Sentences with phrase «used for disease»

However, in the breeding program against MMVD, auscultation of mitral systolic heart murmur is the screening method used for the disease, as other causes for this form of murmur, in middle age or older CKCS, are extremely rare [7].

Indeed, these cells could in turn be used for disease modelling and drug discovery.

These in turn can be used for disease modeling and drug discovery, but hopefully one day also for cell - based therapy of the many devastating diseases such as Alzheimer and Parkinson's Disease.

«Treg populations were expanded in the mouse model using a treatment never previously used for this disease.

The new NIST human genome RMs increase the ability of DNA sequencing laboratories to be more confident in their reporting of true positives, false positives, true negatives and false negatives, and therefore, significantly improve genetic tests used for disease risk prediction, diagnosis, and progression tracking.

Foreseeable applications include integrating lasers, sensors, wave guides and other optical components into so - called lab - on - a-chip devices now used for disease diagnosis, screening experimental materials and drugs, DNA forensics and more.

In the future, it may be more broadly used for disease diagnosis.

«Genetic engineering of human stem cells has not been used for disease - associated genomic deletions,» said Dr. Papapetrou.

The STEAM flow analyzer is an automated microscope 100 times faster than the automated microscopes hospitals sometimes use for disease identification, he adds.

Importantly, the researchers began testing drugs currently used for diseases other than epilepsy.

[5] As RT delivery methods continue to improve and RT use for this disease decreases, it is our hope that the incidence of RT - associated breast cancer following curative treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma will decline.

This is becoming an increasingly big problem, as are the solutions often used for these diseases.

J Grave, but it is a horrible name to use for a disease.

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One research project, for example, focuses on using robots to recognize the facial reactions of Parkinson's Disease patients who have lost the ability to convey emotion to others because of reduced muscle activity.

Using microbiome analysis technology first developed in Los Alamos Lab to combat disease warfare, the company takes the samples and creates RNA and metabolic profiles for each customer.

Scanadu will also have anonymized access to all of its users» health data, which can be used for epidemiology — the study of the patterns of health and disease in defined geographic areas.

or, more radically, for posting their genetic data to an anonymized, shared research database that might be used to identify those at risk for certain diseases or to identify those who respond better to specific classes of drugs, from beta blockers to cancer medicines.

In July, Puerto Rico ignored pressure from the Centers for Disease Control and sided with public concerns about naled's safety when it decided against using the insecticide.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

Traditional lab companies like Quest have also started talking about using blood tests for a personalized medicine approach to the early detection of diseases.

Since metformin was approved for diabetes, it has started to be used off - label to treat conditions like pre-diabetes, gestational diabetes, and polycystic ovarian disease.

But before his arrest, he said he'd use KaloBios as a vehicle to nab another niche drug, this time for treatment of the parasitic infection Chagas disease, and dramatically increase its price to the $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 range after helping it win FDA approval (the drug is approved in other countries and is provided to patients in the U.S. on a special and selective basis).

There, they will work on creating tools that can be used to find cures for all diseases.

Carlos Martinez, a materials engineer and assistant professor at Purdue University in Indiana, says that the final goal of the project is to develop these disease breathalyzers to provide diagnostic and preventative screening for home or health - clinic use.

«I hope that someday all of you on the advisory committee can tell your families for generations that you were part of the process that ended the use of toxic treatments like chemotherapy and radiation as standard treatment, and turned blood cancers into a treatable disease that even after relapse most people survive.»

The trend to drop landlines has been growing over the last decade alongside the growth in mobile phone use, according to semi-annual surveys performed by the Centers for Disease Control, which wants to monitor how to contact people for future surveys.

Our partner physicians use data and analytics to do exactly what you described, which is to determine the best protocol for patient care — disease and tumor - specific — so they don't over-treat or waste resources.

The treatment (which involves injecting people with modified viruses carrying the CRISPR technology that will go in and repair the faulty DNA) can be injected directly into the retina and, in this case, used to delete the portion of the CEP290 gene that's responsible for the disease.

The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»

Gene therapy involves the delivery, using a modified virus, of a healthy copy of a gene to make up for one that's deficient in a way that causes disease.

«We could feed more people, reduce the scourge of plant diseases, minimize the water used in agriculture... the possibilities are really exciting for anyone interested in the environment, sustainability, the future of food and open agriculture.»

In recent years, Levine and others have used clinical studies to prove that even in healthy people, a chair - based lifestyle sets up the physiological conditions for the onset of Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity — and ultimately, shorter lifespans.

The study ascribed this dearth of research to restrictions — namely a 21 - year - old congressional appropriations bill called the «Dickey Amendment» that stipulated «none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.»

As a result, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends using opioids sparingly for severe, acute pain, and only under special circumstances for chronic pain.

MAYO CLINIC COMBINES WITH CLOUD STARTUP TO REVOLUTIONIZE DISEASE EDUCATION: Mayo Clinic and cloud startup Mytonomy are partnering to make it easier for cancer patients to understand and use information about their illness, according to the Chicago Evening Post.

Everyone from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to sporting - goods store REI has used zombies as the premise for survival courses.

In March, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopted a positive opinion to include a new indication for adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke or peripheral arterial disease) to reduce cardiovascular risk by lowering LDL - C levels.

Valued for its resistance to heat and corrosion, asbestos was widely used for decades in such products as building materials, pipe insulation and floor tiles before studies linked it to lung cancer and other diseases.

For example, a Stanford University project — which uses many PCs around the world acting together as a supercomputer to assist protein folding - related disease research — can offload calculations to the GPU to multiply its performance many times.

(For example, Optiva ads that ran in national consumer magazines claimed that using the competing Braun product wouldn't prevent the growth of bacteria that might contribute to heart disease, stroke, low birth weight, and other life - threatening conditions.)

For example, researchers could use the technology to replace a disease - causing mutated gene with a healthy one.

Through talking to experts in the field over the past year, Gates said he had identified five areas of need: Understanding better how Alzheimer's unfolds, detecting and diagnosing it earlier, pursuing multiple approaches to trying to halt the disease, making it easier for people to take part in clinical trials of potential new medicines, and using data better.

At the Challenge Festival, startups like as BaseTrace, which «uses DNA - based tracers to track where industrial fluids are going in large, complex environments» and Reliefwatch, a cloud - based system that uses smartphone technology to track inventory and diseases for healthcare organizations in the developing world, battled it out on stage for a grand prize of $ 150,000 in investment.

Perhaps this will include research and development of drugs for other diseases, albeit with fewer researchers, but to date, neither the amount the company will save nor its specific use of these freed - up resources has been detailed.

CVS will extend use of Epic's EHR technology to its specialty care programs for managing complex and chronic medical conditions and rare diseases, the company announced on Friday.

Bush also hinted that AI technology such as IBM's Watson might be used in conjunction with Athenahealth's technology, which could electronically survey patients in order to collect data points that might be early warning signs for disease.

The WHO and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommend using condoms during intercourse to prevent transmission.

Using advances in genomic sequencing, the human microbiome, proteomics, informatics, computing, and cell therapy technologies, HLI is building the world's most comprehensive database of human genotypes and phenotypes as a basis for a variety of commercialization opportunities to help solve aging related disease and human biological decline.

However, current spirometers are not affordable for the majority of health care providers in many low and lower - middle income countries, and are not widely used despite a massive and increasing burden of chronic lung disease.

Gain Therapeutics (www.gaintherapeutics.com) is a preclinical stage biotech company developing a class of next generation pharmacological chaperones for the treatment of devastating rare diseases using the SEE - Tx technology.