Sentences with phrase «on human health and disease»

Our stomachs and intestines contains most of these, with millions of different microorganisms and species which can have a massive affect on human health and disease (1).

In recent years, researchers have discovered that the trillions of bacteria that reside in the gastrointestinal tract have an enormous impact on human health and disease.

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On top of this are regional health concerns, such as pollution and tropical diseases, and human rights issues.

The microbiome consists of all the microbes that live in and on the human body that contribute to health and disease status of an individual.

InvivoSciences will continue to contribute to the improvement of human health by establishing a new paradigm for discovering drugs that focus on diseases with limited treatment options such as cardiac fibrosis, scleroderma, and lupus in a time - effective manner while remaining safe and cost effective.»

Gabriella Schneider is the blogger behind Beyond the Bite where she shares AIP Paleo recipes, articles on health and the human body, as well as her personal experiences fighting back against chronic Lyme Disease.

However, «The AAP Section on Breastfeeding, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Family Physicians, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, and many other health organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.2, 127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year ofHealth Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, and many other health organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.2, 127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year ofhealth organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life.2, 127 — 130 Exclusive breastfeeding is defined as an infant's consumption of human milk with no supplementation of any type (no water, no juice, no nonhuman milk, and no foods) except for vitamins, minerals, and medications.131 Exclusive breastfeeding has been shown to provide improved protection against many diseases and to increase the likelihood of continued breastfeeding for at least the first year of life.

Pritchett School 3rd graders got a chance last week to walk away from their normal classroom lessons on the human body and explore such issues as disease research and the benefits of breast - feeding with real medical professionals as part of the school's health fair.

less than or equal to lamivudine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Antiretroviral therapy, usually means 1 - 2 drugs, used in early studies Antiretroviral zidovudine (also known as ZDV) Breastfeeding Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Breastfeeding and HIV International Transmission Study Combined antiretroviral therapy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deoxyribonucleic Acid Exclusive Breastfeeding Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay Food and Agrigulture Organization Fixed dose combination ART, e.g., lamividine, stavudine, and nevirapine Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, 3 or more drugs for more effective treatment used in later studies Human Immunodeficiency virus International Atomic Energy Agency Infant feeding Infant and young child feeding Lopinavir cubic millimetre Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV Non-governmental organization Nevirapine Polymerase Chain Reaction People Living with HIV Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission Replacement Feeding Ritonavir Ribonucleic acid, one of the three major macromolecules (along with DNA and proteins) that are essential for all known forms of life single dose NVP United Nations Agencies Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS United Nations Population Fund United Nations Commissioner for Refugees United Nations Children's Fund U.S. Agency for International Development World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action United Nations World Food Programme World Health Assembly WHO 2010 Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding World Health Organization Zidovudine (same drug as AZT)

Former EPA Region 2 Administrator Judith Enck, who was featured in the Politico article and is also a regular voice on WAMC, called the actions by EPA and the Department of Defense «scientific censorship» of the report being compiled by the Department of Health and Human Services» Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

«Health Department officials confirm that the species of mosquito found to be infected with EEE generally feeds on birds, but prudence dictates we take every precaution to protect the public's health and safety when dealing with the potentially serious threat this disease poses to livestock and humans,» PicenteHealth Department officials confirm that the species of mosquito found to be infected with EEE generally feeds on birds, but prudence dictates we take every precaution to protect the public's health and safety when dealing with the potentially serious threat this disease poses to livestock and humans,» Picentehealth and safety when dealing with the potentially serious threat this disease poses to livestock and humans,» Picente said.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R - Willsboro) is pushing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make good on tracking performance indicators designed to monitor the disease.

That's going to have a significant impact on human health, by reducing risk for many types of diseases and by promoting wellness.»

Her findings, published in the Journal of Animal Ecology on June 5, could help wildlife managers target their efforts to prevent outbreaks and potentially help public health officials prevent disease in human populations as well.

In this latest advance reported in PNAS, the Wyss team showed that the human gut - on - a-chip's unique ability to co-culture intestinal cells with living microbes from the normal gut microbiome for an extended period of time, up to two weeks, could allow breakthrough insights into how the microbial communities that flourish inside our GI tracts contribute to human health and disease.

The Secretary of Health and Human Services on Wednesday named Robert Redfield as his choice for director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«Healthy gut bacterial communities are known to benefit immune regulation, metabolism and potentially even the nervous system, so if cholera or other diarrheal diseases permanently impact the microbiota, there could be long - term effects on human health,» explains Regina LaRocque, MD, MPH, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Infectious Diseases, co-senior author of the paper.

Human health: Forest degradation and loss compromise the supply of medically - beneficial species that millions of people rely on; additionally, forest degradation drives the spread of many infectious diseases by bringing humans and disease vectors into close contact.

I've always been interested in healthcare, so while I was an undergraduate studying molecular biology I attended seminars on public health, human rights, and infectious disease management, which led directly to my current career path.

«This study allowed us to utilize all our tools — and even though this virus does not appear to affect mammals, we are continuing to refine those tools so we can be better prepared for the next outbreak of disease that could have an impact on human health.»

Chemical biologists hope a new Internet portal will improve information on small, druglike molecules that are used to study protein vital to human health and disease.

«Through major genetics studies,» Borenstein noted, «scientists have made valuable progress in gathering information on the species composition of the human microbiome in health and disease.»

«We leveraged the extreme traits in different species to uncover noncoding regions in the human genome that likely have important roles in shaping health and disease,» said Elliott Ferris, first author on the paper and a bioinformatician and computer programmer in Gregg's lab.

It was eggshell thinning that devastated fish - eating birds and birds of prey, says Fry, and this effect is well documented in a report (pdf) on DDT published in 2002 by the Department of Health and Human Services» Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).

The U.S. Congress repealed the law in July 2008, but the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services still has HIV on the list of communicable diseases that bar entry.

«There are a range of metabolic diseases and other liver disorders where if you fix a mutated gene you might be really able to have an impact on human health,» Anderson says.

«In the future, such efforts could allow us to much better understand human - microbiome interactions, model malnutrition disorders and inflammatory diseases of the gut, and perform personalized drug testing,» said co-first author Alessio Tovaglieri, a Graduate Student at the Department of Health Science and Technology at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who performs his thesis work on Ingber's team.

Warinner and colleague, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., co-direct OU's Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in the past.

A task force meeting on 6 and 7 May in Washington, D.C., will feature «invited speakers from the National Academies, the American Chemical Society, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Board, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oak Ridge National Lab, Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association, and American Biological Safety Association,» according to the announcement.

«The introduction of mitochondria into damaged cells has beneficial effects on the health of cells and, in the long term, we believe that mesenchymal stem cells could even be engineered to create more effective therapies for lung disease in humans.»

The U.S. government has placed a high priority on tackling Alzheimer's disease, which is expected to strike 10 million Americans by 2050, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

«This work in lower species of organisms does not have an impact on the understanding of the role of sirtuins in human health and disease.»

The EPA is convening an advisory panel to evaluate the human and animal data on arsenic risk for non-cancer diseases to determine whether the 10 ppb limit is adequate to protect human health, says Aaron Barchowsky at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

This would have positive impacts on the treatment of circadian clock diseases, sleep problems and human health,» explains Fumika Hamada, PhD, Division of Pediatric Ophthalmology at Cincinnati Children's, one of the study's lead investigators.

He looked to other, less invasive approaches that could be used and soon focussed on PET, which allows researchers to safely and non-invasively study the living human brain and track and record its function in health and disease.

«What we've shown in the monkey model matches a lot of what people have observed in epidemiological studies of humans,» says Emma Mohr, a pediatric infectious disease fellow at UW — Madison and first author on the study with Matthew Aliota and Dawn Dudley, research scientists in UW — Madison's schools of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine and Public Health, respectively.

The microbiome consists of all the microbes that live in and on the human body that contribute to health and disease status of an individual.

Human African trypanosomiasis is on the World Health Organization's (WHO) list of neglected tropical diseases and since 2013 has become a target for eradication.

PHENOMIN's involvement in the IMPC will fulfill a key item of the the National Alliance for life sciences and health (AVIESAN) strategic plan that consists in applying mouse genetics to analyze the mechanisms of disease and to use this knowledge for advancing fundamental research and human health (AVIESAN report on the use and needs of mouse models in the French scientific community, 2010).

These projects explore the consequences of genome variation on human cell biology, and thus gene function in health and disease.

The next phase in our scientific understanding of human health and disease is to decipher the molecular basis of cell and tissue circuits and the impact of genetic variations on these circuits.

The bill, expected to come up for a vote in the Senate after Thanksgiving, also would require the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct a five - year study on the human health effects of per - and polyfluoroalkyl substances — classes that include the compounds in Airway Heights» groundwater.

The Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH) aims to facilitate a global understanding of the relationship between human genetic variation and population differences in disease distribution, with the ultimate goal of informing health inequalHealth (CRGGH) aims to facilitate a global understanding of the relationship between human genetic variation and population differences in disease distribution, with the ultimate goal of informing health inequalhealth inequalities.

Moreover, PHENONIM - ICS is involved in European projects presenting a strong impact on human health: Interreg CARDIOGENE (Genetic mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases), GENCODYS (Genetic and epigenetic networks involved in cognitive dysfunctions), AgedBrainSYSBIO (Basic studies of brain aging), as well as projects in partnership with industry: MAGenTA (an Industrial Strategic Innovation project supported by Bpifrance about the treatment of major urogenital diseases) and CanPathPro (H2020 program), to develop a predictive modeling platform of signaling pathways involved in cancers.

The Environmental Influences on Health and Disease Group at Sanford Research studies how environmental factors influence cellular function and human disease, an important interface between chemistry, molecular and cell biology, and physDisease Group at Sanford Research studies how environmental factors influence cellular function and human disease, an important interface between chemistry, molecular and cell biology, and physdisease, an important interface between chemistry, molecular and cell biology, and physiology.

Identifying these, and quantifying their effects on disease risk, should lead to diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for improving human health.

Baylor served as the FDA's liaison to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the US Department of Health and Human Services National Vaccine Advisory Committee, and the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines.

NIH Clinical Center (CC)-- Est. in 1953 The NIH Clinical Center, America's research hospital, provides a versatile clinical research environment enabling the NIH mission to improve human health by investigating the pathogenesis of disease; conducting first - in - human clinical trials with an emphasis on rare diseases and diseases of high public health impact; developing state - of - the - art diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic interventions; training the current and next generations of clinical researchers; and, ensuring that clinical research is ethical, efficient, and of high scientific quality.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)-- Est. 1962 NICHD research on fertility, pregnancy, growth, development, and medical rehabilitation strives to ensure that every child is born healthy and wanted and grows up free from disease and disability.