Sentences with word «untreatable»

They hope to go still further and turn the stem cells into treatments for previously untreatable diseases.

The treatment, developed at the University of Pennsylvania with clinical trials carried out at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Iowa, is the first time gene therapy is used to treat an inherited disease and could lead to treatments of other currently untreatable conditions.

«Inappropriate use of antibiotics can be bad for individual patients and the entire population, and makes it harder to control the spread of untreatable infections.»

One of his more recent acquisitions is an in hospital stem cell laboratory which is providing drug free relief for previously untreatable medical conditions.

Ahead of us now is the major task of exploring the potential of new drug targets, so that hopefully we can prevent the number of people with untreatable infections from escalating further,» says Professor Anders Miki Bojesen, who coordinates the UC - Care research activities at the Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences.

If one simple mutation allows bacteria to resist antibiotics they've never met, diseases like TB could become untreatable once again

For example, creative problem - solving AI could someday make snap decisions that save the lives of the passengers in a self - driving car if its sensors fail, or propose unconventional combinations of chemical compounds that lead to new drugs for previously untreatable diseases.

Many patients considered untreatable at other institutions have found the care they need at the Center for Gastrointestinal Oncology.

Some of these people have vision problems caused by currently untreatable diseases, he notes, but others simply because they can not afford or do not have access to relatively simple fixes such as surgery to remove cataracts (clouding of eye lenses).

Modern medicine increasingly relies on implantable biomedical devices but their effectiveness is often limited because of unsuccessful integration with host tissue or the development of untreatable infections, necessitating replacement of the device through revision surgery.

«Many patients who suffer from untreatable chronic diseases, including heart and kidney diseases, are in waiting lists for limited organ transplantation.

By working together, we will make Philadelphia a no - kill community where euthanasia is used only when animals are dangerous or suffering with untreatable illnesses / injuries, and where all savable pets enjoy the safety of a loving home.

However, the clear association with triazole fungicide usage is very worrisome, as some unlucky people at risk will breathe in untreatable Aspergillus, with potentially dire consequences.»

In recent clinical trials, CAR T cell therapy has dramatically improved the outcomes of blood cancer patients with advanced, otherwise untreatable forms of leukemia and lymphoma.

The new findings could help in the development of treatments for this and other currently untreatable viruses.

Jonathan Mermin, director of the CDC's National Center for HIV / AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, warned that «if resistance continues to increase and spread, current treatment will ultimately fail and 800,000 Americans a year will be at risk for untreatable gonorrhea.»

Most of Freeman's work took place when state psychiatric hospitals overflowed with seemingly untreatable patients, many of whom suffered relentlessly.

The tissue engineering technique could someday help restore the voices of patients with otherwise untreatable vocal disorders, although more testing must be done

Sarah Heilshorn uses new methods to try to heal brain and spine injuries once thought of as untreatable.

However the trends in population and pollution are not at all encouraging whilst the improvements in general violence, incidence of untreatable life altering or shortening diseases (notably of infective aetiology) and short survival due to disease, accident, poor nutrition etc have been (hitherto but not necessarily permanently) colossal.

3) The client is then informed that their pet is suffering from untreatable cancer and has only a day or two to live

However, some bacteria, including the formidable MRSA (methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus) and CRE (carbapenem - resistant Enterobacteriaceae) organisms, have evolved to become virtually untreatable with existing drugs.

We place all of our healthy and treatable animals as well as many of our unhealthy and untreatable animals from our cageless Animal Care Center located in Santa Clara which resulted in an overall live release rate of 94 % in 2016.

A powerful variety of E. coli reached American shores, and a Nevada woman died of an infection untreatable by available antibiotics.

Available drugs only marginally affect disease severity, making Alzheimer's disease effectively untreatable.

Over the past few decades, the overuse and misuse of antibiotics has been slowly and steadily creating pockets of «superbugs»: antibiotic - resistant bacteria that can cause untreatable infections.

This inherited condition remains untreatable despite decades of attempts to develop therapies.

Synthetic biology promises to revolutionize cancer care by offering permanent cures to patients with historically untreatable malignancies.

The emergence of this MDR parasite is raising the specter of untreatable malaria in the Mekong region and perhaps beyond.

Preventing HARD This devastating disease is often debilitating or even fatal and is essentially untreatable except for symptomatic care.

So why is separation anxiety thought of as largely untreatable?

Cancer surgeons in the Section of General Surgery at the University of Chicago Medicine treat patients with a variety of cancers, including those with cancers considered advanced or untreatable at other institutions.

Public health officials worry in particular about untreatable strains of antibiotic - resistant gonorrhea on the rise worldwide.

The discovery points toward probiotic therapies for this so - far untreatable condition, they report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Francis is not the first to suggest this; Megan McArdle, for one, floated the idea last year when writing about the advent of seemingly untreatable STDs.

Untreatable strains of Enterococcus and Staphylococcus aureus in intensive care units are also on the rise.

«Many common cancers, such as head and neck cancers, become untreatable despite the best medical intervention and the highest standard of care.

For a person dealing with untreatable depression and anxiety, testosterone therapy could be the answer.

Mitochondrial diseases are rare, but they are untreatable so far.

Most causes of untreatable blindness occur due to loss of the millions of light sensitive photoreceptor cells that line the retina, similar to the pixels in a digital camera.

The condition is not only untreatable, but seems to be peculiar to humans, meaning scientists have been unable to study the disease and seek new treatments by modeling it in an animal like the mouse.

The prevention of severe early infections is also important in order to reduce the incidence of life - threatening pneumonia or bronchiolitis, which can lead to severe untreatable chronic disease in adulthood, in addition to immediate severe morbidity associated with the infection itself [16, 18, 19].

Never assume that changes you see in your older cat are simply due to old age, and are therefore untreatable.

Some of these animals ultimately may have to be euthanized due to sickness, traumatic injury or untreatable behavior or medical conditions.

Completely Untreatable.

We will also put to sleep any animal that has a severe, untreatable health condition that makes them unsuitable for adoption.

The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are evolving faster than we can develop effective antibiotics against them, and a return to the era of untreatable gonorrhea could see a rise in the particularly nasty complications that arise from a long - term gonorrheal infection, such as pelvic inflammatory disease and epididymitis.