Sentences with phrase «on multiple diseases»

And that single tick has the potential to pass on multiple diseases.

Not exact matches

Preventive effects of drinking green tea on cancer and cardiovascular disease: epidemiological evidence for multiple targeting prevention

Multiple food allergies, celiac disease and many other digestive related illnesses are on the rise in both children and adults today.

Our research into hybrid rice now focuses on producing hybrid rice with consistently high - yield heterosis (hybrid vigor), good grain quality, tolerance to key environmental stresses, multiple resistances to insect pests and diseases, and high seed production yield.

She delivered a brief, but detailed, interactive talk story with the audience on what she went through finding out that she has celiac disease, what it's like for her having kids with celiac disease and multiple food allergies, plus she answered all of the questions people had.

Ameda was also the first to put backflow protectors on their milk collection kits — a huge improvement in hygine standards, protecting against transmissible diseases, and preventing mould from entering the breast pump motor and making them suitable for multiple users.

In multiple studies, lactation is associated with reduced maternal risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus.12, 22 Several studies have found differences in diabetes prevalence among postmenopausal women.22, 23 However, the only study to measure incident disease found that the association between breastfeeding and incident type 2 diabetes mellitus disappeared after 15 years after a woman's last birth.12 Thus, we limited the effect of lactation on type 2 diabetes mellitus accordingly.

Nowinski, who suffered multiple concussions on the football field and in the wrestling ring, now dedicates his work to concussion research and education, both at the Sports Legacy Institute, where he is president, and at Boston University, where he is co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease brought on by repeated trauma.

So whereas these diseases produce distinct symptoms and billions of dollars have been spent researching potential drugs that target their unique molecular culprits, some scientists are placing their bets on cross-cutting approaches that might work across multiple disorders.

Prior studies on the diet have shown potential for alleviating symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease multiple sclerosis, increasing the efficacy of chemotherapy for cancer treatments, and decreasing visceral fat.

But for a challenging disease like MS, attacks on multiple fronts may be exactly what it takes to help Davis and others who are running out of time.

That such vessels could have escaped detection when the lymphatic system has been so thoroughly mapped throughout the body is surprising on its own, but the true significance of the discovery lies in the effects it could have on the study and treatment of neurological diseases ranging from autism to Alzheimer's disease to multiple sclerosis.

In 1982 results came in from the Multiple Risk Factors Intervention Trial, which was designed to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by counseling an experimental group to stop smoking, lower their blood pressure and cut back on saturated fat.

Dysevolution is what Lieberman calls «the deleterious feedback loop that occurs over multiple generations when we don't treat the causes of a mismatch disease but instead pass on whatever environmental factors cause the disease, keeping the disease prevalent and sometimes making it worse.»

One of them was able to cause full - blown disease symptoms — tan spore - producing lesions on the leaves — on eight soybean lines, including two with multiple resistance genes.

In the current study, McKeown and her colleagues analyzed longitudinal data on 1,685 middle - aged adults over a period of 14 years, obtained from the Framingham Heart Study's Offspring cohort — a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - funded program that has monitored multiple generations for lifestyle and clinical characteristics that contribute to cardiovascular disease.

However, around that time my Mum was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and I became very interested in learning more about this disease and ways to treat it.In January 2002 I decided, after much thought, that I should change direction and study neuroscience, as the best thing I could do for MS patients is to work on a cure.

Familial Alzheimer's also affects multiple generations, as the mutations that cause the disease are dominantly inherited and fully penetrant, which means that if a parent has a mutation, he or she has a 50 percent likelihood of passing it on to his or her children.

Next steps will include engineering T cells that reliably detect multiple features on cancers such as mesothelioma and glioblastoma, allowing for more precise targeting of these diseases.

Dr. Quintana's research is focused on the regulation of the adaptive and innate immune response and the identification of biomarkers for multiple sclerosis (MS) and other immune - mediated diseases.

«Our study adds to the body of data that support a favorable overall safety profile of the qHPV vaccine and expands on this knowledge by providing comprehensive analyses of multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

However, the authors stress that «further clinical investigations will be essential to establish the optimal dose, duration and safety, and whether vitamin D2 or D3 have different effects on mortality risk, since the available trials are based on elderly populations in general (an age group with high competing risk of death often due to multiple co-existing disease conditions) and they do not typically include cause - specific deaths as the primary outcomes.»

«Compared to Hamilton's general adult population, we found elevated emergency room use, multiple barriers to health care access and significant rates of chronic disease among urban Aboriginal adults,» said Dr. Michelle Firestone, an associate scientist with St. Michael's Hospital's Centre for Research on Inner City Health.

The research group is now working on developing safer and smarter multitasking contrast agents, which can simultaneously record and interpret multiple biological targets, and eventually allow a better understanding of biological processes and accurate diagnosis of diseases.

Previous research has indicated that salt may alter the autoimmune response, which is implicated in the development of multiple sclerosis (MS), but it is not clear if it has any direct effect on the course of the disease itself.

A new technique that provides both chemical composition and molecular orientation information at subsecond timescales could reveal new information about what occurs on the molecular level as diseases such as Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis progress.

Says Herbert, «We discussed the enormous number of chemicals in our environment and how little we know about chronic, low - dose, multiple exposures and their effect on diseases like autism.

Based on a single, extensive study of Lyme disease designed by Tulane University researchers, the study employed multiple methods to evaluate the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes, the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, before and after antibiotic treatment in primates.

In the new study, the Penn team focused on 302 mostly Medicaid - insured individuals who had multiple chronic diseases.

Based on a detailed statistical analysis of multiple datasets, the Flint Area Community Health and Environment Partnership (FACHEP) research team found that the majority of Legionnaires» disease cases that occurred during the 2014 - 15 outbreak in Genesee County, Michigan, can be attributed to the change in of the City of Flint's drinking water supply to the Flint River.

«This study illustrates the potential of gaining fundamental insights into brain function while helping patients with debilitating diseases, and provides us with a powerful way of selecting targets based on their connectivity to other regions that can be widely applied to help guide brain stimulation therapy across multiple neurological and psychiatric disorders.»

«There does seem to be an upper bound of what we can learn about common diseases with multiple causes,» says Kraft, who thinks the paper illustrates why «we're not going to have a huge impact» on the average person with genome sequencing.

Policymaking committees should consider giving less weight to food industry - funded studies, and include mechanistic and animal studies as well as studies appraising the effect of added sugars on multiple CHD biomarkers and disease development,» the article concludes.

He'd already been on multiple courses of chemotherapy, but his disease showed few signs of improvement.

Collectively, these avenues are aimed at moving towards defining the role of activated microglia in ageing and neurodegenerative disease, while considering the impact of systemic infections on the brain in multiple vulnerable neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental states.

A review of the literature on treating multiple sclerosis (MS) aims to provide physicians with evidence - based information on the latest treatments for this chronic disease.

They also assist in the prevention of autoimmune diseases, such as diabetes (an immune attack on the pancreas) and multiple sclerosis (an immune attack on the nerves).

Neurological research at Gladstone focuses on a host of devastating conditions, including Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease) and multiple sclerosis.

Dr. Akassoglou is a leader in the field of neurological disease, with a special emphasis on multiple sclerosis (MS).

However, prevailing GWA data analysis methods are focusing on the association of individual SNP alleles with a complex disease, although multiple alleles are involved by definition.

Many of our neurologists are supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health for their basic research work on various neurological diseases, including Parkinson's disease, stroke, multiple sclerosis, ALS, and peripheral neuropathy.

Some of the genetic factors that are being researched right now are multiple genes contributing to the disease (there are about a dozen genes that are leading candidates), and the possibility of epigenetic interactions (that is, certain genes and other biological molecules that determine whether and when certain genes present in the body are turned on or off) that may contribute to schizophrenia.

The researchers examined the relationship between a risk score based on multiple genetic differences and early - onset heart disease and found that the polygenic risk score predicted a high risk for early - onset disease in one in 53 people at the same level as FH does.

Multiple research groups and companies are hot on the tracks of unleashing CRISPR on sickle cell disease, hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, genetic forms of blindness, and, of course, cancer.

The new system calculates a risk score based on multiple genetic differences, or polygenic risk scores, to predict significantly more cases of early - onset heart disease than standard tests for single genetic disorders.

«My hope is that the progress we've made on multiple sclerosis in the laboratory will one day lead to improvements in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of all neurological diseases that involve blood clotting proteins in the brain.»

At the University of Chicago Medicine campus, the hematologists / oncologists on our multiple myeloma team are nationally known experts in the treatment of this disease.

The treatment protocols of Okyanos are based on a thorough understanding of the multiple factors involved in each of the disease processes we treat.

The center will focus on multiple sclerosis (MS), Alzheimer's disease, ALS (Lou...