Sentences with phrase «most debilitating diseases»

Outlawing the use of DDT condemned tens of millions to death and hundreds of millions to one of the most debilitating diseases still rampant in the less developed world.

The discovery of cannabinoids and the Endocannabinoid System has forced the scientific community to rethink how many of our most debilitating diseases function and how to treat them.

THE PROBLEM The discovery of cannabinoids and the Endocannabinoid System has forced the scientific community to rethink how many of our most debilitating diseases function and how to treat them.

With key strengths in advanced medical imaging, cell biology, genomics, immunology and stem cell biology, our scientists and their skilled staff conduct research on some of the most debilitating diseases of our time: heart disease and stroke, Alzheimer's, cancer, organ failure, diabetes and many others.

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The bottom line is that Gates gives this book his most enthusiastic endorsement, concluding: «I don't know how Kalanithi found the physical strength to write this book while he was so debilitated by the disease and then potent chemotherapy.

Washington suffered from a number of otherwise debilitating, painful ailments and diseases throughout his life that would have taken a lesser man down — but not the man who founded the most powerful country ever to grace the Earth.

The disease is characterized by the accumulation of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA) leading to a neurodegenerative disorder that is chronically debilitating and life - threatening, where the most affected tissues are the myelin in the central nervous system (CNS) and the adrenal cortex.

What started as the discovery of an unknown disease in Guam has spread to a line of ominous findings about some of our most debilitating conditions and potential toxins lurking in bodies of water around the world.

«I am a geneticist but I am also a veterinarian and having the ability to eliminate a disease as painful and debilitating as IVDD is the most satisfying result of my scientific career,» Bannasch said.

Among the most debilitating and stigmatized psychiatric diseases, schizophrenia can rob sufferers of their self and their future, often in early adulthood.

Osteoporosis is one of the most debilitating and disabling diseases that we know of.

Although there remains no cure for Alzheimer's, researchers hope that testing potential drugs or therapies prior to mental decline will prove to be more successful than previous attempts at finding the most effective treatment in the battle against the debilitating disease.

«The findings that we found most interesting were the microRNAs that reflect the extent of the neuron death in the brain, since it is this process that causes the debilitating symptoms of the disease and eventually leads to the death of the individual,» explained senior author Richard H. Myers, PhD, Director of the Genome Science Institute at BUSM.

MS is the most common neurological disorder afflicting young adults in Canada, with more than 50,000 people suffering from this debilitating disease.

The most devastating aspect of Parkinson's disease may not be its debilitating symptoms, which rob its victims of their ability to control their own movement.

San Francisco, CA — The most devastating aspect of Parkinson's disease may not be its debilitating symptoms, which rob its victims of their ability to control their own movement.

«They'd most likely be bedridden — it's a pretty debilitating disease.»

Kathleen, a triathlete who mysteriously became paralyzed with debilitating pain, began looking for answers to her health conditions, and those of her children who were also suffering from a list of chronic diseases and disorders — the most heartbreaking was her eldest son Stephen who was diagnosed with Autism at the age of four.

Osteoarthritis (OA)-- the most common form of arthritis — is a painful debilitating disease thought to be the inevitable result of aging and wear and tear.

Diabetes is a seriously debilitating disease that has many long - term effects you wouldn't wish on your enemies... why suffer these effects when you can reverse and even rid yourself of most, if not all, of them.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, but cancer may be the most - feared chronic illness in developed countries because of its relatively slow and painful debilitating process.

But since most Americans are consuming over three times that amount, majority of the excess sugar becomes metabolized into body fat — leading to all the debilitating chronic metabolic diseases many people are struggling with.

Some of the most debilitating symptoms in patients with chronic heart failure are related to the respiratory system, and improving the breathing pattern has potential favorable effects on patients with heart disease.

However horrible it most assuredly is in real life, dying of a debilitating disease often looks quite lovely in motion pictures.

Most people know that ticks transmit Lyme disease, a chronic and debilitating illness, but they also carry bacteria that lead to other acute illnesses, such as anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis.

Laminitis is one of the most serious and debilitating diseases afflicting horses.

Broadly described by most veterinarians as DJD (degenerative joint disease), dog arthritis is just as painful and debilitating as it is for people.

This is especially important to remember for young children, elderly or debilitated people, and people with immune system disorders or undergoing cancer chemotherapy, all of whom are most susceptible to zoonotic diseases.

Most dogs and cats consume these foods, which contain byproducts and materials rejected and condemned as unfit for human consumption, including the infamous «4 - D» meat from animals that are dead, dying, debilitated, or diseased.

Of all the unpleasant, debilitating tropical diseases lurking to infect the traveller, bilharzia is probably the one that causes most confusion.

Take the case of hookworm, an insidious, debilitating disease that ravaged poor communities in the United States in the early 1900s, and is rampant today in the most impoverished corners of the world.

The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks depression as the fourth most debilitating condition on earth... just below heart disease, cancer, and accidents.