Sentences with phrase «as a treatment option in»
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs should allow its doctors to discuss and recommend medical marijuana as a treatment option in New York and other states where it has been legalized, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Sunday.
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«The risk - benefit profile that has emerged for bariatric surgery in people with type 2 diabetes and low BMIs is very favorable and should be considered as a treatment option in carefully selected patients.»
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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.
«As a patient I want to have in hand, preferably via my mobile, the very latest clinical evidence about my condition and treatment options,» he said.
InvivoSciences will continue to contribute to the improvement of human health by establishing a new paradigm for discovering drugs that focus on diseases with limited treatment options such as cardiac fibrosis, scleroderma, and lupus in a time - effective manner while remaining safe and cost effective.»
It's about OFFERING full care... as in ADDING more treatment options.
Unfortunately, some of the book's structure, as reflected in chapter headings such as «Treatment Options for Catholics» seems to unwittingly reflect the mistaken notion that Catholics are somehow at a disadvantage when confronting infertility since our Church has limited their oOptions for Catholics» seems to unwittingly reflect the mistaken notion that Catholics are somehow at a disadvantage when confronting infertility since our Church has limited their optionsoptions.
Creative writing in schools gets very mixed treatment: while it is privileged at key stage 2 and, to a certain extent, at key stage 3, it usually receives less attention at key stage 4 and almost none at key stage 5 (though there are signs of change here with a renewed emphasis on recreative writing as an A Level coursework option).
The Illusionary Treatment Option» by Gary Reinl, a former personal trainer and the developer of an electronic stimulation device, in which he argues that ice delays healing from a sports injury, quoting no less an authority than Dr. Gabe Mirkin, who, it says, is credited with developing the rehabilitation acronym RICE (rest, ice, compression, and elevation), as now being against the practice because, he claims, icing «decreases circulation, so it slows healing.»
Services offered at our center include artificial donor insemination, in - vitro fertilization, egg donation, and gestational carrier care, as well as traditional infertility treatment options such as ovulation induction, management of polycystic ovarian syndrome, and minimally invasive tubal reconstructive surgery.
The first article in this series presented medication as ONE treatment option and consideration during a pregnancy after a loss.
Irregular / heavy menstrual bleeding can be treated in several ways: 1) Hormonal medication (a low dose birth control pill or cyclic progestin); 2) A hormone - containing intrauterine device (the most common one used is the Mirena IUD, which manages bleeding very effectively and is placed during an office visit and lasts for 5 years); 3) Endometrial ablation is a surgery commonly performed as an outpatient procedure; the entire lining of the uterus is cauterized (many women never get a menstrual period after an ablation); 4) Finally, I reserve hysterectomy as the treatment of last resort — typically only when the above options have not worked for a patient.
As not all health care providers are fully informed on human lactation, you may find the following resources helpful in determining treatment options that are safe for breastfeeding and to check a medication's potential impact on breastmilk supply.
But in recent years, clinics have started offering the experimental treatment as an option for healthy women, too.
PFC offers CCS as an option for patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF), as a treatment for recurrent miscarriage, prevention of aneuploidy in pregnancy, and for women that wish to improve implantation rates, reduce miscarriage rates, and reduce the risk of multiple pregnancy after IVF.
options in braces and retainers; I wore bulky headgear to sleep for years to address my overbite, and when I accidentally threw away my retainers on my lunch tray as a freshman in high school, my parents decided I was done with treatment.
Our fertility treatment options range from Intrauterine Insemination - IUI, ICSI and In Vitro Fertilization - IVF to cutting edge technology such as cryopreservation (egg freezing), genetic testing of embryos (PGD and sex selection) and third party reproduction with an in - house egg donation program at the PFC Egg Donor AgencIn Vitro Fertilization - IVF to cutting edge technology such as cryopreservation (egg freezing), genetic testing of embryos (PGD and sex selection) and third party reproduction with an in - house egg donation program at the PFC Egg Donor Agencin - house egg donation program at the PFC Egg Donor Agency.
It provides an extensive array of fertility treatment options ranging from intrauterine insemination (IUI), intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) to cutting - edge technology such as vitrification and genetic testing of embryos.
Sperm banking should be routinely available to all men and funded as part of their cancer treatment and there are very promising and increasingly successful developments in new options for women.
«The second reason is that costs in the NHS inexorably go up as new drugs come on stream, new treatments arrive, as the population gets older and I don't think there is an option of just quietly standing still staying where we are and putting a bit more money into the NHS.
Ms. Burt chose the Valley breast surgery team after carefully researching her treatment options for DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), a diagnosis that is often debated among clinicians as to whether it should be classified as breast cancer at all.
In a collaborative project with several project partners and funded by the European Union and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft novel Sclerostin - inhibiting antibodies were generated and analysed for their suitability as osteoporosis treatment option.
Therefore, planning of pregnancy is essential, and valid treatment options such as psychotherapy or exercise regimens are warranted in this special population.»
Identifying which regions are which in a patient's regulatory network could guide new treatment options, such as implantable stimulation devices that would bolster the nodes that help quiet seizure activity, or laser surgery to eliminate the nodes that promote it.
The results show that while the prevalence of hypertension in the Hispanic community is nearly equal to that of non-Hispanic whites, diagnosis of the disease is much lower, as is general awareness of its symptoms and treatment options.
This study's findings could also have a significant impact as a new treatment option in countries where surgery is not readily available, Li said.
The 207 patients enrolled in the clinical trial, known as POSITRON, either did not respond to interferon, could not tolerate it or were unwilling to use it, despite the fact that there were no other treatment options available to them.
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.
This finding led the researchers to assume that in the future it may be possible for Oxytocin to be used as a psychobiological treatment option in couple therapy as it may increase positive communication behaviors among partners, particularly among couples where the husband suffers from PTSD, and thereby it may improve the quality of the couple's marriage — which is often impaired by the disorder.
«Vemurafenib is the first non-VEGFR inhibitor to show activity in this patient population and as such is an important addition to our treatment options for these patients.»
The authors conclude that recurrence of an atrial tachyarrhythmia was frequent in both groups, and that when offering ablation as a therapeutic option to patients with paroxysmal AF who have not previously received antiarrhythmic drugs, the risks and benefits need to be discussed and treatment strategy individually recommended.
Other treatment options with limited effectiveness involve mechanical methods, such as drone - brood trapping or freezing, or natural methods, such as dusting colonies with powdered sugar to increase the bees» grooming behaviors, which results in mite removal.
They have also done a pilot study on psilocybin as a therapeutic option in individuals with treatment - resistant depression, and are interested in possible roles for psychedelics in combating mental illnesses or addiction.
«Increases in hospitalizations may reflect both improved recognition of pulmonary hypertension as well as an increase in treatment options.»
The disease is considered fatal if untreated, but as it affects mostly poor people in low - income countries, treatment options are limited.
«For decades, women have been treated with a combination of treatment options, resulting in poor prognosis for most women with advanced - stage ovarian cancer, but there are many survivors as well,» said Dr. Narod, senior scientist at Women's College Research Institute.
This promises to make proton therapy an option for thousands more cancer patients by reducing the risks of healthy tissue being damaged during treatment, particularly in vulnerable parts of the body such as the brain, eye and spinal cord.
«These data establish the use of the oral direct - acting antivirals as an important treatment option in HCV - infected children aged six to 11 years old.»
Beyond those concerns, if prostate cancer is confirmed, the risks inherent in treatment options such as surgery, radiation or hormonal alteration, can be «truly life altering,» he said.
Alternative treatment options are toxic and expensive, relying on second - line drugs that are not as effective and must be given in lengthy courses.
Schulze added, «It is my hope that these findings will give an impetus to future neuroimaging studies evaluating different treatment options in BPD, such as psycho - or pharmacotherapy.»
Better options for controlling or treating prostate cancer are desperately in demand because existing treatments often fail or carry undesirable consequences (such as impotence or incontinence).
It might be possible, in future, to use biomarkers to define patient subgroups and treat them with customised cancer therapy or to find new treatment options as an alternative to surgery.
«This white paper affirms that HDR brachytherapy is a safe treatment option when current process guidance is followed and appropriate clinical decisions are made based on clinical guidance provided in white papers such as this.»
«Based on the results seen with ADRCs in the PRECISE trial, we designed ATHENA to look at these cells as a possible treatment option for people with refractory chronic myocardial ischemia.»
«More and more patients are being cured of lung cancer, with both surgery and radiation as good treatment options,» said lead author Nirav S. Kapadia, MD, of Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire.
Widespread adoption of SBRT in community - based practices has increased its use as the primary definitive treatment for elderly patients, who often have multiple medical problems that limit surgical options.
«This new data helps us to better understand the various steps to evaluate the success of an ILI program and a key point in time to consider supplementary treatment options, such as pharmacotherapy and surgery.»
Indeed, some see mouse avatars as the epitome of personalized medicine and point to the handful of success stories in which such mice have revealed new treatment options for patients who'd failed to respond to traditional therapies.
The so - called «international» edition of HIV / AIDS Medicine features up - to - date clinical information on HIV / AIDS, such as the best treatment options for patients with drug - resistant tuberculosis — a condition often found among HIV - positive individuals — but also includes specialized chapters on managing and treating HIV and AIDS in resource - poor settings.