But in recent years their understanding of heart disease has shifted to focus on an entirely new front: inflammation of the arteries.
With support from my family and friends, I realized that I needed to stop dwelling on being diagnosed with a chronic disease, and instead focus on finding a groove.
Dr. Joseph O'Donnell, an oncologist and professor at the Geisel School of Medicine, where the Koop Institute is located, said he shared Koop's desire to focus on disease prevention.
While MIT scientists often seek merely to understand disease, researchers at Merck focus on products that treat or cure it.
In countries such as the United Kingdom, which expects a nursing shortage within the next five years, the focus is on disease prevention and public health to reduce the overall number of patients.
Where cardiac disease does occur, we want to focus on prompt diagnosis and the best treatment.
Because LDL cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease, it's the main focus of cholesterol-lowering treatment.
The Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Research Center will focus on asthma, where rates are much higher among inner-city children, particularly blacks.
We need to change the way providers are paid to focus their attention more on chronic disease and managing their treatment.
Mali, where the focus will be on irrigation and disease-resistant crops.
When it learned of these results Myriad switched its focus from cancer to Alzheimer's disease and began a trial of 210 men and women with mild to moderate Alzheimer's symptoms.
The focus for the entire year has been on the disease, her treatment and her recovery.
Other treatments may focus on medications or therapies to address an underlying disease, such as diabetes or liver disease.
Disease foundations provide a critical patient perspective and encourage a crisp focus on translating basic science into urgent clinical applications for patients in need.
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They focus on asthma, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, prostate cancer and immune function.
This should help researchers focus on the specific immune-system problems that underlie the disease.
Most efforts, including the recent news of a disease-detecting rhesus monkey (bred with a glowing jellyfish gene), focus on improving the characteristics of existing organisms.
Instead of narrowly studying only one disease, each team had the latitude, within a broad category, to focus on any drug targets or diseases they wanted to.
Daniel Rader of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the world's top experts on the science of cholesterol, says a laser-like focus on LDL-lowering has been one reason deaths from cardiovascular disease are dropping.
The deal would seem to cement Astra's focus on cancer drugs after high-profile failures in neurology and cardiovascular disease.
All good advice, but I am going to focus on the statement that no medicine changes the overall course of the disease.
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An increasing focus among public health officials and the media is the prospect that transmission of the disease is not only animal-to-animal but also human-to-human.
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Agios also is likely, based on its existing competencies, to focus on making small molecules, not the expensive proteins that currently dominate the rare disease space.
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Costs are kept low and the entire focus is on getting proof that each drug is both safe in humans and treats the disease it is intended to target, since these are the triggers for getting acquired.
As pressures on public finances and health insurance costs mount, chronic disease risks exemplify how much more cost effective it would be for health institutions, governments and businesses to focus on prevention rather than treatment.
Smith is almost certain to focus on operations inside the philanthropy, particularly the management of engineers producing products like communications tools for disease specialists in the field or Google maps identifying geothermal fields.
"Results like these give us real confidence that we will combine this focus with our other research efforts and meet our goals of improving survival from all forms of the disease, " Dr Walker added.
And they can focus their overseas aid on the issue that is most difficult for poor countries to deal with themselves: disease.
Recently, researchers at the Institute of Neurology at University College London stimulated the brains of human subjects to push the brain toward beta band frequencies associated with focus to study the effects on motor processing, with the hope of helping those with Parkinson's disease.
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