Sentences with phrase «other killer diseases»

Other laboratories have set their sights on transforming the flu virus into prototype vaccines for other killer diseases such as HIV and malaria.

The four - day exercise, targeted at children below five years, was meant to vaccinate children against polio and other killer diseases, including hepatitis, measles, yellow fever and tetanus.

Not exact matches

Why have we made more progress on certain diseases while other mass - scale killers, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are largely off of people's radars and so difficult to treat in an age of therapies which can resemble magic?

Lung and heart diseases are the principal killers, but smoking contributes to a broad range of other maladies.

In fact, the big killer diseases of history all came to us from microbes living in other species, overwhelmingly from other warm - blooded mammals and, to a lesser extent, from birds.

Blending medicine and Darwinian biology, Ewald considers cancer and other diseases from the pathogen's point of view, showing how natural selection determines why the smallpox virus, for instance, is a ruthless killer while viruses for the common cold are relatively benign.

If it works, that could spark a true revolution in the understanding and treatment of heart disease, cancer, and other major DNA - mediated killers.

They have also begun examining whether these individuals are resistant to other aging - related killers, including cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease — both linked to dysfunctional production or metabolism of insulin and IGF - 1.

The disease is characterized by profound fatigue and disability lasting for at least 6 mo, episodes of cognitive dysfunction, sleep disturbance, autonomic abnormalities, chronic or intermittent pain syndromes, microbiome abnormalities (1), cerebral cytokine dysregulation (2), natural killer cell dysfunction (3), and other symptoms that are made worse by exertion of any kind (4).

Yet research on spinal muscular atrophy, the leading genetic killer of infants and toddlers, has not, over the years, been financed as heavily as Lou Gehrig's disease and other genetic disorders, said Dr. Darryl De Vivo, director of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Clinic at Columbia - Presbyterian Center of New York - Presbyterian Hospital.

Some immune cells sound the alarm when a problem is suspected, and other cells can detect unique disease features that can stimulate killer cell activity or an antibody response.

Exercise can also improve mood and sleep, reduce stress, control weight gain, boost self - esteem, and protect against other killers, especially heart disease and diabetes.

The fiber in flax seeds and other whole plant foods is about more than just reducing our risk for the # 1 and # 2 killers of Americans — heart disease and cancer.

Like other leading killers — especially heart disease and high blood pressure — type 2 diabetes may be an unfortunate consequence of dietary choices.

You can choose to be vegan or a raw foodist, endorse Traditional Chinese Medicine, or follow macrobiotic, Ayurvedic, or countless other diets, but we're all betting that whatever diet we've chosen will protect us from dreaded diseases like cancer, heart disease, and other killers.

Did you know there are diets proven to not only prevent and treat but reverse our # 1 killer, heart disease, along with other deadly diseases such as type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure?

And ideally, it should be down in the 24 - to 36 - hour range to reach that half - pound target... The fiber in flax seeds and other whole plant foods is about more than just reducing our risk for the # 1 and # 2 killers of Americans — heart disease and cancer.

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These vaccinations protect your dog against such killers as rabies, parvovirus, and distemper and against other diseases such as viral hepatitis, leptospirosis, parainfluenza, coronavirus, and kennel cough.

• reducing the risk of major killers like heart disease, stroke and cancers while cutting exposure to food borne pathogens; • offering a viable answer to feeding the world's hungry, through more efficient use of grains and other crops; • saving animals from suffering in factory farm conditions and from painful slaughter; • conserving vital, but limited freshwater, fertile topsoil and other precious resources; • preserving irreplaceable ecosystems, such as rainforests and other wildlife habitats; • mitigating the ever - expanding environmental pollution of animal agriculture; and the list goes on.

«This disease remains relevant,» said Dr. Hedy Kindler, professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, according to CNN, «and it remains a killer of people who, of no fault of their own other than doing their job, are exposed to something that was preventable.»