Sentences with phrase «with debilitating diseases»

But we certainly hope that our work will guide future medical studies and will help eventually develop effective therapies for patients with these debilitating diseases.»

In some cases, the gene or genes that are turned on are those associated with debilitating diseases, such as Angelman syndrome.

«This study illustrates the potential of gaining fundamental insights into brain function while helping patients with debilitating diseases, and provides us with a powerful way of selecting targets based on their connectivity to other regions that can be widely applied to help guide brain stimulation therapy across multiple neurological and psychiatric disorders.»

People with debilitating diseases are entering the experience of their spiritual journey.

The trial, the largest ever of fetal surgery, randomly assigned those afflicted with this debilitating disease to get surgery either in utero or after birth and tracked them until they were 2 1/2 years old.

«Our findings regarding TTR's involvement in JIA point to a potential treatment — encouraging news for children with this debilitating disease,» said study leader Laura Santambrogio, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology, of microbiology & immunology, and of orthopaedic surgery at Einstein.

Of course, some people would claim that you have the right to do so, especially if the gene is associated with a debilitating disease such as cystic fibrosis.

Not exact matches

Ten - month - old Joseph Maraachli was diagnosed with a terminal and progressively debilitating neurological disease.

I was diagnosed with Chronic Neurological Lyme Disease 2 years ago and have been battling, at times, debilitating symptoms.

Since its inception in 1989, Project Angel Food has delivered more than 10 million meals to men, women and children who are debilitated by disease and struggling with life - threatening illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, renal failure and HIV / AIDS.

When faced with a debilitating physical disease, one is forced to abandon any attachment to their previous ways and admit defeat; those who let go can experience profound transformation, which is why they become such inspirational people!

MDA Summer Camp provides thousands of kids with muscular dystrophy and related muscle - debilitating diseases «the best week of the year.»

The first step in that direction will be HHS Director deciding on life / death of the unborn that is diagnosed with some incurable, debilitating disease.

The information passed on to them was far from new — people suffering over the years with a variety of debilitating tick - borne diseases, not just the universally known and feared Lyme disease.

Clostridium difficile has shown a 5 % increase in the community when compared to the same period last year with 15,263 people being affected by this debilitating disease.

Findings from a study into Crohn's disease, led by William G. Kerr, Ph.D., of SUNY Upstate Medical University, and his collaborators at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, provide the first evidence that patients with debilitating inflammatory bowel disease lack sufficient quantities of a protein that comes from the SHIP1 gene.

The technique could provide potential Alzheimer's sufferers and their families with several years of advance warning, allowing them to prepare for the debilitating disease while delaying its arrival with diet and exercise.

A new study documents the prolonged and difficult path patients face before they are diagnosed with mitochondrial diseases, a group of rare, debilitating genetic disorders.

Alan Flake at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in Pennsylvania is planning a similar clinical trial of maternal stem cells in fetuses with sickle cell anemia, a painful, debilitating disease that often shortens life.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

In Parkinson's the pathways are thought to be out of balance, with interrupted motor cells causing the debilitating tremors and loss of movement control symptomatic of the disease.

However, it and other animal groups were less happy with other aspects of the changed directive, especially moves to allow the reuse of animals and the use of nonhuman primates in experiments not directly linked to life - threatening or debilitating diseases.

Others will struggle with chronic, debilitating diseases.

Researchers have successfully used stem cells to treat cats with a debilitating mouth disease.

She said: «Identifying a fault in Complex I, one of the building blocks of mitochondria which is responsible for causing disease combined with our custom gene capture and the latest sequencing technology means we can screen many more genes to diagnose this debilitating disease.

It does makes me feel good to know that some pharmaceutical companies and doctors are working hard for the first time ever to collaborate with patient advocates to improve quality of care for those suffering from this debilitating disease.

Dozens of genetic variations act in concert with environmental factors to cause the debilitating neurological disease.

In fact, TBK1 may also be a contributor to debilitating diseases such as ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and childhood herpes simplex virus encephalitis, if its connection with ICOS somehow triggers B cell activation and specific antibody production against the body's own cells in ALS or an excessive response to the invading viruses in childhood encephalitis.

Up to 20 % of us will struggle with depression at some point in life, and researchers are actively working to understand how and why this debilitating mental disease develops.

«Real pain and violence is associated with serious, sometimes debilitating mental disease,» he explains.

«Blocking TWEAK activity, alone or in combination with other treatments, may sufficiently control skin inflammation to clear up the debilitating symptoms and restore quality of life in severe cases of those diseases.»

A drug called PBT2, developed by Australian company Prana Biotechnology, appears to improve cognitive abilities in patients with early - stage Alzheimer's disease and reduce protein buildup blamed for the debilitating neurological disorder, researchers report in The Lancet Neurology.

The THC and cannabidiol studies will be extended to include chronic types of pain typically seen in people who request medical marijuana — such as those with debilitating back or joint pain, cancer, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, severe muscle spasms and more.

«This requires a multi-faceted national and possibly international policy to deal with this common, debilitating, and expensive liver disease.»

«New treatment offers hope for children with debilitating skin and muscle disease: Patients who have failed multiple drug treatments show significant improvements.»

Patients with Parkinson's disease experience gradual neuronal loss, leading to cognitive and motor impairments that damage their ability to walk and cause debilitating, often fatal, falls.

The findings may in time reveal how the activity of Parkin is affected in patients with this rare but debilitating type of Parkinson's disease.

«Developing new therapies to treat this debilitating and fatal disease is a major priority for our research team, together with Professor Steve Vucic at the Motor Neuron Disease Clinic at Westmead Hodisease is a major priority for our research team, together with Professor Steve Vucic at the Motor Neuron Disease Clinic at Westmead HoDisease Clinic at Westmead Hospital.

While mulling it over, he found himself staring at posters in the university's halls about monkey pox research, complete with photos of debilitated children: «You could see what this disease did to people.

In the 1950s, the US military developed artillery shells and bombs armed with a bacterium that causes a debilitating flu - like disease in humans.

The program will expand clinical care, education and research opportunities related to adults with chronic debilitating disease and poise the institution as a national leader in the emerging field of palliative care.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Scientists know that in patients with Parkinson's disease, certain proteins in the brain form clusters that somehow contribute to cell death and, eventually, lead to the onset of the disease's debilitating symptoms.

The findings have the potential to change how patients are treated for debilitating, inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases with a genetic component, such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and irritable bowel syndrome.

A UC San Francisco - led research team has identified the likely genetic mechanism that causes some patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) to progress more quickly than others to a debilitating stage of the disease.

We understand that, for so many patients suffering with a debilitating rare disease, there are no approved treatments.

This «humanized» mouse is susceptible to human liver infections and responds to human drug treatments, providing a new way to test novel therapies for debilitating human liver diseases and other diseases with liver involvement such as malaria.

Spurred by this finding, Littman's team examined the gut microbiota in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, a debilitating autoimmune disease, and found a much higher proportion of patients than healthy individuals who harbored the human intestinal bacterium Prevotella copri.

MS is the most common neurological disorder afflicting young adults in Canada, with more than 50,000 people suffering from this debilitating disease.

With key strengths in advanced medical imaging, cell biology, genomics, immunology and stem cell biology, our scientists and their skilled staff conduct research on some of the most debilitating diseases of our time: heart disease and stroke, Alzheimer's, cancer, organ failure, diabetes and many others.

«As examples, scientists could use Organ - Chips to create a living model of a patient with Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Crohn's disease, a debilitating inflammatory bowel disorder linked to several gene mutations.