C. and San Diego, school nurses use Voxiva to report absenteeism and illnesses to their local health departments as an early warning system for disease outbreaks.
With a database of recordings available for analysis, more sophisticated algorithms could also be developed that may lead to a scoring system for disease progression based on voice alone.
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B-cells are a key component of the immune system, producing disease-fighting antibodies.
Professor Lipkin is one of the leading advocates of a global early warning system for contagious disease to reduce the risk of the sort of pandemic seen in Contagion.
Conducting research in the areas of cardiovascular disease, central nervous system disorders, immunology and infectious disease, oncology, respiratory diseases and women's health, its best-selling products are Vytorin, Zetia, Remicade and Nasonex.
If you have HIV, are undergoing radiation or chemotherapy for cancer, or have a suppressed immune system from autoimmune disease, diabetes or chronic lung disease, you may be at risk for developing chicken pox.
We have a legal system of notifiable disease.
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The advent of the Bristol-Myers Squibb drug Yervoy showed that a major new treatment for melanoma could be found by upregulating the immune system to fight this disease.
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"But even if we upgraded those systems, the lack of a really effective vaccine, the lack of better and faster drugs that shorten treatment to a reasonable time and the lack of good drugs for treating resistant disease -- make it hard for any health care system to effectively deal with the disease, " he said.
Recent discoveries revealed that tumors are adept at cloaking themselves by hijacking the body's own mechanism for preventing the system's T-cells, the infection- and disease-fighting cells of the immune system, from running amok against healthy tissue.
And like a cold, it attacks the respiratory system, the Centers for Disease Control have said.
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This should help researchers focus on the specific immune-system problems that underlie the disease.
And like a cold, it attacks the respiratory system, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said.
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And like a cold, NCoV infection attacks the respiratory system, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said.
Novel coronavirus acts like a cold virus and attacks the respiratory system, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said.
The novel coronavirus acts like a cold in attacking the respiratory system, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said.
Hard exercise may boost your immune system to help stave off disease.
Typical causes include asthma, suppressed immune system, and chronic lung disease.
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Unlike at the end of the first world war, there is now a global disease-surveillance system which would sound the alarm if H5N1 showed signs of being able to pass from person to person.
ALS, a disease of the nervous system, impairs muscle movement and eventually results in total paralysis.
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In Type 1 diabetes, an inherited form of the disease, the immune system destroys insulin-producing cells.
The virus itself is very common but only causes the disease when the immune system is damaged.
AZT, began as an orphan drug for what was then an obscure disease of the immune system.
Imagine a Lipitor-Weight Watchers partnership with a point system designed for patients with heart disease or high cholesterol.
Guillain Barre syndrome is a disease of the nervous system which causes numbness and weakness and a degree of paralysis.
Developers at Carnegie Mellon University's wearable computer department have looked at how a wearable computer system can help diabetics manage their disease.
She told the BBC he had been in and out of hospital recently after falling ill with Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a disease affecting the nervous system.
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This is Type 1 diabetes, a disease in which the immune system attacks and kills the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin.
Hepatitis A is rarely fatal, although those with liver disease or a weakened immune system could require hospitalization, according to the health department.
In recent years, he also suffered from Shy-Drager, a condition similar to Parkinson's disease that attacks the nervous system and affects muscle control.
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