Sentences with phrase «types of diseases spread»

Raghavan said the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory also helped by providing data about the incidence and types of diseases spread by the lone star tick.

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It offers cardio protection, it helps lower bad cholesterol, it may help prevent the progression of multiple sclerosis, it has the ability to regenerate brain cells after a stroke, it has the ability to cross the blood - brain barrier to potentially ward off Alzheimer's disease, apparently it's good at wiping amyloid plaque from the brain (which studies haves linked to Alzheimer's), it may help to prevent certain types of cancer, and studies have shown that it inhibits cancer cell growth and metastases (meaning it keeps cancer from spreading).

These so called «Competing Factors» are the types of cancerous erosion of oversight in the Comptrollers Office that become the tumor spreading the disease!

«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.

When a serious new type of pneumonia started spreading from Asia in 2003, officials at WHO coined the term severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) to prevent the disease from being named «Chinese flu» or something similar.

«We were amazed when we found this new type of disease — tapeworms growing inside a person, essentially getting cancer, that spreads to the person, causing tumors,» said study researcher Dr. Atis Muehlenbachs, a staff pathologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch disease — tapeworms growing inside a person, essentially getting cancer, that spreads to the person, causing tumors,» said study researcher Dr. Atis Muehlenbachs, a staff pathologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch Disease Control and Prevention's Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch (IDPB).

Lead researcher Dr Justin O'Grady, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: «This type of technology will revolutionize the way that we characterize the rapid spread of emerging antibiotic - resistant infectious diseases.

Paget's disease is a rare type of breast cancer that starts in the breast ducts and spreads to the nipple and areola (dark skin around the nipple).

About 18 million people in the United States have type 2 diabetes, and the disease is spreading with the epidemic of obesity.

Conventional medical wisdom may consider bacteria to be «bad» for us, representing the spread of disease, etc., but we have over 1,000 different types numbering in the trillions of «good bacteria» in and on our bodies and particularly in our gut.

Though this treatment can be very helpful, it's generally not suitable for people with certain types of cancer, since it could encourage the cancer to spread throughout the body; as well as those with serious heart disease or circulatory problems, serious infections, or internal bleeding.

Candida normally lives in small, harmless numbers in your vagina, 4 but medications such as antibiotics can lower the probiotics (the good bacteria) in your vagina, causing yeast to spread.5 Corticosteroids, a type of drug used to treat symptoms of various diseases by lowering your immune system, may also cause yeast to grow.

Yearly dental cleanings and home dental care can help prevent some types of organ diseases by minimizing spread of bacteria from the mouth into the bloodstream.

Certain types of tick bites can be quite harmful to your pet, causing symptoms like irritation, hypersensitivity, skin damage, anemia and can spread diseases that can be dangerous if left untreated.

With other types of cancers (many sarcomas, carcinomas, etc.) surgery is the first line of therapy and chemotherapy may be used if after surgery the disease is still present microscopically at the surgical site or the cancer is determined to be at high risk for spread (e.g. osteosarcoma).

If the skin condition is spread over the body then it is usually due to some type of disease or problem within the body.

The use of targeting antibodies against vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), a protein that promotes tumor growth and spread, plus chemotherapy has prolonged disease free survival in several different tumor types in man.

There are also other types of ticks that parasitise dogs, cause anaemia and spread disease.

The prognosis for pets diagnosed with intestinal tumors will depend on a variety of factors, including the specific tumor type, the stage of the disease and whether the cancer has spread to other organs.

He suffered from a type of Babesia common among fighting dogs; he and many of his fellow Vicktory dogs arrived with the disease, carried by a blood parasite spread through bite wounds.