Posts tagged: chronic
New community health approach aims to combats chronic disease, empower patients, reduces costs
(Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron) A new community-wide collaboration to reduce the impact of chronic disease and empower patients is generating impressive early results, leaders of the Accountable Care Community initiative said. The Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron is leading the initiative with its founding institutional members and more ...
Conference focuses on vaccines for chronic diseases
(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) At a symposium sponsored by the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and scheduled for Feb. 7-9, an international group of researchers will discuss development of vaccines for addiction, cancer, chronic infectious diseases and neurodegenerative diseases.
Final agenda now available for CRF meeting on chronic total occlusions and left main interventions
(Cardiovascular Research Foundation) The Complex PCI: Left Main and CTO Summit is a three-day conference featuring state-of-the-art technologies, research findings and new developments in therapeutic procedures essential for interventional cardiologists to optimize success in chronic total coronary occlusions and left main coronary interventions.
Quality Of Life Issues For Patients With Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
Although significant progress has been made in treating chronic myeloid leukemia, the disease cannot yet be eliminated in all patients, and that challenge must be addressed, states a commentary in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).). Likening the journey to find a cure for chronic myeloid leukemia as a marathon, cancer ...
The race against chronic myeloid leukemia not yet won
Although significant progress has been made in treating chronic myeloid leukemia, the disease cannot yet be eliminated in all patients, and that challenge must be addressed, states a commentary in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Research Scientists Provide New Understanding Of Chronic Pain
Millions of people worldwide suffer from a type of chronic pain called neuropathic pain, which is triggered by nerve damage. Precisely how this pain persists has been a mystery, and current treatments are largely ineffective. But a team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, using a new approach ...
Chronic inflammation combines with DNA methylation to promote development of colorectal cancer
Chronic inflammation combines with DNA methylation, a process that shuts down cancer-fighting genes, to promote development of colorectal cancer, scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report today in the advance online publication of the journal Nature Medicine.
Scripps Research scientists provide new understanding of chronic pain
LA JOLLA, CA January 22, 2012 Millions of people worldwide suffer from a type of chronic pain called neuropathic pain, which is triggered by nerve damage. Precisely how this pain persists has been a mystery, and current treatments are largely ineffective. But a team led by scientists from ...
New understanding of chronic pain suggests new target for drug development
January 22, 2012 Millions of people worldwide suffer from a type of chronic pain called neuropathic pain, which is triggered by nerve damage. Precisely how this pain persists has been a mystery, and current treatments are largely ineffective. But a team led by scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, ...
Scripps Research scientists provide new understanding of chronic pain
(Scripps Research Institute) Millions of people worldwide suffer from a type of chronic pain called neuropathic pain, which is triggered by nerve damage. Precisely how this pain persists has been a mystery, and current treatments are largely ineffective. But a team led by scientists from the Scripps Research Institute, using ...
Important Role In Acute, Chronic Urinary Tract Infections May Be Played By Bacterial Toxin
Researchers from the University of Utah have identified a process by which the most common types of urinary tract infection-causing bacteria are able to trigger bladder cell shedding and disable immune responses. According to this new study, published in Cell Host & Microbe, α-hemolysin, a toxin secreted by many strains ...