The paradigm that the team is pursuing is in situ detection, analysis and treatment of disease.
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"To get any of these advanced cell therapies into humans for the treatment of disease, we need to use human cells, " he says.
Aggregated and integrated data generated by those tools will create a complete and continuously updated picture of every patient, influencing everything from the treatment of disease, to the prolonging of health, to the development of new treatments, Topol argues.
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In 2011, the results of the AIM-HIGH study called into question the value of niacin in the treatment of cardiovascular disease in light of their inferiority to statins.
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We desperately need a test that distinguishes the kind of disease that needs treatment from the kind of disease that will never kill but needs to be watched.
These compounds are used to treat osteoporosis and are the mainstay for the treatment of this disease.
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Interestingly, another similar situation exists in a program that Merck is advancing for a breakthrough treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Dr Zoll felt that his work in the treatment of heart disease was only belatedly recognised, although he never complained in public.
An empowered patient is a partner in the treatment of their disease.
In the 1950s, bypass surgery revolutionized the treatment of heart disease.
Stein, of the University of Wisconsin, who has written about the treatment of heart disease in patients with HIV and studied how various substances affect artery walls.
Yet a class of drugs that represents one of the most important recent advances in treatment of the disease only works for one in three patients.
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They wanted to know if Tredaptive, in combination with a statin, would be at least as good, if not better, than a statin alone for the treatment of CV disease.
In collaboration with leading clinicians, researchers and scientists worldwide, Medtronic offers the broadest range of innovative medical technology for the interventional and surgical treatment of cardiovascular disease and cardiac arrhythmias.
One could argue that these drugs have greatly improved the treatment of heart disease and are partially the reason why deaths due to heart attacks and strokes have slowed over the past decade.
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There are a large number of life saving drugs for the treatment of heart disease, bacterial infections and additional cancers that are becoming increasingly unavailable because the profit is no longer sufficient to satisfy the business plans of the pharmaceutical companies despite their having made billions when these drugs were under patent protection.
While most doctors agree that treatment of this type of infection with oral antibiotics in its early stages is often successful, there is far less agreement regarding the treatment of chronic Lyme disease, which keeps recurring because of a delayed diagnosis.
And this year it received Indian regulatory approval for a treatment of the skin disease psoriasis.
Qualifying medical expenses include the costs of diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, and the costs for treatments affecting any part or function of the body.
Athersys recently entered a partnership with Pfizer to jointly develop MultiStem for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, which affects more than 2 million people in the U.S., Europe and Japan.
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The UK has one of the worst records in Europe in the treatment and prevention of heart disease, even though it accounts for more deaths than any other disease.
The study was designed to measure progression-free survival, which is a measurement of the time from the start of treatment until the disease gets worse or the patient dies, and overall survival, which is a measurement of time from the start of treatment until death.
Last week, an Idaho woman has filed a lawsuit against Genzyme, charging that a long-standing shortage of its Fabrazyme treatment for Fabry disease led to the death of her husband two years ago.
Lamellar was founded in 2007 to develop a new class of therapies for the prevention, treatment and control of severe respiratory disease.
But what really disappoints Lee is that discussion of a promising treatment for a devastating disease becomes entangled in discussions of doping.
Incyte also plans to tests its drug in treatment resistant forms of this disease.
They looked at treatment of conditions including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, osteoporosis and HIV.
Guidelines on the treatment and management of the disease are due to be published by Nice by June 2005.
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