Sentences with phrase «old diseases like»

Studying Teeth and Gums New and better treatments for old diseases like gum disease are as important in pets as in people.

Not exact matches

While most of the attention on pharmaceutical prices has been on new drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment.
He had consulted with the older counselors, who apparently retained some sense of political realities, if not actual memory of events in the reign of David; but he accepted the view of the young fellows of the court, his boon companions reared, like himself, in the diseased artificiality of the harem - infested court and doubtless for long anticipating the day when with his enthronement they should do as they pleased.
A rapacious man prospers, a generous man suffers tragedy; needed people die young, worthless scoundrels reach a ripe old age; some children are blessed from birth, others are cursed with idiocy or disease; of two families of like quality and conduct, one experiences habitual good fortune, the other continuous adversity.
The depravity of their cynicism astounds even a crusty old bird like me: If Golden Rice is a success and effectively reduces blindness, disease, and death caused by vitamin A deficiency in millions of rice consumers, it will pave the way for other GM food crops that may be healthier for people and good for the environment.
«I was never very good at pinball,» says the 7 - foot 35 - year - old, whose career was cut short in»03 by bilateral neuropathy, a foot disease, «but I always liked it.»
It is like giving your wife a divorce after you have grand - children just because she is no longer good looking or because she has an old age disease.
Some look toward shifts in demographics since the 1970s — especially with more moms being older than before and more likely to have conditions like obesity, diabetes or heart disease — to explain why things have changed since then.
Lemere's team looked at the effects of another complement protein in older Alzheimer's - like mice with advanced disease.
The findings were made by researchers from Oregon State University, who studied 15 - 20 million - year - old amber from the Dominican Republic that offer the oldest fossil evidence ever found of Borrelia, a type of spirochete - like bacteria that to this day causes Lyme disease.
The new technique, which yields cells resembling those found in older people's brains, will be a boon to scientists studying age - related diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
The «old friends hypothesis» proposes that the human immune system can not learn to regulate itself without exposure to common pathogens like helminths that have coevolved with people and that modern hygienic practices deprive people of this necessary exposure, possibly explaining the relatively higher and more recent prevalence of immune diseases in industrialized countries like the U.S. Loke plans to continue researching helminthic therapy in people and in monkeys.
«It's felt like a classic, old - school literature hunt, and that's been a lot of fun,» wrote Duffy, whose research focuses on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, particularly in lake Daphnia populations.
They looked, in other words, like young people with an old person's disease.
Increasingly, the U.S. market is driving them toward drugs aimed at the diseases of richer, older Americans and away from antimicrobials, vaccines, and the like.
If you're between 55 and 75 years old, you may want to try playing 3D platform games like Super Mario 64 to stave off mild cognitive impairment and perhaps even prevent Alzheimer's disease.
I have never stopped learning about biology since then, and hopefully will until the very end, that is, if I am lucky enough not to be affected in old age by devastating disorders like Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease.
Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified a puzzling and unsettling new cancer - like condition in a 41 - year - old man, who is believed to have become ill through a common stomach bug.
The study findings seem to throw light on a long - puzzling question about how getting older can impact the memory of even those not affected by a brain disease or mental condition like Alzheimer's.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the best ways to lower lead levels in the body are to eliminate sources of exposure (like old paint in homes built before 1978), and to eat healthy foods with calcium, iron, and Vitamin C — nutrients that «may help keep lead out of the body.»
Years later, when the children were around 8 years old, they evaluated them for things like doctor - diagnosed asthma, wheezing, hay fever, eczema, atopy (also known as the genetic tendency to develop allergic diseases), serum total IgE (a common way to test for allergic disease), and lung function.
If you've been told that you suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, an autoimmune disease like MS, or are just «getting old,» it is possible that you suffer from the number one infectious cause of these symptoms.
A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Tuesday reveals that three out of four Americans have a predicted heart age that's older than their real age, which means they are at a greater risk for heart issues like attacks and strokes.
People with digestive issues like celiac disease and adults older than 50 are also at risk for deficiency due to absorption problems, which can cause weakness, fatigue, and lightheadedness.
It would seem like an old myth to read that even as late as the 1920s doctors were recommending milk for the treatment of many diseases, and that milk has been viewed as a healthful food far back into antiquity.
Here's a look at the research that's been done on high - intensity interval training specifically in older adults with age - related illnesses like diabetes and heart disease.
One an 8 year old girl with Hashimoto's an auto - immune disease, another a 22 year old male who looks like a body builder and the third a 14 year old very slender female.
My younger patients had muscle cramps, anxiety, and weak immune systems, much like my older patients with mineral deficiencies and bone disease.
I wouldn't say this was a «great» article... Seems clear to me too that Jobs probably died because of his diet too tho... but what this article doesn't talk about is the health / unhealthiness of anyone who ate what jobs did but then also added meat and how long they lived or what diseases they had / or if they lived to be 110 years old... or someone who ate a different type of vegan diet like one with appropriate good proportions of whole foods in a plant based diet with fruit and no juice and how healthy or idk i've never heard of someone eating a good / human appropriate vegan diet and developing cancer but if one exists / existed i would imagine this site would of found them don't you?
After the age of 50 years old the likelihood of developing chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes, thyroid disease, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease increases, the lifelong poor habits catch up with our body.
I am a 41 years old male and been through a lot of health issues like lyme disease, high mercury, mold exposure.
Delicious and healthy vegetables like cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, kale, and cauliflower have gotten a bad rap due to some old nomenclature and outdated patterns in thyroid disease.
Eggs and beef have never been the problem folks, and never will... don't blame old foods for new disease... sugar, white flour, vegetable oils and many other processed foods yes, real foods like eggs / beef, c» mon get real
Many people struggle with disorders of the digestive tract, including those that cause discomfort and inflammation like irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's disease, celiac disease, acid reflux, ulcers, and just plain old indigestion with no particular diagnosis.
In people who are older, who have underlying health conditions like heart disease, or who have significant symptoms of hyperthyroidism, an antithyroid drug (methimazole, typically) is used to normalize thyroid function before undergoing RAI therapy.
I'm a weak 14 year old kid who's been to the doctor's office way too many times, and it was mostly because I worry about things like heart disease and cancer already and freak out when I feel or see something slightly unusual in my body.
It might also be given to women who are a little older, women who have had breast cancer or other health conditions like high blood pressure, heart disease or history of blood clots.
When clients (like the 22 - year - old with Crohn's disease) believe in the lessons of dating coaching and throw themselves into it wholeheartedly, amazing results are sure to follow.
56 yr old widower robert / campbell / 94 / at / ya / ho / o with two young sons wants a FWB / fuck buddy long term please must be disease free like me
Nobody is never too old to be at risk for a disease like HIV.
Cycles through the same old cliches, like squares accidentally being dosed with drugs, overzealous pharmacists blaring out sensitive medical information (nothing like a good ol' venereal disease joke), and climactically scotched weddings.
In an effort to beat his disease, he signs up for a super soldier program that turns out to be shockingly cruel and nefarious, becomes hideously disfigured («you look like an avocado that had sex with an older, uglier avocado» says sidekick / friend Weasel, played with a hysterical dryness by TJ Miller), goes pretty much insane (to the point where he repeatedly breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to the camera), but also becomes essentially unkillable.
And the idea of sins passed down through time, of sons making amends for fathers — at one point Toby describes poverty as «like a disease that passes from generation to generation» — recalls Steve Kloves's Flesh and Bone, which helped introduce the cinematic world to a 20 - year - old Gwyneth Paltrow.
A funny, highly personal, gorgeously written account of what it's like to be a 30 - year - old man who is told he has an 80 - year - old's disease.
Dr Tan agrees: «As long as the pet's vitals are normal and monitored closely during surgery, sterilisation can still be performed on older patients, especially so if they're suffering from diseases like prostatis or prostate enlargement in male dogs and pyometra in female dogs or cats.»
When your ferret is older than 3 years, try to measure his blood glucose often and do an ultrasound to make sure he doesn't suffer from no serious illnesses, like lymphoma, insulinoma or adrenal gland disease.
If your mature or older dog is vomiting and you have eliminated dietary indiscretion as a cause, you should consider metabolic diseases like those affecting the gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys and other organs.
Avoid simply chalking changes in behavior up to kitty getting old... it could be issues like heart disease, vision loss, arthritis, periodontal disease and other debilitating issues.
They require dogs to be at least 10 weeks old and out of a kill shelter for two weeks — the length of time it takes common communicable diseases like parvo, distemper and Bordetella to present symptoms.
Apart from periodontal disease, more than 50 percent of felines have at least one feline odontoclastic resorption lesion (FORL) by the time they are 3 years old.2 Like human cavities, they are extremely painful and can cause difficulty in eating.
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