So everything from respiratory diseases to cardiovascular diseases, certain cancers, and diabetes.
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Yet sex influences many common conditions, including heart diseases, autoimmune diseases and asthma.
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Arsenic poisoning can also lead to respiratory diseases, vascular diseases, neuropathy and liver fibrosis.
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The projects seek to tackle cancer, infectious diseases and rare liver diseases, among others.
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Poor-country diseases, known as "neglected diseases," have a ferocious impact: One of every six people in the world, including a half-billion children, suffers from neglected diseases.
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It was crazy to inject people with dead diseases to protect them from future diseases.
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Chronic diseases include cancer, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, heart disease, respiratory diseases and arthritis, among others.
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Because "rare genetic diseases can teach us important lessons about more common diseases," Waxman explained.
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"Lupus and other immune-compromised diseases, a lot of them are invisible diseases," Powell said.
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And finally, a significant number of you suggested either specific diseases or classes of diseases.
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Wild primates may help understand how diseases arise and evolve, and may serve as "sentinels" for detecting diseases and monitoring new diseases early, before they take root in human populations.
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"It's one of these diseases that has a very nonspecific, acute presentation," said Duane Gubler, an infectious diseases specialist and former director of the CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Diseases.
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Its goal is to be involved in treatments for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology and rare diseases.
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Then they would not be subject to diseases because diseases are subject to one specific chirality.
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The process is thought to go awry in cancer, infectious diseases, immunological diseases and neurodegenerative disorders.
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Such conditions include amenorrhea, in which women stop menstruating, thyroid and parathyroid diseases, and renal diseases.
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ProMED, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases, is overseen by the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
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Infectious diseases, including the flu, were the likely major causes of death prior to 1910, when an "epidemiological transition" occurred, moving away from infectious diseases and toward chronic diseases, Anderson explained.
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Non-transmissible diseases While there are plenty of fears about contagious diseases, more than 43% of all deaths worldwide are from non-transmissible diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
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It's also led Congress to approve more laws that create accelerated pathways for specific types of drugs — those that treat life-threatening diseases, or rare diseases, or diseases with few other treatments.
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It's clear that people are getting prescribed antibiotics for diseases where these drugs are not going to do any good, viral diseases or even bacterial diseases where the bugs are already resistant.
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Research from the Institute's Office of Rare Diseases Research and the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program informs their care, and it also helps diagnose and treat millions of people with more common diseases.
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"Most of the diseases they say they are going to prevent are diseases of aging," Khanna says.
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And for many diseases, not all, but for many diseases, you can make a lot of progress.
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Rare diseases affect 30 million Americans, and yet 95 percent of rare diseases have no approved treatment.
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Instead, more women are dying from pregnancy complications related to preexisting chronic diseases — in particular, cardiovascular diseases.
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You do not see the diseases that they protect against precisely because we vaccinate against these diseases.
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They want to prevent diseases by encouraging healthy living, and support people with chronic diseases at home.
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Should the fact that you like treating certain diseases rather than certain other diseases be morally relevant?
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In the long-term it might be associated with shortened life expectancy and the development of diseases—respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, dementia—as well as mental health problems, and adverse birth outcomes.
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Those are: how old age creates diseases; how those diseases cause death; and how the dying actually happens.
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Non-communicable diseases, such as heart disease or diabetes, are now responsible for more deaths than infectious diseases.
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The system was developed to "constantly be on the lookout for emerging diseases," especially infectious diseases, explained Hall.
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Alphabet's Calico and AbbVie first partnered in 2014 to combat age-related diseases, including cancers and neurodegenerative diseases.
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"There's also a group of diseases that you can actually treat preventatively," said Engels, such as worm diseases.
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"If we can't protect ourselves against infectious diseases, then we become carriers of those infectious diseases," Cole said.
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It assumes we've not only cured all known diseases, we've cured age-related diseases we don't even know about yet (perhaps there are some diseases that wouldn't afflict us until we're several centuries old?).
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The committee explained how an imbalance between lifestyle and rhythm could lead to increased risk for a number of diseases including metabolic diseases, such as diabetes and cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease.
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Increasing physical diseases: Even a small rise in temperature can cause health problems such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.
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More people were dying of long-term, chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular diseases and cancer rather than infectious diseases.
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We have eradicated many conditions, and especially infectious diseases, so can we not eradicate non-communicable diseases like cancer?
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If approved, the new gene therapy would be another victory for combating rare diseases, also known as orphan diseases.
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New diseases emerge all the time, and sexually transmitted infections, also known as sexually transmitted diseases, are no exception.
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With it, we can cure diseases, eradicate congenital diseases like Down Syndrome, and pave a new future for humanity.
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State news agency Xinhua said 47 western drugs and 101 traditional Chinese drugs were added to the updated list, covering medicines for cancers, rare diseases, chronic diseases and children's diseases, as well as some basic drugs.
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Depleting the body's friendly bacteria may precipitate asthma and other allergic diseases, and may elevate risk for some autoimmune diseases.
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Humanitarian agencies fear poor sanitation could spread infectious diseases like cholera and skin diseases in addition to exacerbating chronic illnesses.
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"We're fatter than we've ever been, and we have diseases, epidemics of chronic diseases, related to sugar consumption," Schmidt said.
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After the supercomputer's successful work on ALS, researchers will likely target other neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
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The report collected available data on vector-borne diseases through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System from 103 to 210.
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"New diseases transmitted by ticks -- people call them emerging diseases -- have been popping up on a regular basis," she says.
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We get diseases from other animals, and then we use more animals to figure out how to stop the diseases.
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Those dependent on oxygen machines went without lifesaving equipment, bacterial diseases spread, and seriously ill patients succumbed to their diseases.
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Their top takeout picks: Clovis (cancer), Sage (neuroscience), Puma Biotechnology (cancer), Bluebird (rare diseases and cancer), and AveXis (rare diseases).
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It's about attacking the disease early, preventing diseases or managing diseases, and also the insurance in case you need treatment.
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"Most of these diseases start out looking exactly the same, and they look the same as 100 other diseases," Dowling says.
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Vector-borne diseases have also risen since 1980, with the arrival of more diseases spread via insects, including West Nile virus.
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About a quarter of the diseases were at least partly caused by environment, with eye diseases having the largest environmental influence.
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That's nothing cynical — infectious diseases will spread faster and farther as the climate warms, and we treat infectious diseases with drugs.
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Cancer -- more so than obesity, neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and even infectious diseases, such as Zika, Ebola and HIV/AIDS.
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"Most international travelers get their vaccinations for infectious diseases and learn about diseases and disasters in their intended destinations," he added.
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Chronic diseases, like heart disease and diabetes, are quickly outpacing infectious diseases as the leading killers in countries around the world.
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The biological background: Just like you can get genetic diseases in nuclear DNA, there are also genetic diseases in mitochondrial DNA.
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People with rare diseases, since the credit that encourages drug companies to develop new treatments for those diseases would be repealed.
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More than 32,000 of them have developed diseases of the respiratory or digestive tracts, and 705 have died of those diseases.
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The next stage will be to test how fish skin responds to diseases, and to drugs that might treat those diseases.
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Diseases do not know borders — it would be short-sighted to isolate ourselves while diseases affect the rest of the world.
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Moreover, NIH's recently established Therapies for Rare and Neglected Diseases (TRND) program encourages and accelerates drug development specifically for rare diseases.
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In fact, follow up studies demonstrated additional improved health outcomes from other diseases associated with air pollution, such as cardiovascular diseases.
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The domestication of animals in close proximity to mosquitoes creates zoonotic diseases where the spillover [happens] from animal diseases into humans.
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Chronic illnesses (such as cancer and heart disease) as well as diseases of aging (Alzheimer's) have overtaken infectious diseases like tuberculosis.
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In my body, you don't know what diseases exist or not; in your body, I don't know what diseases exist or not.
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Doctors who work with rare diseases, mental illnesses or diseases that don't have a lot of FDA-approved options also prescribe them.
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It makes sense that people with chronic diseases like diabetes and chronic kidney disease may suffer from more complications from oral diseases.
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Though the fight against diseases like malaria and HIV attract more headlines, non-communicable diseases are on the global health community's radar.
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"Being tall, there are benefits in some ways in some diseases, (and) there is the opposite in some other diseases," he said.
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"By 823, (neglected tropical) diseases could be part of history," said Dr. Dirk Engels, director of the WHO Neglected Tropical Diseases department.
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They're sometimes making these diseases either more dangerous or easier to transmit among animals, in order to better understand how diseases spread.
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Dr. Manisha Juthani is an associate professor of medicine of infectious diseases and epidemiology of microbial diseases at Yale School of Medicine.
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"Diseases surprise us," Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters on a recent call.
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More than 75% of emerging diseases originate in animals; these are called zoonotic diseases, meaning they can jump from animals to people.
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More than 75% of emerging diseases originate in animals; these are called zoonotic diseases, meaning they can jump from animals to people.
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"There are tons of coronaviruses," said Vincent Munster, an emerging viral diseases researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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"All infectious diseases will revert and come back," warns Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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Daniel Lucey MD, MPH, is an infectious diseases physician and adjunct professor of infectious diseases at Georgetown University Medical Center, a senior scholar at the Georgetown University O'Neil Institute and a member and spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Daniel Lucey M.D. MPH, is an infectious diseases physician and adjunct professor of infectious diseases at Georgetown University Medical Center, a senior scholar at the Georgetown University O'Neil Institute and a member and spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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We can afford the innovation that the great pharma companies are putting out for these rare and orphan diseases and these genetic diseases.
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The report's authors looked at available data on vector-borne diseases collected through the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System from 953 to 295.
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Often, rare diseases stump even the most knowledgeable doctors, with experts on rare diseases few and far between — if they exist at all.
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In this new system, rather than hospitalize patients for infections, the focus would be on out-patient management of diseases, especially infectious diseases.
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Nicole Leedy, MD is the associate director of the University of Kentucky in Lexington Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program and an infectious diseases physician.
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The scientists who do this kind of research argue that we can better anticipate deadly diseases by making diseases deadlier in the lab.
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Beyond the chicken pox and flu, viruses are increasingly believed to play a role in other serious diseases, like cancer and brain diseases.
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Between 1,000 and 4,000 children are born with mitochondrial diseases every year, and there are no licensed therapies or cures for these diseases.
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Why it matters: Understanding how novel zoonotic diseases evolve and spread could lead to improved tracing of and treatments for new emerging diseases.
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Patients also faced a higher risk of death from septicemia, infectious diseases and parasitic diseases compared to the rest of the U.S. population.
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As our population ages, the profile of illness has shifted from infectious diseases, like tuberculosis, to chronic diseases, like cancer and heart disease.
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"As we advance our ability to treat diseases, we need to continually enhance our ability to rapidly and inexpensively diagnose" those diseases, Collins says.
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Why it matters: Information on what causes diseases — or even what doesn't cause diseases — can inform future research, study author Chirag Lakhani tells Axios.
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Yet for diseases that aren't of a "broken/fixed" nature — costly chronic diseases like diabetes, heart failure, hypertension — we have not seen equivalent advancements.
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"Diseases such as dengue and chikungunya have been neglected and under-funded," said Slutsker, the leader of PATH's malaria and neglected tropical diseases program.
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Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are chronic, nontransmittable diseases that can result from a combination of genetic, physiological, behavioral, and environmental factors, according to the WHO.
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In the future, it could be used to treat diseases, as well as better understand the role that RNA plays in causing those diseases.
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Perlstein Lab – Automated drug discovery for rare diseases Thee long tail of 7000 rare diseases will take 53 years to cure at this rate.
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Cempra has also synthesized novel macrolides for non-antibiotic uses such as the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases, endocrine diseases and gastric motility disorders.
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A smaller number of diseases from hoofed animals might be hidden in East Africa, while undiscovered primate-borne diseases cluster globally around the tropics.
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This was associated with increased incidence of bowel cancer, inflammatory bowel diseases as well as other chronic diseases of rising incidence in Western societies.
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The long-term consumption of polyphenols, an antioxidant, has been linked to protection against the development of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, osteoporosis and neurodegenerative diseases.
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The International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which has been updated over the past 10 years, now covers 55,000 injuries, diseases and causes of death.
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They are a large part of the reason that, for the first time in history, noncommunicable diseases now kill more people than communicable diseases.
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Those decreases matter: More than 2,000 children die from diarrhea-related diseases every day, and respiratory diseases, such as pneumonia, kill millions every year.
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PM 2.5 are ultrafine particles found in air pollution that cause many of its deadly effects, such as lung diseases, heart diseases, and cancer.
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"Other viral respiratory diseases are seasonal, including influenza and therefore in many viral respiratory diseases we do see a decrease in disease in spring and summer," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said on a Feb.
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"Other viral respiratory diseases are seasonal, including influenza and therefore in many viral respiratory diseases we do see a decrease in disease in spring and summer," Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said on a Feb.
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In addition to the four diseases highlighted in the report, noncommunicable diseases include endocrine, blood and immune disorders; noninfectious respiratory, digestive (including liver) and genitourinary diseases; neurological conditions; mental and substance-use disorders; congenital anomalies; and sense organ, skin, musculoskeletal and oral or dental conditions.
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They analyzed heritable and environmental factors across 25 common conditions and diseases spanning 260 categories, ranging from cardiovascular illness and neuromuscular diseases to skeletal conditions.
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The current focus is on sampling the genetic material of cancer patients, patients with cardiovascular diseases and metabolic diseases like diabetes and sickle cell anemia.
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Other centers offer interventions for 30 or more diseases and injuries, including popular orthopedic conditions, neurological disorders, degenerative conditions, spinal cord injuries and cardiac diseases.
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Interest in drug repurposing has been rising, particularly for medicines that could treat neglected diseases in poor countries, and rare diseases, cancer and mental health.
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The ability of trispecific antibodies to hit three targets at once might also make them useful in fighting cancer, other infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases.
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The study on European countries revealed an inverse association between coffee and liver disease, suicide in men, cancer in women, digestive diseases and circulatory diseases.
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But from asthma to diabetes, cancer to the common cold, studying diseases in children has taken a back seat to investigating diseases in adult populations.
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Details: Gottlieb's top priority is giving drugmakers an incentive to develop treatments for the rarest of diseases, or diseases that aren't getting much pharma attention.
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They're also expected to observe children for signs or symptoms of communicable diseases, and alert the agency about suspected or confirmed cases of such diseases.
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The diseases that are most successful in the coming century will, as always, be the diseases that exploit our major failure modes and popular delusions.
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The findings, published in the journal BMC Infectious Diseases, could help improve public health strategies in the fight against the spread of infectious diseases worldwide.
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Scientists have also used gene-targeting technology to create mice that have symptoms of human diseases, including cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, diabetes and various cancers.
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For people with mild diseases, recovery time is two weeks, while people with severe or critical diseases recover in three to six weeks, he said.
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"We're looking at things like people suffering from neurodegenerative diseases and more intense diseases that inhibit your ability to swallow, like Multiple Sclerosis," he told TechCrunch.
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Over the last few years, there have been countless studies claiming links between our sedentary lifestyles and heart attacks, kidney diseases, chronic diseases, and colorectal cancer.
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They found coffee drinkers to have a reduced risk of death from all causes of mortality, including circulatory diseases and diseases related to the digestive tract.
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About 7 million people die globally each year from exposure to pollution that brings diseases such as stroke and heart diseases, the WHO said in May.
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Additionally, Novartis will relocate its Institute for Tropical Diseases from Singapore to a facility near San Francisco, California, that now houses NIBR's infectious diseases research team.
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The report identified a steady rise and spread of tick-borne diseases, whereas the occurrence of mosquito-borne diseases was dispersed and more punctuated by epidemics.
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Together, these programs will facilitate a proactive response to animal diseases, so we can increasingly catch diseases early and treat them before they become widespread outbreaks.
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Indeed, wealthy nations can stem the spread of preventable diseases by looking to the African continent where vaccine-preventable diseases like polio have almost been eradicated.
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Rural Americans are also far more likely to die from CLRD, which encompasses a wide range of lung diseases from occupational lung diseases to pulmonary hypertension.
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"Equatorial diseases can travel to more temperate zones, and it is a concern that climate change is shifting the range of these diseases," Dr. Slade said.
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Published in 219, the book is about investigating the origins of infectious diseases that have spilled over from animals into humans, called zoonoses or zoonotic diseases.
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We need to end the infectious diseases that are killing millions of people today and, in doing so, be better prepared for the diseases of tomorrow.
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But most of those trainees focus on diseases that circle the globe, researchers point out, including flu, mosquito-borne viruses, vaccine-preventable diseases and bioterrorism agents.
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"Vector-Borne Diseases" forms the shape of a mosquito out of names for diseases, such as dengue and malaria, which are transformed into colors and shapes.
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The urban environment is linked to a large number of noncommunicable diseases such as obesity, heart disease and pulmonary disease, as well as communicable diseases such as tuberculosis from crowding and poor ventilation, and waterborne and vector-borne diseases such as dengue, according to the WHO.
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Kelly also pointed out that NASA's research can lead to treating similar ailments on Earth like osteoporosis, muscle-wasting diseases, high blood pressure, glaucoma and brain diseases.
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As Catherine Kim explained for Vox: More than 32,210.2 [first responders] have developed diseases of the respiratory or digestive tracts, and 210 have died of those diseases.
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On the flip side, some of the largest diseases are unlikely to be core focus areas, including heart medicines and treatments for diseases like Alzheimer's, Ross said.
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Importantly, no traces of other diseases were found (such as dengue or yellow fever), and there were no genetic syndromes or diseases in the mother's family history.
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These included those of two leaf diseases (Botrytis cinerea, known to laymen as grey mould, and Pseudomonas syringae), and two root diseases (Rhizoctonia solani and Fusarium oxysporum).
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In recent years, a crop of companies have emerged that are using genomic sequencing to detect diseases in order to prevent the negative outcome of those diseases.
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The NIH launched this consortium with the European Commission to deliver 200 new therapies for rare diseases and the means to diagnose more rare diseases by 2020.
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According to Anderson, this same technique may be used to treat other liver diseases, and may be slightly modified for use treating diseases in other body tissues.
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Non-communicable diseases, also known as chronic diseases, tend to result from a combination of genetic, physiological, environmental and behavioral factors, such as diet, according to WHO.
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Those of us working to combat diseases like malaria, tuberculosis (TB), HIV/AIDS, and a host of neglected tropical diseases find ourselves in the same proverbial boat.
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Drugs are very effective in keeping patients with chronic diseases out of hospitals and in reducing surgical procedures to address the sequelae of end-stage chronic diseases.
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The specter of increasingly drug-resistant diseases made news this week when CDC officials announced America reached a record high of new cases of sexually transmitted diseases.
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Because research does eradicate deadly diseases, like polio and smallpox, we have an obligation to support the science to treat and prevent diseases like Ebola or coronavirus.
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For example, by covering routine vaccinations for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, and other communicable diseases, CHIP helps prevent outbreaks of diseases throughout the entire pediatric population.
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They examined four types of dementia recognized by the International Classification of Diseases: Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, unspecified dementia and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system.
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Both have persuaded a small but growing number of parents that vaccines designed to inoculate against infectious diseases pose a greater health risk than the diseases themselves.
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Their results, published this week in BMC Infectious Diseases, show which surfaces are most likely to harbor germs, and the kinds of respiratory diseases that exist in airports.
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In total, there were over 240,284 reported cases of 16 diseases, and diseases caused by mosquitoes, fleas, and tick bites had more than tripled during that time period.
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There are four main types: cardiovascular diseases, which account for the majority of these deaths; cancers; respiratory diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma; and diabetes.
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In fact, dogs get many of the same diseases we get, such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, so the animals are great models for many human diseases.
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Placental abruption (which affects 1 in 100 pregnancies), sexually transmitted diseases, the ZIKA virus, rubella, chicken pox, and common bacterial diseases can all cause placental abnormalities during pregnancy.
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Enterome, a Paris-based company emerging in the field of the human gut, is looking to treat inflammatory bowel diseases and metabolic diseases such as diabetes and obesity.
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Unlike policy wonks and politicians who see diseases like Alzheimer's or ALS as unstoppable scourges, Kamen points out that previously terrifying diseases were all toppled by medical innovation.
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We do find more zoonotic hosts in the tropics, but we find more zoonotic diseases in temperate regions, possibly because these diseases can occur in multiple host species.
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The National Institutes of Health has long been organized around particular diseases, including the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
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Unlike tropical diseases such as malaria, which depend on certain environmental factors to spread, sexually transmitted diseases can spread beyond isolated populations, particularly in an increasingly globalized world.
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Survivors of infectious diseases are often more vulnerable later in life to diseases including heart conditions and certain cancers, as well as to declines in general well-being.
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Those investments help improve readiness and delivery of care across a wide range of diseases and patient types and also help with delivery of care for chronic diseases.
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Because these diseases often strike the world's poorest places and families, there is little commercial incentive to develop urgently-needed vaccines or medicines, even for potentially-pandemic diseases.
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However, more long-term solutions are necessary to protect the Yanomami from diseases like measles -- and people who bring those diseases -- which threaten their existence, according to Shenker.
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An American study revealed that men died more often from flu compared with same-age women, regardless of underlying heart disease, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and kidney diseases.
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It's difficult to weed the injustice out of the dataset, the poor are more susceptible to diseases like asthma, diseases which could face consequences from the increased heat.
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AUSTRALIA By The New York Times | Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Emerging Infectious Diseases; Emerging Microbes & Infections; Clinical Infectious Diseases; Journal of Infection; Mycoses; Doherty Institute.
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To be sure, since 1990 the so-called 'diseases of developed countries' (chronic diseases and those that have increased because people are living longer) are gaining in importance.
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Mr Fajgenbaum: Since the funding systems and the hurdles are shared across rare diseases, this model has the potential to have an impact on many more rare diseases.
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The consortium has brought together many research groups who work on various psychiatric diseases, as well as on neurological diseases, and has run their collective data through the wringer.
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So, instead of these made-up diseases, Project Hospital promises to instead introduce players to real world diseases and their cures, in hopes of actually educating players as well.
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Prior to this study, scientists assumed that monkeys contracted zoonotic diseases—diseases that spread from species to species—by eating fruits contaminated with an infected bat's saliva or feces.
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With most of the focus and funding on diseases that impact the most amount of people, diseases impacting 200,000 or less people nationwide are considered to be lower priority.
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Most crucially, it could buy days, months, years of life for people who would otherwise die early of preventable diseases, or diseases that could be beaten back for longer.
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The sharp decline in population wasn't just due to violent deaths, but also diseases brought by the Europeans, including the common cold, flu, measles, venereal diseases, tuberculosis and smallpox.
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Up to 28503,22019 diseases (including certain types of cancer, cystic fibrosis, and neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's) are rooted in genetic mutations that prevent cells from working properly.
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In 2016, noncommunicable diseases contributed 72.3% to the total number of deaths around the globe -- 54.7 million -- with 19.3% of deaths caused by communicable, maternal, neonatal and nutritional diseases.
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"Historically, infectious diseases radically impact military forces and can result in suspension or cancellation of military operations," four experts wrote in the medical journal Clinical Infectious Diseases in 2007.
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"Within those handful of high-quality studies, we found that deep learning could indeed detect diseases ranging from cancers to eye diseases as accurately as health professionals," said Denniston.
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Zenilman, an expert on sexually transmitted diseases, cited U.S. government research in the late 1940s that deliberately infected study participants in Guatemala with sexually transmitted diseases without their consent.
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" - Becca, 34 "Can't get diseases from blow jobs.
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These harmful materials don't simply strike people dead on the spot; they harm them by causing heart and lung diseases (and by exacerbating conditions such as asthma), chronic intestinal diseases.
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NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES After focusing on maternal and child health for years, the program had planned to broaden its priorities to tackle the rising threat of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
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Nor can it be blamed on a rise in diabetes, obesity or other "lifestyle diseases", it argues, since the rise in the incidence of those diseases has flattened since 2010.
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Dealmakers expect oncology, rare diseases, and big data to be hot in 2020Tokat expects the majority of M&A this year will happen in two areas: oncology and rare diseases.
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"We need to have better tools for these diseases," said Dr. Carolina Batista, the Latin America medical manager for the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, who is based in Brazil.
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"Fossils allow us to understand the evolution of diseases in deep time and have the potential to provide clues as to the causes of diseases that afflict humans," Whitney said.
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In response, Rodríguez is sending doctors and nurses to the shelters, which are already seeing periodic outbreaks of infectious diseases such as conjunctivitis and parasite-borne skin diseases like scabies.
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To learn more, he spoke with Corbus Pharmaceutical's CEO Yuval Cohen, who said the company's main focus is on a small family diseases that are rare, or actually orphan diseases.
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Burnout is now a legitimate medical diagnosis, according to the International Classification of Diseases, or the ICD-11, the World Health Organization's handbook that guides medical providers in diagnosing diseases.
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"NTDs are really the diseases of neglected people, they are diseases of poverty and inequality that affect the most vulnerable among us," World Bank President Jim Kim said by video.
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Tom Clark, the deputy director of CDC's Division of Viral Diseases, and Allison Bartlett, an associate professor of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Chicago, answered some vital questions.
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He established the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases last year to provide advice on how to reduce premature deaths from such diseases by one third by 2030.
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The company has also helped establish links between DNA and education attainment, show a wider risk of neurodegenerative diseases, introduce new tech for analyzing Parkinson's and neurodegenerative diseases, and more.
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Instead, we need more funding for powerful, consolidated approaches such as the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network to transform the theory of genomic medicine for rare diseases into a reality.
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Supplements promise a range of health benefits from weight loss, enhanced mood and better sleep to prevention from the major causes of death — cardiovascular diseases, cancer and chronic lung diseases.
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In the past, diseases were often named after where they originated — from Lyme to West Nile — but White said those diseases were "quite old" and standards had evolved since then.
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Overwhelmingly, studies show that physical activity plays an important role in preventing and managing chronic diseases—the same diseases that are responsible for 86 percent of our national healthcare costs.
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What we have to do is maintain public health infrastructure, which we have to do for many reasons besides West Nile, like for tick-borne diseases and other invasive diseases.
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In the United States, the Department of Veterans Affairs officially recognizes 14 diseases, including some forms of cancer, as "presumptive diseases" (associated with exposure to Agent Orange or other herbicides).
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And while the country mandates testing for common hereditary diseases, Saudi scientists have also begun uncovering diseases that have never been seen before, let alone made it onto a screening test.
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"Women bear the largest burden of these diseases," agreed Dr. Edward Hook, co-director of the Center for Social Medicine and Sexually Transmitted Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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One study, published in the BMJ, found that eating this number of whole grain servings each day can reduce your risk of heart disease, infectious diseases, diabetes, cancer and respiratory diseases.
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That's because the program that aimed to prevent the spread of HIV, hepatitis and other viral diseases is responsible for drug users littering the streets with needles infected with the diseases.
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Overweight and obese children are likely to remain overweight and obese into adulthood, which puts them at risk of developing noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, according to WHO.
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This should include integrating screening and treatment into episode-based payment models for health conditions for which there are frequent behavioral health comorbidities, such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and pulmonary diseases.
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Approximately 60 to 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases are so-called "zoonotic events" — where animal diseases jump into people — and bats in particular are known to carry many zoonotic viruses.
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Those resources are almost certainly going to combat some of the world's deadliest diseases, as the language specifically states the funds will support "related health conditions" and other vector-borne diseases.
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Thus companies are spending ever more to cure diseases that affect small populations, which means higher costs per patient, though it's worth it because we want treatments for those devastating diseases.
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General climate change-related health impacts named in the report include in the areas of mental illness, undernutrition, injuries, respiratory disease, allergies, cardiovascular disease, infectious diseases, poisoning, waterborne diseases and heatstroke.
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"Mosquito-borne diseases can cause long-term health effects in people and even death," said Dr. Mary Grace Stobierski, manager of the Zoonotic and Emerging Infectious Diseases Section at the agency.
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"It is a warning on the horizon," said Dr. Henry Chambers, an infectious diseases expert at the University of California San Francisco and member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Concern about contagious diseases On August 5, two members of Congress wrote a letter to the heads of the US Department of Homeland Security and HHS expressing concern about contagious diseases.
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We focus on rare genetic diseases and have the world's leading biomedical knowledge graph for rare diseases… [and] we don't develop new molecules, we maximise the value of already-approved drugs.
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"The patient is being cared for on our specialist infectious and tropical diseases unit, by highly trained staff who are experienced in dealing with a variety of infectious diseases," he said.
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Diet-related diseases account for 85033 of the 8 most common conditions among Medicare beneficiaries, so it's clear that as the prevalence of diet-related diseases increase, health-care spending increases.
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And, again, the vaccine coverage rates required for herd immunity are much lower for other less contagious diseases, said Walter Orenstein, an infectious diseases professor at Emory University School of Medicine.
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Congress appropriated $9.6 million to ARS in fiscal 2019 to study foreign animal diseases and emerging diseases, but the agency didn't reveal how much was given to efforts to study ASF.
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Diseases targeted by vaccines are dangerous — especially for children.
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Some diseases, it turns out, are inherited — they're Mendelian.
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Cardiovascular diseases -- a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels -- are the leading cause of death among men and women around the world, according to the World Health Organization.
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Other recorded causes of death included digestive disorders (21 percent) and cardiovascular diseases (19 percent), as well as "infectious diseases, cancers, mental disorders" and other conditions caused by alcohol intake, CNN added.
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They found coffee tied to a reduced risk of death from digestive diseases among both men and women, along with a decreased risk of death from circulatory and cerebrovascular diseases among women.
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Where it stands: Such dramatic demographic changes are accelerating a shift from the infectious and nutritional diseases that mostly affect children to cancer and the other noncommunicable diseases that mostly afflict adults.
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It has played a part in research on vaccines and infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, and more recently, it's been used to advance stem cell research and treatments for degenerative diseases.
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"In the US it remains unclear exactly how much climate and weather change may affect the distribution and timing of infectious diseases, as well as the introduction of new diseases," she said.
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"They're taking some people that had uncurable diseases and potentially turning them into curable diseases," said Dr. Joshua Brody, director of the Lymphoma Immunotherapy Program at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine.
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The company has raised more than $860 million in financing and has strategic partnerships in place with pharma giant Merck for infectious diseases, AstraZeneca for cardiovascular disease and Alexion for rare diseases.
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Keep in mind that there are a number of diseases that can be exacerbated by intense heat and dehydration, including asthma and lung diseases that make breathing difficult even at moderate temperatures.
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While disappointed with the funding debate, Collins hailed the work of scientists and researchers he said were advancing cures for mental disorders and diseases, spinal cord injuries, diabetes, infectious diseases and cancer.
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At the same briefing, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also expressed concern about the tests, which he said are worse than those for other diseases.
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When a drug trial excludes those who have several diseases and take other drugs, how do the results pertain to older adults — most of whom have several diseases and take other drugs?
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An excellent place to start is for organizations that typically have not formed partnerships to work together — including those working on non-communicable diseases, like cervical cancer and infectious diseases, like HIV.
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Such conditions reminded one of us, an expert on parasitic and neglected tropical diseases who has worked extensively in poor countries, of conditions found across the developing world where these diseases flourish.
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Over time, the Victim Compensation Fund could "consider whether cardiovascular disease and other diseases that we've identified, such as autoimmune diseases, should be added to the list of covered conditions," Prezant said.
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And we've really spent the last one hundred years trying to replicate that model over and over again in non-infectious diseases, in chronic diseases, like diabetes and hypertension and heart disease.
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"Defendants claim that they can treat a variety of serious medical conditions, including but not limited to, urologic diseases and erectile dysfunction, neurology diseases, cardiac/pulmonary disease, autoimmune diseases, and orthopedic conditions, even through there is currently no adequate scientific substantiation that these treatments will be effective; in fact, they could be harmful," according to the lawsuit.
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While funding for such diseases up to 2020 will be higher than in recent years, the lower-than-planned approved funding will slow government efforts to tackle these diseases, two government officials said.
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At the moment, while the technology has shown great promise to cure diseases like sickle cell anemia, which is caused by a single-letter mutation, more complex diseases have seemed out of reach.
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Dr. Stephen Hadler, deputy director of the division of bacterial diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, welcomed news of the PETA deal.
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More, different disease tracking needed Along with heat, the spread of infectious diseases can pose a higher risk of death, and high temperatures can play a role in the spread of such diseases.
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Gates says that understanding how the gut gets "messed up" and how to fix the microbiome will not only help end malnutrition, but also other diseases, including asthma, allergies and some autoimmune diseases.
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"Infectious diseases in the history of humanity represent one of the most common causes of severe disease, disability, and mortality," says Mark Schleiss, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at the University of Minnesota.
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This new work opens up the brain's intricacies for unprecedented study and possibly treatment of neural disorders (like Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases), brain cancers, and Friedreich's ataxia and other peripheral nervous system diseases.
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"Seals and dogs are fairly closely related in the evolutionary tree and as well as dogs causing greater disturbance, they can pass on diseases to seals or contract diseases from seals," Stevenson said.
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Warren's infectious diseases plan also draws on her previously released plans to address climate change and the opioid epidemic, issues which exacerbate the spread of diseases, as well as her health-care agenda.
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Some of the diseases CEPI is considering to target include Lassa fever, Marburg fever, MERS, SARS, Nipah virus, Rift Valley fever, chikungunya and other emerging diseases for which there are currently no vaccines.
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Yet the lack of sales for the two drugs already launched to treat ultra-rare diseases in Europe highlights the hurdles ahead for drugmakers in marketing new, extremely expensive products for genetic diseases.
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How to prevent zoonotic diseases from spilling over into peopleAt wet markets, the close proximity of shoppers to stall vendors and live and dead animals creates a prime breeding ground for zoonotic diseases.
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"Non-cancer diseases, such as heart diseases, contribute to a significant number of deaths in patients with breast cancer, even higher than in the general population," Al-Husseini told Reuters Health by email.
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About 200 to 300 new diseases are discovered each year.
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They also looked at diseases by monthly health care spending.
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Drug treatments target mutant genes in diseases like Parkinson's 2.
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Shire sells treatments for rare diseases and attention deficit disorder.
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TechCrunch comment: Genetic diseases are more common than you think.
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We've seen emerging infectious diseases forever; we have them now.
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And diseases once thought eradicated have sparked a health crisis.
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The genome editing company develops medicines to fight rare diseases.
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It's everything from terrorist threats, cyber threats, emerging infectious diseases.
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Should these methods be limited only to avoiding serious diseases?
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Even then, there's a danger of other diseases getting out.
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And we're looking at a series of different lifestyle diseases.
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The research could even help with research into neurological diseases.
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Biliverdin has also been associated with resistance to certain diseases.
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Floods can also contaminate water sources, causing diseases like cholera.
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This includes work to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
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Helix Nanotechnologies uses artificial intelligence to help cure genetic diseases.
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The model could be modified to address other diseases, too.
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Many are children suffering skin diseases, diarrhea and respiratory problems.
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Some also research medical conditions and diseases found in animals.
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Those who permanently fight it are more susceptible to diseases.
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Medicine shortages have also left children dying of preventable diseases.
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Chronic diseases account for most deaths in the United States.
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Degenerative brain diseases are too often confused with mental illness.
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Who knew that old people + sexually transmitted diseases = comedy gold?
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They were diseases of poverty but also causes of poverty.
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Those levels might be high enough to treat the diseases.
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And the single biggest risk factor for getting these diseases?
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Areas of focus now include oncology, rare diseases, and vaccines.
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Diseases like hookworm, caused by an intestinal parasite, were common.
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Treatments or "cures" for viral diseases is a different ballgame.
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Komodo dragon blood contains compounds that help combat human diseases.
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Midichlorial disorders often erupt as brain diseases, such as autism.
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They didn't learn about sex, contraceptives, or sexually transmitted diseases.
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The shift from infectious to lifestyle diseases has been significant.
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Genetic screening could catch diseases early and help save lives.
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As with many diseases, the earlier the intervention, the better.
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Read This Next: Weed Could Help Prevent Certain Brain Diseases
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"No one is getting chronic diseases from GMOs," Hever said.
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Since 2000, this has helped save millions from infectious diseases.
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High humidity, in general, favours the spread of botanical diseases.
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It is qualitatively different than other diseases in several respects.
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Which current efforts to eliminate diseases make you most hopeful?
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Riemser makes drugs to treat cancer, tuberculosis and infectious diseases.
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The government is exposing its citizens to preventable infectious diseases.
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A second benefit lies in the management of complex diseases.
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Instead people died from diseases of overcrowding, hunger, and neglect.
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Such diseases that are spread from animals are called zoonotic.
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The dogs had serious injuries and diseases from severe neglect.
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"We don't want the diseases to come back," said Downs.
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Columbus also brought the plague and diseases to the Americas.
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Diseases like cancer, ALS, Alzheimer's, and the 28503,22019 rare conditions.
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We need to give people fighting rare diseases a voice.
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For some diseases, though, editing RNA could offer a workaround.
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Brain Key: Diagnosis for brain diseases using 3D MRI data.
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Rare diseases are rare, but rare disease patients are many.
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That would force a redefinition of the term "tropical" diseases.
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One of them is to eradicate four diseases by 2030.
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Many of us have never been touched by blood diseases.
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NuvoAir aims to make respiratory diseases measurable and more treatable.
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Diabetes is one of the first human diseases on record.
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KS: I'm just saying, he had diseases of the skin.
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And meanwhile children are not being protected from serious diseases.
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In the case of infectious diseases the patterns are clear.
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So do bacteria that cause deadly waterborne diseases like cholera.
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People will be exposed to more foodborne and waterborne diseases.
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Dozens of Ayorea died from respiratory diseases in the 1980s.
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Now, I am seeing children sickened by the same diseases.
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The celebrated microbiologist has been instrumental in combating both diseases.
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Simpson who are struggling with cancer and other complex diseases.
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Tragically, there is no cure or treatment for mitochondrial diseases.
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The refugee children, the parents said, might have contagious diseases.
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The battle against venereal diseases knew no lines of propriety.
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Developing therapies for people with rare diseases is incredibly difficult.
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The study was published in the Journal of Addictive Diseases.
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Those diseases can affect red blood cells and the liver.
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"You can actually prevent many diseases with lifestyle," she said.
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We shouldnt assume that chronic diseases automatically occur with aging.
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During the study, 3,336 people were diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases.
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In the old days, drugmakers developed drugs for known diseases.
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Tired of U.S. health officials studying deadly and infectious diseases?
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Ticks are tiny, hard to kill, and carry devastating diseases.
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It's not the case for other diseases, he tells me.
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That incubates deadly diseases, including cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio.
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Hope: Artificial intelligence, CRISPR: changing inherited diseases via DNA editing.
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"A lot of diseases we see are genetic," she said.
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There is also talk about other, even more severe diseases.
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This information is used to better detect diseases, including cancer.
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Kenneth CroenWhite Plains, N.Y.The writer is an infectious diseases specialist.
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The diseases of old age feel a long way off.
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Together, these practices have helped spread truly terrifying zoonotic diseases.
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The human cost of deadly diseases may be less estimable.
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Like Landt, he had worked on emerging diseases for years.
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Epidemiologists have linked traffic noise to cardiovascular and other diseases.
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"We shouldn't be looking for the same diseases," says Jaspers.
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Clementia, for instance, is zeroing in on rare bone diseases.
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So then the body triggers more of these autoimmune diseases.
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Overlooking the genetic causes of diseases can seriously harm patients.
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The endocrinologists sent off blood to look for both diseases.
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Infectious diseases are moving into new areas and higher altitudes.
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And one of the diseases that it has is humanity!
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A procedure called mitochondrial replacement therapy could eliminate devastating diseases.
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All those untreated diseases out there are evolving, and fast.
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This is true for almost all diseases, including the flu.
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Some contracts even rule out infectious diseases as a scapegoat.
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But most older people have other diseases that will progress.
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Additional antibodies are in testing to treat diseases like Alzheimer's.
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That spreads diseases and causes other public and personal problems.
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Most diseases kill the very old and the very young.
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The study is in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
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These zoonotic diseases originate in animals before jumping to people.
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Oral diseases affect more than half of the world's population.
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Yes, the diseases they protect children against can be deadly.
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For this reason, they cannot be marketed to treat diseases.
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But investment in infectious diseases is a far different story.
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Tickborne diseases are rising steadily in California and the Northeast.
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Some skin diseases proved to be caused by mosaicism, too.
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Diseases such as distemper and parvovirus are preventable with vaccines.
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They asked for help from neurology, cardiology and infectious diseases.
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Specialty hospitals focus on particular diseases and types of patients.
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The company hopes to analyze other diseases in the future.
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The new analysis is in Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
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These kinds of rapid diagnostics exist for diseases like influenza.
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Despite our best efforts, diseases travel and they travel quickly.
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Sound wouldn't tell, for example, whether the mosquitoes carried diseases.
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Cannabis can liberate Americans from the symptoms of debilitating diseases.
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The Economist: How can this model work for other diseases?
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The idea is to fight diseases like Zika and dengue.
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Effects of foods on allergies and autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
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They brought families struggling with rare diseases to Capitol Hill.
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The effect, then, of "confounding diseases" is "unknown," he added.
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Families of children with suspected genetic diseases have similar difficulties.
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But back then, tropical diseases weren't something she worried about.
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They're curing diseases, but can I afford my health care?
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Measles is among the most contagious of the infectious diseases.
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Would Becky be developing new tools to help treat diseases?
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Well, they also didn't have as many diseases back then.
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And diseases once thought eradicated have sparked a health disaster.
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Mosquitoes spread serious diseases like malaria, yellow fever, and chikungunya.
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The list of diseases in her calendar—69 in total—includes those caused by parasites, like dracunculiasis (otherwise known as Guinea worm disease); those caused by bacteria, like Lyme; and viral diseases, like chickenpox.
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"I think that we at CDC have incredibly strong scientists who have a lot of technical experience with similar diseases," Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said.
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Ultimately, if the U.S. and others are to manage emerging diseases like Zika, then their efforts will require strategies that focus on anticipating, not just reacting to, the serious challenges that these diseases pose.
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Alimera is presently focused on diseases affecting the back of the eye, or retina, because these diseases are not well treated with current therapies and will affect millions of people in our aging populations.
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Read more: 'Miracle' cells could cure blindness "Whether it's sexual diseases, cancer, cardiovascular, neurological diseases, I think this gives us a really important tech platform to develop many new drugs beyond painkillers," she says.
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The firm called the spread of tropical diseases an "underappreciated consequence of global temperature rise," and anticipates that exposure to diseases including Zika, dengue and yellow fever will rapidly increase over the coming decades.
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Dr. Chris Braden, director of the division of foodborne, waterborne and environmental diseases at the CDC's National Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases, said the finding helps inform and focus mosquito-control measures.
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So it makes sense that the World Health Organization recently moved to define a disease called "gaming disorder" and add it to its International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a epidemiological dictionary of known diseases.
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Where the diseases are focused: COPD: This group includes progressive lung diseases like emphysema and chronic bronchitis, with the majority of cases found in current or past smokers in Appalachia and the Mississippi Valley.
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They leave behind wealthier lifestyles and bring with them a new range of diseases stemming from these lifestyles, namely chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension -- known as "Non Communicable Diseases" (NCDs).
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Then there are medical conditions that can reduce heat tolerance, such as menopause, autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis, thyroid trouble and cancer of the pituitary gland, not to mention some drugs used to treat diseases.
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For measles, the proportion of the population required to achieve this is higher than for most other diseases by virtue of the fact that it is one of the most contagious diseases ever known.
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"There is considerable risk of increases in a number of vector-borne diseases as the climate continues to warm, but it will not be uniform across the globe or across all diseases," Ostfeld says.
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The WHO's International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is like an encyclopedia of all known diseases, and it's the diagnostic standard for health agencies across the world, used to monitor statistics and report on epidemiology.
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"If there's increased transmission of mosquito-borne diseases [after the hurricanes], it'll be from West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis," explained Duane Gubler, an expert on mosquito-borne diseases with Duke-NUS Medical School.
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What they do according to O*NET: Perform medical tests in a laboratory environment for use in the treatment and diagnosis of diseases in animals and prepare vaccines and serums for prevention of diseases.
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Gilbert likes to think of the possibilities for discovering rare childhood diseases at birth or using deep learning to detect and diagnose diseases like glaucoma without the patient having to wait for a doctor.
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Those deaths include alcohol-related cancer and cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, intentional injury such as violence and self-harm, and traffic accidents and other unintentional injuries such as drowning and fires.
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Although there's increasing concern and awareness of climate-related risks associated with extreme weather—like food- and water-borne diseases, or diseases carried by insects like mosquitoes—few countries have implemented significant policy changes.
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Of course you would take preventive measures like needle exchange programs to make sure people don't spread dangerous diseases — just like you would provide condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Duh!
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In the 2000s, I was focused on trying to find risk factors for disease in African-Americans, who have higher rates of certain diseases and lower rates in other diseases than, for example, European Americans.
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"Diseases such as diabetes, kidney failure, cancer, inflammatory arthritis and meningitis and severe joint disease have become chronically managed diseases of dogs in recent decades, rather than diagnoses that forced a euthanasia decision," Creevy said.
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HHS said that the U.S. and Cuba "share an interest in detecting and responding to emerging infectious diseases such as dengue and chikungunya, [and other] serious mosquito-borne viral diseases," such as the Zika virus.
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Health officials warn of intensified cases of asthma and other respiratory diseases, longer pollen allergy seasons, increased cases of heat stroke and other heat-related illnesses, and increased risks of insect- and water-borne diseases.
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CEO Stéphane Bancel says the company has strategic agreements with AstraZeneca for treating cardiovascular diseases, Merck for infectious diseases, as well as with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, an agency of the Defense Department.
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Respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, known as COPD, are categorized as amenable diseases, says Dr. Justin Salciccioli, a resident and clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School and lead researcher on the analysis.
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An imbalance in gut microbes has been linked to certain behaviors and diseases, including autism, depression, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's, allergic reactions, and certain autoimmune diseases, though much of this research is still in its infancy.
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"Density of population is one factor that facilitates spread of infection," said Dr. Jeffrey Duchin, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Washington and a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Significantly, despite its move away from ultra-rare diseases, GSK is still looking to use its gene therapy platform to develop treatments for more common diseases, including cancer and beta-thalassaemia, another inherited blood disorder.
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They have been so effective that the overwhelming majority of Americans cannot imagine how utterly devastating these diseases can be because almost no one —including healthcare providers — has seen the diseases unfold before their eyes.
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Deadly mosquito-borne diseases aren't new to Brazil or South America.
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These genetic developments are also having an effect in bigger diseases.
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Other viral diseases — like dengue and chikungunya — also cause Guillain-Barré.
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CogniScent – BERLIN CogniScent provides AI-guided early detection of neurodegenerative diseases.
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These diseases are caused by variations in more than 1,000 genes.
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Prion diseases can happen spontaneously or be passed down through families.
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A superfluity of cancers and genetic diseases can destroy women's ovaries.
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Deaths from infectious diseases like influenza, pneumonia, and polio were plunging.
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Habits, diseases, and disabilities can affect someone's gait in unique ways.
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Some of the diseases prevented by vaccines are nonexistent in America.
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In my gastroenterology fellowship, I will treat diseases of the gut.
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In the latter instance, allergies and autoimmune diseases are the result.
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He has also said Haitian immigrants were bringing diseases to Brazil.
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The related Aedes albopictus is also believed to transmit these diseases.
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Sanderson Farms will still use antibiotics to treat and control diseases.
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Their number continues to dwindle due to poaching, deforestation and diseases.
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Officials hope the spraying can avoid outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases.
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Pregnant women also risk giving birth to babies with congenital diseases.
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The diseases in question result from misfunctions of the immune system.
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It's also one of the most infectious diseases known to man.
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In some rare diseases, such early diagnosis can be life-saving.
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Glad my babies don't need to suffer through preventable infectious diseases.
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria transform easily curable infections into potentially fatal diseases.
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NASH often leads to more serious liver diseases, including liver cancer.
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It could provide clues to diseases other than cancers as well.
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People who have suffered from prion diseases will not be eligible.
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And these studies don't just look at traits, diseases, and behavior.
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They also found that certain bacteria were associated with certain diseases.
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Humans can kill and eat wild animals, exposing themselves to diseases.
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What is certain is that vaccines keep terrible diseases at bay.
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But one important solution is stopping diseases before they can start.
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STDs Sexually transmitted diseases are up in the US. Way up.
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Most diseases are far more than just a simple gene mutation.
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Lots of other diseases masquerade as the spider's gross necrotic bite.
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Wristband sensors will track 10,000 Americans for years to study diseases.
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Diarrheal diseases still claim the lives of 250,22050 children each year.
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If emotions are communicable like diseases, which are the most contagious?
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And unlike other mosquito-borne diseases, Zika can be transmitted sexually.
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She's seen humans land on the moon and cure countless diseases.
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We are at a higher risk of diseases such as diabetes.
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It's not one disease: it's multiple diseases that have similar symptoms.
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"I've had multiple family members affected by men's diseases," he says.
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Giving cows bacterial resistance to diseases could be a huge deal.
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Did you know you could give me all kinds of diseases?
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Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases in childhood.
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These patients present with symptoms that are specific to particular diseases.
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People die of curable diseases for a stark lack of medicine.
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What's more, their longer lives are also free of major diseases.
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Honey bees also are exposed to viruses, bacterial diseases, and fungi.
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Tens of thousands are struggling with cholera, diphtheria and other diseases.
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Wild animals can cause death, inflict serious injury, and spread diseases.
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But, as with all diseases, the advantages paled beside the disadvantages.
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Then probably farther down the road, diseases that affect other tissue.
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Though preventable, chronic diseases threaten to overwhelm our health care system.
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But despite the mutations, these adults had not developed these diseases.
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Diseases such as tuberculosis, however, cannot always be identified through screenings.
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It contributes to obesity and diseases like heart disease and cancer.
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" "Often, when it comes to rare diseases, there are rarely cures.
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Measles is considered one of the most contagious diseases in existence.
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Gene drive systems could one day prove invaluable for fighting diseases.
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Mosquitoes and neglected tropical diseases thrive in forgotten pockets of poverty.
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Trust those with rare diseases and disorders to know their needs.
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"Lyme and other tickborne diseases can cause serious illness," Levine said.
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In 2013, 6% of IVF procedures involved screening for specific diseases.
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These particles can lodge into the lungs and cause respiratory diseases.
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These tiny particles are linked to heart, lung and respiratory diseases.
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Ticks can be dangerous, as they carry a variety of diseases.
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We've seen elections proceed fairly, houses go up, diseases nearly disappear.
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I think it is also tied to how we define diseases.
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Therefore, senolytic drugs are a possible treatment approach for such diseases.
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They're also highly susceptible to contagious diseases, particularly in confined spaces.
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JOHAN S. BAKKEN President Infectious Diseases Society of America Duluth, Minn.
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"Long term management of these diseases is very expensive," Muriuki said.
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The case was outlined in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a CDC journal.
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Polio is one of the diseases we are closest to beating.
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Progressive neurological diseases, like dementia or Parkinson's disease, will disqualify applicants.
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In aggregate, 7,000 rare diseases affect an estimated 30 million Americans.
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"This system had some childhood diseases," Popov said, tapping his screen.
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Consider how unfair this system is for patients with chronic diseases.
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These are diseases that larger pharmaceutical companies definitely don't focus on.
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At this time, there is no cure for asbestos-related diseases.
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It can help to manage diseases, including heart disease and diabetes.
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD is an infectious diseases physician at Stanford Healthcare.
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They may also research diseases to prevent them, promoting animal health.
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Depression, bipolar disorder and other mental health disorders are treatable diseases.
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They may even reduce their risk of developing some deadly diseases.
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Parkinson's disease is one of the most common chronic neurodegenerative diseases.
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So is fighting age-related diseases, per The New York Post.
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This improves gut health and can protect against diseases like diabetes.
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Yet the emergence of these zoonotic diseases seems to have accelerated.
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The diseases and deaths will come from among the most vulnerable.
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The Ethris alliance will focus on asthma and other respiratory diseases.
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We often label these conditions as personal weaknesses rather than diseases.
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In younger generations, it's possible to prevent both of these diseases.
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Malaria is one of the oldest, deadliest diseases in human history.
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These emerging infectious diseases have become a hallmark of our age.
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Weill published these findings Wednesday in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.
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The evaluations were detailed last month in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
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They received diagnoses for metabolic diseases like diabetes 4.5 years later.
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Of the 471,998 participants, none had a history of cardiovascular diseases.
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Specifically, the mutations that cause the 219,2180 known human genetic diseases.
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The most common drugs in those shortages were for infectious diseases.
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Early death is most often caused by diseases of various stripes.
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The diseases we don't fight abroad will eventually reach our shores.
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It's genetically well-defined -- more so than many more common diseases.
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Those domestic sheep carried diseases for which bighorn had no defense.
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Nearly everybody wants to have cancers cured and terrible diseases eliminated.
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Luckily, deadly diseases with the capacity to spread globally are rare.
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They can also carry diseases that can be transmitted to humans.
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Sexually transmitted diseases have been infecting humans for a long time.
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Overall in the US, outbreaks from water-associated diseases are low.
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Bathing is rumored to help with rheumatism, skin diseases, and diabetes.
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Could the infection, however mild, increase one's susceptibility to other diseases?
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Compulsive hand washers often fear contracting chronic and life-threatening diseases.
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To add insult to injury, they transmit exotic diseases and parasites.
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ResearchKit continues to gain momentum in research areas outside traditional diseases.
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They are uncomfortable, but not as bad as the actual diseases.
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And when it rains, diseases break out due to poor hygiene.
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"They have avian diseases, which we generally can't get," McMahon says.
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That was until we met a geneticist who studied rare diseases.
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And yet look at the plethora of autoimmune diseases around you.
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Few things are more frightening as a weapon than infectious diseases.
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In my world, you can date people by their childhood diseases.
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How did America come to abandon people with debilitating psychiatric diseases?
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Each of these diseases spread around the world and killed thousands.
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Beyond the human suffering, diet-related diseases impose massive economic costs.
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Yet the crises involving communicable diseases got most of the attention.
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But by 1550, many had died from diseases brought by Spaniards.
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Most Congolese are more concerned with malaria, malnutrition and diarrheal diseases.
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Emory's Serious Communicable Diseases Unit is focused on preparation and prevention.
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Develop a vaccine for HIV and a cure for neurodegenerative diseases.
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Yes, the risks of my medication involve serious diseases like cancer.
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There's not much evidence, however, that it can treat neurodegenerative diseases.
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Scientists wondered if they could erase these diseases by swapping mitochondria.
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Millions of our fellow human beings are dying of preventable diseases.
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At his age, sexually transmitted diseases were the more likely culprits.
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Known, incurable diseases lurk in hidden reservoirs all over the world.
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They were the diseases of the past, at least in Boston.
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After all, ticks can carry a number of diseases besides Lyme.
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Another warned against hugging visitors from other continents — diseases, you know.
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Michael Bloomberg, for example, is a global ambassador for noncommunicable diseases.
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Floods can wash away farmland and homes and spread waterborne diseases.
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It dealt with exercise, drugs, nutrition, sexually transmitted diseases and violence.
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One Fox News "expert" warned that the diseases might include smallpox.
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Then it brought in diseases, they said, and caused intense protest.
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Many human diseases — colds, the flu — wane in the sunnier months.
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Fears about imported diseases are common among critics of migrant caravans.
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Interferons have been used to treat autoimmune diseases and viral hepatitis.
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Waterborne diseases are also a risk — only drink fresh, bottled water.
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Sometimes our bodies get sick with viruses, diseases, or broken bones.
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Limbaugh once suggested that unauthorized immigrants were spreading sexually transmitted diseases.
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I don't mean that solely as an indicator of certain diseases.
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As a geneticist, he was trained to study rare genetic diseases.
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Victorian-era diseases like tuberculosis and rickets have made a comeback.
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"But diseases are not terribly good at respecting borders," he added.
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Coronaviruses are zoonotic diseases, meaning they pass from animals to humans.
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Nationwide, lifestyle related diseases have taken a toll on children's health.
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Some cause diseases in fish; others are free-living aquatic species.
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Zuckerberg says artificial intelligence is already helping diagnose diseases, for example.
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Like other diseases, opioid addiction can be safely and effectively treated.
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Isn't 'natural immunity' to diseases like chickenpox better than 'vaccine immunity'?
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Other diseases — such as measles, rubella, diphtheria — became very, very rare.
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And various diseases, particularly Ebola, have been devastating for the animals.
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It hasn't yet been tested against those particular diseases in humans.
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Usually, the diseases that stick around tend to become less lethal.
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Addictions, in particular, are often viewed as diseases, not informed choices.
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Rising global temperatures also heighten the risk of mosquito-borne diseases.
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That includes diseases such as flu strains, E. coli and salmonella.
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It is not just diseases in distant places that threaten us.
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In 22019, FDA approved eight novel new medicines for rare diseases.
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Why do we almost never get those diseases at age two?
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In many different neurological, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, healthy synapses disappeared.
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It can also detect diabetic eye diseases and glaucoma, Dean said.
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They did not have diseases that interfere with vitamin D absorption.
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It also makes patients more vulnerable to other diseases, she said.
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Coronaviruses are zoonotic diseases, meaning they spread to people from animals.
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Finding a cure for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's is challenging.
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Diagnosis of ailments and diseases is being done remotely these days.
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But, we still have contagious diseases that we can't figure out!
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Finally, there is the danger of diseases deliberately spread by terrorists.
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Since 1983 almost 85033 drugs have been approved for rare diseases.
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Those mother-daughter boundaries blur real fast with diseases like this.
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Diseases that our parents defeated — like tuberculosis — could come roaring back.
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This type of therapy could theoretically work in treating other diseases.
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Infectious diseases can occur at substantially different rates in different areas.
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Neergaard said more attention is being paid to non-cancer diseases.
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Maybe it is bad to get diseases from the Middle Ages.
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David Fajgenbaum: Advances for rare or "orphan" diseases occur completely randomly.
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Crowding in EDs can contribute to the spread of infectious diseases.
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With increased desertification comes an increased risk of dust-borne diseases.
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It's possible that humans spread diseases that brought about their extinction.
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There are a few diseases that can form these strange collections.
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Perhaps, Dr. Blumstein speculated, the animals are passing diseases among themselves.
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