Sentences with phrase «effects of the disease treatment»

Proper steps need to be taken to balance the body, so that any side effects of the disease treatment can be managed.

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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.
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