Sentences with phrase «experimental therapies as»

And they would love for people in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia to have access to experimental therapies as well, as the death toll from the largest Ebola outbreak on record climbs past 600.

Not exact matches

Bellicum is among the flurry of biotechs investing heavily into cell therapies such as experimental chimeric antigen receptor T - cell (CAR - T) treatments for cancer (this is the next - gen treatment that involves reprogramming immune cells to become cancer killers and has shown promise in blood cancers, which Bellicum specializes in).

This biotech's first year as a publicly traded company has been a terrific ride on the back of an experimental oncology therapy that could have huge built - in demand.

GOSH describes experimental nucleoside therapies as «unjustified» but its decision comes after two international hospitals and their researchers contacted them «as late as the last 24 hours» to say they have «fresh evidence about their proposed experimental treatment».

Dietary medium - chain triglycerides prevent chemically induced experimental colitis in rats: Medium chain triglycerides show promise for nutritional therapy of inflammatory bowel disease (e.g., Crohn's disease and colitis) as an anti-inflammatory nutrient in the colon.

However, cerebellar stimulation is still an experimental approach and is not FDA approved as a therapy.

When the World Health Organization recently named blood transfusions from Ebola survivors as its priority experimental therapy for the disease ravaging west Africa there was only one major problem: no data indicating that such transfusions work.

Stem cells hold tremendous promise as therapies, but experts say they are still experimental and are not ready to be widely deployed outside regulated and limited trials.

This has led to the experimental use of antigenspecific therapies (using a substance to initiate an immune response) to prevent, stabilize, or reverse immunerelated diseases, such as allergies and multiple sclerosis.

Two patients that had previously not responded to available standard treatments, including surgery, external radiation, hormonal and chemotherapy, have received 225Actinium - PSMA - 617 as experimental therapy.

Experimental approaches such as gene therapy are also being investigated, but Dr. Rudnicki's research suggests that these approaches will have to be modified so that they target muscle stem cells as well as muscle fibres.

Experimental and unregulated stem cell therapies have resulted in brain tumors, for example, as well as bones growing in eyelids.

Such studies could guide still - experimental therapies such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, which aims to suppress or boost brain activity in targeted areas through electrical currents.

That would be a huge boon for therapy by allowing doctors to combine visual imaging, such as MRI scans, of tumors with knowledge of their genetic make - up, says experimental oncologist Janusz Rak of McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Canada.

As stakeholders in cellular therapy, the undersigned professional organizations believe it is necessary to share the following important message with patients and families contemplating cell therapy or experimental stem cell procedures.

Cell therapy, as envisaged by the teams of I - Stem, is primarily based on the identification of experimental protocols that can specifically guide differentiation of pluripotent cells to a cell fate, which presents a interest for the replacement of the defective cell population from the patient (the striatal neurons for Huntington's disease, the cells of the retinal pigment epithelium for retinitis pigmentosa, keratinocytes for genodermatoses, etc.).

«As important as research is, I want to assure that some of those most acutely devastated by cancer, whose conventional and experimental therapies require a protracted presence in Baltimore, have the advantage and support of a family residence,» he emphasizeAs important as research is, I want to assure that some of those most acutely devastated by cancer, whose conventional and experimental therapies require a protracted presence in Baltimore, have the advantage and support of a family residence,» he emphasizeas research is, I want to assure that some of those most acutely devastated by cancer, whose conventional and experimental therapies require a protracted presence in Baltimore, have the advantage and support of a family residence,» he emphasized.

In the next several years, when the laboratory process for recreating micro tumors is fast and reliable, Dr. Simeone expects to offer a Phase 1 clinical trial to design tailored single and combination therapies, as well as experimental agents targeting specific mutations.

He worked as a leader of the gene therapy programme in experimental transplantation in the Institute of Medical Immunology under the directorship of Prof. Dr. H. - D.

Clinical research activities are focused on the implementation of experimental protocols based on gene or cell therapy for the treatment of genetic blood disorders such as ADA - SCID, Wiskott - Aldrich Syndrome, Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, Beta - thalassemia, Chronic granulomatous disease, Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I (Hurler).

More than a dozen experimental clinical therapies and vaccines have been developed from research from the Weiner laboratory, including the first Zika vaccine in clinical trials, as well as a novel immunotherapy for HPV - associated cancer and precancer.

In 1993, he joined the Divisions of Experimental Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, where he was appointed director of the cell and gene therapy laboratories, as well as chair of the institutional review board.

Clinic will allow researchers to conduct twice as many immunotherapy trials, enable intensive patient monitoring to improve experimental therapies

In contrast, therapeutic ketogenic diets used for epilepsy or as experimental cancer therapy often restrict carbs to fewer than 5 % of calories or fewer than 15 grams per day to further drive up ketone levels (9, 10).

When a shady figure offers him a cure in the form of experimental therapy (which, as chance would have it, affords the patient super powers), he reluctantly seizes the opportunity.

We pursued chemo and a couple of experimental therapies for Raven, as well as holistic alternatives, but on Sept. 26, 2005, we lost her - only four months after the very first sign she was ill.

Behavior therapy is considered probably efficacious for childhood depression, and a number of other experimental interventions show promise but require further evaluation.12 Currently, only 2 research groups have focused on psychosocial interventions for childhood bipolar disorder.13 - 15 Hence, increased attention to creation and testing of treatments specifically targeting depression and bipolar disorder in children is needed.16 In particular, studies should focus on children's developmental needs, address comorbidity, involve family members in treatment, demonstrate treatment gains as rated by parents and clinicians rather than children themselves, and compare experimental interventions with standard care or treatment as usual (TAU) rather than no - treatment or attention control groups.12, 17,18 In addition, parental psychopathology may affect treatment adherence and response.

The intervention strategies which compromise Post Induction Therapy originated as a result of experimental application of strategies developed to treat the effects of child hood trauma.