Sentences with phrase «approaches to treatment at»

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The most obvious approach to look at how European care for the elderly will evolve is to project technological trends and the costs of people living longer as diagnostic equipment, drug treatments and other medical science continues to improve.

However, there are at least two crucial differences between that earlier generation's casual treatment of alcohol consumption and our own culture's easygoing approach to sex.

Research shows that a majority of global consumers, and especially Millennials, support companies that are committed to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 201to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 201to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 201To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

Sucafina SA and S&D Coffee & Tea, Inc, announced a new partnership to reduce coffee's water footprint at the processing level in Rwanda, with a special focus on a sustainable approach to water treatment.

Rest assured that the entire staff at the Virginia Center for Reproductive Medicine (VCRM) takes a patient - centered, comprehensive approach to diagnosis and treatment.

Describes the characteristics and benefits of parent - child interaction therapy (PCIT), a family - centered treatment approach proven effective for abused and at - risk children ages 2 to 8 and their caregivers — birth parents, adoptive parents, or foster or kin caregivers.

Treatment for ADHD includes education of the individual and his or her family about the nature of ADHD and its management; positive and proactive behavioral interventions that provide structure, consistency, predictability, and teach appropriate skills; parent training to teach and support effective parenting approaches for a child with ADHD; and modifications, support, and accommodations to increase success at school or work.

Furthermore, the practical approach used for the D treatment makes it possible for other individuals to replicate this treatment at low cost.

He said he opposed recreational marijuana, and spoke at length about his approach to curbing urban gun violence, which would include investments in mental health treatment and «deterrence» of rational criminals who would realize their marks could be armed.

Interactive virtual reality (VR) brings medical images to life on screen, showing interventional radiologists a patient's unique internal anatomy to help physicians effectively prepare and tailor their approach to complex treatments, such as splenic artery aneurysm repair, according to new research being presented today at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting.

Breast cancer patients may be at an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases including heart failure and may benefit from a treatment approach that weighs the benefits of specific therapies against potential damage to the heart, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published in its journal Circulation.

Treatments aimed at revving up the immune system's attack on the cancer may be the most promising approach to cancer therapy since combination chemotherapy.

As opposed to blunt regulatory solutions that decrease access to opioids in an indiscriminant way, education is a more finely tuned approach that can empower clinicians to make appropriate, well - informed treatment decisions for every patient at each clinical encounter.

Until recently the only treatments available for conditions affecting the brain were drugs or surgery — a «hammer over the head approach», according to William Tyler, a biomedical engineer at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke and a pioneer of the new brain stimulation techniques.

«We are hoping to help improve current mental health treatments by first predicting who is most at - risk so that we can intervene earlier, and second, by using these types of approaches to determine who might benefit from a given therapy,» Scult said.

«This group really seemed to go a long way toward identifying what may be an interesting new approach to treatment, and that's fantastic,» says Paul Kenny, chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai Health System, who was not involved with the Amgen work.

And at Daytop, a residential treatment facility run by the Apt Foundation in Newtown, Connecticut, the institute is testing a time - honored approach to controlling disease: vaccination.

«It's very interesting work but not practical for clinical treatment of patients,» says Denis Paré, a neuroscientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey who is also studying pharmacological approaches to manipulating fearful memories.

Dr Matthew Hobbs, Deputy Director of Research at Prostate Cancer UK said, «To greatly improve the survival chances of the 47,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, it's clear that we need to move away from the current one - size - fits - all approach to much more targeted treatment methodTo greatly improve the survival chances of the 47,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer each year, it's clear that we need to move away from the current one - size - fits - all approach to much more targeted treatment methodto move away from the current one - size - fits - all approach to much more targeted treatment methodto much more targeted treatment methods.

Research on metastatic colorectal cancer and sarcoma, however, suggests a potential benefit from adding local therapy — treatment directed specifically at the tumor cells — to the standard approach of systemic therapy.

«Techniques to correct defective genes in «non-reproductive» cells are already at various stages of clinical development and promise to be a powerful approach for many human diseases which don't yet have an effective treatment.

Commenting on the need for innovative approaches to dementia treatments, Dr Doug Brown, Director of Research and Development at Alzheimer's Society, said: «With no new dementia drugs in nearly 15 years, we're at a critical time for dementia research.

In a new study, University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified genetic clues that explain how breast cancer spreads, or metastasizes — findings that may lead to better treatments or approaches to prevent its spread at the onset.

Dr. Alan S. Cross, Professor of Medicine at University of Maryland School of Medicine, who was not involved in the research, shared his input: «This is a major conceptual breakthrough in our understanding of infection and immune disease mechanisms and may have implications for novel approaches to the treatment of other diseases characterized by cytokine storm.

While further research is needed to achieve these goals, the current approach can already help to characterize and assess treatments aimed at inhibiting influenza entry into cells.

The first long - term study of a pioneering endoscopic laser treatment for early vocal - cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and previously shown to provide optimal voice outcomes, finds that it is as successful as traditional approaches in curing patients» tumors while avoiding the damage to vocal quality caused by radiotherapy or by conventional laser or cold - instrument surgery.

To help find simpler, safer treatment options, researchers at National Jewish Health evaluated an approach known as wet wrap therapy.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a potential new approach to fertility preservation for young cancer patients that addresses concerns about beginning cancer treatment immediately and the possibility of reintroducing cancer cells during the fertility preservation process.

Dr. Cooper joined MDACC in 2006 as section chief of cell therapy at the Children's Cancer Hospital, where he cared for children undergoing bone marrow transplantation and led scientific efforts to develop new treatment approaches that pair genetic engineering with immunotherapies.

Professor Siddiqui, Professor of Airway Diseases at the University of Leicester and Consultant Respiratory Physician at Leicester's Hospitals, added: «Further research is now underway to understand how to use these statistical approaches to combine complex information in asthma patients and make personalised treatment decisions.»

«Our findings suggest that e-learning can provide an efficient and scalable approach to training large numbers of clinicians in new evidence - based treatments,» said Dr. Bradley D. Stein, the study's lead author, a practicing psychiatrist and a senior scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

Few Armed Forces personnel seek help for mental health disorders and novel approaches will be needed to encourage personnel at risk of PTSD, anxiety and alcohol abuse to seek treatment.

«Although this radical change in the concept of how acid reflux damages the esophagus of GERD patients will not change our approach to its treatment with acid - suppressing medications in the near future, it could have substantial long - term implications,» said senior author Dr. Stuart Spechler, Professor of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern and Chief of the Department of Gastroenterology at the Dallas VA Medical Center.

«At Exeter we are already developing specific psychological therapies, running clinical trials of novel drug approaches and using - cutting edge genetic techniques to identify new targets for safe and effective therapies and to allow us to use current treatments in a more focussed way.»

DICE can be used to better subtype behaviors, or focus on particular behaviors at randomization coupled with systematic treatment approaches».

Through the serendipity of science, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have discovered a potential treatment for deadly, drug - resistant bacterial infections that uses the same approach that HIV uses to infect cells.

Surgical treatments for persistent cases include using a structure inside the airway to prop it open — a stent — but that approach irritates the trachea, says John Bent, an associate professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and director of pediatric otolaryngology at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.

«Most current therapeutic approaches are limited in their ability to reduce injury - induced brain swelling, and no treatments are available to resolve excess fluid at a later stage.

«We are at a point in our research where we have validated the efficacy of this combination treatment approach in preclinical animal models, and we now need to define its safety through toxicology and pharmacology studies,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey, chairman of VCU School of Medicine's Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and director of the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine.

While it is difficult to say at this point what types of cancer might be amenable to such an approach, this new concept could lead to an improvement in human cancer treatment in the long term, the researchers say.

Innovative clinical trial approaches that have proven successful in other disease areas such as oncology (e.g., platform trials, umbrella and basket designs) might be employed with stratification of subjects by AT (N) profile, enabling a data - driven approach to identify the biological stage of disease in which an intervention has maximal treatment effects.

«RNAi therapies are a unique approach to cancer treatment as they have the potential to «turn off» the genes» coding for proteins involved in cancer cell division,» said Ramesh K. Ramanathan, M.D., medical director of the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials Program at Scottsdale Healthcare and deputy director of the Clinical Translational Research Division of the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix, Ariz. «Using a lipid nanoparticle, the RNAi drug can be delivered to a cancer cell to block the expression of specific proteins involved in tumor growth.»

At a time when gene therapy has been revived as a potent form of cancer treatment, a new approach would use nanoparticles, rather than viruses, to deliver strands of DNA or RNA to tumors.

The rationale for an observational approach is to avoid the morbidity of lymphadenectomy (specifically to avoid the possibility of lymphedema) for two subsets of patients who never manifest isolated recurrence in the lymph node basin: those who have no melanoma remaining in the nodal basin and those who experience distant treatment failure at or before the time of nodal recurrence.

His key investments in regenerative medicine technologies have laid the groundwork for novel approaches to treatments aimed at generating not merely palliative but actual curative and restorative therapies.

Through the clinical training sessions, Bohus, currently a visiting professor at McLean, provided guidance on his modification of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for BPD and complex PTSD to McLean clinicians, marking the first time he has taught his innovative evidence - based treatment approach in the US.

«This is a very exciting advance in our understanding of cancer, and perhaps a first step toward a personalized, precision approach to the treatment of glioblastoma,» said Stephen G. Emerson, MD, PhD, director of the HICCC and the Clyde ’56 and Helen Wu Professorship in Immunology at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Using a collaborative team approach, we aim to maximize the effectiveness of psychotherapy, medication management and psychosocial treatments already offered at McLean with emerging techniques, technologies and interventions.

The work being done by scientists at Longevica may lead to a novel approach in cancer therapy that can significantly improve the efficiency of the current methods of cancer treatment.

Douglas J. Schwartzentruber and colleagues at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center demonstrate that patients with metastatic melanoma receiving high doses of interleukin - 2 (IL - 2) plus a gp100 peptide vaccine had significant improvement in overall clinical response, providing further validation for vaccine approaches to cancer treatment.