Sentences with phrase «in the disease course»

«For many years, the rheumatology and dermatology communities have been trying to understand which patients with psoriasis go on to develop psoriatic arthritis and how we might detect it earlier in the disease course,» explained senior investigator Cheryl Barnabe, MD, MSc, of the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health and the O'Brien Institute for Public Health, Cumming School of Medicine, at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

The authors suggest that while it is not certain that this particular strategy or drug could be effective, it is possible that either not enough drug was administered or that the drug needs to be administered earlier in the disease course.

Our results demonstrating Gleevec's high efficacy in CML tell us that in applying the drug to other cancers, we need to diagnose and treat patients earlier in the disease course.

Finally, we know that treatment early in the disease course is associated with improved efficacy of drugs and better outcomes, such as reduced risk for surgery.

While of obvious importance to patients, these findings are also tremendously important to hospitals and policymakers who are concerned with initiating palliative care earlier in the disease course.

«The more robust response rates of first - line therapy, compared with second or later lines, suggest that immunotherapy administered earlier in the disease course is more beneficial,» says Dr. Adams.

The really important questions are whether this therapy can be given safely; early in the disease course; and as second - line treatment, replacing an autologous stem cell transplant.

Additionally, our wellness examinations serve to detect potential problems early in their disease course.

Not exact matches

But they've been hampered by somewhat skeptical physicians who still aren't sure that the drugs are worth their price (their topline costs are around $ 14,000 per treatment course); part of the problem is that it's unclear whether or not those dramatic cholesterol reductions actually translate into broader health outcomes like a reduced risk of stroke or heart attack in heart disease patients.

Now comes word of another moonshot project from the company's Google X division: an ingestible disease - detecting pill containing thousands of microscopic magnetic particles that course through a person's bloodstream in search of malignant cells, according to the Associated Press.

When Jedd Wolchok, a cancer doctor and immunologist leading a Yervoy trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering, examined a melanoma patient's scan 12 weeks after he'd received his course of treatment, the results were utterly disappointing — just like those of any other metastatic patient in the final throes of the disease: The tumors had gotten bigger, and there were more of them.

Whilst we can't know the future of course, for financial planning purposes the probability is that life expectancy on average will increase in the future as medicine advances to cure or limit the big killers (cancer, cardiovascular disease etc).

Alabama and Mississippi: the most unhealthy region (e.g., the most obese, the most with cardiovascular diseases and etc.), the highest illiteracy rate, the highest teenage pregnancy rates, the most cities ranking in the top 25 most crimes, the most likely to regect scientific facts, the least taxed, the least to be unionized thus the highest proportion of the population in poverty... and of course, the most religious....

Of course, after years of sex education in schools we have not managed to stem the high rates of teenage pregnancy or been able to prevent ever increasing rates of sexually transmitted disease.

Of course, to put the human race down in its beginning — like a diseased dog — would have been far from glorious.

Instructions or presentations of the family, clan, or city are explained and justified by tales — «charter myths» in Malinowski's term — or knowledge about religious ritual, authoritative and absolutely serious ritual, and about the gods involved, is expressed and passed on in the form of such tales; then there are the hopes and fears connected with the course of nature, the seasons, and the activities of food supply; there is the desperate experience of disease.

Of course, unchecked free radicals and a lack of antioxidants in your diet leads to sickness and disease.

And of course, OSTEOPOROSIS IS A MAJOR DISEASE IN THE U.S. — COULD IT BE ANY MORE CLEAR THAT WE ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG... THAT MAYBE MILK DOES NOT PREVENT OSTEOPOROSIS?

When I was doing research for my new course (The Endo Toolkit), I found some research that revealed that cortisol levels are significantly higher in women with advanced endometriosis as compared to women without the disease.

Of course, as someone with heart disease I can't eat the kind of brownies I used to — the kind with a stick of butter in every batch.

The main task of the ECS is to improve the quality of life of coeliac patients with following activities: protecting the interests of coeliac patients, informing the public about coeliac disease and glutenfree food and it's regulations, cooperation with medical staff, cooperation with food manufacturers and HoReCa, Crossed - Grain Symbol trademark licensing in Estonia, finding new opportunities for glutenfree products, dissemination of coeliac information, organising training courses, cooperation with other social organisations.

Of course, whether I am having monogamous sex or casual encounters, I always protect myself from diseases as well as unwanted pregnancies and I never put my son or my own well - being in jeopardy.

I've read (in Scientific American I believe) recent research suggesting that H Pylori helps regulate the human immune system (for its own gain, of course, but ours too by suppressing auto - immune diseases).

The question that is raised in the documentary (and of course in the actual literature) is whether or not a general disregard for the impact of modern medical practices on the microbiome is responsible to some degree for the increase in noncommunicable disease.

Rehberg says all Concussion Wise ™ courses are based on the latest recommendations and guidelines, including those developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, National Athletic Trainers» Association, American Academy of Neurology, and the recommendations from the 4th International Conference on Concussion in Sport (Zurich 2012).

In addition, studies are needed on the effects of lactation on the disease course of women who develop each of the conditions we considered.

We compared outcomes after medical versus surgical management of biliary tract disease in pregnant patients.We reviewed the clinical course of patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis during pregnancy from 1992 to 2002 at two university hospitals.Seventy - six women with 78 pregnancies were admitted with biliary tract disease.

Many things can change in the course of 24 hours: a person can go from single to married, discover the cure to a disease, or travel from one continent to another.

Bipolar Disorder is one of the biggest mental health concerns in the United States, but instead of addressing the true, spiritual nature of the disease, the normal course of treatment involves harmful pharmaceuticals.

«Nigerians must appreciate the need to urgently tackle poverty, educational backwardness, outbreak of diseases, infant and maternal mortality, infrastructural deficit, and of course the psychological impact of the loss of several loved ones due to the insurgency in the region.»

Speaking on the 31st Convocation lecture of the institution titled» Stepping Out Into The World; Potential Well - Being, Change in Lifestyle And Cancer Education», the don lamented the drain the disease cost on the nation's resources through just about five per cent of the cancer patients (10,000) that had resources to go abroad where they pay between $ 10,000 - $ 15,000 per patient for a three to five weeks course of Radiotherapy.

Early detection of breast cancer with screening mammography means that treatment can be started earlier in the course of the disease, possibly before it has spread.

But physicians in the empirical tradition, to which Aristotle was exposed by his physician father, learned how to predict the course of disease from observation.

This is the measure of how infective a disease is, or how many people one infected person will pass it on to in the course of their illness.

Data presented by Doctors Without Borders also suggests that when it comes to surviving Ebola it does not seem to matter what day in the course of the disease an Ebola patient shows up at the clinic in west Africa.

Alzheimer's is a disease for which there are still no treatments that fundamentally alter the course of the disease, as trial after trial of drug candidates have ended in failure.

The new findings suggest a simple blood test can accurately predict levels of a protein called amyloid beta in the brain that begins appearing early in the course of the disease before symptoms appear.

What little encouraging Alzheimer's treatment data does exist — including that around a promising drug called aducanumab — suggests medications that have gone through clinical trials seem to work better earlier in the dementia disease course, before patients develop full - blown Alzheimer's.

The finding could change the course of research into the role of oxidation in age - related diseases.

Once the most feared disease on the planet, smallpox killed countless people in the course of human history.

The authors — Martin Llewelyn, a professor of infectious diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and nine British colleagues — point to recent studies that have shown shorter courses of certain drug classes such as quinolones are as effective as the longer courses that have been recommended in the past.

People who ate a diet high in nuts and legumes, low - fat dairy, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables and low in red and processed meat, sugar - sweetened beverages and sodium were at a significantly lower risk of developing chronic kidney disease over the course of more than two decades, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.

The answer, of course, has a lot to do with changing perceptions of anxiety, and in particular our tendency to treat as a disease what used to be viewed as an innate tendency — or even a moral failing.

«The pause is welcome in the sense that hopefully it will relieve some of the immediate urgency in terms of trying to chart a course forward,» agrees Michael Osterholm, who heads the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy in Minneapolis, and is a member of the NSABB.

Beyond this frontier, algorithms can provide a more precise prognosis for the course of a disease — potentially reshaping treatment of progressive ailments or addressing the uncertainties in end - of - life care.

According to Dr. Dotson, the increased usage of corticosteroids and biologic medications among black children in the study could suggest a more severe disease course that may be attributable to worse intrinsic disease in black children.

In the future, doctors could thus use Gab2 as a biomarker and infer the course of the disease by measuring Gab2 levels.

And of course, for many, many years there was a period — many listeners may remember — there was a, now it seems an sort of an astonishingly naïve period, I believe in the 1970 for a while, when antibiotics were so effective and the level of this sort of transmissible disease was falling down so low that some people were really thinking that we had, kind of, beaten these kinds of infectious diseases.

Over the course of the year - long trial, the patch appeared to stabilise the disease in all four treated eyes, while the untreated eyes continued to deteriorate.

This pattern of cross-infection from animals to humans is par for the course in emerging infectious disease.