Sentences with phrase «preventing disease and death»

In addition to preventing disease and death, treatment is also a key prevention tool: abundant evidence now shows that infected people on treatment are less likely to transmit HIV.

«Vaccines are among the most successful and cost - effective public health tools available for preventing disease and death.

Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein says vaccines are among the most successful and cost - effective public health tools available for preventing disease and death.

Not exact matches

We'll be remembering and honouring those who lost their lives or were injured because of their work and we'll be renewing our commitment to prevent further deaths, injuries and diseases by improving health and safety in the workplace.

Even if you suffer and even die a horrible death due to a disease that a real loving god could have easily prevented or cured.

February is American Heart Month and with that I'm happy to share that the Hass Avocado Board and the American Heart Association (AHA) have joined efforts in encouraging Americans to eat the daily recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables to prevent and limit deaths from cardiovascular diseases, strokes and diabetes.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevents states that the top cause of children's death in the United States is motor vehicle injury.

That's because we've figured out how to prevent death from infectious diseases with such success, that people get to live longer and die from heart failure.

Malnutrition, caused by inadequate nutrient intake and disease, is a direct cause of 30 percent of all child deaths in developing countries and can result in a five - to - ten-fold increase in a child's risk of death from diarrhea.3 Characterized by low weight and height for age, and low weight for height, malnutrition can be prevented through optimal infant and young child feeding — exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months, along with continued breastfeeding and nutritious, hygienically prepared complementary foods during the six to 24 month period.

Providing this support is the right thing to do for both babies and mothers: breastfeeding prevents infant death, childhood illness and non-communicable diseases, while supporting brain development and protecting maternal health.

«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.»

«Our study results are the first to argue that we may be able to treat inflammatory bowel disease and protect against transplant rejection not only by blocking TNF alpha as is done currently, but also by stimulating ATG16L1 to prevent early death of cells lining the gut,» says study senior investigator Ken Cadwell, PhD, an associate professor at NYU School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health's Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine.

A team at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago reports that isradipine (brand name DynaCirc), a drug currently prescribed to reduce high blood pressure, may block the death of neurons in patients with advanced cases of Parkinson's and may also be able to prevent the development of the disease.

But curbing those substances, scientists and activists say, could slow atmospheric warming 0.5 degrees Celsius by 2050 while also increasing crop yields and preventing hundreds of thousands of related deaths from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

«Preventing uptake and eliminating tobacco use in this demographic is central to addressing the disproportionate burden of smoking - related death and disease, while also improving overall health and life expectancy.»

Interferon - inducible protein 6 - 16 (IFI 6 - 16), a protein not previously known to be associated with other misfolding diseases but that was uniquely found misfolded in the urine of women with preeclampsia, is known to help prevent cell death and, in breast cancer cells, is responsible for resistance to treatment.

«Part of what is most fascinating about this study is that the association between fruit and vegetables and mortality is greater than one would expect only on the basis of the relationships we find with cardiovascular disease and cancer, so it is conceivable that fruit and vegetables are beneficial in preventing other diseases and causes of death as well,» Aune said.

The process saves lives: among children born in the past two decades, vaccinations will prevent more than 20 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates.

Two to four million deaths related to cardiovascular disease could be prevented a year if everyone ate the optimal amount of fruits and vegetables, the researchers said, while for cancer that number was approximately 660,000 deaths.

«Our research suggests an association between both diseases, and it's possible that as we learn more about how this connection works, we can prevent deaths.

«This may help prevent the growing occurrence of metastatic prostate cancer and potential deaths associated with the disease.

An effective strategy for reducing the transmission, illness and death of active disease is the identification and treatment of LTBI to prevent progression to active disease.

They found the following fruits and vegetables may help prevent heart disease, stroke, cardiovascular disease, and early death: apples and pears, citrus fruits, salads and green leafy vegetables such as spinach, lettuce and chicory, and cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower.

Cancer Research UK, for example, estimates that 42 % of cancer cases are preventable, while the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 21 % of annual cancer deaths can be prevented.

A promising treatment for a rare childhood disorder characterized by rapid aging and death prevented and even reversed the most devastating effect of the disease in mice.

«We have made remarkable gains in preventing communicable diseases, advancing technology and developing cures that have significantly reduced children's illness and death over the last century,» Freed says.

Erectile dysfunction is often an early barometer of poor vascular function and offers a critical opportunity to intervene and prevent cardiovascular disease, heart attack and even death.

In a paper published in Scientific Reports, the HDNetDB team outlines the challenges facing those investigating Huntington's disease, explains how HDNetDB works and illustrates its effectiveness by discovering potential drug targets, which might help to prevent the neuronal cell death observed in Huntington's disease.

To determine whether scientific studies since 2002 found additional evidence on the usefulness of omega - 3 fish oil supplements, the authors focused on studies related to preventing a first heart attack in the general population, or in patients who were at high risk for heart disease, and preventing recurrent events and death in patients who had a prior heart attack, congestive heart failure, stroke, or atrial fibrillation.

For instance, autonomous vehicles could eventually prevent tens of thousands of road deaths; optogenetics — using genetic engineering and light to manipulate brain cell activity — could help cure or manage debilitating neurological diseases; and materials like graphene could ensure more people than ever have access to cheap clean water.

The John Ritter Research Program is working to prevent premature deaths due to thoracic aortic disease by improving diagnosis, treatment and public awareness.

The international team of researchers modeled the lifetime risk of women developing radiation - induced breast cancer from digital screening mammography and dying from the disease compared to the number of breast cancer deaths prevented by early detection.

A recent study by EPA researchers showed that, in 2010 alone, the Clean Air Act prevented more than 160,000 premature deaths, 130,000 cases of heart disease and 1.7 million asthma attacks, not to mention 86,000 hospital admissions and millions of respiratory illnesses.

Scientists in the lab of Steve Finkbeiner, MD, PhD, discovered that modifying the huntingtin protein prevented cell death and motor impairment in a mouse model of Huntington's disease.

He proved that a vitamin A deficiency dramatically increased childhood morbidity and mortality from infectious disease, and that a 4 - cent dose of vitamin A not only prevented and cured eye disease, but also reduced childhood deaths by 34 percent.

By learning more about how cancer cells cheat death, we hope we'll discover new ways to prevent and treat the disease.»

This is because the lifestyle disease of type 2 diabetes is where the funding is for cross-link research: yet another example of aging as the red - headed stepchild of medical science, locked in a closet and fed scraps, ignored in comparison to its potential for alleviating suffering and preventing death.

There is now a wealth of evidence that we have to tools to prevent diseases that cause serious illness, lifelong disability and death — we just have to use them.

One possible explanation for any improvements seen in the survival of patients who stop smoking might be a reduction in mortality from cardiorespiratory causes, as the risk of death from these diseases reduces after cessation.9 18 Consequently, we estimated the expected contribution of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases by using life tables as above to find the number of cardiorespiratory deaths prevented by smoking cessation in the general population.

While caloric excess leads to insulin resistance, cardiometabolic disease and premature death, caloric restriction prevents and cures these traits.

In this study, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded that this age restriction could prevent nearly 62,000 melanoma cases and more than 6,700 melanoma deaths over the lifetime of Americans who are currently 14 and younger.

It also helps to stabilize your mood and energy levels, promotes better sleep and can help prevent cancer, heart disease and stroke, which are the top three leading causes of death.

Of these deaths, 60 percent are due to stroke and heart disease — the conditions that I, as a cardiologist, am striving to prevent at all costs!

The Plantastic Life team passionately promotes a Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) diet as the best way to prevent and / or reverse the chronic diseases that cause so much unnecessary suffering and premature death in America.

Who cares what our ancestors ate — they ate what was available — their goal was to avoid starving to death — not to prevent degenerative diseases and improve quality of life — heck most of them died before the age of 25 because of accidents, infection, violence, heat, frost or starvation.

Magnesium also plays roles in preventing migraine headaches, cardiovascular disease (including high blood pressure, heart attacks, and strokes), sudden cardiac death, and even reduces death from all causes.

Dietary fiber may help prevent death from cardiovascular disease, and well as infectious and respiratory diseases, the researchers say.

The anti-inflammatory nature of plant foods may explain why those eating plant - based diets have less diabetes (Preventing Macular Degeneration With Diet); fewer allergies (Preventing Allergies in Adulthood); less heart disease (China Study on Sudden Cardiac Death); better moods (Improving Mood Through Diet); and fewer chronic diseases in general (Say No to Drugs by Saying Yes to More Plants).

You can find more on nuts and heart disease in my videos Nuts and Bolts of Cholesterol Lowering and How Do Nuts Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death?

For more on nuts and heart disease, see Nuts and Bolts of Cholesterol Lowering and How Do Nuts Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death?