Sentences with phrase «studying the disease since»

Eileen Shore, a research associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, has been studying the disease since 1991.

Not exact matches

Cases of tick - and mosquito - borne diseases more than triple since 2004, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

To any banana farmers out there, this isn't exactly news, but the study has finally confirmed suspicions that have been floating around since the 1980s - the Cavendish might have been immune to the Panama disease strain that killed off the Gros Michel, but it's super susceptible to TR4.

Cases of tick - and mosquito - borne diseases more than triple since 2004, according to a new study by the CDC.

But this statement is less reassuring since a careful British study found that if a mother was X-rayed during pregnancy, the child is about twice as likely to die of a malignant disease before its 10th birthday.11 Harrison Brown summarizes the problem:

This new study and many other previous studies clearly contradict the propaganda espoused by Big Pharma and the U.S. Government dietary advice, which has been waging a war against saturated fats since the 1970s and the McGovern Report that promoted the false hypothesis that saturated fats led to an increase in lipid cholesterol levels and an increased risk for heart disease.

STD's / HIV the study was conducted in Africa and since then has been shown to be extremely flawed, studies on STD / HIV contraction in regards of circumcision status have been conducted in the UK Australia New Zealand Puerto Rico and even one conducted by the US navy and it showed circumcision status had no effect in the contraction of the diseases.

Maria Esteve - Gassent, a Spanish - born microbiologist at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Science, has been studying Lyme disease since 2004.

«Infectious disease disaster planning among Missouri schools does not appear to have progressed much over the last four years since a similar nationwide study was conducted, and most Missouri schools are not meeting many national and professional organization recommendations and guidelines,» state the study's authors.

«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.

The study, called the Bypass Surgery Versus Everolimus - Eluting Stent Implantation for Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease (BEST) trial, is one of only two randomized controlled trials to compare bypass to angioplasty since the introduction of everolimus - eluting stents, a new generation of drug - eluting stent.

No one know how many birds succumb each year to the wildlife trade since much of the trafficking is illegal, but within Southeast Asia alone, it is likely «in the order of tens of millions,» says Kelly Edmunds, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in England who investigates the emerging infectious diseases amongst bird sellers in Asia and was not involved in the study.

• Since 1948, researchers with the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) have been monitoring a group of men and women from Framingham, Massachusetts for cardiovascular disease risks.

This new study demonstrated that the test can also be used to identify people with precancerous polyps — a finding that makes it potentially more useful for a screening test, since it may be able to identify cancer risk before the disease actually develops.

«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.

But her research assistant Rodrigo Hamede Ross has been studying this population since before the disease hit the area in 2006.

Since the sexual reproduction stage of malaria only occurs in insects, Poinar said in the new study that they must be considered the primary hosts of the disease, not the vertebrate animals that they infect with disease - causing protozoa.

Since CGP3466B has already been tested in phase II clinical trials to (unsuccessfully) treat Parkinson's disease and ALS, it is known to be safe for humans, but the researchers caution that many more years of studies are needed to definitively show whether it is effective for preventing cocaine damage, first in mice, then in humans.

Since the long - term health effects experienced by children following severe disease likely differs from that of adults, researchers said that additional studies are needed to determine the health needs for children who survive EVD.

This differentiation is critical since most celiac disease cases remain undiagnosed,» said Jessica Kiefte - de Jong, MSc, Erasmus University Medical Center, and lead author of the study.

«For the first time, our study points to a risk difference between drinking daily and drinking five or six days a week in the general male population, since earlier studies were conducted on alcohol misusers and patients referred for liver disease and compared daily drinking to «binge pattern» or «episodic» drinking,» observed lead investigator Gro Askgaard, MD, of the Department of Hepatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Since a controversial study in the 1990s reported that linemen have triple the risk of death from cardiovascular disease compared with other players, researchers have paid particular attention to the health consequences of playing football.

And Swedish scientists have reported autism rates overall have risen since they began studying the epidemiology of the disorder in the mid-1980s — just as U.S. Centers for Disease Control officials have noted an increase.

The recommendation that people eat at least five servings (about 400 grams) of fruits and veggies each day, espoused by the WHO since 1990, was based on studies that found a link between higher intakes of these foods and lower risks for cancer and other diseases.

Interestingly, the authors noted that since the study showed that microbiota in the gut can influence the brain, it «adds to evidence suggesting that the intestinal microbiota may play some role in the spectrum of brain disorders ranging from mood or anxiety to other problems that may include autism, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis.»

The TAGC study further enables more effective discovery of disease - causing mutations, since some genetic factors are observable in Ashkenazi individuals but essentially absent elsewhere.

Additionally, since ribosomal RNA has been shown to have specified controlled of cellular fate, this study provides a theoretical basis for disease therapy and neuroscience research and may lead to future advances in treating degenerative diseases or even brain cancers.

The researcher had studied SARS since last June and is believed to have contracted the disease in his lab before he left for Singapore on 7 December.

Studies since then have linked BPA to asthma, behavioral changes, some cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity.

«There was some skepticism about whether a CD19 - directed therapy would work in this disease, since nearly all of these patients» cancerous plasma cells do not express CD19,» said the study's senior author, Edward Stadtmauer, MD, chief of Hematologic Malignancies and a professor of Hematology / Oncology in Penn's Abramson Cancer Center and Perelman School of Medicine.

This makes the Flemish Gut Flora Project unique, since the majority of previous studies focused on specific diseases or featured a significantly smaller geographical scope.

The gene is located on chromosome 1, an area that's been scrutinized for prostate cancer genes since 1996, when family studies revealed a link between a region of that chromosome and the disease (ScienceNOW, 21 November 1996).

Since the attacks, various scientific studies have demonstrated that New Yorkers are engulfed in billows of illness and disease related to 9/11.

To determine whether scientific studies since 2002 found additional evidence on the usefulness of omega - 3 fish oil supplements, the authors focused on studies related to preventing a first heart attack in the general population, or in patients who were at high risk for heart disease, and preventing recurrent events and death in patients who had a prior heart attack, congestive heart failure, stroke, or atrial fibrillation.

The study sheds light on several aspects of the «flare - ups» that have occurred in Liberia since the country was initially declared free of Ebola virus disease.

«The results of the study are truly promising, since we were able to show for the first time that A2A adenosine receptor antagonists actually have very positive effects in an animal model simulating hallmark characteristics and progression of the disease.

Having shared the environment with humans ever since its appearance, the dog has been exposed to similar pathogens, and therefore represents an important model system for the study of human diseases.

«No patient should stop taking their statins based on our study, since statin therapy is a cornerstone in treatment of cardiovascular diseases and has been clearly shown to lower mortality and disease progression,» he says.

According to Rasmussen, the strengthening of disease - causing bacteria while they occupy protozoa is a phenomenon that's been known since independent studies revealed a probable role of protozoa in strengthening Legionella.

«In this study, we have a narrow focus on diabetes only,» wrote Tolstrup, «but since alcohol is related to more than 50 different diseases and conditions — reflecting that alcohol affects virtually every organ system of the body — any recommendations about how to drink and how much to drink should not be inferred from this study or any study investigating associations between alcohol and a single outcome.»

Since SCID mice have no natural immunity and can not reject tissue transplants, they have become valuable research tools for studying many diseases, including cancer and HIV.

Since IVF has already contributed to great progress in reproductive medicine, enabling genetic testing on embryos to prevent inherited diseases (including Huntington's), the creation of artificial embryos for study purposes could expand the horizon even more.

It should be noted, however, that while a study on senescent cell ablation in genetically normal mice would provide at least some evidence on the effect of senescent cells (and their ablation) on promoting cancer, even such a study would likely show less effect than could be anticipated in a large mammal model, since even normally - aging mice rarely suffer metastatic disease to the extent of aging humans, as sheer primary tumor volume is generally sufficient to be fatal to mice.

Since beta - CDs are currently being tested in humans for the treatment of genetic forms of cholesterol accumulation (e.g. Nieman - Pick disease), a successful result in this study might mean that the drug combination could then be accelerated for testing in clinical trials for AMD.

Since 1997, he has directed the investigation of neurodegenerative diseases in the Nurses» Health Study and other large cohorts comprising more than 400,000 men and women who have provided detailed information on their dietary habits and lifestyle in addition to blood or cheek cell samples for genetic and other laboratory analyses.

Here we tested whether human NSCs could be reprogrammed into iPS cells utilizing a similar strategy as described above since they represent a more clinically relevant source of cells for basic studies and modeling human disease.

«Undaunted by renal failure since he was 12, he studied and worked here at Georgetown for over 20 years as a specialist in diagnosing and treating kidney disease while quietly undergoing his dialysis and transplants.

The diabetes drug rosiglitazone has been under intense scrutiny since a 2007 study in the New England Journal of Medicine looked at more than 40 clinical trials and linked the drug's use with increased risk of heart attack and death from heart disease.

Studies published since January 2000 with subjects who were healthy or at elevated chronic disease risk from countries with high or very high human development were considered.

Since then, she led successful searches for new leadership in the Bioinformatics Core and the Information Technology department, expanded advanced technologies that can be applied to studying multiple diseases, and established the technology - themed convergence seminar series.