Sentences with phrase «find an effective treatment for»

Parents and caregivers of infants with pediatric GERD are likely to experience sleep loss, as well as psychological and physical stress until they find effective treatment for the baby's reflux or GERD.

«So if we could find an effective treatment for Alzheimer's, if we find a cure for Alzheimer's, we could dramatically cut Medicare and Medicaid spending.

While this did not save the frogs, the findings are a first step towards finding an effective treatment for the disease, Voyles says.

While we had previously found an effective treatment for those with the «celtic gene» this new combination treatment has the potential to help roughly half of those with cystic fibrosis, those who have two copies the F508DEL mutation.

Finding effective treatments for vulnerable populations is an important priority.

The idea was sparked by her own difficulty finding an effective treatment for her German Shepherd's chronic ear infections and further fueled by a veterinarian friend, who had commented on the limited options for good ear care products on the market at the time.

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Psychologists and other medical professionals are using VR to heighten traditional therapy methods and find effective solutions for treatments of PTSD, anxiety and social disorders.

-- To learn about EMDR Therapy: Among the hundreds of types of therapy, the treatment I found most effective and gave quickest relief and results for panic attacks, anxiety and depression, for me personally, is what the State Department of Defense uses to process vets from the battlefield (even though I'm not a solider): http://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/

When you donate to Cookies for Kids» Cancer, you are helping fund critically needed childhood cancer research to find safer, more effective treatments for children fighting cancer.

By accelerating promising drug candidates through the drug discovery and development pipeline and spearheading innovative public - private partnerships, we increase the chance of finding an effective treatment, and a cure, for Alzheimer's disease.

I found the focus on education, while it is an important component, less an effective approach than a detailed plan for treatment of addicts would have been.

That insight might someday help scientists find an effective human treatment for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders,...

Therefore finding quicker, more effective ways to identify and diagnose these patients is crucial to help GPs and other clinicians identify or rule out bowel cancer quickly to give people the very best opportunity for successful treatment.

The finding offers potential for developing both gene therapy and more effective protein replacement treatments for hemophilia A, the most common form of hemophilia.

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 effecFOR - 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 effecfor 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.

The finding raised the possibility of harnessing this regenerative capacity to mend damaged brains, which could translate into more effective treatments for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Just as the finding that tea made from willow bark could alleviate headaches led scientists to the discovery of salicylic acid — which in turn led to the invention of aspirin — many acupuncture researchers think that their work might lead to a treatment for pain that is more effective than acupuncture.

«As well as finding more effective treatments for advanced melanoma, we also need to stress the importance of early diagnosis, detecting tumors before they have a chance to spread.»

Not all chemotherapy drugs are equally effective for all people, and finding the best treatment for an individual is a painful process of trial and error that wastes time and exposes patients to toxic side effects.

But these findings point us to new strategies and novel compounds that can be developed as treatments that will be more effective for an array of cancer types because they are less susceptible to the emergence of resistance.»

Depressed men with localized prostate cancer were more likely to be diagnosed with more aggressive prostate cancer, received less effective treatments and survived for shorter times than prostate cancer patients who were not depressed, a UCLA study has found.

«Based on our findings, both imiquimod and fluorouracil are effective noninvasive treatments in most primary, low - risk superficial BCC, but the data provide no definite evidence for superiority of imiquimod to fluorouracil,» commented Dr. Roozeboom.

The finding also suggests that an effective treatment for one neurodegenerative disease might work for other neurodegenerative diseases as well.

«These findings are important for cancer treatments, as currently there are no drug therapies for enchondromas and there are no universally effective chemotherapies for chondrosarcomas,» said senior author Benjamin Alman, M.D., chair of the Orthopaedic Surgery Department at Duke University Medical Center.

Importantly, the development of a new animal model for Dravet syndrome based on reduced CHD2 expression might help to find effective treatments that could improve the lives of thousands of people suffering from Dravet syndrome and perhaps other genetic epilepsies.»

The findings provide proof of principle that restoring the function of a single tumor suppressor gene can cause tumor regression and suggest future avenues for developing effective cancer treatments.

Dr Stephen Simpson, director research and programmes at the charity Arthritis Research UK said: «We know that for some people with chronic low back pain psychological stress is a major factor, and therefore there is a significant challenge to find effective treatments.

Despite the challenges, Whiting remains convinced that finding a safe and effective medical treatment for weight control will be essential to turn the obesity epidemic around — and that no amount of preaching from Oprah, no behavior program from Weight Watchers nor food from Jenny Craig, will ever suffice.

Researchers found that the treatment was effective for people who experienced episodes of severe hypoglycemia — low blood sugar levels that can lead to seizures, loss of consciousness and death — despite receiving expert care.

Nevertheless, he says, the finding suggests that drugs that block the cell - division pathway will be an effective treatment for NF - related leukemia and potentially for other disease complications.

«These findings provide strong support for Family Based Interpersonal Psychotherapy as an effective treatment for depression in children between the ages of 7 - 12,» said Laura J. Dietz, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and principal investigator of the study.

Maggie Blanks, Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund's CEO, said: «It's because of these bleak facts that our funding strategy focuses on finding and developing alternative, effective treatments for patients as well as finding a way to diagnose pancreatic cancer at an early stage.

Given the progressive nature of MS, the debilitating nature of fatigue, and the lack of effective fatigue drug treatments that work for the majority, such findings are encouraging and important.

«We are hopeful that these findings will lead to more personalized and effective treatments for prostate cancer,» said Dr. Sharifi.

«But based on our findings, we think it could fill an unmet need in making the most common treatment for prostate cancer more effective.»

«Finding a more effective treatment for sepsis would be a major step forward,» said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor - in - Chief of The FASEB Journal, «since far too many people still die from overwhelming microbial infection.

The new findings could help physicians prescribe the most effective treatments for each patient based on how genes are activated in the individual tumor.

The Vanderbilt researchers currently are developing a mouse model to confirm these findings, and they are working with biopharmaceutical firms to develop more effective treatments for ASD that specifically target the dopamine transporter, he said.

The researchers call for additional larger scale, multi-center clinical studies to further confirm the findings and determine the most effective and personalized treatment protocols.

It found while standard ECT was slightly more effective for treating depression and required one less treatment, this came at a cost with significantly more cognitive side effects.

«There are currently virtually no treatments for dilated cardiomyopathy targeted to genetic changes, so the finding that commercially available drugs may be effective for patients with childhood - onset, RAF1 - induced DCM is a remarkable advance,» said Bruce Gelb, MD, Director and Gogel Family Professor of the Mindich Child Health and Development Institute at Mount Sinai and senior author.

Findings published in the journal Biological Psychiatry suggest that at least one of these drugs may be an effective treatment for individuals in the early course of the illness.

Gandhi reports that his team's estimates, which are not yet complete, find a basically negligible demand of 10 million treatments for a minimally effective vaccine.

For one such treatment, Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy to treat bipolar disorder, a RAND study compared face - to - face training with online training and found e-learning to be as effective as traditional in - person instruction.

«We have evidence - based treatments that are effective for many people with bulimia, but many people don't have access to specialist care,» said Cynthia M. Bulik, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders at UNC, founding director of the UNC Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders, and director of the Center for Eating Disorders Innovation at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

Although there remains no cure for Alzheimer's, researchers hope that testing potential drugs or therapies prior to mental decline will prove to be more successful than previous attempts at finding the most effective treatment in the battle against the debilitating disease.

«This is because we found evidence that screening for depression in the primary care setting is accurate, that treatment for depression is effective for people detected through screening and the likelihood of harms from screening or treatments are small.»

Our findings in these new studies will advance our clinical efforts to develop more effective, personalized treatments for children.»

He said: «Our findings show exciting potential for an effective treatment for PD and pave the way for future in - depth studies in this field.

In a small phase I and II clinical trial, Johns Hopkins researchers and colleagues elsewhere found that the high - fat, low - carbohydrate ketogenic diet was a safe and effective treatment option for the majority of adults experiencing a relatively rare, often fatal and always severe form of epilepsy marked by prolonged seizures that require medically induced comas to prevent them from further damaging the body and the brain.