Sentences with phrase «untreatable conditions»

These changes have allowed veterinarians to diagnose and treat previously untreatable conditions.

All cats and dogs require a number of vaccinations on specific schedules to protect them against life - threatening and untreatable conditions.

Newborn kittens and puppies, as well as all pets generally, require a number of vaccinations on specific schedules to protect them against life - threatening and untreatable conditions.

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.

How, asked the authors - three researchers at Vanderbilt and an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - did an athlete with treatable depression come to believe that he had an untreatable condition and commit suicide?

But while the gadolinium - based agents have become the standard, evidence shows that in some very rare cases they can lead to an untreatable condition called nephrogenic systemic fibrosis, which can be fatal.

Researchers report that a slow - release version of the compound reverses diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), an untreatable condition that can lead to cirrhosis and liver cancer.

«This study represents an important step towards developing a potential therapeutic option for this devastating and currently untreatable condition.

Not exact matches

A key implication is that conditions previously thought to be untreatable are in fact treatable.

Following their detailed assessment, they agreed with the conclusions of the Alder Hey team that Alfie's condition was effectively untreatable.

The advent of therapies for genetic conditions considered untreatable could change the way we approach them.

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

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.

Better understanding of mechanisms underlying skeleton development, adult maintenance, and diseases has led in recent years to new and improved treatments for osteoporosis and a few other conditions, but today most skeletal diseases remain untreatable or incompletely treatable.

This document explores silver iontophoresis as an experimental means to address subdermal infections and otherwise untreatable skin conditions.

No animal should be killed for any reason other than for dire and untreatable medical conditions.

Euthanasia is used rarely and only as a final resort when it has been medically determined that an animal is suffering from a medical condition that is untreatable to allow the animal to maintain quality of life, or exhibits extreme behaviors that are beyond correction and that are deemed unsafe to other pets, people, and to the animal itself.

We can also expand our medical services to treat animals with conditions often thought of as «untreatable» within animal welfare shelters and rescues.

Euthanizing a pet is considered only when veterinary and / or behavioral experts have determined that an animal's condition is untreatable and the animal has little or no chance of recovering an acceptable quality of life.

Exponential advances in the field of animal medicine the past decade allows veterinarians to successfully treat conditions that were previously considered untreatable.

Veterinarians can now successfully treat conditions that were previously considered untreatable.

Regular veterinary checkups can help prevent disease and catch medical conditions early, before they become severe or untreatable.

In 2014, 1,800 — nearly one - third of animals transferred into ASAP - member organizations — arrived with manageable or treatable conditions, and 67 were listed as unhealthy and untreatable.

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

Animals still may be euthanized when they are highly aggressive, severely injured or have an untreatable medical condition, says Jody Jones, operations manager for Richmond Animal Care and Control.

Euthanizing a pet is considered only when veterinary or behavioral experts determine that an animal's condition is untreatable, and the animal has little or no chance of an acceptable quality of life.

One of the most important reasons to bring your pet in on a regular basis is to monitor and treat conditions before they become untreatable.

A PEM categorizes the conditions as healthy, treatable - rehabilitatable, treatable - manageable or unhealthy & untreatable using Asilomar Accords definitions based on the standard of care.

Sign a document agreeing to notify Animal Rescue Corps prior to putting to death any animal placed there by Animal Rescue Corps for any reason other than an untreatable medical condition, giving Animal Rescue Corps the chance to transfer that animal to another organization with sufficient resources for that animal

SDR is a no - kill rescue, resorting to euthanasia only when a dog is either suffering from an untreatable medical condition or considered dangerous and not responding to rehabilitative training efforts.

Although most conditions that could be identified through expanded newborn screening will not have unique, condition - specific treatments (as in the case of PKU or CH), this does not mean that such conditions are «untreatable.»