Sentences with phrase «as untreatable»

It is diagnosed as untreatable, and Bob is given 12 months or less to live.

FRIDAY, Jan. 20, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- The media often portrays women with the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia as untreatable, and sadly, in about one - third of cases that may be true, new research suggests.

Sarah Heilshorn uses new methods to try to heal brain and spine injuries once thought of as untreatable.

Not exact matches

Now, immunotherapy is at the forefront in oncology as a leading therapeutic which has been shown to cure cancer in previously untreatable patients.

Fortunately, with newer methods of treatment (remotivation, for example), some persons who had been regarded as «hopeless» or «untreatable» for years are now responding.

So he made a resolution never to embrace them as essential to his identity or accept them as permanent or untreatable — a resolution he has kept practically alone, without the support of community, family, or friends.

He asked Shah whether the Cuomo Administration plan would allow for distribution of an oil based derivative, known as Charlotte's Web, which is used in many other states for a previously untreatable form of severe epilepsy.

He asked Shah whether the Cuomo administration plan would allow for distribution of an oil based derivative, known as Charlotte's Web, which is used in many other states for a previously untreatable form of severe epilepsy.

Some of these people have vision problems caused by currently untreatable diseases, he notes, but others simply because they can not afford or do not have access to relatively simple fixes such as surgery to remove cataracts (clouding of eye lenses).

Sleep disorders range from rare but fatal maladies, such as fatal familial insomnia — an untreatable insomnia that leads to hallucinations and eventually to death, to «inadequate sleep hygiene», from which virtually everyone suffers from time to time, Dement told a meeting sponsored by the American Medical Association in New York.

Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a potential treatment which relies on engineering instead of drugs.

While many of these fade over time, more severe types such as keloids and scars from burns are largely untreatable.

The newfound protein might eventually help patients who suffer from the untreatable prion diseases: When the group mixed their artificial protein fragment with a fragment of the PrP protein that usually kills neurons in petri dishes, the mixture killed only half as many cells as the prion fragment alone.

And because other foreign molecules can be substituted for the cat protein, the method offers hope for people with currently untreatable allergies such as those to nuts and seafood.

Commenting on the significance of the findings co-lead author Professor Mani Ramaswami, Professor of Neurogenetics at the School of Genetics and Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin said: «Degenerative diseases, such as MND, are a poorly understood and largely untreatable set of life limiting diseases which can leave people unable to do the everyday things that the rest of us, particularly the young, take for granted.

We also connected George with specialists in Asian elephant diseases, and as a result his lab is working on curing a previously untreatable viral disease that is killing many young elephants.

«Many common cancers, such as head and neck cancers, become untreatable despite the best medical intervention and the highest standard of care.

As a result, Moderna's platform has the potential to speed the development and manufacture of treatments for many diseases that are currently untreatable with existing pharmaceutical approaches.

«It's not as though you have an illness that's untreatable; you just have a society that's not willing to make it easy for you.»

This document explores silver iontophoresis as an experimental means to address subdermal infections and otherwise untreatable skin conditions.

If the medications were only expensive and not life threatening, their use could no doubt be shrugged off as a harmless snake oil pharmaceutical scam; but, in fact, these are thoroughly dangerous medications for both physical and emotional reasons — for physical reasons because their use can lead to serious untreatable diseases such as liver cancer, and for emotional reasons because their use perpetuates the myth that cholesterol is dangerous and evil.

While the danger of superbugs and vulnerability to untreatable infections are on the rise, a recent study from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) comes as a huge relief.

Newborn kittens and puppies, as well as all pets generally, require a number of vaccinations on specific schedules to protect them against life - threatening and untreatable conditions.

Euthanasia is used rarely and only as a final resort when it has been medically determined that an animal is suffering from a medical condition that is untreatable to allow the animal to maintain quality of life, or exhibits extreme behaviors that are beyond correction and that are deemed unsafe to other pets, people, and to the animal itself.

The possibility that your dog, or a dog you bred, may be affected with this, as yet, untreatable disease.

We can also expand our medical services to treat animals with conditions often thought of as «untreatable» within animal welfare shelters and rescues.

This CE will focus on teaching the formula used to calculate the Save Rate in a shelter, the difference between a closed admission and open admission shelter, and the criteria used to determine the categories of healthy, treatable, manageable, and untreatable / unmanageable as defined through Maddie's researched matrix.

Factors such as age, chronic disease or traumatic injury can sometimes inflict unbearable, untreatable symptoms of pain and misery.

SRS has also emerged as a viable treatment option for some cancers previously considered «untreatable» based on its ability to target tumors embedded in complex locations.

In 2014, 1,800 — nearly one - third of animals transferred into ASAP - member organizations — arrived with manageable or treatable conditions, and 67 were listed as unhealthy and untreatable.

Indeed, many pounds and shelters classify healthy feral cats as «unhealthy» or «untreatable,» which excludes them from «healthy animal» kill rates.

So why is separation anxiety thought of as largely untreatable?

This house call was for Harpo, a 10 - year - old toy fox terrier with a liver tumor that was diagnosed a year ago as terminal and untreatable.

A PEM categorizes the conditions as healthy, treatable - rehabilitatable, treatable - manageable or unhealthy & untreatable using Asilomar Accords definitions based on the standard of care.

It is classified as a high - alert medication, and when taken daily for more than a week, it can have irreversible, fatal side effects with symptoms manifesting only after the damage becomes untreatable.

The bacteria that cause gonorrhea are evolving faster than we can develop effective antibiotics against them, and a return to the era of untreatable gonorrhea could see a rise in the particularly nasty complications that arise from a long - term gonorrheal infection, such as pelvic inflammatory disease and epididymitis.

If, after that direct talk, he still forgets, then you may as well assume his syndrome is untreatable and it's time to find a healthier partner.

Although most conditions that could be identified through expanded newborn screening will not have unique, condition - specific treatments (as in the case of PKU or CH), this does not mean that such conditions are «untreatable.»