Drugs on the market now are considered of limited effectiveness and treat the symptoms of the disease for a limited period of time.
Until now, scientists have been largely limited to examining the disease after a patient dies.
Chinese airline stocks rebounded overnight on hopes that fallout from the spread of the disease would be limited.
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Cocoa supplies are also threatened by disease outbreaks and limited access to fertilizers.
Ridker said the diversity of the participants, including women, African-Americans and Hispanics, is significant because there is limited information on preventing heart disease among those demographic groups.
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The market for Erbitux will likewise initially be limited to colon cancer patients whose disease has progressed despite treatment with the standard chemotherapy drug Camptosar, sold by Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ).
The book expresses the growing concern among more careful real climate scientists, rather than political scientists, that trends in solar activity portend a return to the cold, limited agricultural output, and widespread disease of the Little Ice Age, or even a more full blown, overdue by historical standards, real ice age.
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy, discovered by French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne in 1868, accounts for 40% of the cases of muscular dystrophy in the U.S. In 1987 it became one of the first ailments linked to a defect in a particular gene, but since then the main treatments have been limited and unable to halt the disease's devastating effects.
This has particularly disturbing implications for human health because the range of many disease-transmitting insects is limited chiefly by nighttime temperatures.
Not only did government regulators underplay scientific evidence of the effectiveness and relative safety of DDT, they also failed to appreciate the distinction between its large-scale use in agriculture and more limited application for controlling carriers of human disease.
Ulcerative colitis is limited to the colon, while Crohn's disease can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract.
The main current treatment for the disease is drugs but their success is limited and the side effects can be significant.
The other, Lucentis, was limited to a particular category of individuals with the disease, restricting it to about one in five sufferers.
Scientific research based on mathematical modelling indicates that restricting travel will be of limited or no benefit in stopping the spread of disease.
The disease permanently curved Riley's spine and limited his physical activities.
"As there is currently no cure, and a limited number of treatment options for people with Alzheimer's disease, every promising treatment avenue deserves to be followed up, " she said.
Most experts agree that increasing patient engagement and improving self-management skills for chronic disease will greatly reduce healthcare inefficiencies, but right now, there are limited resources available to patients for around-the-clock guidance, available to answer the 3 a.m. questions.
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To digress for a moment, it was biologist Felix Meerson who showed that high-altitude chambers where oxygen supply is limited, triggers an adaptive response that produces humans with profound mental capabilities and resistance against disease.
Among AML patients over age 60, treatment is often limited by other co-morbid diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, or kidney or cardiovascular disease.
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In addition, Tysabri use could be limited to a subgroup of MS patients called "relapsing remitting, " one of four main variations of the disease.
In the case of study 329 although a numerical difference in adverse events was observed by the company and the study's investigators, for patients taking Seroxat compared to placebo, these findings were not, by themselves, considered clinically meaningful due to the limited number of patients involved and the fact that suicidal thinking and behaviour is a recognised symptom of the underlying disease.
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