Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
It recommends that in the acute stages the disease can be cured by cutting into the normal flesh around the cancer, cauterising the wound and then sealing it with egg yolk before washing it with wine.
The symptoms of Johne's Disease are acute weight loss and diarrhoea.
The upside to its story, he says, comes as the company transitions from the current cosmetic-and-reconstructive surgery approach to regenerative medicine specifically in the area of both acute and chronic cardiovascular disease.
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Chronic disease management, acute care services and preventative care are all available at a face value, affordable price.
Legionnaire's disease is an acute, respiratory bacterial infection that can be fatal.
The real challenge for pharmaceutical companies is coming up with new blockbuster drugs for chronic disease, not acute outbreaks like swine flu.
In another path-breaking example, consider the case of Dr. Lucas Wartman, a young physician who developed adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a disease that is usually rapidly fatal, and for which there is no effective treatment.
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With the battle to free the Iraqi people nearing its final and perhaps most dangerous stages, it is increasingly clear that Washington must now treat the disease called Severe Acute Respiratory SyndromeSARSas a looming threat to Homeland security.
Italy's economic illness is not the acute sort, but a chronic disease that slowly gnaws away at vitality.
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Another medical term closely related to acute coronary syndrome is coronary artery disease.
In about one-third of patients, the disease progresses to become acute myeloid leukemia.
One explanation offered by both Dr Ratnieks and Mr Traynor is of a once-rare disease, possibly caused by the Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), sweeping through colonies that have already been weakened by parasites such as Nosema ceranae, a parasitic fungus from Asia.
Within 120 days of starting treatment there were 4691 hospitalizations for acute kidney injury in patients without pre-existing kidney disease and 1896 hospitalizations in patients with pre-existing disease.
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However, none of the six groupings - which included acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, brain tumours and Hodgkin's disease - showed an increasing trend between levels of radiation and rate of disease.
In countries such as Tanzania, where nearly 4, 500 women die annually from the disease, the problem is exacerbated by an acute shortage of medical experts and a lack of quality screening services, especially in rural areas.
As well as identifying the lupus genes, the study will also attempt to recognise gene patterns that could cause more serious forms of the disease in order to monitor who could have acute problems in the future.
The first is the ever-more-pronounced shift in the burden of disease among the U.S. population from acute to chronic conditions.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 21 million cases of acute gastroenteritis in the U.S. each year are due to infection with noroviruses, and more than half of all food-borne disease outbreaks can be attributed to them.
Patients without pre-existing disease on high potency statins were 34% more likely to be hospitalized with acute kidney injury than patients on other statin regimens.
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Not all of these new drugs came from big pharma as biotech companies like Regeneron (Eylea for wet acute macular degeneration), Vertex (Kalydeco for cystic fibrosis) and Incyte (Jakafi for bone marrow disease) had major drugs approved.
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Edwards Lifesciences Corp. a leader in advanced cardiovascular disease treatments, is the number-one heart valve company in the world and the global leader in acute hemodynamic monitoring.
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