"These are women who don't have disease, who don't have menopause symptoms, who are using the therapies only to prevent something that might happen in the future, " said Bibbins-Domingo, an associate professor of medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco.
Two years ago, the same studies showed that hormone replacement therapy didn't prevent disease.
It's not a vaccine in the traditional sense: It doesn't prevent disease.
Fortunately, she hadn't been coughing much, so the disease hadn't spread widely.
They can tell you don't have a disease you do, leading you to ignore symptoms.
But women and their doctors commonly don't suspect the disease and are unprepared for an attack.
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Three studies of post-menopausal women show low- fat diets don't prevent heart disease, breast cancer, or colon cancer.
But being classified as a supplement has been challenging because the company can't make a disease claim, says Mr. Patton.
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Vaccines are notoriously difficult to test: Instead of simply measuring signs of healing, a negative must be proven--that someone won't get a disease.
Federal guidelines now recommend the drugs for up to 24 million more Americans who don't have heart disease but risk getting it in the future.
On one flight studied, one passenger spread a particular strain to someone seated seven rows away, while people seated next to the ill passenger didn't contract the disease.
In fact, medical professionals have stopped using the term "fibrocystic breast disease" and now simply refer to "fibrocystic breasts" or "fibrocystic breast changes" because having fibrocystic breasts isn't really a disease at all.
The findings raise the alarm that diabetes isn't just a disease of the overweight or obese, says Carnethon, and that physicians should be looking for signs even among their leaner patients, particularly those who are elderly.
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Also, the brain begins shrinking relatively late in the progression of the disease, so MRI isn't as good at detecting the disease in its early stages when treatments are most effective.
In general, the goal of treatment for a metastatic recurrence isn't to cure the disease.
However, the company doesn't start researching a disease until it sees a breakthrough on the horizon.
"The problem is that most women aren't diagnosed until the disease has spread, " she said.
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Noah turned out to be fine, but Rothberg was frustrated that doctors didn't have a rapid test to ensure his son didn't have an inherited disease.
The imaging agent can't be used to diagnose someone with Alzheimer's disease if the individual doesn't experience memory impairment because the presence of amyloid in the brain doesn't alone suggest that someone has Alzheimer's.
Up until three to four years ago, we really didn't have treatments for this disease.
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The cause of Peyronie's disease isn't completely understood, but a number of factors appear to be involved.
In a cruel twist, the body's disease-fighting T cells attack healthy skin cells, misidentifying them as foreign.
If genes are making several proteins, knowing that a gene is involved in a disease isn't enough.
Currently there aren't any treatments for the disease, which usually results in death by the age of 20.
Even more surprising was the discovery that infection byS. neurona makes toxoplasmosis, the disease caused by T.gondii infection, worse.
The study didn't find any difference in disease progression a year after treatment between those taking lithium and the control group, researchers said.
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But that lost second can't be blamed on his disease: During the run, he was pushing his 6-year-old daughter, Kiana, in a stroller.
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Dr. Schneider says that in Ireland people with a family history of Tay-Sachs may request testing, but routine screening for the disease isn't done.
And while scientists still don't know what causes the disease, they believe common irritants found in homes across the country can trigger an attack.
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