Sentences with phrase «for clinical»

For this clinical pilot study, researchers imaged subjects undergoing routine molecular imaging procedures such as bone scans or imaging of the thyroid, eye or lymphatic system.

We also have a large - scale biologics manufacturing facility in Rensselaer, New York, where we produce commercial and investigational products for clinical trials, and a satellite office in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

«Recruitment for clinical trials in children with autism is one of the biggest challenges we face in studying potential treatments, and we found that process to be accelerated and streamlined by using existing online communities for enrollment,» said lead author Stephen Bent, associate professor of medicine at UCSF.

Physicians immediately began recruiting hundreds of people for a clinical trial of the drug, and that study is ongoing.

The SHOW project is supported by grants from the Wisconsin Partnership Program, the National Institutes of Health (IRC2HL101468 - 01), and the UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (KL2 - RR025012).

Those are some key conclusions of an in - depth examination by investigators at Weill Cornell Medical College of six diverse medical practices that routinely use electronic communication for clinical purposes.

«This study demonstrates that CRFA is an effective long - term therapeutic option for managing pain, and improving physical function and quality of life, for patients suffering from painful knee osteoarthritis when compared with intra-articular steroid injection,» according to the clinical trial report by Leonardo Kapural, MD, PhD, of the Center for Clinical Research, Winston - Salem, N.C., and colleagues.

The experimental drug J147 is something of a modern elixir of life; it's been shown to treat Alzheimer's disease and reverse aging in mice and is almost ready for clinical trials in humans.

The procedures have been successfully trialled in monkeys and if the techniques are approved for use in the UK, the regulations will be in place for clinical trials in people — a world first.

«There's no cure for preeclampsia — which does disappear when the baby is born,» said Dr. Urquia, who is also an adjunct scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.

Hysteroscopic myomectomy, an outpatient surgical procedure that allows the woman to return to work within a few days and increases the potential for clinical pregnancy.

In an effort to tease out a biochemical pathway that might account for the clinical effects that Kaplan, Popper, and others had described, he ran a series of rat studies.

A similar strategy of combining looking for biomarkers in blood and imaging, using the more advanced MRI techniques, is becoming realistic for clinical depression.

The research team intends to conduct clinical testing of the painkiller patch to further ascertain its effectiveness for clinical applications.

Although only founded as a full medical faculty in the autumn of 1993, by adopting some innovative approaches it is aiming to create a special environment for clinical research and teaching that will allow it to compete with more traditional institutions in Heidelberg, Tübingen, Göttingen, and Munich.

Daniel Sulmasy, Appointee for Member, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, a Franciscan Friar, holds the Kilbride - Clinton Chair in Medicine and Ethics in the Department of Medicine and Divinity School and is associate director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago.

«Given that Canada is currently experiencing a rapid growth in the population of foreign - born citizens — one of the highest rates of any Western nation — the mental health status of immigrants and refugees should be a national priority,» writes Dr. Kelly Anderson, an assistant professor at Western University, London, Ontario, and a fellow at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), with coauthors.

Purushotham points out, «The feasibility of intraoperative CLI as shown in this study, in combination with the wide applicability of F -18-FDG across a range of solid cancers, provides a stepping stone for clinical evaluation of this technology in other solid cancer types that also experience incomplete tumor resection due to close or involved margins.»

The study, published online in Radiology, is among the first to examine what cerebral microbleeds may mean for clinical outcomes in MS.

To strengthen its clinical research profile, Dresden has created a strategic plan, to be funded by the German Research Ministry (BMBF), that focuses on three aspects of clinical research: tissue engineering and development of physical and molecular medical technologies for clinical application; therapeutic strategies after cell and tissue damage; and diagnosis and therapy of malignant diseases.

Koo and colleagues are now working on novel therapeutic approaches for targeted interventions, which can be potentially developed for clinical use.

The depth and breadth of information obtained is promoting biomarker discovery, especially potential targets for drug therapies, as well as possibly enabling improved patient stratification for clinical trials and treatment protocols.

Muotri said the findings show it is possible to more effectively stratify ASD individuals for clinical trials by identifying persons who are likely to be more responsive to specific therapies using their «mini-brains» in a dish.

In addition to providing new insights into how genes and the environment interact, the results may have early implications for clinical management of CD.

Better understand the importance of developing robust biomarkers for stratifying patients for clinical trials and for optimized treatment

Furthermore, because this technology is RNA - based, it does not integrate into the genome, which makes the cells eligible for clinical application.

Ram and her collaborators — including Wenli Zhang, a UA doctoral student in management information systems, and researchers from the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation — created a model that was able to successfully predict approximately how many asthma sufferers would visit the emergency room at a large hospital in Dallas on a given day, based on an analysis of data gleaned from electronic medical records, air quality sensors and Twitter.

The research, led by Knut Wittkowski, biostatistician in the Center for Clinical and Translational Science at The Rockefeller University Hospital, is a twist on a traditional data - mining technique known as a genome - wide association study.

During my training years, I worked with a surgical resident who had been a star athlete at a large southern university, and he seemed to have a down - home Carolina bon mot for every clinical occasion.

«Although she's a Ph.D. - trained scientist, she's always looking for the clinical relevance of her findings,» says Hal Dietz, a researcher at the Institute for Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

But nevertheless, «ethics codes are proliferating like mushrooms on a damp lawn,» asserted Edmund Pellegrino, John Carroll professor of medicine and medical ethics at the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University.

Principal investigator E. Shelley Hwang, M.D., chief of breast surgery at the Duke Cancer Institute and vice chair of research in the Duke University Department of Surgery, will lead the study through the cooperative group, The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology.

Luckily, Ray didn't carry out the threat, but Hare soon realized that Ray had snared him in a sort of trap, persuading him to forsake prison rules for clinical rapport.

«While ECG signals are collected for clinical diagnosis and transmitted through networks to electronic health records, we strategically reused the ECG signals for the data encryption.

High - tech gadgetry is very impressive to young doctors, and has long since, in the hearts of many, usurped the revered place once reserved for the clinical skills of history taking and physical examination.

Researchers say these results have implications for understanding disease origin rather than for clinical risk prediction and future studies should focus on the mechanisms underlying the relationship between childhood height and later stroke.

The interaction of these disciplines shaped my scientific perspective and focused my career on understanding and engineering organs for clinical applications.

Back in the US, and further along the translational pipeline is Doug Lowy, of the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, who has already experienced the potential of harnessing basic research for clinical use.

However, the method is not yet ready for clinical application,» says Magnus Dustler.

Led by Sudha Ram, a UA professor of management information systems and computer science, and Dr. Yolande Pengetnze, a physician scientist at the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation in Dallas, the researchers looked specifically at the chronic condition of asthma and how asthma - related tweets, analyzed alongside other data, can help predict asthma - related emergency room visits.

To help foster better services, GIG says that the budget for clinical genetics services should be doubled, and that the laboratory side needs at least 30 per cent more.

In an interview last week, he hinted that this institute and the foundation's Paris centre for clinical trials might be one and the same.

«Our study suggests that short height in children is a possible marker of stroke risk and suggests these children should pay extra attention to changing or treating modifiable risk factors for stroke throughout life to reduce the chances of having this disease,» said senior study author Jennifer L. Baker, Ph.D., associate professor in the Center for Clinical Research and Prevention at Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, at the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark.

Regulatory changes, under which the Japanese government allowed the distribution of iPS cells for clinical use, also prompted researchers to switch the study to a more efficient process of using cells from third - party donors instead of using a patient's own cells.

Now AVI BioPharma has set its sights on a contract for clinical trials of its antisense drug for H1N1.

Phase I / II clinical trial results reported at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2015 show promising results for investigational drug brigatinib against ALK + non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with 58 of 78 ALK + patients responding to treatment, including 50 of 70 patients who had progressed after previous treatment with crizotinib, the first licensed ALK inhibitor.

Other groups representing physicians have made a pitch for clinical science, and the NIH has responded with small - scale assistance programs.

If things go well, I think we will be able to introduce this vaccine for clinical use in the future.»

Supported by pilot program funding from the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), van Horne, with his team, is exploring an additional treatment option, and possibly a way to alter the course of the disease.

Other researchers include Randy Strong, Department of Pharmacology and Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, UTHSC, San Antonio, TX; Clifford Rosen, Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, ME; and Michael Nelson, Heart Institute, Cedars - Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.