Guillain Barre syndrome is a disease of the nervous system which causes numbness and weakness and a degree of paralysis.
The therapy includes injections of the drug interferon, which stimulates the immune system and causes the bulk of the difficult side effects, and two antiviral drugs taken orally.
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Takeshita Noboru is hospitalized for treatment of spondylitis deformans, a spinal deformation caused by aging which puts pressure on the nervous system and causes back pain and paralysis in the limbs.
Huntington's disease is an hereditary neurological disorder of the central nervous system that causes progressive degeneration of cells in the brain, slowly impairing a person's ability to walk, think, talk and reason.
It is thought to be caused by a malfunctioning of the immune system, which causes accelerated growth of skin cells.
For First Globals, it is a broken economy and political system they see as causes of their inability to find work matching their skills and expectations.
We see how this system of checks and balances causes tremendous friction between and within the branches of government.
This would be useful in cases of severe injury where the immune system turns against the body and causes organs to shut down one by one.
America's rising income inequality (which has far more complex causes than the tax system) means that the richest Americans have been getting relatively richer and hence should be paying more in taxes, quite independently of tax cuts.
Scientists have flown into the heart of a turbulent weather system in a bid to uncover the causes of heavy rainfall.
Our complicated income tax system favors special interests and cronies and causes our economic resources to be diverted to activities with low rates of return.
The virus itself is very common but only causes the disease when the immune system is damaged.
The film offers an unflinching look at the causes and effects of our medical system's problems and provides some hopeful solutions.
Typical causes include asthma, suppressed immune system, and chronic lung disease.
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Meanwhile, the Dodd-Frank approach does nothing to address the most obvious root causes of damage to the financial system--conflict of interest due to the issuer-pays model and staleness of ratings.
They have a big incentive to take care of the system, because if any one of them causes a blockage to his pipe, his neighbours will be in trouble too.
Some very cool science is on the drawing board: a recombinant vaccine that pairs salmonella with a gene from, say, the organism that causes tuberculosis as an oral delivery system to stimulate the body's natural immunity to both bacteria.
My government will continue to tackle crime and its causes, and to modernise the justice system.
To improve our health care system, we must address one of the prime causes of higher cost: the constant threat that physicians and hospitals will be unfairly sued.
Its current system relies on doctors to voluntarily report when a drug causes a problem.
Cystic fibrosis is a life-threatening disorder that causes severe damage to the lungs and digestive system.
This dissipation often causes stresses to accumulate elsewhere in the fault system, triggering tremors far from the place where the rocks first slipped.
The immune system produces histamine to fight off the intruder and that chemical causes the symptoms that make people miserable.
What we do know is that an excess supply of money causes inflation and is detrimental to the workings of a market system.
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Moreover, the human system is not much different than most mammalian systems and so positing cognitive causes as the source seems sketchy at best.
Deaths from circulatory system diseases and cancer actually decreased mildly, as did overall deaths from external causes (by a very respectable 5%).
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You raise more money via the tax system, certainly, but you do this in a regressive manner because it causes less damage to the future economy.
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University researchers had just pinpointed a source: a bad gene that causes the body to produce an oversupply of interleukin-1, an immune system protein.
Two centuries after Carl Linnaeus invented the system now used to describe it, and a century after Charles Darwin worked out what causes it, the ability of that diversity to surprise is still staggering.
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The particle causes seemingly stable situations to become suddenly very unstable, thereby imparting impressive changes to a physical system.
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