Sentences with phrase «ms in human patients»

They waited until mice had had an EAE attack, akin to a flare - up of MS in human patients, and then administered Del - 1.

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Unfortunately humans are also prone to err in more serious situations — like deciding whether or not a patient is in need of open heart surgery.
'' «At PMV Pharmaceuticals, we are targeting the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer (p53) to make an unprecedented impact on cancer patients» lives.
«We're revolutionizing human hair transplantation using sophisticated robotics and we needed a patient investment partner with a solid track record in medical devices — so we turned to InterWest.
«By merging our expertise in vehicles, technology and human - centered design, we've created a high - touch, patient - focused service that truly understands and is tailored to patients and their needs.
No. 2: Alzheimer's disease treatment nets a breakthrough Roughly 99 % of all Alzheimer's drugs to enter human trials have ended up in the trash heap, but trials are under way evaluating drugs that could soon reshape patient treatment.
Since the human genome was decoded in 2003, researchers have been developing a powerful method for comparing the genomes of patients and healthy people, with the hope of pinpointing the DNA changes responsible for common diseases.
How ironic that a divinity professor is so lacking in compassion and human insight both for you and for the dying patients!
The longing to belong in some ultimate sense, to feel an at - homeness in the universe is satisfied for many in worship which reawakens the awareness of «the mystical unity which underlies all human life» (Cyril Richardson) This experience is energizing, feeding, and healing; it overcomes the sense of cosmic loneliness, the feeling expressed by a mental hospital patient: «I'm an orphan in the universe.»
There in the closed room, where one probed and treated the isolated psyche according to the inclination of the self - encapsulated patient, the patient was referred to ever - deeper levels of his inwardness as to his proper world; here outside, in the immediacy of human standing over against each other, the encapsulation must and can be broken through, and a transformed, healed relationship must and can be opened to the sick person in his relations to otherness — to the world of the other which he can not remove into his soul.
Therefore he seeks and loves the human being in his patients and allows it... to come to him ever again.
As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.
In a later study of the well - being of coronary patients, Holden (1981) reported that ownership of a pet among ninety - three patients was the strongest predictor of survival, stronger even than human relationships.
But there is an illumination and we can know that there is a patient, redemptive reality in and through all of life which transmutes real evil, real loss, real threats to the growth of human good into the deeper, more sensitive and more enduring goods of love and humility?
A general summary was provided by ethics experts who testified before then - Congressman Albert Gore's Committee on Science and Technology in 1982: (1) Though risks in experimentation are inevitable, a strong bias toward the sacredness of human life requires the highest regard for the patient or subject.
This is done routinely in experiments with animals and occasionally with human patients undergoing neurological treatment.
With regard to Callahan's comparison of the lives of PVS patients with the lives of «fertilized eggs,» I would simply note that once an egg has been fertilized it is no longer an egg but a new living being, and in the case of the human species, a new human being — surely a being of incomparably greater value than an «egg.»
He has helped the patient to «adjust himself to life,» but in either case he has helped a human being to fit into a pattern of human life without giving him any clue as to whether it is the right pattern.
The human material on which the demonstration has been made has so far been rather limited and, in part at least, eccentric, consisting of unusually suggestible hypnotic subjects, and of hysteric patients.
When this belief was coupled with the notion of a last judgement which would not occur until God «had accomplished the number of his elect», in words from still another prayer, it said something about the corporate nature of human life, the equally corporate nature of whatever destiny men have, and the need for patient waiting until our fellowmen have found their capacity for fulfillment along with us.
Fortunately, my doctor is close enough to me in age that he knows that there is not necessarily a cure for everything that ails the human body, and therefore knows when to leave a patient alone — no tubes, no desperate surgery, no heroic measures.
In spite of his fascination with theory, Jung observed: «It is a remarkable thing about psychotherapy: you... can cure only from one central point; that consists in understanding the patient as a psychological whole and approaching him as a human being, leaving aside all theory and listening attentively to whatever he has to say.&raquIn spite of his fascination with theory, Jung observed: «It is a remarkable thing about psychotherapy: you... can cure only from one central point; that consists in understanding the patient as a psychological whole and approaching him as a human being, leaving aside all theory and listening attentively to whatever he has to say.&raquin understanding the patient as a psychological whole and approaching him as a human being, leaving aside all theory and listening attentively to whatever he has to say.»
This goes to the heart of purpose of human creation, Allah says that humans will be tested through losing their wealth and loved ones and personal sufferings in the same way when they are tested by having wealth and children's so we can see who was the most patient and righteous at the end so let's not blame God for all evils a human being is able to commit.
«Thus, also in our century, the Lord, the Holy Spirit, has given us new initiatives with new aspects of Christian life: On being lived by human persons with th ``... If the movements are really gifts of the Holy Spirit, they integrate and serve the Church, and in the patient dialogue between pastors and movements a fruitful form is born, in which these elements become edifying elements for the Church of today and tomorrow
Although more and more human studies are being conducted to validate claims found in animals, many studies are with patients with a certain illness or condition (ex.
This is an in - depth and far - reaching conversation that includes dialogue about euthanasia, blood transfusions, medical experimentation without consent, research fraud, vaccines as biological weapons, autism, the rape of autistic children, the rape of medical patients — especially during hospital birth, birth trauma, trauma - based mind - control, circumcision, satanism / luciferianism, psychopathy, Agenda 21, and the deliberate attempt to kill and / or render infertile and / or genetically mutate the human race.
And in none of these conversations did anyone even suggest that they made a medical decision because of money (in fact my sister actively avoids over-doing tests, etc even though she knows she could be making more money), nor do they suggest the patient is anything less than a feeling human being.
If you're interested in donating human milk, but your child is not a CHOP patient, please check the HMBANA website for contact information.
A lot of things we've been told are best turn out to have other consequences, and those are conversations we NEED to have... if we truly have what's best for the patient (human or canine) in mind.
A clinical trial to evaluate whether the ointment can treat antibiotic resistant infections in human patients is scheduled for 2018.
The UI study, which was published March 28 online in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, adds to the accumulating evidence, including recent human studies from Harvard University, that suggests cerebellar stimulation might help improve cognitive problems in patients with schizophrenia.
By allowing the operator to manipulate routine, two - dimensional images in an open three - dimensional space, VR provides a look into a patients» organs and tissues that had not been possible outside of the human body, until now.
A dozen human studies of MDMA, LSD, a powerful African drug called ibogaine and psilocybin, from so - called «magic mushrooms,» are now under way, testing the once - stigmatized drugs as treatments for not only PTSD, but also cluster headaches and addiction, as well as anxiety and depression in cancer patients.
The National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee (NHRPAC), a committee of scientists, lay patient advocates, lawyers, professional society members, and ethicists, previously advised DHHS on research matters, but — in a politically charged decision — its charter was allowed to expire recently.
«I'm working with Professor Richard Oreffo and Dr Rahul Tare from the University's Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explains.
If the procedure works in humans, it would enable donated livers from humans, and possibly even from pigs, to be re-coated with a patient's own cells, reducing the likelihood of organ rejection.
A medical doctor (of human patients), Rothschild is often sought out these days by paleontologists for his observations about the diseases revealed in bones (the dinosaur kind)-- and the subsequent deductions about how these long - extinct creatures might have lived.
«If this technology can be scaled to human - size grafts, patients suffering from renal failure, who are currently waiting for donor kidneys, could theoretically receive an organ grown on demand,» says Harald Ott, head of the team that developed the rat kidneys at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
He says his team is so confident with its results that it plans to petition the Food and Drug Administration this fall to test isradipine's effectiveness in human Parkinson's patients, because the drug has already been approved for human use.
The Jarvik - 7, in contrast, was deaf to the song of human experience; built to invigorate its patient, it instead alienated him, supplying Schroeder with everything but the will to live.
Ubogu says the findings are very exciting, as they provide knowledge of leukocyte trafficking in human nerves, but more work needs to be done in affected patients to develop an effective drug.
But the new test found another seven, including a respiratory virus called human adenovirus B type 3A, which usually is harmless but can cause severe infections in some patients.
HBI member V. Wee Yong, PhD and research associate Susobhan Sarkar, PhD, and their team including researchers from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the university's Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, looked at human brain tumor samples and discovered that specialized immune cells in brain tumor patients are compromised.
Abba Zubair, M.D., Ph.D, believes that cells grown in the International Space Station (ISS) could help patients recover from a stroke, and that it may even be possible to generate human tissues and organs in space.
At the patient safety charity, Safer Medicines, we believe this goal is most likely to be achieved through a greatly increased focus on human, rather than animal, biology in preclinical drugs tests.
Besides its potential application in human patients, the newly developed skin tissue also could be used as an alternative to testing cosmetics on animals, the researchers said.
While nivolumab improved survival rates in the overall study population, it appeared to be most successful in patients whose tumors were positive for the human papillomavirus (HPV).
If further research confirms the findings in human cells, limiting the amount of asparagine cancer patients ingest could be a potential strategy to augment existing therapies and to prevent the spread of breast cancer, Knott added.
Although the Harvard criteria were based on zero patients and no experiments were conducted either with humans or animals, they soon became the standard for declaring people dead in several states, and in 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) was sanctioned by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
Prior to the new study, researchers had already developed a more basic type of skin substitute that had been used successfully in human patients, said Takashi Tsuji, a team leader at RIKEN Center forDevelopmental Biology in Japan.
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