Instead, research will be focused on specific disease areas with research conducted in a particular place.
Genetic tests enable scientists to pinpoint genes that can make an individual susceptible to a specific disease.
Educating people about Guinea worm has other benefits besides preventing this specific disease, Hopkins said, such as helping people to think more carefully about the water they drink.
In passing this legislation, Congress paved the way for herbal companies to peddle their products with little oversight as long as they do not claim they treat a specific disease.
In other large product-liability cases, such as cigarettes or asbestos, there seems to be a well-established link between the products and a specific disease, such as asbestosis or lung cancer.
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So long as supplements avoid promises to cure a specific disease, their sellers can say pretty much whatever they want, provided only that they have some kind of supporting evidence on file.
It's called the specialty hospital, a center that focuses on the care of a particular body part such as the heart, spine or joints, or on a specific disease such as cancer.
Rome (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI is not suffering from any specific disease that forced him to resign, his spokesman said Tuesday, a day after the news that he was stepping down shocked the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.
"Thatcher's economic policy cured the specific British disease of vulnerability to bouts of high inflation and a Luddite trade-union movement, " said Howard Davies, formerly a deputy governor of the Bank of England and a head of the London School of Economics.
An FDA spokeswoman said the CDC report will help the agency as it targets specific foods for disease prevention.
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"This is the first time we have been able to offer something specific for this disease, " says Children's Hospital pediatric neurologist David Neal Franz.
Dr Jacob Puliyel, a paediatrician in Delhi, wrote in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics last year that "the polio eradication programme epitomises nearly everything that is wrong with donor-funded 'disease specific' vertical projects, at the cost of investments in community-oriented primary care".
These disease-specific stem cell lines will also be invaluable in testing out new therapies.
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Youth -- or a person's specific risk factors for disease -- may also affect their risk for developing heart disease and dementia.
During the five years, some men were given specific drugs for heart disease, such as ACE inhibitors including ramipril, telmisartan or a combination.
Some tools are not specific to a particular disease or condition.
While it is sometimes difficult to issue a specific diagnosis of the disease, it is, according to the report, no longer difficult to identify a cause.
Eggan's technique, which is the subject of a paper in the current issue of Nature, creates stem cells specific to a particular disease, like cancer or diabetes, without a supply of human egg cells.
Rankin and her team focused on a a specific type of neurodegenerative disease called frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, a group of disorders in which patients can experience behavioral symptoms such as personality changes, a loss of inhibition and social tact as well as language difficulties, such as an inability to understand words.
Previous studies have linked Mediterranean diets to fewer heart attacks and deaths from heart disease, but most of those have correlated people's recall of their diet with heart-disease outcomes rather than randomly assigning participants to eat specific diets and then following them for heart-disease risk, as Estruch and his colleagues did.
At the least, searches that are mediated by regulated medical companies, and tie disease keywords to specific, regulated medical products.
By looking at the specific genes involved in a particular disease, drugmakers hope to design chemicals that attack disease more exactly.
Like chemical skeleton keys, these generic compounds can quickly be customized to gum up specific kinases as their roles in disease become clearer.
The new drugs target very specific subsets of patients with the disease and will come with gene tests to pluck out which patients are likely to respond.
Specific goals target education, fighting disease and promoting gender equality.
In February, the FDA tagged 17 food producers, including POM, with warning letters, saying their ads violated federal laws because they were making specific claims about health benefits and disease prevention.
This pattern held when the researchers broke out the data by specific causes of death, including heart disease, lung disease, pneumonia, stroke, diabetes, infections, and even injuries and accidents.
This should help researchers focus on the specific immune-system problems that underlie the disease.
The results of these keywords, it said, bring up specific products associated with the search entries, including disease terms.
People with a rare genetic form of Alzheimer's, whose specific genetic mutations guarantee that they will develop the disease, tended to show signs of amyloid plaques in PET scans and cerebrospinal fluid 10 to 20 years before the onset of symptoms.
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