Sentences with phrase «effects of treatment if»

Patients will therefore be spared from the side effects of treatment if they are unlikely to benefit from it.

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Many would argue that it's possible for her to feel better without taking drugs: she could try the «talking cure» (regular sessions with a counselor), or an alternative treatment such as herbal or light therapy If she goes to an M.D., though, she'll likely carry my a prescription for an antidepressant such as Prozac or Zoloft — one of these brave new medicines that promise such good results with so few side effects,

Many laboratory tests were performed and chemotherapy — requiring intravenous punctures — was resumed, even though studies had shown that this type of cancer does not respond significantly, if at all, to drug treatment, and even though complications and side effects from the drugs were expected.

But if the equal treatment of all by God is the point of this parable, why doesn't Jesus say something to that effect in Mathew 20:16?

One wonders if all this walking is negating the effects of his treatment.

There are some side effects, such as memory loss, associated with ECT and the treatment will be stopped if the patient begins to display any of these.

In future updates, if more eligible studies are included, we will explore the impact of including studies with high levels of missing data in the overall assessment of treatment effect by using sensitivity analysis.

If the adverse effects of high bilirubin levels in newborns appear, there are different treatment options.

«I'm on the record as saying I absolutely do not believe in the explanations for homeopathy and how it quote unquote works,» she says, before adding: «But I do believe in the placebo effect and it's possible that if a placebo is the best treatment for a lower back pain, for example, then that's what the evidence shows and in a lot of these areas there hasn't been enough research done to really tell that.

Although this treatment is generally well - tolerated, a number of side - effects can occur if thyroid hormone levels are raised too much.

«But, we wanted to examine if there were any treatments or interventions that could aid to minimize the effect of sleep loss by reducing the severity of pain experienced after surgery.»

The establishment of national egg donor registries that allow long - term follow up studies would effectively address this problem and shed light on the effects, if any, of repeated hormone treatments on younger egg donors.

If borne out by future studies, these mechanisms suggest some possible treatments to mitigate the effects of altitude on depression and suicide risk: supplemental 5 - hydroxytryptophan (a serotonin precursor) to increase serotonin levels, or creatinine to influence brain bioenergetics.

If doctors can foretell schizophrenia, he says, then the benefits of preventive drug treatment outweigh the risks of side effects.

«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.»

This could be a good way to test new types of drugs that target cancer cells specifically and spare patients the side effects from treatments if they are not working.»

However, if SSRIs had indeed acted merely by means of a placebo effect, these drugs should not outperform actual placebo in clinical trials where patients have been treated with an SSRI or with ineffective placebo pills, and where neither the physician nor the patient knows which treatment the patient has been given until the study is over.

But in the meantime, it would help if we could identify who won't benefit from standard treatment, so we can spare them the debilitating effects of chemotherapy and get them into clinical trials for experimental therapies that might be more effective.»

«We then wanted to test if foods known to have anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties could also reverse the negative effect of a high fat diet, similarly to the antibiotic treatment,» explained Claire de La Serre.

But if a (useless) treatment is not the cause of an improved outcome, could the placebo effect explain some cases of spontaneous regression?

In principle, if further tests bear out the protective effects of the two antibodies, then optimized versions of them, or small - molecule drugs that hit the same target, could be developed as treatments for rhinovirus infections.

If, for example, the crucial effects of neutrinos were included in some detailed treatment, the computer simulations could only be performed in two dimensions, which means that the star in the models was assumed to have an artificial rotational symmetry around an axis.

In other words, if an effect is obtained with a small amount of a drug, the treatment efficiency is high.)

«If successful, I envisage it can be a good alternative treatment in the future, one which is low cost and yet effective for the treatment of cancers involving solid tumours, as it might minimise the side effects of drugs.»

Steroids have been effective at suppressing inflammation, but if used for long - term treatment they can cause serious side effects such as increased risk of infections, liver damage, fluid retention, increased blood pressure, weight gain, easy bruising and slower wound healing.

«There's a great need in cancer patients to be able to quickly and easily assess if a particular treatment is working in order to switch to another if it's not, thus avoiding wasted time, potential side effects and cost,» says Kala Visvanathan, M.D., M.H.S., professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Clinical Cancer Genetics Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

If validated in larger studies, this breakthrough could mean that it may be possible to identify those at the highest risk of their breast cancer spreading, with more aggressive treatments targeted specifically to them, while those at low risk could be spared treatments that may not benefit them, as well as the subsequent side - effects.

Because of the early stage of the trials, more work is needed to see «if the vaccines are better than existing treatments, if they improve survival, and what their long - term side effects could be.»

Such treatments, if discovered, could counter not only the effects of mutations in SLC16A11, but also potentially any T2D - associated variants that may trigger the disease through similar mechanisms.

If we confined the analysis to the biologically compliant subjects (n = 136), the effect of treatment was slightly greater with a reduction in atrophy rate of 31.1 % in the active treatment group (rate of atrophy: 0.73 % [0.57 — 0.88]-RRB- compared to the placebo group (1.06 % [0.90 — 1.22], P = 0.004 after multi-adjusted analysis).

Yet, most patients continue with the expensive treatment — despite the possibility of significant side effects — because they and their doctors fear the condition will worsen if they stop, Koltun explained.

Because participants in such studies are not «blinded» — they know if they are getting treatment or not — they are likely to be influenced by the placebo effect and other forms of expectancy bias.

However, it is important to note that «preventative» trials that aim to test treatments before symptoms onset will have to last quite long in order to see an effect: probably in the region of 36 months, if TRACK - HD is anything to go by.

If you smoke, quitting can help (smoking can worsen the effects of lupus on the heart and blood vessels, and may complicate treatment).

They can be used effectively to relieve symptoms when dealing with an intestinal infection or if dealing with side - effects of antibiotic treatment, for short periods of time (1 - 3 weeks).

When conventional medicine turns its attention to hormonal imbalance, nutrition and the effects of xenoestrogens, progress in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer is far more likely than it is if we continue on with our present fixation on mammograms, surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.

If needed, natural products can be used as treatment before initiating pharmaceuticals, given their safety profile and low risk of adverse effects.

More research is needed to determine if the same effects are present in humans, but lemongrass could offer relief to people in remote parts of the world who are unable to receive modern medical treatment for malaria.

Research has demonstrated that if a patient deems a healthcare professional not to understand or believe them, this can cause distress, and the physiological effect can reduce the prognosis of treatment.

Despite that, reviews of studies have found the positive effects of homeopathic treatment for certain conditions — including acute diarrhea, flu, and allergies — can not be explained by a placebo effect alone (the placebo effect is when people get better because they are receiving some pill, even if that is a neutral «sugar pill»).

If you are sick of experiencing the debilitating and frustrating effects of PMS, it is worth exploring the above treatment methods.

The effect of a health intervention on surrogate measures of risk is of only academic, nonclinical interest if the treatment does not reduce subsequent major health events such as the onset of diabetes, dementia, and CAD.

If you struggle with autoimmune disease, know that there may be treatment options outside of invasive surgery and side - effect laden medications.

If you are found to have a true vitamin or mineral deficiency that's diagnosed by a doctor, have a medical condition that requires supplementation, or can use a supplement to help manage side effects during cancer treatment as monitored by your physician (start with my intro to supplements post if you haven't already) you may ask yourself where to start in terms of a good quality supplemenIf you are found to have a true vitamin or mineral deficiency that's diagnosed by a doctor, have a medical condition that requires supplementation, or can use a supplement to help manage side effects during cancer treatment as monitored by your physician (start with my intro to supplements post if you haven't already) you may ask yourself where to start in terms of a good quality supplemenif you haven't already) you may ask yourself where to start in terms of a good quality supplement.

Moreover, even if some of metformin's anticancer effects are confirmed in humans, there's no guarantee the drug will become a useful treatment in real - world practice.

If you're brave enough to go platinum this fall, Appleton recommends treating your strands with a daily leave - in treatment like Color Wow's Coconut Tonic Cocktail Bionic ($ 24; ulta.com) which targets common side - effects of color - processing such as dehydration, and rough, raised hair cuticles.

If the completist inside you opts to pick up this set at its reasonable release date discount pricing, you'll likely want to still keep the Toy Box, if only for the worthwhile extras from that set which have not been ported over here, such as the Tin Toy short, several animation featurettes, more expansive art galleries, original story treatments, sound effects - only track, and the making - of documentary that has been unfavorably abbreviateIf the completist inside you opts to pick up this set at its reasonable release date discount pricing, you'll likely want to still keep the Toy Box, if only for the worthwhile extras from that set which have not been ported over here, such as the Tin Toy short, several animation featurettes, more expansive art galleries, original story treatments, sound effects - only track, and the making - of documentary that has been unfavorably abbreviateif only for the worthwhile extras from that set which have not been ported over here, such as the Tin Toy short, several animation featurettes, more expansive art galleries, original story treatments, sound effects - only track, and the making - of documentary that has been unfavorably abbreviated.

If one's purpose is to evaluate the effects of a specific public policy, such as the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), then the comparison of the average outcomes of the treatment and control groups, regardless of what proportion attended which types of school, is most appropriate.

More specifically, effect sizes can be interpreted as the new percentile standing of the average control group member if they had been in the treatment group.

After sale, the treatment of the capital gain income is favoured by the tax system since the only half of the capital gain is assessed as taxable income if the investment is held for at least 12 months (before 2000 — 2001, only the real value of the capital gain was taxed, which had a similar effect).