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“We’re thrilled with our progress in this first and only gene therapy trial for cystinosis, a devastating genetic disease with unmet medical needs that impact the daily lives of patients and their families,” said Stephanie Cherqui, Ph.D., lead investigator of the clinical trial and associate professor of Pediatrics at the University of California San Diego ...
(NASDAQ:PROF; TSX:PRN) (“Profound” or the “Company”), a commercial-stage medical device company that develops and markets customizable, incision-free therapies for the ablation of diseased tissue, today announced that the first patients have been treated in the Level 1 ‘CAPTAIN’ trial. ...
Robocath, a company that designs, develops and commercializes cardiovascular robotic systems for the treatment of vascular diseases, today announces the successful completion of the first remote robotic-assisted coronary angioplasty in Europe. The procedure was carried out by Prof. Eric Durand and Prof. Rémi Sabatier at the Rouen Medical Training Center ...
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Draft PR Notice 2020-X describes the groups of pests and their potential impact on public health as follows: Arthropods: The listed arthropods may cause asthma or trigger allergies, contaminate food, irritate skin, cause direct injury, or carry diseases such as epidemic typhus, trench fever, epidemic relapsing fever, malaria, encephalitis (St. ...
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He continued, "In addition to these, there are several other diseases transmitted by mosquitoes that can be harmful to health and even deadly, and this site serves as a comprehensive and educational resource where people can learn more about mosquitoes and the harm they are capable of inflicting." "By arming both the public and agencies, such as MADs and PHOs that work to ...
” In a joint statement released today, EPA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are urging the public to use insect repellents and take other precautions to avoid biting insects that carry serious diseases. In the United States, ticks can transmit serious diseases such as Lyme disease, Rocky ...
Early symptoms of Lyme disease are often similar to the flu. Borrelia burgdorferi is a species of Gram-negative bacteria and is also the cause of Lyme disease. Lyme disease is a zoonotic, vector-borne disease transmitted through the bite of infected ticks. ...
There might even be a decrease in transmission risk for some diseases, according to the review, but more research is needed to make accurate predictions. "One of the biggest surprises is that there aren't a lot of clear, published cases of migratory species carrying infectious diseases. This could be partly because of the challenges of studying ...
The body louse is also known to transmit lethal diseases such as typhus whereas its close relative, the head louse, does not. This study is helping explain the differences between these two insects as to which genes are involved in transmitting disease. Other work that the team was involved in included sequencing the genome of a microbe that lives in the body ...
A new Belgian study investigates the link between climate change and the recent increase in the human disease, nephropathia epidemica (NE), spread by rodents. The authors predict that NE could become a highly endemic disease in Belgium and neighbouring countries. ...
Outbreaks of the deadly parasitic disease are spreading into temperate latitudes a little more each year, health officials report. Now an international team led by researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has found a key link that causes malarial infection in both humans and the mosquitoes that carry the disease. If this link in the ...