Sentences with phrase «skin disease at»

These diseases are all very rare, and usually cause skin disease at other body locations too.

Group 3 develops as focal skin disease at the site of vaccination.

Not exact matches

«The organic crops seem to achieve flavour ripeness earlier, at lower sugar levels, have thicker skins, especially the reds, and are less susceptible to disease.

There are a number of steps parents can take at home to prevent the spread of communicable skin diseases such as MRSA, and to treat the infection, including

Due to the nature of competitive sports at the high school level, there is an elevated risk of infectious diseases being spread by skin - to - skin contact and contaminated equipment shared by athletes.

«In theory, we could model progression of the disease by reprogramming skin cells from patients at a range of ages, including before symptoms begin.

At the same time the papers supported unvetted «off - label» uses for HRT that were not approved by drug regulators, including healthier skin, protection against Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, and a generally higher quality of life.

«Our findings suggest that teens and young adults who seek indoor tanning may be especially vulnerable to developing BCC, the most common form of skin cancer, at a young age,» said lead author Professor Margaret Karagas, co-director of the Cancer Epidemiology and Chemopreventon Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth.

«Previous studies have demonstrated an association between stress and skin symptoms, but those studies relied on small patient samples, did not use standardized tools, are anecdotal in nature, or focused their analyses on a single skin disease,» says Gil Yosopovitch, MD, Chair of the Department of Dermatology at LKSOM, Director of the Temple Itch Center, and corresponding author of the study.

Leishmaniasis — a disease caused by microscopic parasites, like malaria, and transmitted by sand flies — results in painful skin sores and in its most vicious form causes at least 500,000 deaths worldwide every year.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and collaborators at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have detected abnormal prion protein in the skin of nearly two dozen people who died from Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (CJD).

The same method can be used to determine what kind of probiotic skin wash might be most effective at bolstering the frog's defenses without actually exposing the frog to disease, according to a journal article published today in the journal PLOS ONE.

Meanwhile Coussens and her colleagues at U.C.S.F. found in a 2005 study, published in Cancer Cell, that the removal of antibody - making B cells from mice engineered to be prone to skin cancer prevented the tissue changes and angiogenesis that are prerequisites for disease progression.

The English physician knew that dairymaids who contracted cowpox, a comparatively mild skin disease, became immune to the much deadlier smallpox, which at the time killed 400,000 Europeans a year.

An antibody used to treat the skin disease psoriasis is also effective at reducing aortic inflammation, a key marker of future risk of major cardiovascular events.

Jun Takahashi at Kyoto University, Japan, and colleagues wondered whether they could treat monkeys with a disease like Parkinson's using induced pluripotent stem cells, which are made by coaxing blood or skin cells into becoming stem cells.

Picking up on recent discoveries that the Notch - modifying enzyme known as Rumi is necessary for animal development and that various mutants of Rumi are linked with a form of skin hyperpigmentation known as Dowling - Degos disease (made by scientists at the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Bonn, Germany), Li's group became focused on this particular enzyme.

For instance, researchers at the Salk Institute in California have taken skin cells from a patient with the genetic disease Fanconi's anemia, often associated with leukemia.

Assoc Prof Tan, who also has a joint appointment at NTU's Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, is one of the leading experts on ANGPTL4 and holds several patents regarding its use in the treatment of infectious diseases, cancer and skin conditions.

Neurofibromatosis is one of at least 60 genetic diseases called neurocutaneous disorders that involve the skin, central nervous system, and / or peripheral nervous system, according to a comprehensive review article in the journal Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports by neurologists at Loyola University Medical Center and Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.

As we enjoy our turkey, we can appreciate not just its juicy flesh and crisp skin, but marvel at its remarkable genome, with its 80 chromosomes (humans have 46) and strange, disease - causing mutations.

With skin cancer emerging as one of the world's most prevalent forms of cancer, researchers are using every tool at their disposal to fight this disease.

Liedtke worked together with a multi-institutional team of researchers: Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., a professor at Rockefeller University and an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and skin biologist; and Martin Steinhoff, M.D., Ph.D., professor of dermatology and surgery at the University of California in San Francisco who is known for his studies on sensory function of skin in health and disease.

Determining the individual contributions of each protein will help provide strategic therapeutic targets to change the course of a patient's psoriasis or, at the very least, provide a better understanding of how a change in the regulation of these proteins contributes to skin inflammation and psoriatic disease.

Psoriasis comes in various levels of severity from single inflamed and scaly spots, so - called plaques, at the elbows or knees to a very severe disease pattern affecting the entire skin.

Bsal causes chytridiomycosis, a disease that eats away at the skin of amphibians.

Three decades later, about 56,000 Iranians are coping with lingering health effects from the blistering agent, ranging from skin lesions and failing corneas to chronic obstructive lung disease and possibly cancer, says Tooba Ghazanfari, an immunologist at Shahed University here.

Nevertheless, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology were able to pinpoint a common driver of skin inflammation in both diseases.

The research «could contribute to explaining why certain skin diseases appear at certain sites of the body and not others,» says dermatologist Richard Gallo of the University of California, San Diego.

The research, published in PLoS One on Sept. 8, has the potential to help clinicians identify who may be at risk for developing Pemphigus vulgaris (PV), an autoimmune skin disorder, by distinguishing pathogenic (disease - causing) autoimmune antibodies from other nonpathogenic autoimmune antibodies.

University at Buffalo researchers and colleagues studying a rare, blistering disease have discovered new details of how autoantibodies destroy healthy cells in skin.

In a separate study published earlier this year, Professor Rosenthal and Daniel Bilbao at EMBL found that IGF - 1 also suppresses allergic contact dermatitis, an inflammatory skin disease.

«How skin falls apart: Pathology of autoimmune skin disease revealed at the nanoscale.»

The white paper recommends that practitioners follow relevant guidance documents and that deviation from consensus recommendations should be supported by clinical studies or pursued in the setting of a clinical trial approved by an institutional review board; that practitioners receive training in a new procedure before beginning its practice, that the training should include a practical, «hands - on» component and that all team members directly involved with the radiation therapy decisions should participate in at least five proctored cases before performing similar procedures independently; and that professional societies should accelerate the generation of new or updated guidance documents for the following disease sites and techniques: skin, central nervous system, gastrointestinal, lung or endobronchial and esophagus, and, while outside the charge of this panel, assess the need for updated guidance documents for accelerated partial breast irradiation using electronic brachytherapy.

July 14, 2006 Maria Medenica, MD, 1924 - 2006 Maria M. Medenica, MD, associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and an authority on the use of electron microscopy in the diagnosis of skin diseases, died Monday, June 25, 2006, at her home in Lincoln Park.

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) report that they silenced symptoms of Parkinson's disease in rats using skin cells from an adult mouse that they reprogrammed to act like embryonic stem cells.

Stem cells, derived from skin cells donated by people with and without bipolar disorder, allow scientists to study the disease at its most basic level.

Previously Dr. Martini worked at Shire plc in Lexington, Mass., as Senior Director of Discovery Biology and Translational Research, Mass., focusing on fibrotic diseases of muscle, kidney, skin, lung, bone marrow and metabolic liver diseases, with particular emphasis on different therapeutic modalities for pathway modulation.

The study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, is a step towards developing personalised treatments based on a patient's own skin cells for diseases of the central nervous system (CNS).

Although it's not clear why, there appears to be an association between lower Alzheimer's disease risk in patients with certain skin cancers, there are likely both neurologic and biologic factors at play.

Scientists at Gladstone now create stem cells from the skin cells of patients with a specific disease, which helps them to study the causes of disease and find novel treatments.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — June 28, 2012 — Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes and an international team of researchers have generated a human model of Huntington's disease — directly from the skin cells of patients with the disease.

Because we look at our skin in the mirror every day, we are the first line of defense against this disease.

Those who use tanning beds or have a history of skin cancer or sunburns are also at higher risk for the disease.

«Patients with the least severe form of the [severe] disease, those with pain at rest, as well as the patients with minor skin infection of their legs, were able to avoid major amputation,» he said.

Because of the powerful tannins in Witch Hazel, it is incredibly effective at fighting chronic skin diseases.

Celiac patients can also develop headaches, tingling, fatigue, muscle pain, skin rashes, joint pain, and other symptoms, because the autoimmune attack at the root of the disease gradually erodes the wall of the intestine, leading to poor absorption of iron, folate, and other nutrients that affect everything from energy to brain function.

Two months into medical school at the time, St. Ange had learned enough about skin cancer to know that a raised mole was a sign of melanoma, the most dangerous kind of the disease.

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I had one client that had vitiligo, which is an autoimmune disease that attacks the skin and turns it white, and within three months on the program, her vitiligo, at least on her trunk, started disappearing because once the immune system is fed and the body is fed and you start getting rid of toxins that make the immune system go awry and attacking the body, once you remove some of these things and feed the immune system, it just calms it down and it stops attacking the body.