Foreign doctors and nurses are trying, for instance, to stem the spread of infectious diseases.
Some 1.5 million children under five die each year from sickness caused by water-borne diseases.
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Within two centuries, European diseases and Spanish ships had driven the Calusa from Sanibel.
But how reliable and useful are the predictions for all sorts other common diseases?
Genetically modify mosquitoes so they can't spread diseases such as malaria and dengue virus.
The fungicide is used to control plant diseases in cereals and fruits, including citrus.
Many diseases of the brain may be caused by clumps of proteins that clog its circuitry.
That would make eggs the limiting factor in using nuclear transfer to treat human diseases.
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The cancer society's rise coincided with the taming of infectious diseases and lengthening life spans.
Eventually he decided to improve his process across more diseases and help more people.
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Cleveland Clinic is organized into patient-centered institutes based around single diseases or organ systems.
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Neither outcome is satisfactory for using the cell lines to model diseases or screen drugs.
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For the diseases it does track it is one of the more powerful tools out there.
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PatientsLikeMe now has more than 200, 000 patients on the platform and is tracking 1, 800 diseases.
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In truth, when compared to federal funding for other diseases, Alzheimers is getting very short shrift.
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This shows a link between malaria and outcomes for children with other childhood diseases.
In May 2006 Illumina signed a deal to help DeCode Genetics find genes for common diseases.
But other phenomena that look like diseases are known to be maintained by natural selection.
ABT-418 in a small number of patients with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, with promising results.
"Out of 57 million deaths a year, about 15 million are from communicable diseases, " he says.
Biologics like Amgen's Enbrel--a protein drug for immune diseases including rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis--have become blockbusters.
It also wants to expand into other chronic diseases, including diabetes, with evidence-based programs.
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There are tropical diseases, fighting in Sudan, dangerous tribes and a lot of dangerous animals.
Omada will use the funds to market its pre-diabetes Prevent program, and address other diseases.
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Of course, with big diseases come the sorts of delays that often plague big pharmaceutical firms.
A. One common misconception is that stem cells are being currently used to cure diseases.
Instead of companies, he's going after Big Problems: diseases that kill children, illiteracy, hunger.
Glaxo hopes the drugs will lead to myriad new treatments for diabetes, cancer and other diseases.
Sirtris' raison d'etre was to create more potent versions that could combat myriad diseases of aging.
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