This reduces the inflammation associated with many diseases, including strokes and arthritis, without suppressing the immune system.
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Malnutrition was widespread, and so were diseases associated with poverty: cholera, dysentery, typhoid and parasitic infections such as malaria.
Lapatinib is a product of the growing field of molecular medicine the design of drugs to attack specific protein molecules associated with particular diseases.
Victoria Copas, one of the paper's authors, says a Spanish study found that social interaction delayed the onset of neurological diseases associated with old age.
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What they do instead is scan your DNA for markers associated with specific diseases. 23andMe tracks 58 diseases and conditions, deCode offers 26, and Navigenics 18.
Since 1983, when Huntington's disease was found to be correlated with a particular chromosome, health researchers have identified no fewer than 1, 400 diseases associated with single genes.
The research by Dr. Snowdon and others, though, suggests using thresholds of 27 and 32, respectively, for Samoans and the population of some neighboring countries would give a more realistic view of the risks they face of diabetes and other diseases associated with obesity, researchers say.
They estimate 100, 000 children in the area are at risk from "cholera and similar serious diseases" associated with a lack of clean water.
Openness has enabled both academic and industrial scientists to discover genes associated with a range of diseases sooner than otherwise would have been possible.
The widest experience that most have in this area has been in the treatment of traveler's diarrhea, antibiotic-associated diarrhea and the inflammatory bowel diseases (ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease).
The new genetic map should bolster research into a number of diseases whose onset is associated with a combination of genetic predisposition and changes to the body's roster of bacteria.
Both Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, for example, are associated with a dopamine deficit.
We have known from the very beginning of the HIV epidemic that sharing needles and other drug-related paraphernalia is associated with transmission of HIV and other infectious diseases including hepatitis B and C.
What we need to go on studying is whether diseases like arthritis, which tend to be associated with older age, occur in a normal way or whether the incidences change.
Experts believe the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits of the foods associated with the diet confer health benefits across a variety of diseases.
Though a physician would have tested the sperm for sexually transmitted diseases and certain genetic disorders, there are disincentives associated with going through a physician.
It is an injectable drug approved for the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including nephrotic syndrome, and the exacerbated effects associated with the dreaded multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Should individuals be required under the force of law to modify his or her eating habits because of the associated public costs, such as a spike in weight-related diseases?
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If some features are regularly associated with a propensity to become pandemic, then forecasting outbreaks of new viral diseases will become easier and more scientific.
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Provigil is also being prescribed for such diseases as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease, and for the fatigue associated with hepatitis C.
Unfortunately, because the individual risks associated are generally very small, and the genetic variations are very common, for most diseases this means we are unlikely to be able to predict the likelihood of developing disease in individual patients.
"We understand there could be global risks associated with the current outbreak, " said study author Dr. Isaac Bogoch, a specialist in infectious diseases and tropical medicine at the University of Toronto.
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Malnutrition is associated with over a third of children's deaths and is the single most important risk factor in many diseases (see chart).
Jon Andrus, deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization, said doctors have seen no increase in reportable diseases within Haiti and there is no risk of a communicable disease outbreak or any other public health threat associated with bodies.
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