Sentences with phrase «human patients who»

Dr. Cornelius Moerman was a country medical doctor in Holland who fine - tuned his diet over many years by treating both pigeons and then human patients who voluntarily went through his treatment plans.

Mice that underwent this procedure developed eye problems like those seen in human patients who have Graves» disease, while the control group of mice did not develop these complications.

«I don't think there are any human patients who walk backwards,» says Esther Becker of the University of Oxford, who led the team that investigated the mice (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.0810599106).

Scientists report in the May 9 Science Translational Medicine that seven of 12 diabetic mice treated with this combination were cured even after having lost the ability to make insulin for several weeks, the equivalent of a human patient who has needed insulin injections for a couple of years.

Not exact matches

In 2000, Medarex began its first phase of human testing on its new «CTLA -4-blockade» — in patients who had either prostate cancer or metastatic melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer.

SkinTE a new product developed by Salt Lake City - based startup which makes the human skin for the patients who are victim of burns within 24 to 48 hrs, this technology already been approved by the many medical institutions.

Some patients may even prefer to speak to bots like Woebot — «your charming robot friend who is always ready to listen» — because it's less complicated than speaking to another human being.

Riding the publicity wave of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who suffered much and became the human face of the death - with - dignity movement, they have redefined compassion as respect for a patient's autonomous determination of the time, location, and method of death.

A general summary was provided by ethics experts who testified before then - Congressman Albert Gore's Committee on Science and Technology in 1982: (1) Though risks in experimentation are inevitable, a strong bias toward the sacredness of human life requires the highest regard for the patient or subject.

This goes to the heart of purpose of human creation, Allah says that humans will be tested through losing their wealth and loved ones and personal sufferings in the same way when they are tested by having wealth and children's so we can see who was the most patient and righteous at the end so let's not blame God for all evils a human being is able to commit.

Neonatologists who care for the tiniest and most fragile patients use donor human milk because it provides immunologic and growth factors as well as optimal nutrition.

Pregnancy derived from Human Zygote Pronuclear transfer in a patient who had arrested embryos after IVF

The time I spend with my patients, the ways I get to know them, the blood, sweat, tears, and not to mention mountains of debt that I've accrued over the years just to do this calling, this horrible calling that overworks me, underpays me, and leaves me with more stress and a shorter lifespan is all turned into some nebulous evil doctor woo woo that completely disregards me (and not to mention my patients who you seem to view as bleating sheep) as a professional and as a human being.

«Our results suggest that engineered human intestine could provide a viable treatment to lengthen the gut for patients with gastrointestinal disorders, or patients who lose parts of their intestines due to cancer,» said Bitar.

When the researchers gave concentrated broccoli sprout extracts to 97 human type 2 diabetes patients in a 12 - week randomized placebo - controlled trial, obese participants who entered the study with dysregulated disease demonstrated significantly decreased fasting blood glucose levels compared to controls.

«I'm working with Professor Richard Oreffo and Dr Rahul Tare from the University's Centre for Human Development, Stem Cells and Regeneration who are trying to create and grow cartilage in the lab using a patients» own (autologous) stem cells to then be implanted back into the patient if they have a cartilage defect,» she explains.

«If this technology can be scaled to human - size grafts, patients suffering from renal failure, who are currently waiting for donor kidneys, could theoretically receive an organ grown on demand,» says Harald Ott, head of the team that developed the rat kidneys at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

GTC recognized the need to demonstrate on its own the potential for the technology and, in the late 1990s, began a clinical trial of human antithrombin for patients undergoing bypass surgery who develop resistance to the anticoagulant drug heparin.

«With more than 100 genes already known to cause deafness in humans, there are many patients who may eventually benefit from this technology.»

«If this approach works in humans, it will really change the conversation that providers have with patients,» Scadden said, especially for those «who have these underlying genetic disorders and for who the new gene - editing and gene therapy techniques are being developed.»

Woo Suk Hwang, the veterinarian who made headlines when he cloned human stem cells last year, announced in May that he and his colleagues had made stem cells tailored for different patients.

Johnny Ray, who died on this date six years ago, was Kennedy's patient, his research subject, and the world's first human cyborg, fitted with brain implants that allowed him to communicate directly with a computer.

In 2017, they'll try the device on human participants — paralyzed patients who will use stentrodes to control mechanical exoskeletons.

They have tested the system — which could also help patients who suffer from severe epileptic seizures — in rats and are now planning to begin human trials.

Attacked by critics who insisted it wasn't ethical to use the drug on young patients who weren't yet psychotic, McGlashan says he supplied «about 200 pounds» of supporting documentation to the federal Office for Human Research Protections before he got a green light to continue.

In the new study, to test whether the same observation was true in humans, Dr. Rostami and colleagues tested blood samples of patients with MS who had not yet received therapy, and those currently being treated with INF - β, a commonly used therapy.

«However, given that IGF - 1 is approved for human use in people who are deficient in this hormone, a clinical trial of IGF - 1 in lithium - resistant bipolar disorder patients is warranted.»

A PATIENT who can not read fear on other people's faces has given researchers a valuable clue to how the human brain processes emotions.

The researchers next will turn to analyzing the presence of myoferlin in samples from numerous human tumor types available in an Ohio State tissue bank, which will allow them to compare protein levels in tumors to clinical outcomes for the patients who provided the samples.

«I knew of an experimental technique that had not yet been done in humans, and I had a patient with no other options who was failing rapidly,» says William O'Neill, M.D., medical director of the Center for Structural Heart Disease at Henry Ford Hospital.

The authors observed an inflammatory response in two patients who had mutated versions of SKIV2L, suggesting that SKIV2L keeps inflammation in check in human cells, too.

The medical community sees you as the social - phobic classmate who prefers lab animals to human patients.

«We are in an era where the primary issues are not federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research,» wrote CAMR President Amy Comstock Rick, who is also CEO of the Parkinson's Action Network, in an e-mail to the more than 100 patient advocacy, scientific, and other groups that belong to CAMR.

«The primary mission of the USC Neurorestoration Center is to take advantage of resources from our clinical programs to create unique opportunities to translate scientific discoveries, such as those of the Andersen Lab at Caltech, to human patients, ultimately turning transformative discoveries into effective therapies,» says center director Charles Y. Liu, professor of neurological surgery, neurology, and biomedical engineering at USC, who led the surgical implant procedure and the USC / Rancho Los Amigos team in the collaboration.

Because these receptors are mainly found deep inside the human lung, patients developed very severe illness that frequently left them too sick to spread SARS to many others; the people most at risk were health care workers who take care of patients.

More animal studies would be needed to move this drug toward human clinical trials, but «what we hope is that we could use this drug to intervene in patients who have had an episode of prolonged seizures and give it to them briefly following that episode to protect them from becoming epileptic,» said James McNamara, M.D., a professor in the departments of neurobiology and neurology at Duke University.

In the new work, the researchers added serum from Finnish narcolepsy patients who had received Pandemrix to cells that were engineered to display human hypo cretin receptor 2 on their surface.

Turning to humans, the team came across one patient who had the classic symptoms, yet, like 10 % of all DiGeorge patients, had no apparent genomic deletion.

«Liver cancer is on the rise worldwide, and in human studies we've now seen that patients can progress from fatty liver disease to liver cancer without any middle steps such as cirrhosis,» says David Moore, a professor of molecular and cellular biology, who led the study with Associate Professor Loning Fu, both at Baylor.

«If the mouse models are indicative of human disease, the combination therapy can increase the proportion of patients who respond to therapy without additional adverse side effects and can improve the quality of life for cancer patients.»

In the current study, the researchers report the success of the BASILICA procedure in seven gravely ill patients who qualified for compassionate use of the technique — then untested in humans — because no other care options were available.

«We are now in a position to be able to generate patient - and disease - specific stem cells, without using human eggs or embryos,» says Shinya Yamanaka of the University of Kyoto, who led the Japanese team.

«It is exciting that they have generated human cells from the patient material,» says stem cell researcher Jeffrey Rothstein of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who also studies ALS.

In the first published results from a clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells, two legally blind patients who received an injection of hESC - derived cells in one eye have experienced no harmful side effects and appear to have slightly better vision.

The mice show many of the symptoms that human patients do, and so they were an especially good candidate to test iPS cells» abilities, says stem cell researcher Rudolf Jaenisch of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in Cambridge, who collaborated with Townes on the project.

Researchers also discovered that a little bit of fetal hemoglobin, just over 1 % of a person's total hemoglobin, generally courses through human veins our entire lives and that sickle cell patients who have more than usual, over 15 %, have milder symptoms.

The journey begins with an e-mail to Trasande, who tells me that as a clinician he is not aware of human genes that are impacted by mercury or of tests to determine a patient's genetic arsenal for coping with heavy metals.

«Smart» contact lenses that monitor the health of patients» eyes could become a reality, according to scientists who have devised flexible, electronic circuits 50 times thinner than a human hair.

«It will be extremely important to get this kind of information for humans,» says Blasco, who has co-founded Life Length, a company that already offers patients a test to determine the length of their telomeres.

This has implications for humans who are exposed to similarly extreme conditions, such as patients who undergo emergency operations.