Sentences with phrase «studying diseases like»

It's difficult to gather brain tissue samples from humans, so studying diseases like tuberous sclerosis is maddening, he said.

They are also making their technology available to other groups studying diseases like IBS.

Not exact matches

Studies show that quitting smoking and losing weight spread through networks like diseases do.

'» As part of that effort Marsh is studying the ecosystem of disease — identifying the factors, like hopelessness and isolation, that are at the root of health problems.

Some studies suggest that for specific populations, like people who have been diagnosed with heart disease or are obese, fitness trackers can motivate them to move more, at least for several months.

And while some, like a 2013 study in the journal The Lancet and a 2015 paper in the journal Nature, have yielded promising clues, none have been able to spot any precise, reliable genetic markers of the disease.

Why I like it: Studies show that drinking one to two 4 - ounce glasses of wine per day can lower your risk of heart attack and heart disease.

Studies show that by just walking a few miles a day, you lower your risk of life threatening illnesses like heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

But it has been disappointing in that the kind of genetic variation it detects has turned out to explain surprisingly little of the genetic links to most diseases... One issue of debate among researchers is whether, despite the prospect of diminishing returns, to continue with the genomewide studies, which cost many millions of dollars apiece, or switch to a new approach like decoding the entire genomes of individual patients.The unexpected impasse also affects companies that offer personal genomic information and that had assumed they could inform customers of their genetic risk for common diseases, based on researchers» discoveries...

And Christian Scientists should up the ante in their war on medicine and make everyone know that everyone can cure disease like Jesus if they study study Mary Baker Eddy's book.

In addition, research studies show decreased risk for a large number of chronic diseases when foods like the World's Healthiest Foods are regularly consumed.

A recent study out of UCLA also linked a compound in broccoli (high in broccoli sprouts) to a decreased risk of respiratory inflammatory diseases like asthma, upper - respiratory allergies, and COPD.

Some studies show that the rate at which you metabolize caffeine can impact your risk for certain conditions like heart disease.

further more studies show that people who drink wine (and beer) moderately, are less prone to things like heart disease than both people who drink heavily AND people who never drink at all.

(Studies have linked loss of smell to the same neurotransmitters implicated in age - related diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.)

Look at credible websites like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and talk about the facts and studies.

This article is questionable as it has no links or actual references to the studies it talks about, like someone above has mentioned also there is no information on how the diagnosis were made, and lastly it does not take into account that celiac disease is NOT an allergy, it is an auto immune disease where the body attacks its own cells confusing them with gluten proteins, it is not about tolerance, I would not be trusting this information, do lots of research on your own from legitimate scientific sources before making a decision.

Other studies are pointing to the positive effects of DHA against anti-inflammatory issues in the body, like heart disease, or stroke.

Household income has been shown to interact with child growth in Brazil.21 A US study of diarrhoeal disease found no interaction between breast feeding and household income.8 Household income, like social class, may not be a good marker of transmission risk.

For the study, the investigators calculated the current costs of 10 pediatric diseases for which there is evidence of a protective effect of breastfeeding — including eczema, middle - ear infections, lower respiratory tract infections like pneumonia, asthma, type 1 diabetes and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

The challenge aims to get students to cut back on beverages like sweetened tea, soda, sports drinks and others with high sugar content which studies show lead to obesity and higher risks of diabetes and heart disease,

The challenge aims to get students to cut back on beverages like sweetened tea, soda, sports drinks and others with high sugar content which studies show lead to obesity and higher risks of diabetes and heart disease, Mantello said.

«By studying the ways different proteins like keratin dynamically change within a cell, we can better understand the progression of cancers and other diseases,» they say.

Cadwell cautions that such a strategy must await further evidence to confirm his theory that this trend in Paneth cell death occurs in people deficient in ATG16L1 who are, like his study mice, prone to higher risk of inflammatory disease and transplant rejection.

Studies suggest that kind of prolonged exposure to high temperatures increases the risk of death for vulnerable groups like the elderly, said Rebecca Noe, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

«Virtual house calls for chronic diseases like Parkinson's are not only as effective as in - person care but broader adoption of this technology has the potential to expand access to patient - centered care,» said Ray Dorsey, M.D., the David M. Levy Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and lead author of the study.

One of the big questions Perlstein's path presents is whether it will turn out to be rare, like the diseases he studies.

Studies on the origins of BSE — a fatal disease marked in the early stages by loss of balance — gained urgency with the 1996 emergence in humans of the BSE - like new variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (nvCJD).

Professor Gallagher, from the University's Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease concluded: «Studying a rare illness like alkaptonuria is a worthwhile project in itself, but it can also help with new insights into much more common diseases.

«Much like the spread of human disease in populated areas, urban centers can foster increases in multiple disease types in wild animals,» said McGraw, senior author of the study.

«There are many studies in humans, and at least one in chimpanzees, showing that from an immunological perspective, juveniles and children are really important for maintaining diseases in populations through play and things like that,» she said.

These newer studies are beginning to uncover the reasons why men are much more susceptible to neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and ALS; why autism, dyslexia, stuttering and early onset schizophrenia are three to four times more prevalent in boys; and why attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is diagnosed 10 times more often in boys.

Earlier studies have demonstrated that cocoa flavanol intake improves the elasticity of blood vessels and lowers blood pressure — but, for the most part, these investigations have focused on high - risk individuals like smokers and people that have already been diagnosed with conditions like hypertension and coronary heart disease.

Its use was later extended to the study of diseases like Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, autism, and stroke.

Satellite imagery is used for all sorts of climate study, from identifying conditions that allow infectious diseases like West Nile virus and cholera to emerge, to creating models for predicting hurricanes, to distinguishing natural resources such as wind, water and sunlight.

A drug that acts like a growth - promoting protein in the brain reduces degeneration and motor deficits associated with Huntington's disease in two mouse models of the disorder, according to a study appearing November 27 in the Journal of Neuroscience.

The study, the culmination of more than 10 years of research and published online in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatology in June, discovered virus - like elements within the human genome linked to the development of two autoimmune diseases: lupus and Sjogren's syndrome.

«Imagine a drug that could act like Viagra in the inner ear,» says Lin, who notes that clinical trials are already underway to study the effects of such disease - modifying drugs.

A University of Connecticut study suggests that resveratrol helps stave off heart disease, and another study suggests that antioxidants like those found in red wine protect blood vessels from premature damage.

What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

► In this week's Science Careers - produced «Working Life» column, researchers George F. Gao and Yong Feng «urge young scientists planning their careers to consider studying communicable diseases, especially highly pathogenic ones like Ebola or Lassa fever.»

This «hovers like a dark cloud over the game at all levels, even if the study can not address how frequent the disease is, or who is at risk.»

«After our animal studies showed that GM - CSF was important in the development of an MS - like disease, we were excited to see these results confirmed using samples from MS patients in the current study,» says Abdolmohamad Rostami, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Neurology at Thomas Jefferson University and director of its neuroimmunology laboratory.

Studies have shown that exercise can have both structural and cognitive benefits in rodent models of pathological conditions like Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and Alzheimer's disease.

The findings were made by researchers from Oregon State University, who studied 15 - 20 million - year - old amber from the Dominican Republic that offer the oldest fossil evidence ever found of Borrelia, a type of spirochete - like bacteria that to this day causes Lyme disease.

A study in rats suggests that exposure to environmental toxins could be contributing to an inherited vulnerability to common diseases like breast cancer and high cholesterol.

The study showed a link between gut bacteria and MS - like disease incidence, which was more prominent at a younger age, when MS is also more prevalent.

In this case, TSLP provides an antibacterial function on the skin, while in previous studies it was shown to promote disease in other organs like the gut.

Such claims have linked the rise in occurrence of corn diseases like Goss's wilt, which causes leaf blight and systemic wilt, to the adoption of transgenic corn across the U.S.. However, a new study from the USDA - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) provides empirical evidence showing no increase in disease susceptibility in transgenic sweet corn treated with glyphosate.