Sentences with phrase «as conventional treatments»

The production of healthy red blood cells is critical for those with acute myeloid leukemia but is sometimes overlooked as conventional treatments focus on killing the leukemia cells alone.

More than 500 clinical trials are underway to explore the impact of these and other checkpoint inhibitors on a dozen varieties of cancer, alone or with other immunotherapies, as well as conventional treatments.

With this knowledge, researchers plan to further develop the existing practice of transplanting «healthy» bacteria into patients» intestines and establish this as a conventional treatment for Crohn's disease.

In this study, rosemary essential oil was found to be just as effective against balding as the conventional treatment when it was used for at least six months.

Holistic medicine involves alternative veterinary medicine therapies as well as conventional treatment, including consideration of your dog's relationship with you, the disease or condition she is afflicted with, her environment as well as her nutrition, medical history and various other things that may be influencing her health.

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The financial loss can range from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars, but the health risk is more serious still as consumers who fall for such scams may be counseled to stop or delay conventional treatment for their disease, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

This includes a prohibition on synthetic seed treatment chemicals such as neonicotinoids, which are commonly used in conventional agriculture.

Mini-IVF ™ is our gentle and effective minimal stimulation IVF treatment and has been proven as effective as Conventional IVF.

Here the authors describe, in encyclopedic style, conventional treatments for a host of childhood ailments, and include alternative treatments, such as herbal and homeopathic remedies.

Before you use a conventional lice - treatment shampoo for yourself or your children, consider this: Many lice - treatment shampoos contain ingredients that have been banned as agricultural insecticides and are extremely toxic.

The current conventional water treatment systems utilize processes such as activated carbon, ozonolysis, and reverse osmosis membrane.

It might at least act as a kind of benign substitute that's used alongside more conventional treatments.»

This is important, they emphasise, as around a quarter of all strokes are recurrent, and targeting treatment of conventional risk factors among the lonely and isolated might help stave off further heart attacks and strokes, they suggest.

«In our Northern California study population, it does not appear that families use complementary and alternative treatments due to the lack of availability of conventional services, as has been suggested by other research,» Hansen said.

In another ongoing study, psychiatrist Michael Mithoefer of Charleston, South Carolina, is testing MDMA (3,4 - methylenedioxymethamphetamine) on people suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including rape victims and Iraq War veterans who have not gotten any relief from conventional treatments such as antidepressants and therapy.

The earlier work established that treatment with hypofractionated radiation was as tolerable as historical treatment with standard, conventional courses of radiation.»

They have engineered macrophages to deliver a therapeutic virus to hypoxic tumor regions, which respond poorly to conventional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation because of an insufficient blood supply.

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.

Conventional treatments for diseases such as cancer can carry harmful side effects — and the primary reason is that such treatments are not targeted specifically to the cells of the body where they're needed.

96 percent of the patients given online therapy and 91 percent of the recipients of conventional treatment rated the contact with their therapist as «personal.»

As a result, MannKind's system smooths out the high and low blood sugar levels that conventional, slower acting treatments can not eliminate.

While the 3D injectable scaffold is being tested in mice as a potential cancer vaccine, any combination of different antigens and drugs could be loaded into the scaffold, meaning it could also be used to treat infectious diseases that may be resistant to conventional treatments.

Diana W. Bianchi, a reproductive geneticist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Mass., agrees that fetal genomes could inform treatment in the future, but she questions the need to replace conventional genetic testing with whole - genome sequencing to diagnose genetic diseases such as beta - thalassaemia and cystic fibrosis.

The Center's research priorities also include the study of other complementary approaches — such as spinal manipulation, meditation, and massage — to manage pain and other symptoms that are not always well - addressed by conventional treatments.

• Platinum - Resistant — these are patients whose disease recurred within six months of conventional chemotherapy (using the drugs cisplatin or carboplatin) and are generally less responsive to subsequent treatments and have not responded as well to PARP inhibitors.

All these strategies are designed to retard new blood vessel growth without significantly damaging the overlying retina (as occurs with conventional laser treatment).

This would give people more time to use more conventional treatment modalities, such as surgery or chemotherapy,» says Cermakian.

Some plant - based remedies may stand in for conventional ones, but most lack scientific support as treatments for psychological problems

Compared to the conventional radiation therapy (RT) approach of small doses given daily over several weeks, SBRT delivers a highly targeted, escalated dose of radiation in a single session or as many as five of treatments, usually between one and five fractions.

According to Reiken, the initial studies suggest that ATPL is about as effective as conventional antibiotics in the treatment of P. aeruginosa infections.

WHO today issued a «donor alert,» urgently requesting a 6 - month budget of $ 10.5 million to support the vaccine study (which may require 5000 doses), as well as surveillance, treatment, and conventional prevention and control efforts.

The aim of this clinical trial is to replicate in humans the same results observed in mice and, ultimately, lead to an effective, nontoxic treatment for newly diagnosed patients as well as patients who can no longer benefit from conventional treatments.

Cell therapies are a growing area of interest for the treatment of a number of indications such as neurological, cardiovascular, and ophthalmological maladies that are refractory to other more conventional drug therapies.

Cancer immunotherapy is focused on the immune system and is often more targeted than conventional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation

Conventional treatment, though mostly effective, can leave behind small numbers of the parasite, which can lead the patient to relapse or act as a carrier, in a similar manner as malaria.

The hope is that compounds such as these could be combined with conventional treatments to more effectively eliminate cancers.

The study looked at complementary and alternative therapies, defined as those outside the range of conventional treatments.

In 2018, we expect to hear more about homeopathy and home care as alternatives — or supplements — to conventional medical treatments.

Serums, oils, and treatments are especially large categories — which makes sense, since naturals can be just as potent (and sometimes more so) than their conventional counterparts.

Even those who choose to undergo conventional fertility treatments can help improve their chance of working by supporting their bodies in natural ways as well.

In addition to disease, conventional treatments, such as radiation and chemotherapy also weaken immune responses.

Black seed oil is also sometimes recommended as a natural protection against some of the danger from radiation and used in conjunction with conventional treatments.

Recent studies show that propolis reduced the pain and duration of cold sores and fever blisters and that it even made conventional medical treatments more effective as well.

You've tried conventional medications for treatment of a «chronic» illness, but you're still not feeling as good as you think you could.

All study participants who received conventional treatment as part of the DCCT study were offered intensive therapy after this trial ended in 1993, and researchers followed up with them in the EDIC study.

Direct - Access Medicine includes integrative and functional medicine, conventional primary care, and unique ancillary treatments such as FSM and therapeutic massage.

I believe that if Dr. Fung would look closely at the conventional medical treatment of any other degenerative disease that he would find that their care is just as degenerate as he has found the treatment of diabesity to be.

But research also showed that water fasting may slow or halt the growth of tumors, as well as improve the effects of chemotherapy and reduce the side effects, making it potentially beneficial when combined with conventional cancer treatments.

Chiropractic: Chiropractic treatment involving spinal manipulation may work as well as conventional care for lower back pain for up to 18 months, per a study funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH).

MONDAY, November 7, 2011 (Health.com)-- A class of injectable drugs used to treat autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis doesn't raise the risk of serious infection when compared with more conventional treatments, according to a new analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association.