For many people, hepatitis often goes undetected and becomes increasingly difficult to treat over time.
This is a key safety result, because these patients become incredibly difficult to treat.
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Addiction is a disease that is relatively well understood, even if it is still difficult to treat.
When C. difficile bacteria overwhelm the gut, it can be fatal and difficult to treat with antibiotics.
They looked at head-and-neck cancer, which is often diagnosed late, making it more difficult to treat successfully.
Director of the Sleep Assessment Advisory Service in London, Professor Chris Idzikowski, said sleepwalking is very difficult to treat.
It is still not known why the control mechanism breaks down in some people, but the results are very difficult to treat.
Another big advantage to Leukine: It is being tested for Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammation of the digestive system that is difficult to treat.
Difficult to treat, hoarders resist change, frustrate family and aggravate landlords.
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Strapped for supplies and personnel, health-care facilities were finding it difficult to treat the wounded, said the ICRC, which has 50 staff members in Syria.
The chronic version of this condition is very difficult to treat.
Once a cancer has metastasised, it is extremely difficult to treat.
Scientists believe that patients with this mutant ATM gene may have a more aggressive form of CLL which is more difficult to treat with conventional drugs.
Professor Swanton said as a clinician the findings did not surprise him but they helped explain why cancers are so difficult to treat once they have spread.
Renal cell carcinoma accounts for approximately 2% of all cancers diagnosed in the UK, although it is difficult to treat, with a cure rate of about a third.
Lady Finlay put forward an amendment to ensure equal regard was given to treating those with rare or difficult to treat conditions as those with more common complaints.
These tumors were once incredibly difficult to treat, but now they are vulnerable to Gleevec, a Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) drug that was one of the first targeted cancer drugs.
They knew a drug called XR9576 could block P-glycoprotein and sensitise individual cancer cells to chemotherapy, but they did not know if the drug would be successful against whole tumours, which can be very difficult to treat.
In a general sense, vocal cord paralysis can be more difficult to treat since the main focus is to make the folds further apart to improve the airway, but not so much as to affect the quality of the voice.
Medical historians believe that a large proportion of those who died of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 were not killed by the flu virus, but by secondary bacterial pneumonia, which was difficult to treat before the introduction of antibiotics.
Aside from being a difficult disease to treat, scant data from its failed trail with the drug Rituxan leave investors with little guidance going forward.
The team responsible said he was a difficult patient to treat.
But many of the hurdles to using the cells themselves as treatments still apply--the same hurdles that make it difficult to know how to treat patients with embryonic stem cells also apply to these new cells.
Because hoarders often believe that they are actually saving the animals, hoarding cases can be difficult to prosecute and treat.
The study found that the occurrence of difficult-to-treat infections in U.S. hospitals mirrored the rate of antibiotic prescribing in communities served by those hospitals, generally rising during flu season and subsiding in the spring and summer months.
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Focused on the treatment of patients with serious and difficult-to-treat autoimmune and inflammatory disorders, Questor has been very successful in marketing Achtar, which is also commonly used in treating patients suffering from infantile spasms, an epileptic syndrome, as well in patients patients burdened with rheumatology.
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In any event, families, patients and healthcare providers still face difficult decisions in how to treat individual Alzheimer's patients.
But developing diagnostic tests and ways to treat inflammation could prove dauntingly difficult.
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