Sentences with phrase «by stage treatment»

Usually doctors follow stage by stage treatment options.

Not exact matches

By subjecting the upper - stage of the rocket to this treatment, SpaceX hopes to demonstrate that it can survive even in extremely dangerous, harsh conditions.

Our goal is to complement the current strategic interest of Chiesi Farmaceutici in the space of rare diseases by investing in early stage opportunities and accelerate the expansion of the Chiesi network in the US among universities, venture capital investors, rare disease patient organizations and start - ups developing treatments for rare diseases.

Subsumed under this goal are four operational objectives which may be seen as overlapping stages of treatment: Helping the alcoholic (a) to accept the fact that his drinking is a problem with which he needs help; (b) to obtain, medical treatment; (c) to interrupt the addictive cycle and keep it interrupted by learning to avoid the first drink; (d) to achieve a re-synthesis of his life without alcohol.

On her biggest stage yet, Fiorina deserves applause for forcefully raising Planned Parenthood's treatment of the unborn and the associated political avoidance practiced by many in both parties.

Fair trade improves the livelihood of small farmers and workers by ensuring that they receive fair treatment and safe working conditions at every stage of the production process.

The disease was deemed to be in its later stages by a Lyme disease specialist when it was diagnosed, who then recommended a treatment program of intensive antibiotic therapy for several months.

So the Sunday stage belonged exclusively to a pair of underdogs who have minuscule Q ratings but were exceedingly easy to root for: Ted Purdy, who endured an eight - year exile on the Asian and Nationwide tours and finally last year, at age 30, earned a place on the PGA Tour, only to be haunted by a pair of tournaments that he let slip away; and 22 - year - old Sean O'Hair, whose boyish smile and gentle manner belie the brutal treatment he had to endure from a father obsessed with driving his son to success.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

She works at the murky stage of care known as end - of - life, where decisions about additional treatment can be complicated by fear and pain.

The researchers say that by diagnosing which type of arthritis a patient will develop at an early - stage will allow for appropriate treatment that will provide the best chance for effective treatment and potential prevention.

The ability to identify the brain areas affected by the condition — as well as those that set the stage for it — adds to our knowledge but doesn't have immediate implications for treatment, Pitman believes.

Vtesse is currently running a late - stage clinical trial of the drug, a large sugar molecule known as a cyclodextrin, in which it is injected by lumbar puncture into the spinal fluid of children with the disease (see «Why are people fighting over a promising treatment for a fatal childhood disease»).

Christianson said the findings set the stage for a large - scale investigation of the brain circuits that work together to orchestrate responses to social emotional information with the hope that such research will lead to better treatment for people with conditions marked by aberrant social cognition, such as autism or schizophrenia.

Initial results were announced from the Trial Assigning IndividuaLized Options for Treatment (Rx), or TAILORx, a multi-center prospectively conducted trial of more than 10,000 women with early stage breast cancer sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and led by the ECOG - ACRIN Cancer Research Group (ECOG - ACRIN) with support from Genomic Health, Inc..

A recent study published in the Aug. 21, 2013 Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, and conducted by health economists, has confirmed that TKR is a cost - effective treatment for patients with end - stage osteoarthritis.

Understanding which cytokines are best for monitoring inflammation and immunosuppression, and knowing which are secreted by different immune cell types at each stage of maturation and activation, will provide essential insights into disease treatment options.

«A strategy to protect the remaining amounts of insulin produced by diabetics in response to blood sugar levels is an attractive treatment alternative, particularly in the early stages of type II diabetes,» said Dr. Seeliger, Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences at Stony Brook University School of Medicine.

You might expect that the next advances in cancer prevention will mean better and more frequent tests that will pick up tumors at the earliest possible stage, followed by a blitzkrieg treatment that will completely wipe out the disease.

Patients affected by Parkinson's disease often show marked changes in body weight: they may gain or lose a lot of weight depending on the stage of the disease, or they may put on up to ten kilos after deep brain stimulation (a treatment to alleviate the symptoms).

If a new drug could block HIV entry by interfering with CCR5 and CXCR4, it could be paired with a traditional cocktail targeting other stages of the virus lifecycle for an even more robust treatment.

A team of researchers led by UNSW Australia scientists has discovered how connections between brain cells are destroyed in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease — work that opens up a new avenue for research on possible treatments for the degenerative brain condition.

«If our further research is successful, in the future we can envisage a small portable breath analyser that can be used by GPs and other health professionals to screen for early stage liver disease, leading to earlier treatment and better survival rates.»

In the trial, co-led by Rachael Clark, MD, PhD, associate professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, Alain Rook, MD, professor of Dermatology and director of the Cutaneous Lymphoma Program at Penn Medicine, and Joel M. Gelfand, MD, MSCE, associate professor of Dermatology and medical director of the Clinical Studies Unit at Penn Medicine, twelve patients who had previously undergone an average of six treatments for early stage CTCL were treated with topical resiquimod gel at varying doses and intervals.

ASTRO's white paper references the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group (TG) 59 report that includes examples of forms for quality control and checklists for the various stages of treatment, which can be customized by the treatment team.

If these new results are confirmed by further patient trials, they could soon pave the way for a much needed new treatment for late - stage prostate cancer.»

By comparing bald and hairy patches in scalp samples from 54 men undergoing restoration treatments, George Cotsarelis at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia and colleagues discovered that although both had similar numbers of stem cells, most of those in the bald patches fail to develop to the next stage.

Radish was killed by winter temperatures, and the researchers applied early (April) or late (May) burndown herbicide treatments to kill canola and rye at different growth stages.

A multicountry study has found that HIV - infected people who start antiretroviral (ARV) treatment at earlier stages of the disease lowered their risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners by 96 %.

Gene expression changes gradually at each stage of treatment, as illustrated by the color changes in this series of heat maps.

Innovative clinical trial approaches that have proven successful in other disease areas such as oncology (e.g., platform trials, umbrella and basket designs) might be employed with stratification of subjects by AT (N) profile, enabling a data - driven approach to identify the biological stage of disease in which an intervention has maximal treatment effects.

We know the initial target and the mechanism... [But] in order to step into [the treatment] stage, we should probably work a little bit more to know by what mechanism the microtubules interfere with endocytosis.»

We know that the whole family is affected by a cancer diagnosis so we provide care and support for each family member throughout each stage of the treatment journey.

Letrozole is approved by the FDA for the adjuvant treatment of early - stage breast cancer in postmenopausal women who have already been treated with 5 years of tamoxifen therapy.

«They complemented their scientific expertise by working closely with clinicians and advocates from the very early stages of the project, which provided a deeper understanding of how the disease impacts patients and how the treatment can best help them.»

Written by two experienced oncology nurses, this compassionate and comprehensive guide explains in plain English everything you need to know about your treatment, including what you can expect at each stage of chemotherapy and what you can do to prevent or minimize side effects.

Treatment of early stage breast cancer with lumpectomy, axillary dissection, and radiation therapy is considered by many to be relatively contraindicated in heavy women or women with large or

Additionally, the researchers say insights into the development of human eggs at various stages provided by the study could help research into other infertility treatments.

Several other compounds are also in early - stage development for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases caused by protein aggregation.

Many existing treatments for malaria - one of the deadliest infectious diseases - target only one stage of the complex life cycle of the Plasmodium parasite that causes the disease, and are further limited by the emergence of drug resistance in particular strains.

Gene expression changes gradually at each stage of treatment, as illustrated by the colour changes in this series of heat maps.

They are used in many areas of human health, including as nutritional supplements by athletes and as treatments for burns, neurological disorders, AIDS, cancer and late - stage kidney failure.

We are also developing an experimental protocol for treating late - stage cancer by combining sunitinib treatments with infection by an oncolytic virus.

The next, therapeutic, stage of PNB treatment was realized by increasing the energy of the pump laser pulses to the level that provided the PNB lifetime well above cell damage level (i.e. longer than 100 ns).

Nutlin - 3, which can block the last stage of the chain reaction set off by a mutation in the FMRP gene, is in phase 1 trial for the treatment of the eye cancer retinoblastoma.

In order to plan treatment, it is important to know the stage of the disease and whether or not the pancreatic cancer can be removed by surgery.

Treatment includes, rest, ice and compression during the acute stage followed by a full rehabilitation program consisting of stretching and strengthening exercises.

One study conducted by researchers at Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) followed women who had completed treatment for early stage breast cancer, and found that women with the highest blood concentrations of carotenoids had the least likelihood of cancer recurrence.

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Treatment involves rest, application of cold therapy during the acute stage followed by a full rehabilitation program including gentle stretching and strengthening exercises.