Conducting research in the areas of cardiovascular disease, central nervous system disorders, immunology and infectious disease, oncology, respiratory diseases and women's health, its best-selling products are Vytorin, Zetia, Remicade and Nasonex.
Unlike at the end of the first world war, there is now a global disease-surveillance system which would sound the alarm if H5N1 showed signs of being able to pass from person to person.
ALS, a disease of the nervous system, impairs muscle movement and eventually results in total paralysis.
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In Type 1 diabetes, an inherited form of the disease, the immune system destroys insulin-producing cells.
The virus itself is very common but only causes the disease when the immune system is damaged.
AZT, began as an orphan drug for what was then an obscure disease of the immune system.
Guillain Barre syndrome is a disease of the nervous system which causes numbness and weakness and a degree of paralysis.
She told the BBC he had been in and out of hospital recently after falling ill with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a disease affecting the nervous system.
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C. and San Diego, school nurses use Voxiva to report absenteeism and illnesses to their local health departments as an early warning system for disease outbreaks.
With a database of recordings available for analysis, more sophisticated algorithms could also be developed that may lead to a scoring system for disease progression based on voice alone.
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"But even if we upgraded those systems, the lack of a really effective vaccine, the lack of better and faster drugs that shorten treatment to a reasonable time and the lack of good drugs for treating resistant disease -- make it hard for any health care system to effectively deal with the disease, " he said.
Recent discoveries revealed that tumors are adept at cloaking themselves by hijacking the body's own mechanism for preventing the system's T-cells, the infection- and disease-fighting cells of the immune system, from running amok against healthy tissue.
B-cells are a key component of the immune system, producing disease-fighting antibodies.
This is Type 1 diabetes, a disease in which the immune system attacks and kills the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.
Hepatitis A is rarely fatal, although those with liver disease or a weakened immune system could require hospitalization, according to the health department.
In recent years, he also suffered from Shy-Drager, a condition similar to Parkinson's disease that attacks the nervous system and affects muscle control.
Eventually Wright found a specialist and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a debilitating disease that involves the immune system attacking the central nervous system.
Professor Lipkin is one of the leading advocates of a global early warning system for contagious disease to reduce the risk of the sort of pandemic seen in Contagion.
The drug aimed to ease the deterioration caused by multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease in which the immune system attacks the nerves, eventually leaving some patients wheelchair-bound and unable to move.
As a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, he studied multiple sclerosis, a genetically conditioned disease in which the immune system mistakes nerve tissue for a foreign invader and systematically destroys it.
If you have HIV, are undergoing radiation or chemotherapy for cancer, or have a suppressed immune system from autoimmune disease, diabetes or chronic lung disease, you may be at risk for developing chicken pox.
We have a legal system of notifiable disease.
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Now into this gloom comes a new type of drug, called an anti-CD3 antibody, that aims for the first time to delay or prevent development of the devastating disease by arresting the immune system's attack on pancreatic islet cells.
This medicine is an impressive collection of firsts: not only is it the first drug approved to treat lupus, a potentially fatal disease in which the immune system attacks healthy tissues, it is also one of the first drugs to come out of genomics, the systematic evaluation of human genetics that was epitomized by the human genome project a decade ago.
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It is being targeted specifically at ulcerative colitis, a gastrointestinal disease caused by an overactive immune system.
But the condition also resembles an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue.
Researchers are investigating whether Peyronie's disease might be linked to immune system disorders.
"Obesity is a disease that is crippling the healthcare system, " says Stephen Friend , Merck's vice president of molecular profiling.
Prof Hopkins and colleagues used the drug donepezil, used to treat people with Alzheimer's disease, to test the automated system.
Children born with two faulty copies of the gene develop the disease, which destroys the nervous system, and usually die by the age of five.
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