Sentences with phrase «rare disease states»

Interestingly, the effects of ketone body metabolism suggest that mild ketosis may offer therapeutic potential in a variety of different common and rare disease states.

Interestingly, the effects of ketone body metabolism suggest that mild ketosis may offer therapeutic potential in a variety of different common and rare disease states [11].

[emphasis added] Interestingly, the effects of ketone body metabolism suggest that mild ketosis may offer therapeutic potential in a variety of different common and rare disease states.

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Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

There are hundreds of thousands of new cases of leprosy worldwide each year, but the disease is rare in the United States, with 100 - 200 new cases annually.

And in the United States, the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, recently funded three Mendelian Disorders Sequencing Centers that will apply genome sequencing to diagnosing thousands of patients with a wider range of rare diseases, including intellectual disability and developmental delay.

Mitochondrial diseases are rare, affecting about one in every 4000 babies born in the United States.

Professor Gabay tells us what happened: «This child, who lives in the United States, had a rare inflammatory disease that was resistant to all treatment; she was in intensive care, and was going to die.

Though uveal melanoma is rare — there are only 2,500 cases diagnosed in the United States each year — about half of patients will develop metastatic disease, and survival for patients with advanced disease has held steady at nine months to a year for decades.

Cases of malaria are now rare in the developed world, but the United States battled the disease in the 19th century.

Like virtually every state, Texas routinely screens almost all newborns for rare diseases, collecting a few drops of blood at birth.

Prof. Maria Luisa Brandi MD, Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases at the University of Florence, Italy, lead author and Chair of the IOF Working Group on Skeletal Rare Diseases stated, «Due to the rarity of these diseases diagnosis is a challenge, and most patients — who are often children — currently have few choices when it comes to therapy.

Colorado State University biologists say this sporadic ebb and flow of prairie dog plague is an ideal model for the study of rare infectious zoonotic disease — disease that can jump from wildlife to humans — like MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) and Ebola.

Once considered a rare disease, IPF now affects more than 200,000 people in the United States, where about 30,000 people die from IPF every year.

«While individually these diseases are relatively rare, inherited metabolic diseases are sufficiently common that they are part of newborn screening in Pennsylvania and most other states,» Lynch said.

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OPHG is currently responsible for developing a state strategy for rare disease and preparing a scoping paper, at the request of the Australian Health Ministers» Advisory Council on the need, or otherwise, of a National rare disease plan for Australia.

The RD - Connect platform provides user friendly state - of - the - art analytics to registered researchers and clinicians while enabling rare disease data sharing.

ALFA compiles the current state - of - art about the annotations of DNA regulatory elements (such as transcription factor binding sites, microRNA target sites) for a better understanding of biological processes underlying rare diseases.

NIH Clinical Center (CC)-- Est. in 1953 The NIH Clinical Center, America's research hospital, provides a versatile clinical research environment enabling the NIH mission to improve human health by investigating the pathogenesis of disease; conducting first - in - human clinical trials with an emphasis on rare diseases and diseases of high public health impact; developing state - of - the - art diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic interventions; training the current and next generations of clinical researchers; and, ensuring that clinical research is ethical, efficient, and of high scientific quality.

That threshold is naturally lower for rare diseases such as DMD, which has an estimated 2,000 to 2,500 cases in the United States.

It's rare, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: There have been about 75 cases reported in the United States in the past decade — mostly in the Northeast and in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Cases of the mosquito - transmitted Chikungunya (pronounced: chik - en - gun - ye) are rare in the United States but have surged since the initial outbreak in December 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The report further states that there are no clear requirements for dietary carbohydrates in human adults, and that ketosis may offer therapeutic benefits for various different disease states, those common and also those that are rare.

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, meaning a fatty liver caused by excess food rather than excess drink, is now the most common cause of liver disease in the United States, found during autopsy in up to 90 % of obese individuals, and can lead in rare cases to cirrhosis of the liver, cancer of the liver, and death.

While Dr. Ghannoum's laboratory has a collection of over 30,000 strains of fungi (the largest collection in the United States outside the Centers for Disease Control), on the rare occasion he does not have a particular strain needed for a study, the ATCC is one of the first places he turns to in order to acquire the needed microorganism.

If our state of the art facility is not suited to perform a special medical procedure, or we don't know the specifics of a rare disease, we have a team of specialists on call as consultants to help us serve you better.

The disease is very rare in the United States, but has been reported in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

Lyme disease cases are no longer limited to the northeastern states but confirmed diagnosis in dogs is rare.

WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Indian Harbour Beach, Florida has determined that feral animals within the City limits can create a nuisance disturbance, prey on common and rare species of native wildlife in Florida, including species listed as threatened or endangered by the state and federal governments, carry and spread diseases, destroy property, compete with native wildlife for food and shelter, as well as copious fecal deposits made by said feral animals; and,

Anthrax is a serious but rare disease in the United States.

While rabies is a vaccine - preventable disease, and outbreaks are rare in the United States, this is not the case in many parts of the world.

Because of good hygiene and veterinary care, animal - transmitted diseases are rarer in the United States than they once were.

However, says John Bonagura, DVM, a professor of veterinary clinical sciences at the Ohio State University Veterinary Hospital, congenital feline cardiac disease is relatively rare, occurring only in an estimated one or two percent of kittens.

In January, international rare disease company, Sobi, appointed Holly May vice president of sales and marketing for the United States.