Sentences with phrase «prevent leading cause»

«Discovery of genes linked to preterm birth in landmark study: Study based on data from more than 50,000 women, published today in The New England Journal of Medicine, could lead to new ways to prevent leading cause of infant mortality.»

Eggs are also rich in lutein, an antioxidant that could be keeping our eyes healthy by preventing the leading cause of blindness — muscular degeneration.

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Of the leading causes of death, Alzheimer's Disease is the only one for which there is no way to prevent it, cure it, or slow its progression.

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By zeroing in on the stages acting as a bottleneck and identifying the root causes, your teams can take steps to prevent lead decay and close more deals.

This company's lead candidate, trilaciclib, is intended to prevent the blood cell devastation often caused by standard chemotherapies, and it appears to do the trick.

Lutein and zeaxanthin, two antioxidants found in egg yolks, help prevent macular degeneration, a leading cause of age - related blindness.

Lauric acid has not only been shown to inhibit the growth of bacteria that cause skin inflammation which leads to acne, but it also prevents the growth from antibiotic resistant bacteria.

This exceptional food offers antioxidant and anti-inflammatory protection to your cells, preventing DNA damage caused by free radicals and reduces oxidative stress which leads to premature aging.

But Mars claims: «Most of the excitement and energy in this field today stems from the findings of Mars» scientists and their university partners that certain cocoa polyphenol - rich preparations have the potential to prevent and / or treat health conditions that are leading causes of death and disability around much of the world».

However in most cases it would have no big positive effect, but it might prevent the legs from breathing, can cause excess sweating, and lead to poor hygiene.

Helps prevent gum disease, the leading cause of tooth loss.

Our home safety specialists will help prevent falls (the leading cause of home injury for older adults) and accidents by strategically installing grab bars, eliminating tripping hazards, securing furniture to the wall, and many other services to assist in the aging in place process.

Also, if tooth decay is not prevented, it can be costly to treat, cause pain, and lead to life - threatening infections.

March of Dimes has a lot of information on the causes and possible prevention of premature birth, a leading cause of infant death, and it is involved in numerous advocacy efforts to drive research into ways to prevent birth defects and infant death.

In bike accidents, head injury is the leading cause of death — experts estimate 75 percent of these deaths could be prevented with a helmet.

Ranking of states regarding the implementation of evidence - based best practices for preventing and managing the leading causes of sudden death in secondary school athletics.

A research team led by Jane Heinig at University of California Davis has developed a program called Secrets of Baby Behavior that was designed to give new parents the information they need about infant and breastfeeding norms to reduce unnecessary formula supplementation and to help prevent childhood obesity caused by overfeeding.

This will help in several ways: First, frequent pumping will prevent you from becoming engorged, which can lead to plugged ducts that may cause mastitis.

«One in 11 Americans has diabetes, and in the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than tripled,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Making small, healthy changes to our diets and lifestyle as we age can go a long way toward preventing the onset of this terrible disease, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.»

Moreover, Images of unvaccinated kids who were sick with diseases prevented by the vaccineactually led to an uptick in the number of people who said they thought vaccines cause autism.

To guide the spending of that money, the National Institute of Medicine made a priority list of situations for which data about outcomes are badly needed — for instance, comparing the effectiveness of various medical and behavioral interventions to prevent the elderly from falling (the complications of which are a leading cause of death), comparing assorted drugs and surgeries alone or in combination in the treatment of specific cancers, comparing the effectiveness of different implants and devices for treating hearing loss, and so forth.

«This could lead to major advances in preventing the progress of some of the leading causes of blindness,» he says.

Scientists may have found a way to prevent complications from surgery to treat cataract, the world's leading cause of blindness.

Republicans on the committee focused their questions on how Pruitt will work to prevent pollution from causing serious public health problems like the lead contamination crisis affecting Flint, Michigan, and criticized the Obama administration's climate regulations.

Even with it, lead poisoning is a leading cause of death, and action to prevent it is slow to make an impact.

It can cause a severe pneumonia leading to accelerated inflammatory damage to the lungs, and may prevent safe lung transplantation.

The results challenge accepted ideas about how stem cells age and may eventually lead to new ways to prevent graying and treat the more serious conditions caused by genotoxic stress, such as cancer.

However, although the ultrathin films and rubber sheets used in these devices adhere and conform well to the skin, their lack of breathability is deemed unsafe for long - term use: dermatological tests show the fine, stretchable materials prevent sweating and block airflow around the skin, causing irritation and inflammation, which ultimately could lead to lasting physiological and psychological effects.

«We've been targeting traditional risk factors in public health campaigns for many years,» said Susan Cheng, M.D., M.P.H., study lead author and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Mass. «We wanted to take a look at how well we've been doing over time at keeping these risk factors from causing heart and vascular disease — both by preventing the risks from occurring and by minimizing their effects when they do occur.»

A reduction in blood pressure leads to a reduction in mortality caused by stroke or coronary heart disease — so changing your diet to include more meat, fish, dairy produce and pulses could help both prevent and treat the condition.

«With alcohol contributing to four of the top five causes of death in young people, and a leading cause of cancer in our community, it's important for us to better understand drinking behaviour among young people so we can help to prevent or delay it.

«This study is another demonstration of the benefits of this supplement in reducing the accumulation of soft plaque and preventing the formation of new plaque in the arteries, which can cause heart disease,» said Matthew J. Budoff, MD, an LA BioMed lead researcher.

Hepatitis C is one of the leading causes of liver cancer, liver transplants and liver - related death, yet the drugs can prevent much of that with an early cure.

The findings open the door to developing therapies or dietary supplements that block the formation of these particles to prevent preterm birth, a leading cause of infant death and disability.

«These new insights into the cause of RA may hopefully lead to effective strategies to prevent the development of RA, particularly in those RA patients with a susceptible genotype,» Miss Zeng concluded.

The Woodlands, Texas — May 11, 2006 — Lexicon Genetics Incorporated (Nasdaq: LEXG) announced today that it was awarded a grant from the United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC) for the identification of targets that may be important in the development of drugs to prevent or treat spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a neurodegenerative disorder and the leading genetic cause of death in early childhood.

Two leading causes of blindness can be reversed or even prevented by drugs that activate a protein found in blood vessel cells.

«One of the main causes of relapse in alcoholics are memories linking objects and places connected to alcohol consumption, such as shops, liquor bottles, and of course the smell and taste of alcohol,» said Dr. Segev Barak of Tel Aviv University, who is leading a team studying ways to prevent recidivism in addicts.

We delve into very fundamental problems such as «how does a malaria red blood cell attach itself to a blood vessel» or «how does binding of a ligand to a cell surface receptor or contact of a crystalline surface with the plasma membrane drive lipid sorting and how will this lead to signalling» but then immediately apply it to a practical problem such as «how does contact of uric acid crystals with dendritic cells cause gout in affected joints and how can we prevent this occurrence?»

SALT LAKE CITY — Two major eye diseases and leading causes of blindness — age - related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy — can be reversed or even prevented by drugs that activate a protein found in...

The work of Dr. Murray Huff has led to a breakthrough discovery that a substance in tangerines called Nobiletin prevents obesity and high blood fats, and offers protection against type 2 diabetes and atherosclerosis, the cause of most heart attacks and strokes.

While not a direct cause of cancer, the researchers suspected that over time this could lead to key anti-tumour genes being damaged that would normally prevent cancer from developing.

The method could actually protect mice from a lethal vaginal dose of HSV - 2 without causing immune recognition of the siRNA.5 However, neither of these methods was effective at transducing the T cells that HIV infects; we are still testing ways to modify siRNAs that could prevent HIV transmission, with some promising leads.

In response, the St. Jude Department of Infectious Diseases is aggressively pursuing projects aimed at curing or preventing leading infectious causes of death worldwide.

Changes in these activities caused by mutations or other processes can cause protein misfolding or prevent protein degradation, affect the function and distribution of tau, and lead to degenerative diseases.

April 14, 2015 Ancient herbal therapy can prevent — and reverse — cardiac hypertrophy in mice A natural compound derived from the bark of the magnolia tree, can protect the heart from hypertrophy, a thickening of cardiac muscle often caused by chronic high blood pressure that can lead to heart failure, researchers report in the April 14 issue of the online journal Nature Communications.

Overeating is one of the leading causes of belly fat and one way to prevent this is to eat meals that have salty, sweet, sour, or bitter taste, which will make you feel satiated so you can stop eating when you're full.

Work up a sweat Exercising regularly and maintaining a healthy weight help prevent diabetes, a chief cause of vision impairment that may lead to blindness.

But anti-oxidants, including C, help prevent one of the leading causes of blindness: age - related macular degeneration (AMD).