Sentences with phrase «greater effects of treatment»

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An at - home exfoliating treatment is a great way to ensure your skin is ready to soak up the hydrating effects of coconut oil.

The combined pressures of climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for industrial agriculture, and workers organizing to demand fair pay and conditions combined with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and workers, are having an effect.

I have found great comfort and advice in this area from a number of books (Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves, Unconditional Parenting, I Love You Rituals, and Gordon Neufeld's latest book) All of these books are sending the same message: harsh treatment of our little ones leave long - lasting and damaging effects on them.

Lay support and more contact in the form of scheduled visits (4 to 8 visits) were also associated with greater treatment effects.

For cessation of exclusive breastfeeding at up to six months the treatment effect appears to be greater when the intervention was delivered by non-professionals (lay support) compared with professionals or mixed support (test for subgroup differences: Chi ² = 7.74, df = 2 (P = 0.02), I ² = 73.1 %; Analysis 2.2).

Abiraterone, approved in 2011 for the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer, has a «food effect» that is greater than any other marketed drug.

We believe that this measure holds great promise to improve understanding of the effects of delirium on clinical care, prognosis, pathophysiology, and response to treatment.

It is possible that medical advances over the past few decades in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol levels have had a greater impact on people who are overweight — which increases the risk for these conditions — whereas the effect was much smaller in those of normal weight.

To explain why antidepressants in such trials nevertheless often cause greater symptom relief than placebo, it has been suggested that SSRI - induced side effects will make the patient understand that he or she has not been given placebo, hence enhancing his or her belief of having been given an effective treatment.

«Since several BACE1 inhibitors are currently being evaluated in clinical phase 3 trials for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the identification of potential side effects will be of great importance to ensure a positive clinical outcome,» said Dr. Jochen Herms, a Professor of translational brain research at Ludwig - Maximilians - University Munich.

By combining this inhibition of FAK with radiotherapy, the group was able to achieve a greater treatment effect than with either therapy alone.

Although doctors have long incorporated personal information like family history into treatment plans, personalized medicine holds the promise of revolutionizing medical care by using knowledge of molecular biology and genetics that will allow more precise diagnoses, better diagnostic tests, greater predictability of disease course, more successful therapies by targeting the right treatments to the right patients, and improved patient safety by selecting drugs and their proper dosage to reduce adverse side effects.

«There's a great need in cancer patients to be able to quickly and easily assess if a particular treatment is working in order to switch to another if it's not, thus avoiding wasted time, potential side effects and cost,» says Kala Visvanathan, M.D., M.H.S., professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Clinical Cancer Genetics Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

This result implies that only large treatment effects can be detected by efficacy studies in hAPP mice, since the number of mice per group will likely not be greater than 50, for practical and ethical reasons.

«This research shows great promise to reduce adverse effects for people undergoing breast cancer treatment,» said Timothy M. Block, PhD, president of the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute, which manages PCARMRC.

If we confined the analysis to the biologically compliant subjects (n = 136), the effect of treatment was slightly greater with a reduction in atrophy rate of 31.1 % in the active treatment group (rate of atrophy: 0.73 % [0.57 — 0.88]-RRB- compared to the placebo group (1.06 % [0.90 — 1.22], P = 0.004 after multi-adjusted analysis).

At Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center, the 2 - PREVENT (Secondary PREvention through SurVEillance and iNTervention) aims to address one of the greatest challenges in breast cancer treatment: The high rate of relapse and late treatment effects among breast cancer survivors.

This constitutes a major cause of long - term sick leave and forced early retirement, placing a great financial burden on both individuals and healthcare systems.Despite extensive research programmes by biopharmaceutical companies and academia, there remains a need for treatments that are more effective and with fewer side - effects.

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

While the drug does carry a risk of side effects, such as unwanted clotting, Dr. Rabin says it's «a great option for women who can't or don't want to take hormonal treatments.

He's gotten great results, elucidating the idea that fasting causes human cells and tissues to enter «survival mode» which allowed them to survive the withering effects of cancer treatment.

For this reason, children who drink skim milk have diarrhea at rates three to five times greater than children who drink whole milk.12 Cholesterol in butterfat promotes health of the intestinal wall and protects against cancer of the colon.13 Short and medium chain fatty acids protect against pathogens and have strong anti-fungal effects.14 Butter thus has an important role to play in the treatment of candida overgrowth.

The effects of whey protein on human health are of great interest and are currently being investigated as a way of reducing disease risk, as well as a possible supplementary treatment for several diseases.

She presents the theory of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) an evidence based treatment for PTSD, and discusses how yoga practices can enhance the effects of this treatment, reduce symptoms, and bring about greater mental health.

And we'll be able to do so with fewer treatment sessions, fewer side effects, and with a greater impact on the pet's quality of life.»

Without this information, determining the best treatment course of action can be more difficult ---- which can mean otherwise avoidable tests or treatments (and therefore costs), as well as a greater chance of severe effects, or even death, for your pet.

The impacts of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Great Lakes are being assessed using a range of economic metrics capturing the loss of services provided by the lakes (e.g. increased drinking water treatment costs, property value losses, beach closures), as well as the direct effects of toxic microcystin on public health (Bingham et al 2015, IJC 2013)-- such events are expected to increase in frequency and severity in a changing climate (Michalak et al 2013).

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In the Infant Health and Development program, mothers in the intervention group engaged in higher - quality interactions with their infants, though the effects were small.82 In New Zealand, Early Start documented higher positive parenting attitudes, a greater prevalence of nonpunitive attitudes, and more favorable overall parenting scores for families in the treatment group.83 In Queensland, mothers in the intervention group were rated as significantly higher in emotional and verbal responsivity.84

Meanwhile, studies have shown that most women come to terms with their parenthood goals.16 — 18 This shows that reorientation and coping after unsuccessful IVF treatment is important4, 19 — 21 and that couples may be in need of counselling after unsuccessful IVF treatment to resolve the grieving process.22 Twenty years after infertility treatment, the relationship quality in the couples who have previously undergone infertility treatment is good, 23 although a qualitative study on 14 women showed that they still suffered negative effects of the infertility which were especially great when the women were going through the grandparent phase.24 Most studies have shown that childlessness does not influence psychological well - being in elderly individuals.25 — 28 Thus, there are only a few studies on the mental health of women who have been treated with IVF from a long - term perspective.

Thus, group treatment should be enacted with great care and consideration of group goals and possible negative adverse effects.

For randomization sites for a dichotomous outcome and control - group prevalences ranging from 0.2 to 0.8, we found greater than 90 % power to detect a treatment effect odds ratio (OR) of 1.5.

Interpersonal family stress contributes to relationship breakdown and lack of perceived social support, and high expressed emotion may contribute to relapse.21 Family - focused treatment has been shown to reduce recurrence when used as an adjunct to medication for bipolar disorder.38 It is initiated once stabilisation of mood has been effected after an acute episode, and includes the patient and at least one significant family member (eg, parent or spouse).39 The underlying focus of family - focused treatment is to provide education regarding the recent illness episode; this includes exploring possible causes and the patient's personal triggers, discussing the importance of medication, differentiating between the person and the illness, and enhancing positive family relationships.40 Improved positive communication appears to be a key mechanism in this approach.38, 41 Recent studies suggest greater benefits in reducing depressive rather than manic relapses.23, 38,42

A recent meta - analysis of parent training (Lundahl et al., 2006) across all ages of children from preschool to middle school found significant moderator effects for severity level, with greater improvement for more severe children and for children whose parents received individual rather than group treatment.

These include: a) development of treatment selection guidelines; b) continued emphasis on identification and elaboration of the processes of family engagement and change in PMT; 48 c) examination of strategies for enhancing outcome and generalization of effects, especially with respect to underserved groups; d) the role of PMT as a preventive intervention; and e) greater attention to the conceptual, empirical, and pragmatic issues that are involved in large - scale dissemination.49 Incorporating innovative technologies in the design, delivery, and enhancement of PMT (e.g., via the internet and smartphone apps) is particularly promising.50

The finding most relevant was significant treatment - by - time effect for offense rates, with most of this effect accounted for by a greater reduction in serious crimes for the experimental group during the treatment year, and a similar reduction of the community control group occurring in the first of three followup years.

Our basis for this argument can be found in studies in both childhood and adulthood which have found that parents» negative differential treatment has even greater effects on the well - being of offspring than does positive differential treatment (McHale et al., 2000; Pillemer et al., 2010).

There seems to be great individual variability in the experience of infertility and its effects on life among both women and men (Benyamini et al., 2005; Verhaak et al., 2005), and the effect of infertility on marital relations is modified by factors such as personal coping with infertility, communication between partners and partners» involvement in infertility treatments (Pasch et al., 2002).