prevention of feline heartworm disease is easier, cheaper and more humane than awaiting the development of disease and trying to create a treatment plan in a resource - scarce environment.

The company will optimize investment to focus on future dairy innovations that address the most challenging issues and diseases farmers face in their herds today.

«We found that most of cats, except for those with neurological disease, can be put into clinical remission quickly with antiviral treatment, but achieving long - term remission is challenging with chronic cases.

Some of the most challenging disorders are heart diseases.

Genetic diseases are among the most serious hazards on the landscape of modern dog breeding and one of the most vexing challenges facing today»s dog breeders.

One of the most challenging aspects of diagnosing heartworms in cats is that there are no definitive clinical signs that directly indicate the existence of cat heartworm disease.

Periodontal disease is the single greatest challenge in dentistry and it is the most frequently seen condition in the veterinary hospital.

The diagnosis and treatment of pet allergy, ear, and skin disease can be one of the most challenging and frustrating areas of veterinary medicine.

Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time.