Sentences with phrase «than a disease in»

«Much to our surprise, the trial showed that patients receiving standard therapy compared to those receiving cetuximab with standard therapy had no difference in outcomes,» said study author Dr. Steven Alberts, a professor of oncology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minn. «It also indicates that disease in earlier stages may be different than diseases in later stages.»

Not exact matches

According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, antibiotic - resistant bacteria cause more than two million illnesses in the U.S. every year and 23,000 deaths.

The Chinese government financed nationwide studies into cockroaches» medical value that, after more than two decades of laboratory investigation and clinical trials, had discovered or confirmed dozens of disease - fighting proteins and biochemical compounds with huge potential value in medicine.

And in a warming world, the range of some of these disease spreaders is expanding, making population control efforts more urgent than ever.

The rate of women who had their first child between 40 and 44 has more than doubled in the past 20 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

After more than a decade of research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey, biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his team developed to the public at large.

More than 32,000 people died in shootings in 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The risk of disease recurrence in a five - year time period also must be greater than or equal to 30 percent.

It is also restricted almost entirely to Africa, which, unfortunately for its victims, makes it a less attractive target for big drug companies than a host of non-fatal diseases (think erectile dysfunction) that are more common in rich countries.

More than 33,000 American deaths involved opioids in 2015, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and opioid overdoses have quadrupled since 1999.

The outbreak of Zika, a mosquito - borne disease, was detected last year in Brazil, where it has been linked to more than 1,700 cases of microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size that can lead to severe developmental problems.

«It's very important that the public is very aware that these are more than summertime nuisances — you can get very severe diseases from ticks and mosquitoes,» Petersen, who had West Nile virus from a mosquito bite in 2003, told CNN.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were more than 42,000 opioid - related deaths in 2016.

But unlike the anti-abortion scenario that attracted the attention of Massachusetts's AG, this work is all opt - in and is focused on improving healthcare for the more than 130 million American adults who suffer from chronic disease.

The difference can not be explained by an outbreak of Dutch Disease in Canada, as the Australian dollar has appreciated faster than the Canadian dollar over the last decade.

In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 15 percent of U.S. adults still smoked as of 2016.

In March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BLINCYTO for the treatment of adults and children with B - cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia in first or second complete remission with minimal residual disease (MRD) greater than or equal to 0.1 percenIn March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BLINCYTO for the treatment of adults and children with B - cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia in first or second complete remission with minimal residual disease (MRD) greater than or equal to 0.1 percenin first or second complete remission with minimal residual disease (MRD) greater than or equal to 0.1 percent.

«Children are particularly vulnerable to waterborne diseases and as there have been no vaccinations in Syria for more than four or five years due to a lack of access, young children are more likely to get sick.»

The studies conducted in the late 60s that suggested fat intake was a greater risk factor for heart disease than sugar consumption were actually funded by the Sugar Research Foundation, according to a new analysis published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Patients who enrolled in BCBS individual plans in 2014 and 2015 have higher rates of certain diseases — depression, hypertension, diabetes, coronary artery disease, HIV and hepatitis C — than individuals enrolled in coverage prior to ACA implementation.

The numbers in Europe are substantially higher than those in the United States, where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported just 118 cases throughout 2017.

Although a treadmill desk may help with the risk of obesity and heart disease, these desks are also prone to increased typos and might cause you to fall more often than merely sitting in a chair.

Keith Fargo, the Alzheimer's Association director of scientific programs and outreach, told Business Insider in 2017 that the Alzheimer's report, which would tell me whether I had a mutation on my APOE gene, was more useful in the context of research than it was for predicting who might get the disease.

Consider the 10 million people living with Parkinson's disease and the more than 44 million people living with Alzheimer's disease, and factor in that the frequency of both is expected to increase considerably as people live longer.

However, Burke and colleagues43 analyzed data from 514 Western Australian aborigines with almost 14 years of follow - up and found that risk of coronary heart disease increased in participants consuming eggs more than twice per week.

He said that many patients use the drug for far less than a year and that the price was now more in line with those of other drugs for rare diseases.

Rare diseases are conditions affecting less than 200,000 people in the US and less than five (5) in 10,000 according to the definition adopted by the European Medicines Agency.

Even health issues more commonly associated with the West, such as obesity, type - 2 diabetes and heart disease, are rising fast in developing nations — faster than their health systems can handle them.

Jain elaborated on those successes in an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association last year, noting the efficiencies lead to better outcomes for patients, who can more reliably receive routine medical care and stay out of emergency rooms; doctors, who can more easily manage patients» chronic conditions; and cost - savings for the broader medical system, as managing chronic disease is substantially cheaper than repeated ER visits.

More than a dozen kindergartens in Vietnam have closed to deal with an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease that has killed 109 children and sickening more than 52,000 this year.

In general, companies that are «diseased» but «curable» offer better prospects for high returns than those that are held in favor by everyone with a few dollars to invesIn general, companies that are «diseased» but «curable» offer better prospects for high returns than those that are held in favor by everyone with a few dollars to invesin favor by everyone with a few dollars to invest.

«There are more cases of imported yellow fever [from travelers] in the past two years than in the previous 20 years,» said Duane Gubler, a leading researcher of mosquito - borne diseases at Duke - NUS Medical School.

Because the Editas process is potentially applicable across a variety of genetic disease indications, it wouldn't shock me if it becomes one of this year's best performing IPOs, and CRISPR / Cas research becomes a much bigger focus of investors than CAR - T in 2016.

This team also discovered 3,200 genes that had fewer loss - of - function or missense mutations than would be expected suggesting that these are likely disease - causing variants that are rare or absent in the population because of their detrimental effect on human health.

The shipment contained more than 3 tons of urgently needed medical aid for patients with storm - related illnesses and injuries, as well as chronic disease medicine to replace medications lost in the storm.

If these parameters were needed to define a god, should he exist, would you not say that with all of the suffering and death and disease in the world, that the existence of god through the condition of our species would be more readily disproved than anything?

It's true also that poverty, oppression, disease, and hunger have always been far from me, and that I often choose to live in blissful disregard of them rather than think upon and sacrifice significantly to aid those in need.

Apparently your God liked more babies dying but science had a heart and now birth mortality rates are higher than they have ever been in human history with fewer diseases and complications causing baby deaths.

The challenge is urgent because more than 31,000 people in the United States have already been diagnosed with this fatal disease — half of whom have already died, leaving families, friends and loved ones who need care — and because at least 1.5 million Americans are thought to be carrying the rapidly spreading virus.

However, I pray that everyone in the church begins to understand that my depression doesn't make my faith any less strong than your eczema, diabetes or whatever genetic disease you've inherited.»

I don't know if Addiction is a disease in the classical sense, but it's clear that it is far more than what you've described.

I guess that in a world where 39,000 children die each day from preventable disease, where around 90,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq, where the current global food crisis causes a child to die every seven seconds, where 47 million Americans can not afford basic healthcare, and where women and children continue to be murdered in Darfur — nothing says «God is pro-life» better than a bunch of wet democrats.

As that quote suggests, Caldecott was profoundly critical of much in the modern world, but he was far more interested in the Christian cure than in describing the history and extent of the liberal - Enlightenment disease.

The double - mindedness in him is a disease that gnaws and gnaws and eats away the noblest powers; the injury is internal and infinitely more dangerous than being deformed and palsied.

There are lots of other sex acts in which people engage other than penetrative sex which all carry less risk of disease transmission (in differing degrees).

Women who die of heart disease are six times more likely than other women to have been bereaved in the past six months — and heart disease among widowers under 45 has been found to be ten times the rate among married men the same age.

I presume they are more mindful of modesty than of salvation, like those who contract a disease in the more shameful parts of the body and shun making themselves known to the physicians; and thus they perish along with their own bashfulness» (Repentance 10:1 [A.D. 203]-RRB-.

In the case of Hardin's argument, if the calculations revealed that giving aid to certain countries would result in more rather than less disease and death, it would follow then that to do so would be an offense against love and mercIn the case of Hardin's argument, if the calculations revealed that giving aid to certain countries would result in more rather than less disease and death, it would follow then that to do so would be an offense against love and mercin more rather than less disease and death, it would follow then that to do so would be an offense against love and mercy.

And in some ways it is easier to dramatize some rare, grim disease in a TV story than it is to depict the relative banalities of old age.

In 1995 more young Americans died by suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza and lung disease combined.