Sentences with phrase «treat a disease called»

It is primarily used to treat a disease called myasthenia gravis that occurs in both dogs and humans.

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This concept, sometimes called personalized medicine, could transform the way we understand and treat disease.

The plan, called 9000 Points of Care, laid out a framework that would see pharmacists treat more minor ailments, like cold sores, hay fever and back pain, administer more vaccines, and play a larger role in managing chronic conditions, like heart disease and diabetes.

what did it tell us of disease, the universe, relationships, treatment of women... I would hazard a guess that women were treated with more respect before the advent of any of the so called holy texts..

In wanting to license physicians to kill, McKhann and other advocates of euthanasia / PAS are calling into question the expectation that physicians will be healers committed to preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases and to promoting wholeness.

For example, if an organic food shipment showed any evidence of pests or disease the shipment's owner was treating the so - called «organic» food the same way they would treat conventional food — fumigating it with pesticides that are prohibited under USDA organic rules.

Findings of the research, published April 22 in the journal Mucosal Immunology, reveal that a substance found in animal and human breast milk called epidermal growth factor, or EGF, blocks the activation of a protein responsible for unlocking the damaging immune cascade that culminates in NEC, a disease marked by the swift and irreversible death of intestinal tissue that remains one of the most - challenging - to - treat conditions.

«If we want to treat the greatest number of diseases, we need to figure out how to get these molecules inside the cells of patients — not just increasing the number of target cells but also hitting tissues other than the liver,» says Anderson, who co-founded a company called CRISPR Therapeutics to pursue those goals.

The finding launched a genetic engineering gold rush, and since then, researchers have raced to use the new method, called CRISPR, to treat — and perhaps even cure — genetic diseases.

Zhang's team focused on two of them, saxagliptin and sitagliptin, along with an antioxidant supplement called α - lipoic acid, which is used to treat diabetic nephropathy, a common complication of the disease.

By contrast, mice raised in the germ - free cages showed worse motor symptoms when they either were treated with microbial metabolites called short - chain fatty acids or received fecal transplants of gut microbes from patients with Parkinson's disease.

But Moderna has had to retreat from optimistic predictions about a partnership with Alexion to treat a rare disease called Crigler - Najjar syndrome.

For example, a rexinoid approved for treating certain types of late - stage cancer raises levels of lipids called triglycerides in the blood, which could worsen obesity and cardiovascular disease.

That message, delivered in two studies published today, is both good news and bad news for researchers who hope to use so - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) to study diseases and perhaps some day treat patients.

The study on reverse osmosis looked at how well this water purification technique removed synthetic antimicrobials called ionophores, which are used to promote growth in dairy cows and to treat coccidiosis, a costly, parasitic disease in the cattle industry that affects mostly young calves.

«Overlooked cell key player in preventing age - related vision loss: Tree - shaped retinal cells called Müller glia may provide a new therapeutic target for treating degenerative eye diseases.»

These neurons and the synapses between them are supported by long, tree - shaped cells called Müller glia (in green), which may provide a new therapeutic target for treating degenerative eye diseases.

Called craniotomy, this skull - cutting technique is still used today during brain surgery to treat neurological diseases, injuries, tumors, and blood clots.

The technique used is called deep brain stimulation, and is already used to treat the tremors and movement problems of some people with severe Parkinson's disease.

Therefore, researchers had been investigating a drug called memantine, currently FDA - approved for treating moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease, as a potentially promising therapy for treatment - resistant depression.

Doctors who treat patients with a severe and progressive respiratory disease called lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) can face an agonizing treatment decision.

Dysevolution is what Lieberman calls «the deleterious feedback loop that occurs over multiple generations when we don't treat the causes of a mismatch disease but instead pass on whatever environmental factors cause the disease, keeping the disease prevalent and sometimes making it worse.»

Drugs that inhibit the activity of enzymes called histone deacetylases (HDACs) are being widely developed for treating cancer and other diseases, with two already on the market.

In addition to the stent, Dugas and colleagues are developing a balloon coated with the same compounds to treat blood flow blockages throughout the body called peripheral artery disease.

They subsequently treated worms and human cells with Huntington's disease with drugs that prevented the cell from sweeping up and storing the lipid, called ceramide, and saw the same protective effect.

Wender is an adviser for a company called Neurotrope BioScience that's developing bryostatins and related molecules to treat Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.

A medication called ferric citrate may reduce dialysis patients» need to take multiple drugs that treat complications related to kidney disease.

The first such drug, called ipilimumab (Yervoy), developed out of Allison's basic science research, showed much lower response rates against advanced melanoma than those obtained with targeted drugs, but long - term follow - up found that 22 percent of those treated with Yervoy survived at least four years, unprecedented results for the disease.

The first people to be treated with a gene therapy had ADA - SCID, also called «bubble boy disease», and some later got leukaemia, probably because the virus carrying the new genes also switched on cancer genes.

Grillner had severed the cats» spines, rendering them paralyzed, and then injected them with an amino acid called L - dopa, routinely used to treat Parkinson's disease — a neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by motor symptoms.

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, meanwhile, is preparing to enter the clinic with an RNAi drug that treats primary hyperoxaluria — a rare genetic disease that causes the overproduction and buildup of substances called oxalates in the urine.

A study coming out in Science Translational Medicine and led by University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine researchers has shown that cats with NPC — which mirrors the human version of the disease — show vast improvements when treated with a compound called cyclodextrin.

The disease is among many conditions that scientists are hoping to treat through the recently developed CRISPR - Cas9 gene - editing tool, in which an RNA strand guides an enzyme called Cas9 to cut a specific portion of DNA.

In addition to supercharging stamina, the drug, called AICAR, may also be useful in treating debilitating muscular disorders such as muscular dystrophy as well as metabolic diseases such as diabetes, because it also appears to help the body use and remove sugar from the blood more effectively.

You report Beverly Collett and Irene Tracey as calling for pain to be treated as a disease (6 March, p...

Biologists and veterinarians across the central and eastern United States are calling on researchers at the University of Illinois to help them identify, understand and potentially treat snake fungal disease, a baffling affliction affecting more than a dozen species of wild and captive snakes in at least 15 states.

The newly identified biomarker, a gene called RASAL2, provides a target for developing new therapeutics designed to treat this often deadly disease.

The mice were either sensitized with house dust mite allergens or treated with a pro-inflammatory molecule called interleukin 13 (IL - 13), which induces mucous production in airway diseases.

Meanwhile, researchers have treated another inherited childhood brain disease called Canavan disease with gene therapy.

Rotman's team discovered this effect in one study in which participants were introduced to a fictitious pharmaceutical company that produced drugs to treat Parkinson's disease and a bacterial infection called Brucellosis.

The FDA approves the first oral drug for treating interstitial cystitis (a debilitating urinary bladder disease), called Elmiron (pentosan polysulfate sodium).

The computational method, called TargetFinder, opens the door to identifying new drug targets that could treat many genetic diseases.

Already, researchers have developed devices such as deep brain stimulators for treating Parkinson's disease, cochlear implants for restoring minimal hearing in profoundly deaf people, and a computer interface called BrainGate that allows fully paralyzed individuals to accomplish simple tasks via a robotic arm.

In recent years, researchers have developed so - called «senolytic» drugs that wipe out senescent cells in aging mice and mouse models of age - related disease, exploiting the high dependence of these cells on specific biochemical survival pathways.9, 10 In these studies, senolytic drugs have restored exercise capacity9 and formation of new blood and immune precursor cells11 in aging mice to near youthful norms, and prevented or treated mouse models of diseases of aging like osteoarthritis, 12 fibrotic lung disease, 13 hair loss, 14 atherosclerosis, 15,16 and age - related diseases of the heart itself.9 UNITY Biotechnology is leading a growing charge toward the clinic, with human clinical trials expected to begin in 2019.

The investigators gave the mice a drug called memantine, which is used to treat moderate to severe cases of Alzheimer's disease.

We are studying how a protein called NMNAT2 provides neuroprotection in the mammalian central nervous system with a long - term goal of developing therapies to treat neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and tauopathies.

These antibiotics — called macrolides — are used to treat infections such as pneumonia, bronchitis and some sexually transmitted diseases.

Dr. Mark Hyman called it «the most important molecule you need to stay healthy and prevent aging, cancer, heart disease, dementia and more, and necessary to treat everything from autism to Alzheimer's disease.»

But other ways of treating the disease, including targeting the other protein called tau that damages nerve cells, may prove important as well.

And if a patient isnt sure whether a prospective doctor treats many others with the disease, Dewke, who runs a website called Flake HQ, suggests simply calling the office staff to ask.