Sentences with phrase «approved as a treatment»

«Further testing is required before Song's device could be approved as a treatment for dementia or Alzheimer's, but if it is able to help those patients regain even part of their lost memory function, the impact would be felt not only by the patients themselves, but their families and even the economy at large,» says Science Alert, which notes that Alzheimer's was responsible for a whopping $ 236 billion in healthcare costs last year.

Non-invasive brain stimulation is currently approved as a treatment for depression.

Ocrelizumab was heralded as a breakthrough, and in March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it as a treatment for primary progressive and relapsing - remitting MS. Genentech now sells the drug as Ocrevus.

A few other successful monoclonal antibodies were approved as treatments shortly after Rituxan hit the market, but it would take still another technological leap before mAbs really came into their own.

None of these antioxidants has been approved as a treatment for age - related skin conditions.

Not exact matches

But before his arrest, he said he'd use KaloBios as a vehicle to nab another niche drug, this time for treatment of the parasitic infection Chagas disease, and dramatically increase its price to the $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 range after helping it win FDA approval (the drug is approved in other countries and is provided to patients in the U.S. on a special and selective basis).

Dr. Nir Barzilai, the director of Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, has been researching the drug, with the hopes of one day getting it approved as an anti-aging treatment by the FDA.

The treatment, named Kymriah, was hailed by doctors and the life sciences community as a major advance in medicine and a boon to children and young adults with a certain form of leukemia (the group for whom the gene therapy is approved).

The plan also calls for generic versions of any drug or treatment to be available as soon as the Food and Drug Administration approves it.

As I've chronicled extensively, Exondys is an extremely controversial treatment, and the FDA's decision to approve the therapy over the objections of the agency's own scientific staff stunned many observers last year, raising questions about whether or not the FDA had succumbed to a well - orchestrated and heart - wrenching PR campaign by patients and advocates.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

The FDA could approve the treatment as soon as February.

The much - maligned (and financially hobbled) Valeant Pharmaceuticals got a spark of good news Wednesday as the FDA approved its Siliq (brodalumab), a treatment for moderate - to - severe plaque psoriasis.

Though hailed as «a new therapeutic principle» in 1990, it nonetheless took another eight years for the FDA to approve the first antisense drug, fomivirsen — for the treatment of AIDS - related retinitis caused by human cytomegalovirus.

Semaglutide is expected to be approved as a diabetes treatment in December and will be launched under the brand name Ozempic, Novo said.

InterMune said Health Canada approved Esbriet as a treatment for mild - to - moderate idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in adults.

While it's not approved specifically for anti-aging treatments, like other drugs, it can be prescribed for so - called off - label uses as long as there is no advertising or efficacy claims involved.

Novartis has several more biosimilars marketed in other countries (as well as an FDA approved copycat of Amgen's bestselling treatment Enbrel, which hasn't reached the U.S. yet due to patent spats), and three others in late - stage clinical development.

Kymriah, given as a one - time treatment, was approved in August for patients up to age 25 with acute...

Keytruda and Opdivo are both approved as second - line treatments, but Opdivo has pulled ahead because it doesn't require PD - L1 testing and Keytruda does.

Yet, it would take nearly 40 years for the drug to be approved in the United States as a treatment for type 2 diabetes.

In July the FDA approved Onyx's Kyprolis as a treatment for multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer.

Through a contract with its managed care organizations and its primary care case management network, Illinois requires prenatal and postpartum depression screening using an approved validated, standardized tool, referral, and treatment, as well as ongoing monitoring and tracking for enrollees.

The increase and improvement of such facilities consisting of the following projects: (i) Waste Water Treatment Plant disinfection system at the estimated maximum cost of $ 1,200,000; (ii) baseline Waste Water Treatment Plant projects at the estimated maximum cost of $ 1,300,000; and (iii) inflow / infiltration pilot project and reduction program improvements at the estimated maximum cost of $ 1,000,000; all as more fully described in the report and estimate of cost prepared by the County Engineers (Erie County Department of Environment and Planning) which has been filed with the County Legislature and which has been approved by the Board of Managers of said District on June 21, 2016 (the «Report»).

They discovered edelfosine, which has been FDA - approved as an investigational leukemia treatment, and has also been used in clinical research for primary brain tumors.

The San Diego, California — based biotech company MediciNova recently completed a phase II trial of a glia - inhibiting drug called ibudilast, already approved as an asthma treatment in Japan, to relieve pain and treat withdrawal in opioid abusers.

(Coal tar shampoos and soaps came too — and are still available in very diluted form as approved treatments for psoriasis and head lice.)

A better understanding of the factors contributing to these anomalies may contribute to the development of new treatments for these common birth defects, such as hymecromone, a drug approved in many parts of the world that blocks hyaluronan synthesis.

By targeting different hormones that help the body manage its own insulin levels — and by reducing side effects such as weight gain — three drugs recently approved by the FDA avoid most of the major problems associated with past diabetes treatments.

Despite the disease being extremely common, as of last year, there was only one FDA - approved treatment for dry eye, Huh said.

There have been a handful of cases of stem cell treatments causing growths but this appears to be the first in which the treatment was given at a Western hospital as part of an approved clinical trial.

Still, a few stem cell therapies have now been approved, such as a treatment available in India that takes stem cells from the patient's eye in order to regrow the surface of their cornea, and a US product based on other people's bone stem cells.

In preliminary drug - mutation matching studies, they found that JAK1 - mutated SS cells were sensitive to JAK inhibitors, drugs that are currently approved for treatment of other hematologic cancers such as polycythemia vera and myelofibrosis.

«Despite its narrow therapeutic window and the emergence of proprietary alternatives, U.S. FDA - approved lithium therapeutics are still regarded as the «gold standard» for the treatment of the manic phase of bipolar disorder,» said study lead author Adam J. Smith, PhD, a neuroscientist at the Center of Excellence for Aging and Brain Repair, Department of Neurosurgery, at USF Health.

The statutory health insurance covers medical and dental treatment, granting free choice among the approved medical doctors, as well as drugs, bandages, remedies, glasses, hearing aids, etc..

While the clot - busting drug known as tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) had been the only medical therapy approved for treatment of acute stroke in the United States (U.S.), the projected U.K. cost savings of mechanical thrombectomy treatment as reported in the study could correlate to the U.S., making the treatment an even better option.

Therefore, researchers had been investigating a drug called memantine, currently FDA - approved for treating moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease, as a potentially promising therapy for treatment - resistant depression.

Enzalutamide, which is taken as four pills once per day, is already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for men whose disease has not been stopped by other treatments including, surgery, radiation, androgen deprivation therapy and chemotherapy.

The drug was approved by the FDA as a combination first - line therapy for postmenopausal women with ER + / HER2 - breast cancer, as initial endocrine - based treatment for their metastatic disease.

Ever since it was given a name, many researchers and physicians have viewed the malady, which has no Food and Drug Administration — approved treatment and no diagnostic test, as psychosomatic.

Many stimulants are specifically marketed as antiobesity drugs, including phentermine and lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (Vyvanse), which earlier this year became the first drug approved for the treatment of binge - eating disorder.

In particular, it has been shown that cells with other HR repair pathway defects, such as BRCA mutations frequently found in breast and ovarian cancer, are sensitive to inhibition of the enzyme PARP, and the PARP inhibitor Olaparib has been approved for treatment of BRCA - mutated ovarian cancers.

The drug is already approved in many countries as a treatment for some forms of leukemia and lymphoma, under the name Campath.

«With a key challenge being that resistance to drugs is spreading faster than new drugs are being developed and approved,» they suggest that «the use of encapsulated, nanobody - targeted drugs as described here has the potential to reverse resistance to many first - line treatments.»

It is a so - called «third - generation» EGFR inhibitor, which was approved as a cancer treatment in 2017.

VNS already has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for certain illnesses, such as depression and epilepsy.

In these mouse tests, WWL113 — without any optimization for use as a drug — performed about as well as the FDA - approved diabetes treatment rosiglitazone (Avandia).

Under the proposed law, gene therapy will be approved only for the treatment of people with genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis and will not be allowed in germ cells, where genetic alterations would be passed on to the next generation.

By contrast, dry AMD has no approved treatment as yet.

Of these, three had already been approved for human and veterinary use: azidothymidine (also known as AZT, a therapy for HIV infection), spectinomycin (a treatment for gonorrhea infection) and apramycin (a veterinary antimicrobial).