Sentences with phrase «of response to any disease»

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Throw in the complexities and heterogeneities of an evolving disease of genetic mutation, such as cancer, and the drug response from one person to the next can be even more variable.)

The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»

For the one in four Canadians who suffer from respiratory disease (at least 40 % of whom experience allergic responses that can worsen their conditions), controlling scent in the workplace can greatly improve their lives, not to mention productivity.

It creates a biological response, Murthy says, that leads to chronic inflammation, damaged tissue and blood vessels, and an increased risk of heart disease, arthritis and diabetes.

Coffee consumption was also consistently associated with significantly lower risk of gallstone disease.25 A non-linear dose response was also apparent, though risk sequentially reduced as consumption increased from two to six cups a day.25 High versus low consumption was associated with a marginally higher risk of gastro - oesophageal reflux disease, but this did not reach significance.64

Its emergency response team responds to an average of 30 natural disasters and humanitarian crises worldwide each year from earthquakes and cyclones to disease outbreaks and civil conflict.

When the Opposition leader noted in the House of Commons, in 2012, that a federal study had shown that Canada was falling prey to «Dutch disease» (named after the 1960s oil boom, which devastated other exports in the Netherlands), Conservative MP Kellie Leitch offered the government's response: «The leader of the Opposition wants to call Canadian employers a disease.»

Many Christians in the Twitterverse and in other online spaces also expressed disapproval of Robertson's comments, which came in response to a viewer of his «700 Club» TV show asking about a friend who started dating another women after his wife developed Alzheimer's disease.

Eventually he suggested that the symptoms he witnessed in these hospital patients were not a reaction to a specific agent of disease but were a general response to stress.

If, according to the Church, condoms are not the solution, what then is a proper response that respects the dignity of all persons affected by the disease?

In response to a petition submitted by the American Heart Association, the FDA has amended the regulation about the relationship between dietary saturated fat and cholesterol and the risk of coronary heart disease.

Many are now literally feeling the effects of such macronutrient skew either due to gluten sensitivity (or it could be due to another grain protein; we now realize that immunologic reactivity in celiac disease may not be limited to wheat gluten, but can involve certain nongluten proteins, too, see Nongluten wheat proteins triggered immune response in celiac patients), fructose malabsorption, or some other food intolerance / sensitivity).

Coeliac disease is an auto - immune condition where the body acts abnormally in response to exposure to gluten, damaging the lining of the small bowel.

This happened to me last Friday and as I scurried into go - mode and benefited from the cool, calm, and collected response of various people — and the nervous OMG YOU ARE DISEASE RIDDEN energy of others — I realized that there is way more to dealing with lice than nit picking (as important as that task is).

These facts result in high levels of stress, resulting in adrenaline responses such as distractibility, anxiety, irritability, the reduced ability to fight disease and illness, fatigue, and sleep disturbances.

Causes of obesity This is in response to «Fat's in fire about obesity as a disease» (Chicagoland Health and Family, July 3).

- Why breastfeeding protects maternal health - Basic concepts of breast differentiation, lactogenesis, and lactation - Basic overview of the human stress response - Introduction to psychoneuroimmunology and the immunology of pregnancy and postpartum - Lactational stress resistance - Breastfeeding, mental health, and the risk of cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome - Breastfeeding and immunity - Implications of an anti-inflammatory response to enhancing the health effects of breastfeeding throughout women's lives

In addition to providing protection against infections that may promote atopic disease, breast - feeding also promotes the establishment of an intestinal microbiota that may protect against atopic disease, possibly by stimulating tolerogenic cytokines, such as TGF - β, or stimulating a Th1 response (47).

Longer duration of breastfeeding has also been shown to significantly improve a child's immune response to infectious disease.

Using a data set from the Centers for Disease Control, Spitzmueller and her team examined survey responses from 859 women returning to work to see if their work experiences were predictors of their breastfeeding decisions.

Fueling speculation that he will run, Diaz was critical of the de Blasio administration's response to the Legionnaires» disease outbreak in the South Bronx last summer, and his campaign has started soliciting contributions that are the maximum a person can accept for a mayoral run.

According to him, the ministry immediately sent its Rapid Response Team, RRT, which consisted three Doctors, Disease Notification Officers, DNOs, and an Epidemiologist to examine the victim and take sample of his blood.

Moreover, in 2002, the Government produced an Organic Action Plan as part of its Strategy for Sustainable Farming and Food, drawn up in response to the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease epidemic.

There was also a jarring response from developer and school board member Carl Paladino saying what he'd like to see in 2017 is that Barak Obama would die of Mad Cow disease and Michelle Obama would move to Africa and live in a cave with a gorilla.

As a result of the shockingly poor response, thousands of Nigerians are currently exposed to hunger and the outbreak of disease.

Gjonaj's quick response to the threat of Legionnaire's Disease to vulnerable residents was laudable.

Stringer has hit de Blasio intermittently through the first three years of his mayoralty, for everything from his handling of the universal prekindergarten program to his response to last summer's Legionnaire's disease outbreak.

The NHF, one of 18 - country - based, pooled funds which allows donors to pool their contributions for a stronger and timelier response to the needs of those most affected by the ongoing crisis, including millions who face a high risk of food insecurity and disease outbreaks.

The city's response to the deadly outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the South Bronx became the subject of the latest clash between Mayor Bill de Blasio and Comptroller Scott Stringer, as Mr. Stringer accused the city of having had a «laid - back attitude» toward the disease when the first fatalities began to appear late last month.

The Center for Health, Environment and Justice will soon begin advocating for environmental pollution to receive the same type of government response as that done for infectious diseases or mass cases of food contamination.

The city's response to Legionnaires» disease has had its critics — many of them people who have routinely clashed with Mr. de Blasio, including Congressman Hakeem Jeffries and Comptroller Scott Stringer.

His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama met with his team of Ministers coordinating Ghana's response to the Ebola Viral Disease on 13th August, 2014.

Speakers at this event addressed the development of the adolescent brain, the diseases and learning difficulties that seem to correlate with adolescence, and the policy initiatives undertaken by the federal government in response.

Rapid breakthroughs in genetic research, advances in molecular biology, and new reproductive technologies are enhancing our understanding of and responses to genetically inherited diseases.

The researchers will be looking to correlate AR - V7 with response to galeterone and to see what effect the drug has on the length of time patients survive without their disease progressing.

Sacks says the techniques his team used to measure the levels of the two HDL subclasses, which Harvard is patenting, could lead to more precise tests to evaluate heart disease risk and treatment response.

They also believe that by measuring a patient's dark adaptation response time they have developed a tool that can help track the onset or progression of the disease as well as measure the effectiveness of drugs that are in development to treat the disease early on.

Speakers included Dimitri Prybylski of the U.S. - based Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Namibia office, who was involved in coordinating the international response to the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa; Markus Theobald of the EU Delegation to Namibia in Windhoek; and Pierguido Sarti, Italian science attaché to South Africa, Namibia, and other southern African countries.

Hot nights make for bad sleep, according to a study combining responses to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sleep survey of 765,000 U.S. residents from 2002 to 2011 with data on nighttime temperatures during that period.

A new study strongly suggests that the brains of people who have died of Huntington's disease (HD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) show a similar response to a lifetime of neurodegeneration, despite being two very distinct diseases.

«This is a promising approach to the fast response to disease, and could help counteract the negative impact of these conspiracy theories in future.»

«If we learn how to control dendritic cells, we could strengthen our immune response to infection when needed, or weaken the action of certain immune cells that attack the body's own tissues in autoimmune disease.»

With our human gut - on - a-chip, we can not only culture the normal gut microbiome for extended times, but we can also analyze contributions of pathogens, immune cells, and vascular and lymphatic endothelium, as well as model specific diseases to understand complex pathophysiological responses of the intestinal tract.»

The current study also touches on a much - debated aspect of neurodegeneration — the inflammatory response, which ultimately seems to worsen the disease.

Now the researchers set out to identify markers of HD in non-neural tissues that could be used to track the progression of the disease and its response to P110 or other candidate drugs.

The ability to counteract inflammation in the lungs by utilising the combined anti-inflammatory and reparative properties of MSCs could potentially reduce the inflammatory response in individuals with chronic lung disease whilst also restoring lung function in these patients.

Of these nine patients, 100 percent either had stable disease or had a partial response to the treatment used in this study.

The researchers discovered that patients who had certain genetic variations in interleukin genes had a better response to either surgery or chemotherapy, resulting in improvements in overall survival, disease - free survival and the amount of time until disease recurred.

Scientists use cancer biomarkers to predict a patient's risk of developing cancer, their prognosis and response to therapy and their chance of disease recurrence.

All had levels of residual disease that indicated a poor initial response to chemotherapy alone, including nine with MRD levels of 25 percent or more.