Sentences with phrase «untreatable chronic»

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].

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

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Results of a phase 2 study published in The Lancet suggest that simvastatin, a cheap cholesterol lowering drug, might be a potential treatment option for the secondary progressive, or chronic, stage of multiple sclerosis (MS), which is currently untreatable.

Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a potential treatment which relies on engineering instead of drugs.

Factors such as age, chronic disease or traumatic injury can sometimes inflict unbearable, untreatable symptoms of pain and misery.

They can also develop chronic ear infections, skin cysts, degenerative hip disease, and a serious, untreatable nervous system disease called Progressive Neuronal Abiotrophy or PNA.