At present doctors test for the presence of abnormal proteins called prions which are thought to cause the disease by killing off brain cells.
The first time the group of researchers met, he piped up with research showing that mutations in genes related to JAK2 could also cause the disease.
SU-11248 is one of a new spate of cancer pills that work by targeting several of the molecular defects that cause the disease at one time.
Merck is pouring tens of millions into an experimental treatment for a new type of Alzheimer's drug meant to limit the main ingredient in the brain-damaging plaques believed to cause the disease.
Neurologists fiercely debate whether the amyloid clumps are the cause of the disease--or merely a consequence.
"The cause of the disease may not be new, but the scale at which it is occurring has not been observed in recent years, " the WHO said in an email.
Only in the middle of March did China allow in a team of specialists from the WHO to help work out the cause of the disease and how best to prevent it spreading further.
Even after decades of research, the case that amyloid buildup is the main cause of the disease is hardly airtight.
Perhaps, Pei says, exposure to the wrong kind of bacteria, not just acid, is one cause of the disease.
They were valuable in steadying the heart-beat, and in providing clues to the cause of the heart disease, which might then be treated by conventional methods.
The cause of Chagas disease is the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to humans from a bite from an insect known as the triatomine bug.
Eating contaminated meat or some other animal products from cattle that have bovine spongiform encephalopathy is thought to be the cause of the fatal brain disease in humans that is called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Experts have a number of hypotheses as to why anxiety and heart disease may be linked, though the new research can't confirm that anxiety -- not some other factor -- is the cause of heart disease and heart attacks in the study.
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It is not supported by any clinical research evidence that would allow claims to be made that it is the cause of disease or health concerns.
Several more cases of using DNA sequencing, which reads out the 6 billion DNA letters that contain the protein recipes that make one person different from another, to understand the cause of disease have been published.
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The irony of this is that this (and not, for example MMR) was the one vaccine then used which was known to carry a small risk of very serious neurological side effects - it could, very rarely, actually cause polio, the disease it is designed to prevent.
Cancer is the second leading cause of death by disease in the U.S., surpassed only by heart disease.
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Is there another way that gluten may cause disease aside from the well-understood immune mechanisms of celiac disease?
The bacteria, which can cause the lung infection Legionnaires' disease, was discovered in the water system at St Botolph's Court last week.
But TB remains the leading cause of death by infectious disease in the country's adults.
The prevalence of the disease, the leading cause of amputation, more than doubles in this age group.
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They were established under a special provision of the bankruptcy code Congress passed just to deal with the millions of lawsuits filed by people who claim to have been exposed to the substance, which can cause lung disease and a rare cancer of the chest wall lining called mesothelioma.
As well as identifying the lupus genes, the study will also attempt to recognise gene patterns that could cause more serious forms of the disease in order to monitor who could have acute problems in the future.
The build-up of amyloid is believed to be the cause of this disease.
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In January, the Food and Drug Administration approved Kalydeco, the first drug to actually reverse the biological changes that cause the lung-destroying disease.
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Professor Michael Shaw, a plant health expert at the University of Reading, who was not involved in the research, said it was a step towards understanding why certain strains of the fungus cause disease while others are benign.
The agency is using toxicologists, epidemiologists, microbiologists, forensic chemists and veterinary researchers to investigate whether the treats could be causing dogs to suffer Fanconi syndrome, a kidney disease that can cause the organ to shut down.
According to the FDA, Mycobacteria chelonae can also cause lung disease, eye problems, and infections of the joints and organs.
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To put it plainly, chronic inflammation can provide the framework for, if not outright cause, a lot of the major chronic disease states.
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Liver disease, the fifth biggest cause of death in England and Wales behind heart disease, cancer, stroke and respiratory disease, comes in more than 100 forms but is most commonly associated with alcohol abuse, obesity and viral hepatitis.
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