Sentences with phrase «few years of his treatment»

Unfortunately, within a few years of treatment, a significant minority have developed leukemia.

Not exact matches

Because of my own work these past few years with organizations and individuals who are in some form or fashion working to address inequality, I have come to understand that many of the initiatives that are often described as entitlements or preferential treatment are usually neither.

David Nierengarten, head of health - care equity research at Wedbush, told CNBC, «Celgene has a big revenue hole to fill over the next few years» and Juno's treatment could potentially «fill that gap.»

Since Marathon won an approval to treat a condition that afflicts fewer than 200,000 Americans per year and has a dearth of treatment options (rather than trying to become an also - ran in the saturated steroid therapy field), it has carte blanche over the drug's pricing.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

There is knowledge to be gained by such studies, of course, but it hardly makes for the sort of case embryo - research advocates were advancing just a few years ago — with its miracle cures and treatments for the untreatable.

In spite of the continuing inadequacies in the current treatment of the mentally ill, remarkable progress has been made during the past few years.

The fact is that we have not been so well set for the start of a Premier League campaign in years and until we have almost a full team of players in the treatment room as we have in the last few seasons, I for one am happy to assume that the Gunners have fixed the underlying problems and will have a strong enough squad to cope with the unlucky but inevitable knocks that come our way.

Others resent the preferential treatment given him since he signed his first contract in August 1977, a few weeks before the start of his freshman year at BYU.

He's a licensed pilot and a few years ago helped airlift children in need of medical care to treatment sites for Children's Flight of Hope, a nonprofit program based in Durham, N.C..

Wilshere's inclusion may come as a surprise to many given his injury problems in the last couple of seasons, but he will be hoping steer clear of the treatment table this year and build on a strong end to the 2014 - 15 campaign in which he scored a stunner for the Gunners against West Brom and then followed it up with a sensational brace for the Three Lions against Slovenia a few weeks later.

He only needed to ask me or just about anybody who has paid the blindest bit of attention to the comings and goings of the Arsenal treatment room over the last few years.

Now Ox will appreciate the kid gloves treatment at Arsenal despite 6 repeated years of shambolic performance with only few flashes of above average display

If Arsene Wenger was wondering whether this season would see Arsenal have any better luck on the injury front, he only needed to ask me or just about anybody who has paid the blindest bit of attention to the comings and goings of the Arsenal treatment room over the last few years.

HOPE LIEN: Well we had, yeah we had tried to get pregnant for a while and tried a lot of different natural medicine to enhance fertility and after few years of trying that and it wasn't happening we just knew that we had, we always had known that we wanted to adopt, and so it just became really obvious that instead of going down an unknown road of different fertility treatment and things like that that we want to do adoption.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

Jon Cruddas, the Dagenham MP who narrowly missed out on the deputy Labour leadership last year, said the crisis required «radical shock treatment», adding: «The way to do that is to introduce proportional representation and a system of fair votes to replace the current arrangement under which a few thousand swing votes have an armlock around the body politic.»

Hughes also announced plans for better treatment of female prisoners if the party stayed in power next year, and said he wanted fewer women in custody.

In a clinical trial published in June, melanoma patients who received ipilimumab combined with chemotherapy gained a precious extra few months» survival compared with those who received chemo alone, and the treatment nearly doubled the number of patients still living after three years.

A few years ago, a pharmaceutical company developed an injectable form of the IL - 18 inhibitor, with the idea of offering treatment to combat rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis.

In the last few years, much progress has been made in this field of cancer research, also for the treatment of renal cell carcinomas.

The approval of a new treatment method by which three parents will be able to beget a child is being discussed since a few years in Great Britain and will possibly become a reality in two years.

This study, performed as an analysis of all 161,967 UK treatment cycles reported to the HFEA between 2000 and 2012, aimed to discover if the advance in ART techniques in the past few years had affected the incidence of ectopic pregnancy, and what its risk factors in ART might be.

Current treatment for HLHS involves multiple complex surgeries in the first few years of a child's life, and while effective in many patients, it does not improve heart function in many others.

Autymn came from Kentucky to Nationwide Children's Hospital, which has one of the few Comprehensive Treatment and Research Centers for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD) in the country, more than a year ago and is still in the hospital.

Treatments for diabetes, smoking, Alzheimer's disease and lung cancer are just a few of the potentially lifesaving cures Scientific American has chosen to highlight in this year's roundup of drugs you've never heard of, despite their potentially huge impact on global health.

Usually, treatment would require whole - brain radiation which is extremely toxic and the average survival time is just 3 - 6 months from diagnosis, with fewer than 20 per cent of patients surviving more than one year.

Doctors are advised to use benzodiazepines in short courses of a few weeks in order to prevent patients becoming dependent on them, but researchers complain that doctors sometimes prolong such treatments for years.

For example, the United States is planning to sequence the genomes of 1 million Americans over the next few years and use the data to devise individualized treatments.

Leaders of two clinical trials report this week that a treatment that restored some vision to blind patients begins to fade within a few years.

«Over the last few years, our research group has been working on the development of novel drug delivery systems for the treatment of several skin and eye diseases,» said Prof. Lopez.

Moreover, clinical trial data suggest that a considerable proportion of patients receiving anti-TNF-alpha therapy may become resistant to treatment in the first few years.

According to Dr. Michelson, «Research of the past few years is increasingly changing the focus from pure monocular treatment to combination therapy with the fixing eye kept open and, finally, binocular therapy based on perceptual training.

Cancer treatments that mobilize the body's immune system to fight the disease have generated a lot of excitement in the past few years.

And that's usually in the context of treatment for a prior cancer in the head and the historical practice many, many years ago of blasting the tumor with radiation — and so there are a few survivors of childhood cancer who then get secondary cancer from radiation.

In the last few years, scientists in Southampton have been at the forefront of research into the role of the immune system in Alzheimer's, so it is encouraging to see this study taking these ideas forward by identifying a specific mechanism that could be a target for future treatments.

Over the last few years, the use of nanomaterials for water treatment, food packaging, pesticides, cosmetics and other industries has increased.

Better understanding of mechanisms underlying skeleton development, adult maintenance, and diseases has led in recent years to new and improved treatments for osteoporosis and a few other conditions, but today most skeletal diseases remain untreatable or incompletely treatable.

Over the past few years, immunotherapy has dramatically changed the landscape of melanoma treatment.

«Over the past few years, City of Hope has seen an increase in patients coming for sickle cell disease treatment,» Rosenthal said.

To the degree that they are effective and safe, everyone much over the age of 40 should be undergoing a course of treatment every few years.

Then, a few times a year, use a stronger treatment for the fridge: Put a small teaspoonful of black soap in a bowl of water mixed with baking soda (50/50).

But despite the fact that allergies can torment us for a few months out of the year, many people don't know a lot about them, where they come from, and what their treatment options really are.

«It gives us hope that in another few years we'll have a treatment that can go into the clinic,» says Wesley Burks, MD, the chief of pediatric allergy and immunology at Duke University Medical Center, in Durham, N.C., who was involved in all three studies.

Just a few years ago, we didn't have such great options,» says Steven Feldman, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston - Salem, N.C. «Treatments are now more effective, safer and easier to use than ever.»

While jimjilbangs — spas replete with steam rooms, saunas, and mineral - water hot baths — have been around for centuries, their popularity has soared here in the United States the last few years, and the no - frills scrub is the star of the show and the ultimate exfoliating treatment.

One of the most outspoken is singer Selena Gomez, who revealed in 2015 that she had taken time off to undergo treatment for lupus a few years earlier.

Are treatments like Botox or Dysport worth the cost of turning the clock back a few years?

In the last few years, there have been a lot of discoveries in the field that recommend probiotics as a non-invasive, safe treatment in many inflammatory and immunity related conditions.

The goal of anti-aging medicine is to use recent scientific advances and treatment modalities to promote «Healthy Aging» and to prolong the healthspan of an individual — so that more of their years are spent in good health and few, if any, are spent with disease.