For a chronic disease drug in an therapeutic category where good treatments already exist, this is challenging.
While asthma is a chronic disease with genetic roots, the triggers are environmental and can be substantially prevented.
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Italy's economic illness is not the acute sort, but a chronic disease that slowly gnaws away at vitality.
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However, because DMD is a chronic disease, the drug would be used for much longer periods in these instances.
Most of them, at some point, will develop a chronic disease or disability.
To older patients, a new diagnosis of a chronic disease can be frightening.
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Doctors are beginning to discuss treating cancer as a chronic disease that could be kept in check with a cocktail of pills.
They hoped to design a new type of nontoxic therapy that could halt the growth of cancer, rendering it a chronic disease like diabetes.
Hotez and his team of 35 researchers are currently working on vaccines for hookworm infection and schistosomiasis, a chronic disease caused by parasitic worms.
Under this view, rather than an unfixable problem, many forms of autism may be more like a chronic disease that starts at birth and gradually gets worse.
With support from my family and friends, I realized that I needed to stop dwelling on being diagnosed with a chronic disease, and instead focus on finding a groove.
"My goal is to prevent future generations from having to make important life decisions around a chronic disease -- it's not what I want for my son, " she said.
Plus a medical research grant for a chronic disease.
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Leprosy usually becomes a chronic disease, Krahenbuhl explains, but it can be cured if it is treated with multiple drugs in the early stages, when the disease has only caused skin lesions.
"Every cancer survivor should have the opportunity to heal as well as possible and function at optimal level whether their cancer is cured, in remission or they live with cancer as a chronic disease, " Dr. Silver says.
Do any members of your family have a chronic lung disease of any kind?
The Williams sisters have aged and suffered injuries, and, in the case of Venus, a chronic autoimmune disease that has kept her on the sidelines.
Just three months before its planned split into two companies, Abbott Laboratories is suffering a significant setback after a Phase III trial for a chronic kidney disease treatment was ended due to an excessive number of deaths and serious adverse events in patients.
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Tooth decay is a leading chronic childhood disease -- more common than asthma -- and it's almost entirely preventable, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Perhaps the biggest challenge facing health care is to cope with a rise in chronic disease in ways that satisfy increasingly demanding patients without bankrupting national health care systems.
The filing cites recent scientific studies that have found a connection between concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative disease that results in Alzheimer's-like symptoms, including memory loss and mood swings.
To put it plainly, chronic inflammation can provide the framework for, if not outright cause, a lot of the major chronic disease states.
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"Once you are in your 70s, 80s or 90s, or if you have chronic disease like heart failure, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic lung and kidney disease, a larger body size gives you longevity, " he said.
Advances in wireless remote patient monitoring (RPM) are expected to have a big impact across targeted disease areas where chronic conditions are a leading cause of the readmissions problem.
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"It's really the responsibility of a health department to reduce chronic disease rates, " he said.
Another big advantage to Leukine: It is being tested for Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammation of the digestive system that is difficult to treat.
In return, those doctors will have to meet requirements including some form of 24-hour access for patients and keeping a registry to monitor chronic-disease care.
For the period after the war, and much of her subsequent life, she suffered terribly from what is thought to be chronic brucellosis - a disease more common in livestock, which causes weakness and intermittent fever in humans.
There is no better example than the world of chronic Lyme, a disease that might not exist and one for which the most common treatment, months or years of antibiotic use, poses a threat to us all by sapping the power of those drugs to fight disease.
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Over the past two years, for instance, he has published studies maintaining the Chantix anti-smoking pill is unsuitable for first-line use (read here and here) and a meta-analysis indicating the mist form of the Spiriva inhaler that is used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had a 52 percent increase in mortality risk compared with a placebo ( see this).
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