However, more recently developed molecular tools are allowing insight into disease mechanisms and pinpointing potential regions of interest in the genome.

Treatment of illnesses is necessarily more limited, confined mainly to dealing with symptoms, since medieval medicine has yet to understand disease mechanisms.

Newer drugs and devices and better understanding of disease mechanisms have vastly improved the care of patients.

Also, because the underlying disease mechanism is not yet fully understood (see Causes), treatment efforts have usually focused on symptom management.

Historically, the pharmaceutical industry has developed medications based on empiric observations and more recently, known disease mechanisms.

Later, it became clear that several different disease mechanisms were implicated, with the common link to a disordered activation of the immune system.

The disease mechanism of V. parahaemolyticus infections has not been fully elucidated.

Membrane damage by alpha-synuclein could be another Parkinson's disease mechanism.

Medical advances occur by understanding disease mechanisms.

The effect of antibacterial therapy supports a role for bacteria in the disease mechanism (pathogenesis).