Mass producing stem cells to screen drugs and study the progress of disease is not the sexier side of the field.
When you are under a diagnosis they tell you that they can't tell the extent of your disease or how quickly it will progress so you are under the threat of death at this point.
Most new cancer drugs slow progress of the disease by just a few months.
Ms Evans also asked about the progress of a disease register in Wales.
Only 5 drugs have been approved by the FDA for use in merely slowing down the progress of the disease.
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The grant will be used in part to study whether earlier intervention can slow or stop the progress of the disease.
The counter-measures it recommends, such as hand-washing, appear to present only an isolated obstacle to the perilous progress of the disease.
He said the drug would slow down the progress of the disease and allowed patients to take advantage of other treatments like immuno-therapy.
Researchers can now create mice with the same genetic defects and test potential treatments on them, or study the progress of the disease.
Doctors in the U.K. argued vociferously that the most effective way to slow the progress of the disease is to give drugs at the first sign of dementia.
Heading each chapter is a paragraph charting the terrible progress of the disease in a real family, and making the connection between the death of the cell and the death of the self.
And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour.
No drug is available to slow the progress of Parkinson's disease, which affects 6 million people worldwide.
The idea is that they could be used to repair the heart after a heart attack or reverse the progress of Alzheimer's disease.
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In this form of the disease, the condition remains stable and often doesn't progress to serious forms of MS after the initial attack.
However, the scientists will also monitor whether the progress of the Alzheimer's disease is slowed.
On Jan. 15, Pharmacia announced an alliance with Reykjavik, Iceland-based DeCode Genetics (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) to find genes that predispose people to progress from early forms of heart disease to later ones.
Henry Chanin, the headmaster of a private school in Nevada, went in for a routine colonoscopy in 2006 and emerged with a dose of Hep C, a usually incurable disease that can progress to cirrhosis, liver cancer and death.
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The detection of Alzheimer's disease in people with no symptoms is very much a work in progress, said Dr. Allan Levey, professor and chair of neurology at Emory University Medical School.
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The heart disease death rate has gradually gone down since the 1960s, but much of that progress has been in keeping patients alive once they had heart attacks, not from preventing the initial episode.
Obama's move will be hailed by advocates for those suffering from a host of afflictions, ranging from diabetes to Parkinson's disease, who believe that an expansion of stem-cell research could boost medical progress toward eradicating the debilitating diseases.
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