Most were tailor-made, engineered to carry specific genetic mutations to mimic human diseases and conditions like autism.
The services on offer check your DNA (from a sample of saliva) to determine your risks of contracting various diseases and conditions later in life.
What they do instead is scan your DNA for markers associated with specific diseases. 23andMe tracks 58 diseases and conditions, deCode offers 26, and Navigenics 18.
At the same time, we are seeing increasing rates of diseases and conditions that tonsillectomies can prevent or cure, like infections, and even cancer, of the tonsils.
Research involving human embryonic stem cells and human non-embryonic stem cells has the potential to lead to better understanding and treatment of many disabling diseases and conditions.
At the same time (as already evident under Medicare) the treatment of infrequent but costly catastrophic diseases and conditions will be limited in the name of cost control, and the case-by-case discretion of doctors and other providers will be closely monitored and restricted.
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Shire is a pharmaceutical company that develops health care in the areas of behavior health and gastrointestinal conditions, rare diseases and regenerative medicine and other conditions.
"The next step is to link these changes to childhood conditions and assess whether these children have different risks for diseases, how severe their conditions are and what the patterns of these diseases are, " she says.
This care has proved to be efficient for treating diseases such as HIV and AIDS, malaria and other parasitic conditions, and chronic and lifestyle diseases.
The WHO "Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health" says that chronic diseases like cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, stroke, cancers and respiratory diseases account for 59% of the 56.5 million disease-related deaths annually, and much of the global disease burden is tied to diet.
They provide complex services for the thousands of diseases, conditions, and injuries that afflict us.
Common diseases such as psoriasis and rare conditions such as dermatomyositis can cause itchy scalp.
The discovery is among a number of studies that have increasingly shown how dermatoglyphics can predict a range of conditions and diseases.
Sangamo BioSciences is going after conditions and diseases for which there are no good drug treatments, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) and spinal cord injuries.
One in eight admissions to general hospitals in the UK are for gut conditions and diseases, and almost one in four main operations within general hospitals are performed on the digestive tract.
Sangamo BioSciences (nasdaq: SGMO - news - people ) is going after conditions and diseases for which there are no good drug treatments, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) and spinal cord injuries.
The state is warm, wet, and humid, all ideal conditions for the proliferation for fungi, diseases, and pests that attack tomatoes.
The drug is approved for a number of conditions, particularly diseases of the immune system, and many patients who use it have life-threatening conditions.
The memo further states that patients must meet numerous other qualifications relating to clinical trials and not have certain serious diseases or conditions that would lower the implant's efficacy or the patient's likelihood of long-term survival.
But over the past couple of decades, autophagy has also been shown to be involved in things as diverse as fighting bacterial infections and slowing the onset of neurological conditions like Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases.
And there are gaps in the treatment of diseases not unusual among rich-world children, including epilepsy and psychotic conditions.
Most of Malawi's estimated 7, 500 prisoners live in appalling conditions, often contracting contagious diseases like tuberculosis and scabies.
Diseases like dengue and malaria are affecting new populations as warmer conditions allow mosquitoes to survive over a wider area and at higher altitudes.
Others considered to be high priority are students aged five to 19, those with medical conditions, especially chronic respiratory and coronary diseases, and pregnant women.
Hospitals, labs and research facilities buy the kits to test for conditions including streptococcus bacterial infections, mononucleosis, parasitic diseases, lyme disease, herpes, chicken pox and shingles, as well as E. coli, transplant infections and respiratory diseases such as pneumonia.
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Parents with children who have rare and debilitating diseases are pushing to change how researchers develop medicines to treat the conditions.
Long-term conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes, have overtaken infectious diseases as one of the biggest burdens on the heath service.
The study authors say these added pounds increase the risk of developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some cancers -- conditions often referred to as obesity-related diseases.
This technique could potentially be used to deliver vaccines against other infectious diseases such as those administered in childhood, and also vaccines to manage chronic inflammatory and autoimmune conditions such as type-1 diabetes or vaccines to control certain allergies.
Their names do not appear, but the profiles list medical conditions including abortions, illegal drug use, alcoholism, depression, sexually transmitted diseases, medications and their DNA sequence.
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