Sentences with phrase «questions about these diseases»

In the end, those in immunology will answer fundamental questions about disease, save hundreds of thousands of lives, and, they hope, put a major crimp in the arsenal of bioterrorism.

«We have many questions about the disease that we need to use mouse models to answer,» says Dr. Monani, who came to CUMC about a year ago and has been studying SMA for a decade.

Whether you have questions about disease prevention or healthier options for current health issues, getting useful information can be difficult.

Dr. Darria speaks with Alzheimer's expert, Lori La Bey, to answer listeners questions about the disease.

If you have any questions about these diseases or concerns about your pet's health, please consult your veterinarian.

This blog post will serve as a journal of my dog's battle to fight IMT, what we are experiencing, his journey, and hopefully this diary - style blog post will help answer questions about this disease and how it may affect your dog, no matter if the dog is purebred or mixed.

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took to Twitter to answer questions about the disease and reassured Americans the risk of the outbreak taking hold in the US was low, this article in the Boston Globe points out that not all US states have ethical guidelines in place to ration the treatment of patients in the event medical services are oversubscribed.

Not exact matches

What we can do today has led to a host of unanswered questions about what we should do: How can big data help us personalize disease prevention and wellness?

It's worth noting that our primary focus was on technologies that aided and improved primary care, which is about half of the U.S. market in terms of revenue dollars (there is no question that digital tools will successfully impact specific acute diseases / disorders, but it's our intuition these are best left to 100 % focused HC investors).

Based on some of the arguments Grossman made about how administrative efforts to prevent sexually transmitted disease actually lead to more sexual activity, more disease, and more psychological distress, Nava penned an op / ed for the Daily Princetonian questioning the campus's programs on condom distribution and sexual health titled «Princeton's Latex Lies.»

Not only that, but it becomes apologetically impossible to explain the common question about why a loving God allows pain, suffering, disease, and tragedy.

He will be quizzed on aspects of his health which will also include questions about his family to determine if there are any hereditary diseases which run in the family.

The billion dollar question is, now that the CTE genie is out of the bottle, will efforts to correct the record and repair the disconnect between the science and the media about the disease be a case of too little, too late?

If you have sickle cell disease, you may have questions about breastfeeding your newborn.

To participate in the directory, each college answered 18 questions about accommodations for students with food allergies and celiac disease in three areas:

Here are answers to common questions about thyroid problems and issues regarding breastfeeding for nursing mothers with thyroid disease.

It was a welcome piece, but what struck me was that while scientists are beginning to ask questions about gluten, they aren't always necessarily asking the right questions — at least for those of us with celiac disease.

This 50 - item exam contains various questions about Medical - Surgical Nursing that covers topics of Colostomy Care, Diagnostic Tests, and several diseases.

I wish I could answer your question, but I really don't feel qualified as I don't know very much about the disease.

He's here to answer your questions about everything from macular degeneration to diabetic retinopathy and retinal vein disease.

News outlets have raised repeated questions about why the outbreak wasn't identified earlier, why the city didn't have better standards for dealing with it, and why Dr. Bassett didn't enlist help from the Centers for Disease Control.

Public health advocates have long set their sights on wiping out polio worldwide, but recent resurgences of the pernicious disease raise questions about its future eradication.

Until recently, he says, «no one has stepped back to ask the fundamental question of whether our basic premise about the disease is the correct one».

To answer questions about complex neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis, one needs biostatisticians, disease experts, clinical experts, high throughput genotyping capacity, databases and databanks, and «you need them at a level that you couldn't expect to find in one lab,» he says.

The most important question for people taking the telomere test, though — whether you can do anything about your shrinking telomeres, if indeed they cause disease — is the one that still needs the most research.

The data necessary to answer myriad questions — about, say, the correlations between the industrial use of certain chemicals and incidents of disease, or between patterns of news coverage and voter - poll results — may all be online.

Despite the prevalence of thyroid disease and its sometimes serious effects, researchers have struggled to answer a pretty basic question about the hormone - producing gland: What turns it on?

«A common fallacy is that schizophrenia can be treated as a single disease,» says NYU Langone psychiatrist and lead study author Dolores Malaspina, MD. «Our biologically driven study begins to answer longstanding questions in the field about why any two people diagnosed with schizophrenia may have drastically different symptoms.

There may not be answers yet, but more researchers are asking questions about the relation between smell and neurodegenerative diseases.

This new insight into how chromosomes are disassembled and reassembled during cell division will allow researchers to begin answering basic questions about epigenetic inheritance, as well as human disease such as chromosome disorders and cancer.

The finding, reported in next month's issue of Nature Medicine, raises new questions about whether people could contract exotic diseases if animal organs become routinely transplanted into human patients.

But questions remained about how important the genetic factors are and whether the disease is a discrete disorder like muscular dystrophy, for example, or a trait requiring treatment only when it reaches a certain threshold.

The study results, published in Science Translational Medicine, raise questions about the possible transmissibility of prion diseases via medical procedures involving skin, and whether skin samples might be used to detect prion disease.

The research also raises questions about how bacteria living in other parts of the body may relate to HIV transmission, and whether they play a role in how other vulnerable populations are affected by the disease.

Freud manoeuvered the argument about madness away from the question of race and universalised it by treating madness as a disease of civilisation: the stresses and strain of city life, modernity, and the sexual repressions of the city - dwellers were held to blame.

Reporting their data Aug. 6 in the journal Molecular Cell, scientists at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center say the new technology — called SpDamID — could allow scientists to answer basic questions about tissue development and disease that existing technology can not address.

The unexpected presence of the lymphatic vessels raises a tremendous number of questions that now need answers, both about the workings of the brain and the diseases that plague it.

The authors conclude that mesenchymal stem cell therapy has great potential as a therapeutic option in feline disease, but that many questions about the logistics of its use remain to be answered.

They say this latest study raises questions about whether treatments that decrease the frequency or severity of migraine may reduce later life vascular risks, and conclude by saying «what little evidence we do have suggests the need for therapeutic restraint [to prevent cardiovascular risk] until we have a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the link between migraine and vascular disease.»

This week it was widely reported that a British Nurse, Pauline Cafferkey, who was thought to have made a full recovery from Ebola, has been taken to a hospital for a third time due to what health officials described as delayed complications from the virus — raising further questions about the long - term impact of the disease on survivors.

The Salk team is excited about the possibilities their tool opens up for exploring new biological questions about RNA and protein function, as well as therapies to tackle RNA and protein - based diseases.

«That's why CHILD, which has been following 3,500 Canadian children and their families from before birth, has such enormous value in answering questions about the origins of chronic diseases.»

Simon says the convergence of better optics and better genetic and chemical tools is allowing rapid progress in answering these fundamental questions about infectious disease.

While microbial forensics holds promise for unraveling disease outbreaks, the FBI's discovery also has political implications: The attacks originated in a U.S. Army lab, a fact that raises questions about security in light of the massive biodefense expansion under the Bush administration.

For me, though, the big question is what this new information tells us about treating heart disease in general and LDL in particular.

But many questions remain about why the virus selectively causes such severe disease in younger people and in pregnant women.

«Like cancer, autism is a very complex disease,» says Craig Newschaffer, chairman of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University School of Public Health, «and it's exciting to start asking questions about the interaction between genes and environment.

The lapses at the world - renowned infectious disease research agency are sure to raise questions about safety at other labs studying highly pathogenic agents, including university labs that are modifying influenza strains to make them more virulent.

The researchers hope their study leads to better measures for modeling and predicting infectious disease transmission, but there are still open questions about the human - wildlife interface of disease.

The case has similarities to that of a nurse infected in a Spanish hospital after taking care of a priest who had contracted the disease in Sierra Leone, and both raise questions about the training procedures that hospital staff receive before they come into contact with Ebola patients.