Sentences with phrase «of early disease»

Annual blood work the cornerstone of early disease diagnosis.

We've been talking to our clients for years about the importance of early disease screening in our senior pets.

Subtle signs of early disease, including redness, make it difficult to detect a problem at home until the disease is more advanced.

«New imaging technique able to watch molecular dynamics of neurodegenerative diseases: Novel imaging approach could improve molecular - scale understanding of early disease stages.»

Furthermore, the levels of Runx2 expression among a larger group of 351 newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients were significantly higher in patients who had a high risk of early disease - related death, as compared with lower - risk patients.

The findings inform families that the risk of earlier disease is not passed on to the next generations.

Not exact matches

«It is our hope that by targeting people earlier, we will have a better chance of delaying or preventing the onset of the disease,» said BAI director Dr. Pierre N. Tariot in a statement.

Darzalex, however, has not yet reached its peak potential as the drug moves into earlier stages of the disease and is being tested on solid tumours like lung cancer.

Biden also used his own family's history to illustrate the importance of detecting disease earlier.

Furthermore, an early - stage study pumping up the dose of its hemophilia A treatment — which aims to be a one - time therapy for the rare blood clotting - related disease — appeared to hit its targets without serious side effects.

Traditional lab companies like Quest have also started talking about using blood tests for a personalized medicine approach to the early detection of diseases.

Clinton intervened in the Zika virus crisis in early August, joining many Republican and Democratic officials from Florida in demanding that Congress cut short its summer recess and pass the $ 1.1 billion spending bill to help combat the spread of the dreaded disease in the continental United States.

Beyond the health benefits, early diagnosis can be financially valuable — by preventing more costly treatment of advanced diseases.

Shares of biotech Spark Therapeutics rose 4.5 % in early Monday trading after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to review its gene therapy for vision loss patients who have vision loss due to a rare genetic condition called biallelic RPE65 - mediated inherited retinal disease (IRD).

Similarly, early action to reduce exposure to fine particle pollution helped avoid thousands of premature deaths from heart and lung disease.

Precision medicine is the «cure» piece, but even that isn't possible if we don't move the intervention curve closer and accurately predict and prevent early enough in the progression of disease.»

There's also a South Korean study from a few years ago involving more than 25,000 people, which found that drinking moderate amounts of coffee each day was associated with having fewer of the early warning signs of heart disease.

The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.

In the long term, chronic sleep deprivation may lead to a host of health problems including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and even early mortality.»

Through talking to experts in the field over the past year, Gates said he had identified five areas of need: Understanding better how Alzheimer's unfolds, detecting and diagnosing it earlier, pursuing multiple approaches to trying to halt the disease, making it easier for people to take part in clinical trials of potential new medicines, and using data better.

As many as 646,000 people are dying globally from seasonal influenza each year, US health officials said in December, a rise from earlier assessments of the disease's death toll.

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.

Specifically, the process allows early approval of a drug to treat a serious or life - threatening disease based on clinical data.

By doing so, Theranos is working to facilitate the early detection and prevention of disease, and to empower people everywhere to live their best lives.

Our goal is to complement the current strategic interest of Chiesi Farmaceutici in the space of rare diseases by investing in early stage opportunities and accelerate the expansion of the Chiesi network in the US among universities, venture capital investors, rare disease patient organizations and start - ups developing treatments for rare diseases.

BioNTech hit the headlines in July when its experimental personalized cancer vaccine, tailored to the tumors of individual patients, kept disease in check in an early - stage clinical trial.

The promise of AI is great — from assisting healthcare providers in the early and more accurate detection of disease, to increasing yield and food production in agriculture; artificial intelligence technologies are already being deployed widely with the promise of benefitting humanity.

«I think of those people from the early days all the time,» says Tedd Ellerbrock, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

New advances in the world of sensors, chips, hardware devices, swallowable cameras, 3D printing, artificial organs, data mining technologies, and more could help us diagnose diseases earlier, provide better treatments to patients, and even ease things like chronic pain and depression.

To achieve this goal, several approaches are envisaged: identifying small populations with severe disease where a medicine's benefit - risk balance could be favorable; making more use of real - world data where appropriate to support clinical trial data; and involving health technology assessment bodies early in development to increase the chance that medicines will be recommended for payment and ultimately covered by national healthcare systems.

As of early this year, they're competing in psoriatic arthritis, too — and each drugmaker made its case this week with new data in that disease.

Katherine High, Spark's president and chief scientific officer, expressed her enthusiasm for the early clinical data related to SPK - 8011: «The encouraging start of our SPK - 8011 clinical trial reinforces the strength of our gene therapy platform, delivers human proof - of - concept in a second liver - mediated disease — a significant achievement in the gene therapy field — and positions us well to potentially transform the current treatment approach for this life - altering disease with a one - time intervention.»

Although Anavex Life Sciences» Alzheimer's disease program should offer up plenty of data to digest this year, its research program is very early stage, and the company's balance sheet is worrisome enough for me to avoid it until placebo - controlled trial results are available.

In this first article, a summary is given of how and where the banana export trades began, the early history of Panama disease, and the important effect that the disease had on the development of this industry.

We agree that alcoholism is not in any conventional sense a «disease»: That white lie gained ground in early Alcoholics Anonymous because it helped unburden the alcoholic of guilt and self - hatred at the outset of recovery, enabling him to perceive that his own sense of powerlessness was not the last word.

My assumption is that the world's most knowledgeable man might have passed on some of that knowledge to help people prevent diseases and dying much too early.

A married retired man who finds his wife sexually unattractive tracks down a college girlfriend, a widow in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, and the two begin a passionate affair.

Half are for various forms of cancer; the other half represent a cluster of rare diseases, including early - onset Alzheimer's.

The apostles in the early church times knew the will of God — that the sick and suffering were to have prayer offered for them, and that the Lord would cure their diseases» (p. 26).

As was suggested earlier, those born near the turn of the century have seen within it amazing advances — not only in science, technology, and increased knowledge, but in the conquest of disease with the prolongation of life, an increase in the recognition of race and sex equality with accompanying legal steps; manifold ministries of welfare to the poor, the young, and the elderly; a growing concern for civil rights in many of its facets.

As a young man, riding his horse one day outside of Assisi, Francis came upon a leper, a person suffering from one of the many skin diseases common in the early 13th century.

She suffered in her adult years with lupus, an anti-immune disease that ultimately took her life at the early age of 37.

And for couples who carry rare genetic diseases, screening of embryos now allows them to pick the ones that won't grow up with cystic fibrosis or early onset Alzheimers.

Their loneliness, drunkenness, disease, the early deaths of or abandonment by their fathers, the tauntings and beatings they took from their schoolmates: These and other blows became the fundamental truths about the world and the stuff of their poetry.

(Over 90 percent of abortions take place much earlier in a woman's pregnancy, before 14 weeks, based on Centers for Disease Control data.)

I was in the hospital for 2 weeks... i caught it early enough that i missed the worst of the disease but required physio and occupational therapy to cope with the lingering numbness in my hands and feet to perform everyday tasks and my strength and balance is coming back.

awanderingscot, what if very early in the process they realize that teh baby will be born with a terrible genetic disease that will ensure it dies as a child and only after a short life of horrible suffereing.

My hunch is that these emotions usually come early in the disease, during the first struggles with the reality of chronic illness.

In central Africa during the early «90s, AIDS threatened to become a disease of the middle and upper - middle classes, decimating the skilled trades and professions.

(Credo Mutwa, a leader of traditional healers, appeared in the Cape Argus recently speaking of ancient practices involving voluntary quarantine, which he claimed defeated earlier waves of venereal disease introduced by colonial forces.)