Sentences with phrase «few available treatments»

Tamiflu is one of the few available treatments for those who come down with the flu.

Not exact matches

Shkreli's basic modus operandi in the biopharma sphere was to take niche drugs in treatment spaces where U.S. patients have few options (although those medicines may very well have been approved and available in other countries) and bring them to market, after which he'd maintain carte blanche on the products» prices.

He will help them to get well if he can, and he thinks that on their part they should try: «Few people faced with a diagnosis of potentially remediable malignant disease should be willing to give up the struggle if there is any reasonable chance that some promising form of treatment is available to lessen the ravages of the disease or cure it.

Patients with severe and end - stage heart failure have few treatment options available to them apart from transplants and «miraculous» stem cell therapy.

Right now, the only widely available treatment for preventing brain damage from stroke is tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), which breaks up blood clots; it must be given within a few hours to be effective, and though it limits initial damage, it doesn't help the brain restore lost synapses or form new ones.

Still, a few stem cell therapies have now been approved, such as a treatment available in India that takes stem cells from the patient's eye in order to regrow the surface of their cornea, and a US product based on other people's bone stem cells.

The first - line treatment is undergoing a hysterectomy, and there are few other treatment options currently available.

Yet the results were a major step forward in efforts to heal damaged brains, and could lead to such treatments becoming widely available within just a few years.

Dr Miguel Martins from the MRC Toxicology Unit at the University of Leicester explained: «Parkinson's disease is a disabling disorder for which no cure is yet available; further, after dopaminergic neurons are lost, only a few palliative treatment options for Parkinson's symptoms are available.

But there are precious few resources available for treatment and little recognition of the problem.

These challenges are particularly pertinent in neurodegenerative diseases, as few effective treatments for slowing or stopping such conditions are currently available.

«Despite having good treatments available, current reports suggest that fewer than half of individuals who need therapy are actually getting appropriate HIV medicine to control their virus, leading to more transmission of disease,» says lead study author Maunank Shah, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

With few treatments currently available, symptoms include high blood pressure and loss of kidney function, and lead to the need for dialysis.

Melarsoprol, the only available treatment for advanced African sleeping sickness, is a toxic mixture injected intravenously every few days for four weeks.

There is no human vaccine and only few treatments are available, all of which show one or more important limitations with respect to administration, toxicity or cost.

The study sets the stage for the development of more - sensitive and specific non-invasive tests for prostate cancer than those currently available, which could result in fewer unnecessary prostate biopsies with less treatment - related morbidity, according to a new study in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.

«There are numerous treatments available but only a few were consistently effective or cost - effective when we looked at all the high - quality existing literature,» said Dr. Andrea Tricco, the lead author and a scientist in the hospital's Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.

EPFL scientists have developed a tool that reveals the mutations that make the virus resistant, and they have identified new mutations that may render ineffective one of the few treatments currently available on the market.

In that case, a few antibiotic treatment options are available, including Plasmocin ™ and Plasmocure ™ from InvivoGen and the LookOut Mycoplasma Elimination Kit from Sigma - Aldrich.

MONDAY, Aug. 29, 2016 — A cheaper generic version of the emergency allergy treatment EpiPen will be made available within the next few weeks, manufacturer Mylan said Monday.

Everybody has moments of anxiety, deep worry and high stress; here are a few treatment options available during those times.

You may even find «energy» treatments like acupuncture, but few resources are available to assist you in the natural regeneration of neurotransmitters like serotonin, or to assist in detoxifying your body from the residual poisons left over from the use of drugs and alcohol.

Unfortunately, herpes outbreaks are typically recurrent, and there are few conventional treatments available.

They also have a Kindle Basic available, with a few books that have recently got the movie treatment, such as Andy Weirs The Martian.

-LSB-...] the heels of a leaked television commercial treatment for the 7 inch Android tablet, the folks at CellPhoneSignal have snagged a few more images of the device — and they feature T - Mobile branding, suggesting the tablet will be available with -LSB-...]

The only treatment available is supportive therapy, which consists of giving fluids if dehydration is a concern and keeping a close eye on your pet for a few days.Some viruses can be quite serious, however.

Thanks to new advances in antifungal drugs, treatments with fewer serious side effects than those used in the past are now available.

Treatment There are fewer pharmaceutical options available to treat pain and osteoarthritis in cats.

Although some dogs with chronic kidney disease can live for years with careful treatment, some will only live a few months, even with the best treatment available.

This surgery gets dogs back to normal function faster and has fewer potential complications than other available treatment options.

Treatment for avian bacterial infections involves antibiotics like azithromycin, amoxicillin and clavulanate, cephalexin, and doxycycline, to name a few of the options available.

Often there are few alternate courses of treatment available in life - or - death situations, and emergency care is typically very costly.

There are numerous treatment options available — medicinal as well as natural — and more than a few that are just plain common sense.

We anticipate that relatively few dogs will be imported into the United States under these circumstances, as veterinary care for most conditions affecting dogs will be available in the country of export and the costs for importing a dog into the United States for specialized treatment are likely to be quite high.

Many treatments are available and most have few side effects.

I address cost in several ways: (1) I inform owners when less - expensive options are available; (2) I give the owner the option to buy fewer doses of medication at a time; and (3) I explain that failure to give heartworm preventives — or to give them year - round — can result in treatment that costs many times that of giving preventives.

In addition, we have Balinese Beds available for hire around the pool for even more luxury, you can even select a YHI Spa treatment or simply relax with a few drinks or bottle of Champagne.

The difference between the HadCrut and GISS treatment of this problem is that HadCrut does not use those grid cells to calculate the global temperature anomaly while GISS interpolates / extrapolates from the few stations around the artic to infill temperature estimates for the grid cells where no «real» data is available.

There are many life insurance companies who will not only offer term life insurance with blood pressure treatment, but some will even offer their best available ratings if it is treated and has been stable for at least a few months.

For years, programs have been available for treatment of sex addicts, but there are few programs or groups available for their spouses or partners.

Despite a few professionals who do not believe it is an addiction, there are many forms of treatment available.