Re "Hypertension: In Retreat, but Hardly Vanquished" (Personal Health, April 22): As Jane E. Brody observes, a good way to control this malady is with pharmaceuticals, but it is not the only way.
When completion of the Human Genome Project was announced in 2003 many expected that the paradigm that one gene for one malady would leave little control over our wellness.
A test group of 2,187 federal prisoners who volunteered to drink severely polluted water from the Insalubra Creek for a period of ninety days suffered a lower incidence of goitre, grunginess, samadhi, tennis elbow, and several other maladies, than did a control group that drank pure water.
Targeting a transgene into the vasculature using either a xylem or phloem-specific promoter allows gene expression at the site of infection and can potentially control vascular maladies.
He referred to maladies now largely brought under control by medications of which AZT was among the more controversial and earliest.
Although charged with advancing work in fields ranging from infectious diseases to cancer and brain science to rare maladies and regenerative medicine, AMED will control just $1.2 billion, a fraction of NIH's $30 billion budget.
I asked why she thought fear of flying had become such a widespread malady, why people found it so hard to let go of control.
The General Assembly has organized a High Level Meeting on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases — cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular trouble being among the maladies.
Treves says he was inspired to look at the science behind predator control by a book unrelated to wild carnivores: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Siddhartha Mukherjee's epic history of cancer.
On a couple of occasions in his life, Logan had been hospitalized for mental illness, and, after becoming aware that he suffered from bipolar disorder and that it could be controlled with medication, he became a vocal spokesman for those who suffered from the malady.
