Sentences with phrase «treating diseases of aging»

Not exact matches

Why have we made more progress on certain diseases while other mass - scale killers, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are largely off of people's radars and so difficult to treat in an age of therapies which can resemble magic?

While substantial progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating certain S - TDs in recent years, CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 In addition to the physical and ps - ychological consequences of ST - Ds, these diseases also exact a tremendous economic toll.

While sub-stantial progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating certain ST - Ds in recent years, CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 In addition to the physical and psy - chological co-nsequences of S - TDs, these diseases also exact a tremendous economic toll.

While substantial progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating certain S - TDs in recent years, CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 In addition to the physical and psychological consequences of S - TDs, these diseases also exact a tremendous economic toll.

It is important for physicians and scientists to understand the unique pathology of HS - AGING, and to be able to differentiate it from other diseases, as it is only by making an accurate diagnosis that clinicians can hope to treat people who present with signs of cognitive decline.

But the treated 70 - to 79 - year - olds had 19 more heart disease cases and 13 more strokes per 10,000 women annually than women of the same age taking a placebo.

«If proven true, then combined use of metformin and rapamycin for treating aging and age - associated diseases in humans may be possible,» the researchers wrote in their conclusion.

For example, in the combined hormone therapy trial, treated 50 - to 59 - year - olds had five additional cases of heart disease and five more strokes per 10,000 women annually compared with the same - aged group on placebo.

For patients with Crohn's disease, researchers found a significantly higher risk of cervical neoplasia in patients diagnosed at a young age and in patients treated with azathioprine.

The study, published online ahead of print in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, has implications for treating diseases such as diabetic retinopathy and age - related macular degeneration — the leading causes of vision loss in adults.

«It's fantastic news that they are going into the clinic with a cell therapy for eye disease,» says Pete Coffey of University College London, and head of a team developing tiny «patches» of RPEs for treating age - related macular degeneration.

«The excitement is due in part to the aging of society and the potential for treating chronic diseases associated with aging,» he says.

Results indicated that after correcting for lung disease as well as other factors that can contribute to ROP risk such as gestational age, there is still a higher risk of ROP in steroid - treated infants than in those infants not treated with steroids.

The identification of factors that slow the age - dependent deterioration of the neurogenic niche in mice may constitute the basis for new methods of treating age - related neurodegenerative and neurovascular diseases.

Helen Thomson writes that transfusions of young blood may help treat age - related conditions such as Alzheimer's and heart disease (23...

The experimental drug J147 is something of a modern elixir of life; it's been shown to treat Alzheimer's disease and reverse aging in mice and is almost ready for clinical trials in humans.

The U.S. FDA recently approved Genentech's Lucentis for treatment of wet age - related macular degeneration and Genzyme's Myozyme for treating Pompe disease, a rare neuromuscular condition.

«Everybody else hopes that you can make use of that [nerve cell production] to treat neurodegenerative diseases,» such as Parkinson's disease, or even to encourage the aging brain to regenerate by stimulating the production of new nerve cells, he says.

Dillin noted that drugs that lower levels of serotonin have long been used to treat depression and other psychiatric manifestations of neurodegenerative diseases, but the new findings suggest these medications may have more widespread use in age - related disease than was previously thought.

The study, published September 7 in Nature Medicine, provides promise for a new therapeutic approach to treating the millions of people suffering from muscle diseases, including those with muscular dystrophies and muscle wasting associated with cancer and aging.

If it does a similar job in humans, it could have huge potential for treating a wide - range of age - related diseases, say the researchers behind the latest work.

«GSK is betting that we have discovered a whole new class of drugs that will treat all or many diseases of aging at once,» says Christoph Westphal, CEO and cofounder of Sirtris.

Potential new approaches to treating eye diseases such as age - related macular degeneration (AMD) are described in a new study, «IL - 33 amplifies an innate immune response in the degenerating retina,» in the February Journal of Experimental Medicine.

Researchers in nanomedicine have long dreamed of an age when molecular - scale computing devices could be embedded in our bodies to monitor health and treat diseases before they progress.

LA JOLLA — A study tying the aging process to the deterioration of tightly packaged bundles of cellular DNA could lead to methods of preventing and treating age - related diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease, as detailed April 30, 2015, in Science.

Retinal degenerative diseases, including age - related macular degeneration and Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) are the predominant causes of human blindness worldwide and are very difficult to treat.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A scientific team led by the Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco has discovered that a common form of a gene already associated with long life also improves learning and memory, a finding that could have implications for treating age - related diseases like Alzheimer's.

«Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made an important discovery toward the development of drugs to treat age - related memory loss in diseases like Alzheimer's.

A passionate believer in the power of regenerative medicine to not only treat disease but also to cure it, Dr. Bosarge launched Black Beret Life Sciences, LLC in 2014, leading research for treatments based on regenerative medicine for cancer, diabetes, neurodegeneration, osteoarthritis, and other conditions related to aging.

Reducing the use of indoor tanning by enforcing an age restriction could potentially reduce melanoma incidence, mortality, and the costs associated with treating the disease, according to results of an economic analysis published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Reducing the use of indoor tanning by enforcing an age restriction could potentially reduce melanoma incidence, mortality, and the costs associated with treating the disease, according to results of an economic analysis.

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.

[19] In the current study, [15] PDGF - AS mice exhibited an increased number and intensity of areas staining for reactive microglia (using Iba1) and astroglia (using GFAP), but vaccination with AFF 1 prevented nearly all of this disease - associated excess, with treated animals exhibiting only the burden of reactive glia present in similar - aged WT mice.

Panelists will discuss how scientists are investigating what happens to these cells as we age, how this knowledge is being used to guide new strategies to boost brain health and to develop therapies utilizing stem cells to treat diseases of the brain.

UNITY Biotechnology Launches with a Focus on Preventing and Reversing Diseases of Aging February 03, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- UNITY Biotechnology today announced that it is developing medicines to treat and eliminate age - related diseases and increase healthspan, or the amount of time an individual lives in good health.

LA JOLLA — The experimental drug J147 is something of a modern elixir of life; it's been shown to treat Alzheimer's disease and reverse aging in mice and is almost ready for clinical trials in humans.

We are focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of cell based therapeutics that prevent, treat or cure disease by repairing and replacing damaged or aged tissue, cells and organs and restoring their normal function.

Boosted by a newly funded grant from the NIH's National Institute of Aging, he will start with his project to repurpose a heart disease drug to treat Alzheimer's disease.

Understanding the elderly patient and figuring out modes of intervention to better prevent and treat disease associated with aging will continue to be an important area of research.

It can only be treated by replacing the valve through heart surgery and is the third leading cause of heart disease, affecting three percent of adults over the age of 75.

Research on these issues has drawn funding from the likes of Google, while the Bay Area's Unity Biotechnology, which is developing drugs to treat diseases that accompany aging, has also raised a bunch of money.

The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is a historic study of brain aging looking to help increase the pace of discovery in the race to prevent, treat and one day cure Alzheimer's dDisease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) is a historic study of brain aging looking to help increase the pace of discovery in the race to prevent, treat and one day cure Alzheimer's diseasedisease.

These criteria may include gender, age, type of disease being treated, previous treatments, and other medical conditions.

LA JOLLA — A study tying the aging process to the deterioration of tightly packaged bundles of cellular DNA could lead to methods of preventing and treating age - related diseases such as cancer,...

«This is a great start to the fall giving season and we look forward to more fundraising efforts to support our mission of transforming the way the world researches and treats age - related diseases.»

Presence of FMc was treated as a binary outcome in logistic regression models, with age at diagnosis and various disease characteristics as the predictors.

Mipomersen (Kynamro) reduces low - density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol by silencing a gene that produces apolipoprotein B - 100, a building block of LDL; the drug can treat familial hypercholesterolemia, an inherited disease that may cause heart attacks at an early age.

Designing better systems for detection and safe removal of dysfunctional «senescent» cells to improve health and treat age - related diseases.

More specifically, beets can boost blood flow, help treat anemia, regulate cholesterol levels, promote healthy liver function, decelerate aging, enhance digestion and decrease the risk of cancer and heart disease.

Being diagnosed with a «progressive and incurable» neurological disease at the age of 23 has been my greatest burden but also my greatest gift because of the juicy life lessons I have learned through the daily and sometimes menacing struggles of living with, treating and healing from a debilitating and disabling disease.