Sentences with phrase «case study treatment»

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The RadioShack proceedings offer an interesting case study in the treatment of unitranche lenders under two agreements among lenders that existed in that case.

There is knowledge to be gained by such studies, of course, but it hardly makes for the sort of case embryo - research advocates were advancing just a few years ago — with its miracle cures and treatments for the untreatable.

The author opines, rightly, how useful it would be to construct a synthesis of mental health treatments and authentic Catholic spirituality, fleshing this out with some brief case studies.

«When farms sign on for verification, we create case studies applying the 5P's to eight separate categories of sustainability: pest management, good employee practices, soil treatments, climate / energy, water, waste, packaging and community support.

However, whether varicocele treatment improves pregnancy success rates in all cases is a matter of debate, with some studies showing improved conception rates and others not.

Utilization of Cupping Therapy in the Treatment of Vascular Thoracic Outlet Syndrome in a Collegiate Pitcher: A Case Study Stephen A. Cage, Diana M. Gallegos, and Brandon J. Warner

The authors of the study suggested that physical therapy alone should not be the first course of treatment in severe cases.

Meta - analyses of studies evaluating these programs show positive effects on the competence, efficacy and psychological health of the parents, as well as on the behaviour of the children.49, 50 A recent implementation study of a strategy for parenting and family support showed that families in the treatment group had far fewer cases of substantiated child maltreatment, abuse injuries and out - of - home placements.51

Eighteen out of a projected 21 patients in Mithoefer's study have already been treated, and in many cases just two sessions dramatically diminished symptoms, which is remarkable because PTSD in this group of subjects has been resistant to other types of treatment.

Three Swedish hospitals and other European clinics will cooperate during the study which will target patients with conditions resembling the one in the case study — that is, people who suffer from phantom pain and who have not responded to other currently available treatments.

But some studies indicate shortening treatment courses would leave patients vulnerable to a resurgence of infection or, in some cases, potentially result in selective growth of resistance organisms.

«Most of the existing data on hypofractionation, however, draws on cases of moderately accelerated radiation treatment of the prostate, in contrast to our study with more extreme hypofractionation.

«This study demonstrates the value of using the SEER database to analyze factors associated with surgery as a treatment for localized pancreatic cancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

In a 2010 study, Harvard medical researcher Ted Kaptchuk showed that some patients with irritable bowel syndrome improved even when they knew the treatment they were being given was a sham, suggesting that deception could, at least in some cases, be unnecessary.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

Eleven months into his self - experiment, he published a case study of his self - treatment in the journal Alcohol and Alcoholism, and he is now writing a book called The End of My Addiction, chronicling his successful journey.

Called the Canakinumab Anti-inflammatory Thrombosis Outcomes Study (CANTOS) and funded by the drug giant Novartis, the trial also found fewer cases of lung cancer in those on the treatment, rekindling basic research findings hinting that the same inflammatory pathway may initiate or spur the growth of such tumors.

«In a small percentage of cases, however, these symptoms may be indicators of an increased risk of developing an obsessive - compulsive disorder that requires treatment, during childhood or in adulthood,» says Dr. Carles Soriano - Mas, lead author of the study.

Silymarin was cited in the Commission E study as a supportive treatment for inflammatory liver conditions and as a life - saving treatment in cases of poisoning.

The study examined 328 patients with cervical cancer and 1,312 controls, matched on age and decade, who enrolled in a hospital - based case - control study drawn from 26,831 patients who received treatment at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and completed the Patient Epidemiology Data System questionnaire between 1982 and 1998.

In some cases, such as in the selection of participants for studies on suicide, the bias in the original studies may have underestimated the association between access to firearms and suicide, because both study and comparison groups were recruited from health care settings where they may have been seeking treatment for suicidal planning.

A case study published in the August issue of the journal CHEST found lenalidomide treatments may have an immediate effect in the treatment of sarcoidosis - related symptoms.

Furthermore, the report accuses the British Homeopathic Association (BHA), which had submitted evidence to the panel, of cherry - picking, and even, in one case actively misrepresenting, research into the treatment (a famous study that concluded its findings were «compatible with the notion that the clinical effects of homeopathy are placebo effects» was cited by the BHA as evidence of the treatment's efficacy.)

«This study confirms previous research findings that the refusal of patients to receive treatment and their perception of the eating disorder may change during treatment, even in cases of the patient receiving treatment against their initial will.

Based on their data they propose potential treatment in case of cannabinoid overdose with the cannabinoid -1-receptor (CB1R) specific antagonist (AM - 251), because in their study pretreatment prevented cannabinoid - induced seizures.

«NCATS is all about getting more treatments to more patients more quickly, and this is never more urgent than in the case of a public health emergency like Ebola,» said Christopher P. Austin, MD, Director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the NIH, which also led the study.

Given the ramifications for who will and will be not eligible for treatment, this study compares the two diagnostic approaches, finding discrepancies between the two for more mild and moderate cases of AUDs.

Earlier phases of the study have shown it to be effective in treating individual cases of trachoma, and the trial is now looking into what treatment strategies will be required to stop the infection spreading and thereby eradicate the disease within the country.

Markowitz and Willson, former director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and now director of the Simmons Cancer Center at UT Southwestern, initiated the project to study the potential of inhibiting 15 - PGDH as a tissue - healing treatment strategy.

The study found that the majority of cases (69 percent) in high HIV - and high TB - burden areas happened due to person - to - person transmission rather than inadequate TB treatment in South Africa.

Conducted by Prof Rose McGready and Assoc. Prof Daniel Henry Paris from the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU) in Mae Sot, Thailand, and the Mahidol Oxford Research Unit (MORU) in Bangkok, affiliated to Oxford University, UK, in collaboration with Prof John Antony Jude Prakash of the Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, the study, «Pregnancy outcome in relation to treatment of Murine typhus and Scrub typhus infection: a fever cohort and a case series analysis,» will be published in the November 20th, 2014 issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Two case studies provide an important potential new avenue for treatment of these types of tumors, which are resistant to traditional radiation therapies and difficult to manage even with surgery, the current standard of care.

Borja Ibáñez — joint lead investigator on the study with Valentín Fuster — explains that «the possibility to reduce so dramatically the number of cases of chronic heart failure (with all the associated treatments and hospital readmissions) with such a cheap procedure (the metoprolol treatment costs less than two euros per patient) could generate enormous savings for health services across Europe.»

A study among 701 children in southern Tanzania, published in 2001, showed that the treatment could reduce the number of cases of malaria; Gates's contribution will pay for bigger, multicountry trials that are needed to decide whether to widely implement the strategy.

These case studies — one case of recurrent and another with unresectable IVC - TT − demonstrate that SABR can be an effective treatment.

This makes it a valuable new treatment option in cases of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis that have so far proven resistant to treatment,» explains Franziska Scheibe, the study's first author.

Ian Roberts rightly highlights the misinterpretation of medical case studies that has encouraged some clinicians to use treatments which have...

Finally, it should be pointed out that there is no single technology or practice to be recommended, but that these need to be studied for each case; however, the effectiveness of collective treatments in waste treatment and use has been made clear.

Yet such case studies can only ever provide circumstantial evidence that seeds of amyloid - β were transferred during the treatments.

Someday, Krishnan said, the technology could be used to deliver drugs or treatment to certain parts of the body, but theirs was a case study to explore the method as a way to better understand our own bodies and how they work.

«Once we identify and characterize these cases, we can begin to study different types of treatments, long - term outcomes and root causes of the illness,» says Debra Katzman, a pediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and an author of the recent paper.

In this new study, published online today (9 December, 2015) in the European Respiratory Journal, researchers describe how they established an international online platform to systematically collect data on cases of PCD diagnoses, symptoms displayed by patients, treatment and progression of the disease.

Men who experience hot flashes are unlikely to talk much about it, but they may find relief from their silent suffering if they are willing to try an unusual treatment, according to findings from a Baylor University case study.

«Triple - negative breast cancers tend to be more aggressive compared to other types of breast cancers, and being able to predict response to therapy could greatly impact treatment decisions and patient outcomes,» says study author Shaveta Vinayak, MD, oncologist at UH Case Medical Center and Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Professor Mutimer added: «With HCV spread among PWID now accounting for the vast majority of incident cases in developed countries, and with modelling studies suggesting that treatment for PWID could reduce transmission, it is critical that physicians review and adopt these guidelines when managing this important group of patients.»

Both civilians and military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reap long - term benefits from psychotherapies used for short - term treatment, according to a new study from Case Western Reserve University.

Of the 155 cases studied, eight patients who had been fairly stable before immunotherapy treatment declined rapidly, failing the therapy within two months.

Common Treatment for Prostate Cancer Ineffective for Early - Stage Cases, Rutgers Study Finds WHYY (NPR) Radio, Newsworks.org — July 16, 2014

«Estimates from this study indicate that reducing indoor tanning would be effective in preventing a substantial number of melanoma cases and deaths, and result in melanoma treatment cost - savings,» the researchers wrote.

The study seeks to identify a biomarker to identify these cases that will benefit greatly from treatment with M1 agonists.