Sentences with phrase «effectiveness in»

Jones added that hope is on the horizon through preclinical trials that are testing several drugs for effectiveness in treating cocaine addiction.

Mindfulness meditation is an increasingly popular treatment for anxiety, but testing its effectiveness in a convincing way has been difficult.

«We observed that the drug's effectiveness in the tumor tissue was 10 to 25 times greater compared to when the drugs were used on their own,» says lead researcher Dr Silke Meiners.

POGO is an international network of collaborators who foster partnerships that advance efficiency and effectiveness in studying and monitoring the world's oceans on a global scale.

The chemical industry's oversized share of economic activity in North America is a direct outcome of NAFTA's effectiveness in reducing barriers to trade.

Unlike IFN - γ blockade, which lost effectiveness in immunization - enhanced HLH, ST2 blockade remained equally effective in immunized and control mice, with equivalent survival in both immunized and control mice to up to 18 d postinfection (Fig. 3C).

Large sets of spectra can be organized into spectral libraries where other spectra can be brought for comparison, leading to increasing effectiveness in peptide assignments used for protein identifications.

One strategic avenue that Sharma and her colleagues are exploring to enhance checkpoint immunotherapy's effectiveness in more tumor types involves targeting other immune - related pathways in combination with existing immunotherapies.

He added: «Truly naive human ES cell lines would not only help answer fundamental questions about how we are made, and be useful for drug screening and tissue therapy, but they would also provide a benchmark against which other types of stem cells could be measured in terms of their effectiveness in stem cell therapy and regenerative medicine.»

The next steps will involve testing a microneedle injection system for delivering the compound and hopefully soon evaluating its effectiveness in human subjects.

Watkins» work with glia, for example, has indicated that long - term opioid therapy may have an effect similar to that of chronic inflammation, causing glial cells to release an excess of cytokines that actually reduce the drug's effectiveness in blocking pain.

We do this by developing AAV vectors that have demonstrated their effectiveness in safely delivering genetic material to the central nervous system.

One big question involves why the drugs» effectiveness in treating acute pain often wanes when patients take opioids for longer periods.

To test its effectiveness in regular mice that have all of their opioid receptors, Coop injected either a large dose of morphine or UMB 425 twice a day for five days.

deCODE has in - licensed a compound, DG031, designed to inhibit FLAP, and the company has designed clinical trials to test its effectiveness in reducing key measures of inflammation and in preventing heart attack.

Measurable effectiveness in personalized medicine.

«PittVax will continue collecting, analyzing and reporting on flu cases and flu vaccine effectiveness in the Pittsburgh region, helping guide flu immunization recommendations,» said senior author Richard K. Zimmerman, M.D., M.P.H., professor in Pitt School of Medicine's Department of Family Medicine and Pitt Graduate School of Public Health's Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences.

«Interestingly, there has been no decrease in LAIV effectiveness in other countries, and we're still unsure why this is,» said Smith.

While the model is useful for anyone studying and using personality measures, Connelly says having the ability to better predict outcomes like performance, motivation, leadership, procrastination, and commitment to an organization are strong indicators of a potential candidate's effectiveness in the workplace.

But the evolution of fraud control strategies has demonstrated some effectiveness in combating this problem.»

«Although Ritalin's effectiveness in treating ADHD is well - documented, few studies have looked at the drug's effect on non-prescribed illicit use,» says Panayotis (Peter) Thanos, PhD, senior research scientist at RIA.

Kraus and her colleagues designed experiments to assess three different filter bed substrates for their effectiveness in nutrient removal and supporting plant growth.

Griffin says the next step on the road to commercialization is testing the harvested protein's effectiveness in humans.

An international collaborative study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), with major participation from Yokohama School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and UC San Diego, has identified the molecular mechanism behind lithium's effectiveness in treating bipolar disorder patients.

Hynes noted that these represent huge steps forward but their effectiveness in protecting human health may be limited without an increased understanding of the global cycling of atmospheric mercury.

This confidence and eagerness to make appropriate decisions and act on them is an essential trait needed for effectiveness in today's lean, agile organizations, where people are empowered to take reasonable risks.

Research just published by Dr. Andras Nagy and co-authors shows both safety and effectiveness in their bioengineered compound when treating retinopathy in mice.

But doubts are brewing about its long - term effectiveness in changing public behaviour — as well as about its selective account of evolved human nature.

So far, the studies of diabetic ulcers and rheumatoid arthritis mentioned above are the only methods to show evidence of clinical effectiveness in human patients.

Several nations have either approved or initiated PrEP projects to facilitate its use by gay men after research studies have proven its effectiveness in preventing HIV infection.

Balaban agrees that the technique must be tested in animals to gauge its effectiveness in the body (as opposed to the less complex environment of a cell culture).

The study was designed as a preliminary assessment of the program's effectiveness in reducing overdose deaths among recently incarcerated people, meaning those who had been incarcerated within a year of their deaths.

The first step is to establish virtual therapy's effectiveness in different realms.

This heightens the need to identify optimal regimens based on their safety profiles as well as their effectiveness in preventing HIV transmission,» said Williams.

To overcome this hurdle, researchers genetically engineered human T cells to produce a CAR protein that recognizes a glycopeptide found on various cancer cells but not normal cells, and then demonstrated its effectiveness in mice with leukemia and pancreatic cancer.

Research suggests that this form of punishment can cause severe psychiatric and neurological damage to inmates, and evidence for its effectiveness in reducing crime or recidivism is scant.

A 2014 study used epidemiological data to show egg - based mutations are associated with low vaccine effectiveness in human populations.

Given the results, «cranberry extract, which in previous researches had already shown effectiveness in preventing urinary infections in adults, is also effective and safe for breastfed infants with this condition.»

Using feedback that incorporates goals or incentives and leverages new media and technology appears to be the best way to get people to cut back on their energy use, according to researchers who analyzed dozens of studies on feedback's effectiveness in energy conservation.

Its effectiveness in several clinical trials led the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve preventive use of ARVs in 2012.

The carbon footprint estimates of these products were then combined with a measure of their effectiveness in preventing burglary with entry available from previous studies, known as the security protection factor (SPF).

Moreover, in this population analysis, researchers said varenicline's enhanced effectiveness in helping smokers quit, compared with other cessation aides, appeared to be short - lived, lasting for three months, after which time varenicline users no longer had higher rates of success.

But he says it's unclear how changes in oil consistency might impact the needles» effectiveness in a real spill.

While beneficial microbes are becoming a more common tool in agriculture, their effectiveness in the field is severely blunted thanks to real - world environmental stressors like heat and drought, competition with other microbes, and interactions with the host plant.

Guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued in 1997 and reaffirmed in 2006 warn of its potential dangers and lack of documented effectiveness in children with coughs and colds, and the American College of Chest Physicians 2006 guideline on treatment of pediatric cough also advises against the drug.

And, while the current work only tested its effectiveness in creating brain cells, he suspects a similar method will let researchers create aged heart and liver cells as well.

In the United States, the ABI is approved for use only in patients 12 years or older with neurofibromatosis type II, an inherited disease that causes a non-malignant brain tumor on the hearing nerve, but it has shown limited effectiveness in adults.

Denmark's first astronaut, Andreas Mogensen, spent 10 days in the ISS last month and pulled on the SkinSuit to test its effectiveness in the weightless conditions.

Dr Brian Bigger, Chief Scientific Investigator for the study from The University of Manchester said: «It is fantastic to see a treatment we developed at The University of Manchester, in collaboration with clinicians, reach the point where we can test its effectiveness in patients.

Because few received vitamins alone, the researchers were unable to determine vitamin effectiveness in preventing migraines.