Sentences with phrase «of challenging diseases»

«Today's approval marks another first in the field of gene therapy — both in how the therapy works and in expanding the use of gene therapy beyond the treatment of cancer to the treatment of vision loss — and this milestone reinforces the potential of this breakthrough approach in treating a wide - range of challenging diseases,» FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement.

In new research, scientists reprogrammed skin cells from patients with rare blood disorders into iPSCs, highlighting the great promise of these cells in advancing understanding of those challenging diseases — and eventually in treating them.

«Today's approval marks another first in the field of gene therapy — both in how the therapy works and in expanding the use of gene therapy beyond the treatment of cancer to the treatment of vision loss — and this milestone reinforces the potential of this breakthrough approach in treating a wide - range of challenging diseases,» FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement.

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During the session, a trio of experts discussed the opportunities and challenges of a more globalized world, including cross-border clinical trials, the spread of disease and emerging pathogens and managing supply chains.

The project's launch featured a prominent ALS patient and research advocate: Pat Quinn, co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, an initially - derided social media stunt that went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for ALS research and may have spurred important new discoveries about the disease's genetic roots.

This San Francisco - based startup is a group of scientists and engineers working to develop new technologies for people with Essential Tremor and Parkinson's disease, a demographic that includes millions of people whose hands shake so much that just getting food into their mouths is a challenge.

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.

But aside from raising awareness and more than $ 20 million for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, over the past month, the challenge also may be unleashing a new model for the $ 300 billion - a-year business of charitable giving.

Developing disease - resistance and increasing crop yields are only part of the solution to the world's food challenges, of course.

Glen Macdonald, president of the Wealth & Giving Forum, said there could even be a backlash against the bucket challenge because the serious message of a disease is getting lost in all the stunts and videos.

Venter reiterated this sentiment: «Using the combined power of our core areas of expertise — genomics, informatics, and stem cell therapies, we are tackling one of the greatest medical / scientific and societal challenges — aging and aging related diseases,» he said in a statement.

Back in September, Google announced that it had invested in a company called Calico, which also focuses on the «challenge of aging and associated diseases.»

Now, Google has invested in a company called Calico, which it says will focus on health and well - being — in particular, the «challenge of aging and associated diseases.»

In 2015, the viral «Ice Bucket Challenge» helped fund groundbreaking research that led to the discovery of a gene associated with the disease.

These exchanges bring fresh ideas, new perspectives and different ways of approaching problems, which are all catalysts for the innovation which fuels the economy and help us meet global challenges, ranging from climate change to fossil fuel dependence and infectious diseases.

The video is part of the Ice Bucket Challenge, launched by the ALS Foundation to raise money for fighting ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

At the Challenge Festival, startups like as BaseTrace, which «uses DNA - based tracers to track where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments» and Reliefwatch, a cloud - based system that uses smartphone technology to track inventory and diseases for healthcare organizations in the developing world, battled it out on stage for a grand prize of $ 150,000 in investment.

Years ago, when Mass Design was in the early stages of planning and designing Butaro Hospital in the Burera District of Rwanda, it faced a serious design challenge: To reduce the transmission of airborne diseases like TB.

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.

«Using the combined power of our core areas of expertise — genomics, informatics, and stem cell therapies, we are tackling one of the greatest medical / scientific and societal challenges — aging and aging related diseases,» said Dr. Venter.

It's part of Leprosy Mission's Feet First project, which is challenging people to go barefoot for a day or more to raise money to provide protective sandals for people with the disease.

The challenge is urgent because more than 31,000 people in the United States have already been diagnosed with this fatal disease — half of whom have already died, leaving families, friends and loved ones who need care — and because at least 1.5 million Americans are thought to be carrying the rapidly spreading virus.

Strat believed that we must make a careful and credible case for discerning the meaning of the challenges thrown up by the mainstream secular culture: «There is a place and a time for making a stand, but there is also a place and a time for considered reflection, especially if there may be some hope of attacking the disease at its root.

This approach invokes the moral cure before treatment begins and challenges the whole notion that heavy drinkers are out of control or lose control because of a disease.

He is also the author of Unlimited Love (Templeton Foundation Press, 2003) and The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).

It must fruit in action to challenge and overcome the evils of society with its poverty, ignorance and disease, its wars and destructive conflicts, its prejudice, oppression, chicanery and quest for profit and power, its insensitivity to the deep needs of persons.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

Some say it patronizingly, reminding me of doctors who've suggested all I need is a Percocet, while others say it with a challenge, as if I ought to whip out my diseased entrails to prove I'm unwell.

BARS will assist CSIRO to deliver on its commitment to increase food production in cropping and livestock systems, improve drought tolerance and disease resistance, and improve nutritional values to meet the challenges of the future.

I'm making it for a dinner party where one of my best friends has Coeliac disease and so it's been challenging to find something delicious that everyone will enjoy.

Even seemingly simple gluten - free issues — such as defining celiac disease and gluten - sensitivity and understanding the range of potentially gluten - containing ingredients — can be challenging for retailers and their customers.

would LOVE to try this flour for bread - baking for myself and my family; we have type 1 diabetes along with Celiac disease so I do a LOT of cooking and baking at home and love to share recipes with all my patients who have gluten and diabetes challenges as well (I am also a Nutritionist and diabetes educator)

I lost my 52 yr old aunt to colon cancer as a result of celiac disease and it has been my mission ever since to provide great treats to celiac diagnosed people!!!! It has been very challenging and yes even me as a trained chefâ $ ¦..

Australia's challenge throughout the remainder of the 21st century is reconciling the economic imperative of developing our energy resources to meet the ever - increasing Asian energy market, with the need to maintain our energy security and develop an Australian economy that is shielded from the damaging effects of Dutch disease.

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The aim of the Ice Bucket Challenge is to raise awareness of the neurodegenerative disease, motor neurone disease.

A study released in the Archives of Disease in Childhood revealed that breastfeeding may be helpful in improving a child's chances of climbing the social ladder and effectively navigating other challenges that may occur as adults.

«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.»

Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for Children established the Office of Community Health Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevention.

Certainly some of these are involved, as may be excessive processing of foods, drug residues in foods and water, now - common deficiencies in DHA and vitamin D, excessive hygiene, lack of challenging childhood diseases, and likely other nutritional and environmental causes we have yet to learn of.

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.

Bert Hirschhorn, an international editorial adviser since the start of the newsletter in 1980, looks at progress in the control of diarrhoeal diseases over the last 12 years and outlines future challenges.

CHRISTINE WOOD: Kids who start out with feeding challenges like from birth, if they have sever GERD, the Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease — what I kind of tell parents is: «Sometimes these kids never really learned to enjoy food.»

Because PCOS is a syndrome and not a disease, the combination of symptoms is unique in each case, making identification more challenging for health providers.

We work with those who are recovering from disability and disease, those who are working to overcome mental health challenges, those who need support with healthy living and lifestyle changes, and those who are experiencing barriers to being able to fully participate in the physical or social - emotional aspects of their workplace.

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.

Additional challenges include lasting disparities in smoking rates and chronic disease outcomes, rising STD rates, and persistent elevated rates of tick - borne illnesses compared with the rest of upstate New York.

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