Sentences with phrase «people fight disease»

I'm scared it will become a commercial product, and it might not actually help people fight disease.

«The approval of ipilimumab to treat advanced metastatic melanoma is a game changer not only for the thousands of people fighting this disease, but also for the entire field of oncology,» says Jill O'Donnell - Tormey, Ph.D., executive director of the Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a nonprofit organization that since 1953 has worked to advance the science of tumor immunology.

Not exact matches

Viome claims that with proper diet and nutrition, people can fight off the chronic diseases to which they're most susceptible.

Though disease germs know nothing of prayer, the spirit of the person on whose body they feed can by calmness and care fight a good fight against their onslaughts.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

Millions of AIDS orphans, so much poverty, so much war, so many people fighting depression, addiction and disease... how could we ever meet all the need?

I'm so excited to take part in this amazing event because so many great experts are involved who have helped people reverse disease, fight fatigue, lose weight and ultimately, become empowered to live their truth with the powers of fasting.

A proprietary combination of ten disease - fighting herbs used for more than 40 years and helping thousands of people with serious health issues.

«When you see people choosing not to fight and choosing to go toward the alternative, it removes a large part of the ability to fight against disease because there are fewer people going into clinical trials,» he said.

Following the recent celebration of World Heart Day on 29th September, Philips has announced a partnership with the World Heart Federation (the world's only global body dedicated to leading the fight against heart disease and stroke), to further enhance its commitment to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and to help people improve their heart health.

She chronicled her fight against the disease in unusually frank, heart - rending — and sometimes even funny — Facebook posts, trying to give hope and encouragement to other women in similar situations by posting photos and videos on the page Lauren vs. Cancer, which gained the attention of thousands of people.

The fight against tobacco use is global: approximately 1 person dies from a disease caused by tobacco use every six seconds around the world.

«People feel totally shut out of the political process; they feel like Congress is corrupt,» she said in between an impromptu march with New Paltz teachers to support their fight for a new contract and a recent informational session on tick - borne diseases.

One secret to fighting pandemics is knowing their real cause: disease factories built by people.

Overweight people get heart disease and diabetes — and more severe swine flu — because their fat triggers inflammation, an immune response meant to fight infection.

We know that they are under stress when they are fighting cancer or other diseases, so I wondered whether anything measureable could be seen if we put them under further stress with UVA light.We found that people with cancer have DNA which is more easily damaged by ultraviolet light than other people, so the test shows the sensitivity to damage of all the DNA — the genome — in a cell.»

Used strategically throughout the tropical world, the bacteria could become a practical tool in the fight against malaria, helping to stop mosquitoes from spreading the disease to some of the 250 million people worldwide who currently contract it every year.

Vtesse is currently running a late - stage clinical trial of the drug, a large sugar molecule known as a cyclodextrin, in which it is injected by lumbar puncture into the spinal fluid of children with the disease (see «Why are people fighting over a promising treatment for a fatal childhood disease»).

The United Nations has attempted to fill this gap by securing a pledge from developed countries to halve the number of people without any form of sanitation — whether basic outdoor latrines or indoor toilets — by 2015 as part of its Millennium Development Goals (a series of goals for world development, ranging from alleviating poverty to fighting diseases like AIDS).

Using virtual tissue technology, researchers at Indiana University have identified a potential new drug target in the fight against polycystic kidney disease, an illness with no effective FDA - approved treatment that affects 200,000 people per year in the United States.

The notorious bacteria E. coli is best known for making people sick, but scientists have reprogrammed the microbe — which also comes in harmless varieties — to make it seek out and fight other disease - causing pathogens.

Discussion of people fighting the spread of Zika virus and other exotic diseases — big threats despite their minuscule size — makes the book especially timely.

A Georgetown University professor published in the online journal PLOS ONE the first study explaining why drugs designed to fight off malaria stop working in some people with the disease.

«Peptide drugs are used to fight cancer, inflammation, diseases of the central nervous system, viral diseases like HIV... This gives us a chance to make a difference in people's lives.»

As the Ebola outbreaks rages on in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO), desperate for a way to help infected people, is reconsidering a potential Ebola treatment tried as far back as 1976, after the first documented outbreak of the deadly viral disease: using the blood of people who have recovered from an infection to treat those still fighting the virus.

While short - term exposure to cortisol prepares the body for the «fight or flight» response, long - term exposure to cortisol can put people at risk for health problems, like heart diseases, weight gain and depression.

As Troy Campbell and Justin Friesen write on in «Why People «Fly from Facts,» «We have learned that bias is a disease and to fight it we need a healthy treatment of facts and education.»

The studies support the concept of using natural exposure in combination with malaria - fighting drugs to help people build up protection against disease, says malaria vaccine researcher Robert Sauerwein of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands.

In earlier studies of populations of people who have contracted Ebola, these differences are not related to any specific changes in the Ebola virus itself that made it more or less dangerous; instead, the body's attempts to fight infection seems to determine disease severity.

It may also lead to improved therapies to fight sleeping sickness; current medications used to combat the disease have improved over the past decade but still include an old arsenic - based drug that kills between 5 and 10 percent of the people receiving treatment, said the study's senior author Stephen Hajduk, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.

The chronic disease — which affects about 2 million people in the U.S. and is diagnosed in 13,000 children each year — is an autoimmune disorder, in which disease - fighting cells attack pancreatic cells that produce insulin, a hormone that regulates the level of glucose (sugar) in the blood.

By standing in unison against this deadly disease, we can create a brighter future for people fighting pancreatic cancer around the world.

In CAR T therapy, a person's own T cells — disease - fighting immune cells — are removed and sent to a lab where they are genetically re-engineered to produce chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) on their surface.

The mission of The ALS Association is to lead the fight to treat and cure ALS through global research and nationwide advocacy while also empowering people with Lou Gehrig's disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support.

As a part of investigating the mechanism of disease, HIV infection impact on immune function, testing concepts for future study as HIV cure strategies, and immune recovery after ART, researchers at the Wistar Institute, in association with Philadelphia FIGHT and the University of Pennsylvania, are collecting peripheral blood in order to establish a repository of persons living with HIV that can donate blood.

Campbell is one of three scientists from the U.S., Japan and China who won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering drugs to fight malaria and other tropical diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people every year.

«This work could lead to major progress in our fight against frontotemporal dementia and other diseases involving tau that affect millions of people across the globe.»

And in mbg's «2018 Wellness Trends to Watch,» we predicted that fasting would gain a lot of traction this year as a legitimate intervention for way more than just weight loss — but to fight real diseases that affect the quality of life of millions of people around the world.

But unlike chemotherapy, which uses drugs to kill cancer cells, immunotherapy harnesses a person's own immune system to fight off disease.

Specifically, immune system CD4 and CD8 T - cells — which target viruses — had more disease - fighting capability «after multiple annual vaccinations» than those in people who didn't get the yearly flu shot, the investigators found.

That fast circulation reinforces the person's ability to fight disease and illness.

People fighting severe chronic diseases (like lung fibrosis, cancer, diabetes, severe obesity, arthritis) will benefit a lot to having at least one of the following exercise equipments at home:

Inflammation is directly connected to aging and disease, so, whatever a person can do to fight inflammation, will help them combat both the process of aging, and protect them from disease.

The antibodies that people produce to fight off the infection can remain in their blood for months or years after treatment, even though the bacteria that caused Lyme disease are long gone.

That is where a lot of the problems start, and many people experiencing thyroid disease find themselves having to defend their symptoms or fight test results to prove they need the help of a specialist.

Given that little progress has been made in the fight against heart disease, and we have bigger (literally) than ever problems with obesity and its primary side effect, diabetes, the Bush administration might want to overhaul the food pyramid, starting with the people appointed to update it.

In people with celiac disease, eating foods that contain gluten (which occurs at almost every meal on a standard diet) causes what's called an autoimmune reaction, in which your body's disease - fighting white blood cells mistakenly attack some of your own tissue.

According to studies in people diagnosed of pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and fatty liver disease, resistance training, is still needed and effective in fighting your abdominal obesity and melting belly fat, especially the dangerous visceral fat (54, 55).

• coconut oil can help your body fight diseases • boosts the immune system and regulates metabolism • it's regularly used in cosmetics and is great applied directly onto hair and skin (3) • lowers the risk of heart disease (4) • helps you to get into and stay in ketosis • raises the good HDL cholesterol • promotes thyroid health and reduces inflammation • Help in the treatment of type 2 diabetes (5) • coconuts are a natural food that people have been eating for many many years.

A study authored by Georges Halpern MD PhD, professor emeritus in the department of internal medicine at the University of California, discovered that people who 2 cups of yogurt a day for 4 months increased the level of gamma interferon, a protein that helps the white blood cells fight off disease.