Sentences with phrase «study diseases using»

Scientists say they have proved the viability of a new way to study diseases using a patient's own cells.

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Scanadu will also have anonymized access to all of its users» health data, which can be used for epidemiology — the study of the patterns of health and disease in defined geographic areas.

In recent years, Levine and others have used clinical studies to prove that even in healthy people, a chair - based lifestyle sets up the physiological conditions for the onset of Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity — and ultimately, shorter lifespans.

The study ascribed this dearth of research to restrictions — namely a 21 - year - old congressional appropriations bill called the «Dickey Amendment» that stipulated «none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.»

Valued for its resistance to heat and corrosion, asbestos was widely used for decades in such products as building materials, pipe insulation and floor tiles before studies linked it to lung cancer and other diseases.

An unpublished Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study confirms Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck's findings of more than two million defensive handgun uses (DGUs) per year.

One of the two groups of the study also showed that using liquid meal replacements instead of food actually affected more weight loss as well as a greater reduction of the risk indicators of heart disease than the intermittent fasting diet with food.

We can work against illness and disease, by the use of such knowledge and techniques as are acquired through the study of those ills.

Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff, the authors of a study, point out that this rise in celiac disease parallels the increase in the use of Roundup which contains glyphosate, and the effects of glyphosate are identical to those for celiac disease.

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 predicted that sugar sweetened drink consumption contributes a relatively small amount to UK population morbidity (28000 disability adjusted life years) compared with low fruit and vegetable consumption (1130000 disability adjusted life years).59 Using revenue from a sugar sweetened drink tax to reduce the prices of fruit and vegetables is a potential mechanism for further improving population health.60

For example, if you read a supposedly «scientific» statement such as: «red meat causes [fill in the blank with your most dreaded disease]» — do some further scrutiny and find out if indeed studies exist showing this, and how the food is defined that was used in the study.

A pilot study was conducted using 30 volunteers and the results proved that Active Manuka Honey might have a therapeutic role in treating gum disease and periodontal disease.

The research paper stated as part of its findings: «The promising outcomes of this study strongly imply the possible use of VCO, not only as neuroprotective agents for those suffering from neurodegenerative diseases, but also as brain food.»

Potential subjects were accepted into the study if they had none of the following conditions: severe or symptomatic cardiac disease or hypertension; history of bleeding disorders; chronic history of gastric, intestinal, liver, pancreatic, or renal disease; any portion of the stomach or the intestine removed (other than an appendectomy); history of intestinal obstruction, malabsorption, or use of antacid drugs; cancer (active or use of medications for a history of cancer treatment within the past 5 y); history of chronic alcoholism; a convulsive disorder; or abnormal results in screening blood or urine samples.

Benigni et al performed a study to determine what is the best amount of pressure to use to treat different venous diseases.

More broadly, updated longitudinal studies of the natural history of hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease are needed, because the data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey that we used in our model are somewhat dated.

Most studies have revealed protective effects of breastfeeding on common infections in the first 8 to12 months of life.8, 27,29,30 One study, which distinguished between infectious diseases until and from the age of 6 months, revealed results similar to those from our study.24 Although the authors used exclusive breastfeeding for 3 months as the reference group, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months reduced the risk of gastrointestinal tract infections between the ages of 3 and 6 months but not between the ages of 6 and 12 months.24 We can not explain why breastfeeding duration was only associated with lower risks of lower respiratory tract infection from 7 to 12 months.

less than or equal to lamivudine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Antiretroviral therapy, usually means 1 - 2 drugs, used in early studies Antiretroviral zidovudine (also known as ZDV) Breastfeeding Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Breastfeeding and HIV International Transmission Study Combined antiretroviral therapy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deoxyribonucleic Acid Exclusive Breastfeeding Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay Food and Agrigulture Organization Fixed dose combination ART, e.g., lamividine, stavudine, and nevirapine Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, 3 or more drugs for more effective treatment used in later studies Human Immunodeficiency virus International Atomic Energy Agency Infant feeding Infant and young child feeding Lopinavir cubic millimetre Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV Non-governmental organization Nevirapine Polymerase Chain Reaction People Living with HIV Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission Replacement Feeding Ritonavir Ribonucleic acid, one of the three major macromolecules (along with DNA and proteins) that are essential for all known forms of life single dose NVP United Nations Agencies Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS United Nations Population Fund United Nations Commissioner for Refugees United Nations Children's Fund U.S. Agency for International Development World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action United Nations World Food Programme World Health Assembly WHO 2010 Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding World Health Organization Zidovudine (same drug as AZT)

The panel recommends that the further use of implants be limited for reconstruction only and that women receiving the implants participate in scientific protocols and that epidemiologic studies be conducted to assess the risk of autoimmune disease.

These include variability in the duration of breast - feeding, frequency of breast - feeding, use of supplemental formulas, recall of feeding practices, type of allergic disease being studied, and maternal atopic background.

The good news is that recent studies are revealing that when all doesn't go as planned, positive impacts can be made on baby's flora and intestinal health with the use of probiotics and other healing measures, thereby reducing later risks of many chronic diseases.

More recent studies using human data have linked BPA to heart disease and diabetes.

This study used data from the Infant Feeding and Practices Study II, a publically available longitudinal data set sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, designed to understand infant feeding patterns, infant health, mother's health, and mother's study used data from the Infant Feeding and Practices Study II, a publically available longitudinal data set sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, designed to understand infant feeding patterns, infant health, mother's health, and mother's Study II, a publically available longitudinal data set sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, designed to understand infant feeding patterns, infant health, mother's health, and mother's diet.

Funnel plot of precision estimates [calculated by using the inverse of the SE of ln (odds ratio); ie, the higher the estimate, the more precise the study] from studies that explored the association between breastfeeding and Crohn disease against their odds ratio.

The agency also released a letter Tuesday that it signed last week with five other states calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to undertake a multi-state health study using data from a multitude of communities where perfluorinated chemicals have contaminated drinking water supplies.

Multiple specialty manufacturing plants in eastern Rensselaer County and North Bennington, Vt., used the chemical for decades before studies emerged a decade ago linking it to cancer and other serious diseases.

Forward - thinking scientists, many with funding from PETA and its international affiliates, are developing methods for studying diseases and testing products that don't require the use of animals and are actually relevant to human health.

A new study explains how a widely used drug is effective against inflammatory bowel disease and rejection of bone marrow transplants, while suggesting another way to address both health issues.

«We could apply the strategy used in this study to quickly identify and design small molecule drugs for other RNA - associated diseases,» explained study first author Sai Velagapudi, a research associate in the Disney lab.

He added that the method used in this study, called «network biology» — where computer systems are used to identify gene networks that work together to underpin disease — may also help find treatments for other conditions.

This is demonstrated in the studies reviewed in the special issue, which use computational models to examine brain processes, such as learning, emotion, dopamine signaling and information processing, and how processes interact in deficits underlying psychiatric disease.

Our study suggests that exclusive enteral nutrition may be used as a bridge to semi-elective, and arguably therefore, safer surgery in patients with complicated Crohn's disease,» said Dr. Neel Heerasing, lead author of the Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics study.

A related paper, involving Svendsen, his colleague Gad Vatine, PhD, and a team from University of California, Irvine, published the same day in the journal Cell Reports, used a similar approach to study Huntington's disease.

For researchers using mouse models to study a variety of cancers, including lymphoma, melanoma, breast, and prostate cancers as well as autoimmune and infectious diseases, the panel facilitates a highly sensitive and high - throughput investigation of biomarkers associated with disease progression.

Using a novel method, Whitehead Institute researchers have determined how a non-coding mutation identified in genome - wide association studies (GWAS) can contribute to sporadic Parkinson's disease (PD).

In the present study, the researchers have discovered a reason for reduced fertility in people with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 (APS1), which increases the risk of developing autoimmune disease (caused by the immune system attacking and damaging healthy cells) and which is often used as a model for autoimmune disease in general.

«I had been thinking about model organisms for a very long time in academia, and when I started to realize that there were all these people clamoring for their rare diseases I thought, «Why aren't people using model organisms to study them?

In the study, they tested the equation on a simulated epidemic and found that either location or communication datasets could be used to reliably predict the movement of the disease.

Patients with early - stage and advanced OA, RA or other inflammatory joint disease were recruited for the study alongside a control group of those with good skeletal health, with plasma and synovial fluid samples from both groups being analysed using mass spectrometry.

Using records unearthed from library storage vaults, researchers recently revealed that the sugar industry paid nutrition experts from Harvard University to downplay studies linking sugar and heart disease.

The study is the first time this MRI technique has been used to investigate a psychiatric disease.

Scientists use cell reprogramming techniques to produce cells in the lab so that they can study diseases.

Strengths of this study, Dr. Li noted, included that researchers used an objective measuring device and studied a short - term outcome (miscarriage) rather than one that will occur years or decades later, such as cancer or autoimmune diseases.

A new study indicates that bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used in plastic bottles and can linings that has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and liver failure, may linger in the body far longer than previously believed.

An analysis using genetics finds that increased low - density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL - C), high - density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL - C), and possibly triglyceride (TG) levels are associated with a lower risk of diabetes, and increased LDL - C and TG levels are associated with an increased risk of coronary artery disease, according to a study published online by JAMA Cardiology.

«Since the syphilis bacterium can not be cultured in the lab, our results show that data derived from studying the Lyme disease bacterium is highly informative about the syphilis bacterium and can be used as a «surrogate» for it,» says Dr. Wolgemuth.

A similar study was performed by the same team in 2008 using older data from a survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

It has been challenging to study liver cirrhosis, also called end - stage liver disease, because most animals used in experiments do not develop the disease.

«Cultural revolution in the study of the gut microbiome: Human gut - on - a-chip technology used to co-culture gut microbiome, human intestinal cells could lead to new therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases.»

They are also studying whether the nanoparticles can be used with the CRISPR / Cas9 gene - editing technique to treat genetic lesions related to retinal degenerative diseases.