Sentences with phrase «as a treatment in»

A poultice of pepper leaves is applied as a treatment in the Philippines, while biting into a serrano chile in Mexico is a cure because it is thought to be a distracting influence on the headache.

John Whyte, director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, says that tDCS might be used both as a treatment in its own right, and for screening people to diagnose their state and assess what treatment they might respond to.

Recently, Dr. Cohen's laboratory obtained an ethical approval to test the therapeutic efficiency of NT219 as a treatment in Alzheimer's - model mice, hoping to develop a future treatment for hitherto incurable neurodegenerative disorders.

Bee venom has been used as a treatment in East Asia since at least the second century BCE.

The cells would be used as a treatment in case a high radiation exposure makes a worker sick.

She cautions, however, that it would be premature to use B. fragilis or another probiotic as a treatment in humans.

The New EPOC study, published in The Lancet Oncology and funded by Cancer Research UK, evaluated whether the drug cetuximab and chemotherapy together worked better than chemotherapy alone as a treatment in addition to surgery for people with bowel cancer that had spread to the liver but could be surgically removed.

Christophe Benoist, M.D., professor of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School, (who spoke on behalf of Diane Mathis, Ph.D., also a professor in the same department) discussed a molecule called I - BET that, when used as a treatment in animals during pre-diabetes or in the early stages of clinical type 1 diabetes, seemed to slow the progression of the disease.

- This one caught my eye because I work with premature babies and I have never heard of bovine colostrum being used as a treatment in my patient population.

Because of this, it has been used as a treatment in issues that involve cell division like in the treatment of infertility in men as cell division is necessary for sperm production.

Skin grafting may be another treatment for patients suffering large scale skin infection, as well as treatment in a hospital burn unit.

Not exact matches

Doctors in Edinburgh are developing a service to store testicular tissue from boys as young as one to help those at risk of infertility after cancer treatment.

An important trigger this year will be the outcome of a study where Darzalex is being tested as first - line treatment in combination with Celgene Corp's Revlimid.

Listed Perth company AnaeCo has announced plans for a $ 21.4 million rights issue pitched at lesss than half its current share price, as it seeks to complete its first waste treatment plant in Shenton

So many companies have developed such increasingly effective medicines, such as those that treat more hep C strains with far shorter treatment regimens, that Gilead — a pioneer in the field with Sovaldi and Harvoni — is projecting $ 3.5 billion to $ 4 billion in U.S. sales from these kinds of drugs in 2018, a dramatic drop from nearly $ 13 billion in 2015.

PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

The flow is vulnerable to a number of factors, including unpredictable shifts in public opinion on such emotive issues as immigration and preferential treatment of foreigners in the workplace.

The importer may be able to use a preferential tariff treatment to reduce the tariff on these items (often to zero), as shown in the far right column.

But be aware as to whether paying those taxes in 2017 will trigger the alternative minimum tax, or AMT, a separate system for the treatment of income and deductions.

As I've said, there have been a number of research papers of late, led in large part by the work of French scientist Laurence Zitvogel, that are building a strong case for a central role for the microbiome in cancer treatment response.

That's already a major barrier to people seeking treatment in the first place (as is a dearth of affordable treatment options); but it can be magnified by a conviction and incarceration, which exacerbate a vicious cycle of lackluster employment opportunities, social exclusion, and continued crime and addiction.

In a sharply worded press release, a group known as the 9948 Fair Treatment Coalition states that documents it obtained through Access to Information «raise disturbing questions» about the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Department of Finance's conduct in the so - called iPod tax disputIn a sharply worded press release, a group known as the 9948 Fair Treatment Coalition states that documents it obtained through Access to Information «raise disturbing questions» about the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and the Department of Finance's conduct in the so - called iPod tax disputin the so - called iPod tax dispute.

As a result, «we are building on these findings to refine existing treatments to boost feelings of being safe and supported in order to improve coping with traumatic memories,» said Dr. Anke Karl, one of the authors, wrote of the study.

Garoppolo did eventually receive treatment from TB12 weeks later, but by the sound of Wickersham's story, the issue was never fully resolved as to why he had been locked out in the first place.

BlueRock's first two programs are treatments that could regenerate heart muscle cells after heart attacks and help replace certain neurons in the brain as they decline in people with Parkinson's disease.

In an interview with Cramer, Doyle told CNBC that the first part of the company's growth plan will stem from three sources: international expansion, domestic expansion and its patients, as more and more shift to using Novocure's therapy as their primary treatment.

Using the drug as an anti-aging treatment makes sense, since it helps the body be more sensitive to insulin, which in turn lowers the amount of blood sugar in the body and helps things run more smoothly.

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).

Research has shown that medical patients who develop emotional health problems cost more to treat and respond less well to treatment; as a result, says Ahern, «it behooves the medical system to do a better job in detection and treatment of behavioral health because it drives outcomes and drives the costs.»

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.

Before Brie Larson became an Oscar - winning actress, she starred in this critically acclaimed, little - seen indie that looks at a twentysomething supervisor at a treatment facility as she tries to get through to troubled youth and deal with her own problems.

Maass has worked as a benefits broker in the Bay Area for almost 14 years, giving him extensive experience with Silicon Valley's treatment of contractors.

Therefore, the IRS will likely default to First - In - First - Out treatment, although no guidance has been provided, so taxpayers are allowed to pick their methodology as long as it is consistent throughout the return.

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).

CAR - T treatments, including competing products from Novartis rivals Kite Pharma and Juno Therapeutics, come with the risk of potentially deadly side effects such as cytokine - release syndrome (CRS), in which a glut of T - cell - assisting cytokines can cause high fever, low blood pressure, and problems with lung oxygenation.

We have a client coming in on Thursday getting the Citrus White Ale Pedicure, which uses Blue Moon beer as part of the treatment.

There are a handful of Canadian firms as well, including Calgary's Aqua Pure (TSX: AQV), which recently signed a $ 5 - million deal to provide water treatment services on a Select Energy site in the Permian basin in West Texas.

An explanation for this may be that people value consistency and predictability in fair treatment as much or more than fair treatment itself, according to Brent Scott, co-author of the paper.

Because of my own work these past few years with organizations and individuals who are in some form or fashion working to address inequality, I have come to understand that many of the initiatives that are often described as entitlements or preferential treatment are usually neither.

He thinks the adverse tax treatment of variable annuities — the gains in all distributions from the contracts are taxed as ordinary income — makes them a bad idea for savers.

There is a long tradition in political philosophy that understands injustice as unequal treatment without justification.

«As phenomenal as the generosity the Zuckerbergs are showing is, it comes against the background of the remarkably generous tax treatment he has gotten for the wealth he has earned,» says Brian Galle, a professor of law at Georgetown University and a specialist in tax issueAs phenomenal as the generosity the Zuckerbergs are showing is, it comes against the background of the remarkably generous tax treatment he has gotten for the wealth he has earned,» says Brian Galle, a professor of law at Georgetown University and a specialist in tax issueas the generosity the Zuckerbergs are showing is, it comes against the background of the remarkably generous tax treatment he has gotten for the wealth he has earned,» says Brian Galle, a professor of law at Georgetown University and a specialist in tax issues.

Included in the price is a state - sponsored concierge programme, entitling members to VIP access to government agencies dealing with immigration, driving licences, and work permits, as well as complimentary return airport transfers, an annual health check up at a private hospital, and 24 spa treatments and golfing trips a year.

As the founder of Watsi, a nonprofit that allows people to donate small amounts of money to crowdfund medical treatments for individuals in 20 developing countries, Adam, 29, is doing his part to remedy this imbalance.

One is an agreement with Harvard Pilgrim, a nonprofit health plan covering 1.2 million people, to pay rebates if a patient's vision doesn't meet certain thresholds in 30 to 90 days, and then 30 months after treatment, under a model known as outcomes - based pricing.

Luxturna is the first of a crop of treatments that target diseases caused by mutations in specific genes, and thus is referred to by many as the first gene therapy in the U.S.

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.

In fact, Amgen's Repatha and Sanofi's Praluent, the first of these types of treatments to win approval in the U.S., reduced LDL cholesterol by as much as 60 % in clinical trialIn fact, Amgen's Repatha and Sanofi's Praluent, the first of these types of treatments to win approval in the U.S., reduced LDL cholesterol by as much as 60 % in clinical trialin the U.S., reduced LDL cholesterol by as much as 60 % in clinical trialin clinical trials.

Manning was born male, and was known as Bradley Manning before changing her name to Chelsea and suing for sex reassignment surgery and hormone treatments while in prison.

Keep in mind her treatment doesn't qualify as neglect.