Proper steps need to be taken to balance the body, so that any side
effects of the disease treatment can be managed.
Not exact matches
Furthermore, an early - stage study pumping up the dose
of its hemophilia A
treatment — which aims to be a one - time therapy for the rare blood clotting - related
disease — appeared to hit its targets without serious side
effects.
People refusing medical
treatment because they think they can pray
disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge
of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind
of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any
effect, so it is just a waste
of time.
A test for sexually transmitted
diseases will prompt immediate
treatment and ensure she doesn't suffer from the ill -
effects of the condition in the future.
Lyme
disease acquired during pregnancy may lead to infection
of the placenta and possible stillbirth; however, no negative
effects on the fetus have been found when the mother receives appropriate antibiotic
treatment.
There are several randomized controlled clinical trials (RCTs) evaluating the
effect of probiotic bacteria on the prevention and
treatment of allergic
disease.
Our new compounds block the natural life cycle
of these enzymes, the cysteine proteases, and stop the infection from advancing, without leadig to the side -
effects typical
of compounds traditionally used in the
treatment of these
diseases.»
«The system can automatically provide accurate Parkinson's diagnosis and could also be used by community doctors to monitor the
effect of treatment on the
disease,» says Zham.
The new study, called FOR - DMD (Finding the Optimum Regimen
of Corticosteroids for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy), will determine whether daily steroid
treatment or an alternative regime is more effective in slowing the
disease progression and managing side
effects.
But while the drug had few side
effects, it wasn't an effective
treatment for either
of the
diseases.
The long - term side
effects of HIV drug
treatment, such as increased cholesterol and heart
disease, that crop up after 10 or 15 years will still occur.
At most centers,
treatment for inflammatory bowel
disease (IBD) is limited and usually takes patients down one
of two routes: steroids or medication, which can often lead to life - long side
effects.
«Scientifically, she worked on a project that not only revealed an important role for a specific growth factor (VEGF) in the physiology
of an ocular structure called the ciliary body but she also demonstrated that there might be unexpected and undesired side
effects from a widely used
treatment for a variety
of ocular
diseases.
Since children
of mothers with preclinical RA also had an increased risk
of epilepsy, Rom said the findings point towards an important role
of the
disease itself rather than an
effect of treatments for RA.
While lithium carbonate has been very effective for the
treatment of mania in bipolar disorder, and credited for reducing suicides in depressive phases
of the
disease, patients who take lithium carbonate are often noncompliant because
of adverse
effects, including hand tremor, diarrhea, vomiting, weight gain and decreased thyroid function.
While the
treatment did have some favorable
effects, in the main measure
of outcome — measured with a cognitive test called the Alzheimer's
Disease Assessment Scale - cognitive subscale — the researchers did not observe any statistically significant benefit compared with placebo.
The long - term stability
of the silencing
effect could prove critical in developing
treatments for genetic
diseases.
«We are the first to publish these types
of findings and, importantly it offers the opportunity to not only monitor the progress
of the
disease but also to determine if particular drugs /
treatment are having an
effect.»
That such vessels could have escaped detection when the lymphatic system has been so thoroughly mapped throughout the body is surprising on its own, but the true significance
of the discovery lies in the
effects it could have on the study and
treatment of neurological
diseases ranging from autism to Alzheimer's
disease to multiple sclerosis.
Current
treatment strategies (most often long - term steroid use) are plagued by difficult side
effects and fail to target an underlying source
of the
disease.
New findings by a biomedical engineer and his team at the University
of Houston (UH) raise hope for a new class
of drugs to treat lupus that may not include the long list
of adverse risks and side
effects often associated with current
treatments for this
disease.
One
of the challenges in administering cancer therapy is that the
treatment designed to destroy the
disease can also have a negative
effect on healthy, normal tissue.
According to Dr. Rosamilia, early
treatment not only can reduce the pain and severity
of the
disease, but also can help prevent potential side
effects like eye problems, infection, and a condition called post-herpetic neuralgia, which causes pain, numbness, itching and tingling.
«Since several BACE1 inhibitors are currently being evaluated in clinical phase 3 trials for the
treatment of Alzheimer's
disease, the identification
of potential side
effects will be
of great importance to ensure a positive clinical outcome,» said Dr. Jochen Herms, a Professor
of translational brain research at Ludwig - Maximilians - University Munich.
«Millions
of volunteers have participated in clinical trials to help find out more about the
effects of treatments on
disease, yet the important ethical issue
of reporting results has been ignored widely.
The
treatment involves an innovative use
of clinically approved
treatments for other
diseases, so that, according to the authors, «it shouldn't be associated with adverse side
effects.»
Researchers trying out new
treatments need to make sure any
effect the
treatment has in reducing the incidence
of heart
disease is statistically significant.
He developed «a la carte» synthetic Notch receptors (dubbed synNotch) that could be tailored towards a
disease of interest, potentially bypassing harmful side
effects and concentrating a
treatment where it is needed the most.
Merkx: «By directly linking the measurement
of antibodies to the
treatment of the
disease, we may be able to prevent side -
effects and reduce costs in the future.»
Even more selective
treatments, with fewer side
effects, cause physiological reactions that increase the aggressiveness
of the
disease.»
Often, that medical
treatment becomes purely palliative, meaning we manage the growth
of the cancer and its
effects on the body as well as we can, but we don't expect to cure the
disease.
Their study suggests that EGCG has high potential as a
treatment for rheumatoid arthritis because
of how effectively the molecule blocks the
effects of the
disease without blocking other cellular functions.
«A decrease in Abeta40 is seen as dementia worsens and Alzheimer's
disease progresses; still, we can't conclude from this study that the
effects of resveratrol
treatment are beneficial,» Turner explains.
Possible long - term interventions to reduce mortality and morbidity after high exposures end include
disease screening, reducing important co-exposures,
treatment and health services resource planning, and increasing public awareness
of arsenic health
effects.
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.
«Just like their matriarch, the Lacks family continues to have a significant impact on medical progress by providing access to an important scientific tool that researchers will use to study the cause and
effect of many
diseases with the goal
of developing
treatments,» said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D..
The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant
effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism
of action that might be suitable as combination
treatment with immunomodulatory
treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the
effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials
of progressive
disease.»
A promising
treatment for a rare childhood disorder characterized by rapid aging and death prevented and even reversed the most devastating
effect of the
disease in mice.
Both psychotic symptoms and
treatment side
effects are more extreme in other types
of dementia, including Parkinson's
Disease Dementia and Lewy Body Dementia.
Survivors should be assessed for physical (e.g.: urinary, sexual, bowel) and psychosocial
effects of prostate cancer and its
treatment; the focus
of assessment should be tailored to the type
of cancer
treatment received and current
disease state to trigger appropriate self - management and clinical management strategies for support and therapy.
Currently available
treatments have only modest
effects on the
disease and its symptoms, which underlines the importance
of identifying preventive measures.
But anti-inflammatory
treatments do not halt the progress
of the
disease and may cause side
effects ranging from ulcers, kidney disorders, hypertension and heart
disease to mental disorders and sometimes death.
«This could help revolutionize cardiology research by improving the ability to efficiently discover, design, develop and deliver new therapies for the
treatment of heart
disease, and by providing more efficient screening tools to identify and prevent cardiac side
effects, ultimately leading to safer and more effective
treatments for patients suffering from heart
disease.»
· evidence indicates that low sodium intake may lead to risk
of adverse health
effects among those with mid - to late - stage heart failure who are receiving aggressive
treatment for their
disease;
Their discovery shows the positive
effects of drugs that may lead to effective new
treatments for the neurodegenerative
disease.
«But given the significant side -
effects previously associated with treating the
disease, notably fatigue and neuropsychiatric side
effects, we were interested in looking at the impact
of new
treatments on patients» ability to work, and in a broader sense, how this
effects employers and overall economies.»
Although doctors have long incorporated personal information like family history into
treatment plans, personalized medicine holds the promise
of revolutionizing medical care by using knowledge
of molecular biology and genetics that will allow more precise diagnoses, better diagnostic tests, greater predictability
of disease course, more successful therapies by targeting the right
treatments to the right patients, and improved patient safety by selecting drugs and their proper dosage to reduce adverse side
effects.
Researchers analyzed the raw scores and adjusted for the
effects of various demographic factors, medical history,
disease severity and
treatments received, to isolate the particular
effects of smoking.
Yale University researchers are studying a potential new
treatment that reverses the
effects of pulmonary fibrosis, a respiratory
disease in which scars develop in the lungs and severely hamper breathing.
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.