Sentences with phrase «lack effective treatment»

Whatever the cause, seizures affect 50 million people worldwide, and an alarming 15 million of these individuals lack effective treatment for their condition.

There is an all - too - common prejudice that psychiatrists and neurologists lack effective treatments for the disorders they're charged with treating.

The chronic disorder can cause severe pain often associated with chewing or biting down, and lacks effective treatments.

Grape crown gall is a chronic disease that lacks effective treatment and is difficult to eradicate.

Not exact matches

Treatment of large and chronic wounds are a high cost burden to the health care system since effective tools to accelerate healing are lacking.

There is currently a lack of effective pharmacological treatments for anorexia.

Aortic aneurysm — the dilation of the aorta — is a serious condition that lacks effective drug treatment.

«Regardless if cognitive impairments precede substance use or vice versa, poorer cognitive functioning negatively impacts daily life and may cause lack of insight into one's substance use as a source of problems, impeding treatment utilization or decreasing the likelihood of effective treatment,» said senior author Deborah Hasin, PhD, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health professor of Epidemiology and in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center.

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.

«One of the biggest problems is the lack of effective treatments,» Rohde said.

Although effective treatments are available for the wet form of AMD, they are currently lacking for the more prevalent dry form.

Despite that accomplishment, scientists knew they still lacked a clear understanding of the genetic basis of disease, and how to translate that understanding into more effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

However, it is well known that these treatments are not effective for all patients and that overall outcomes have not improved palpably in recent decades, potentially due to the lack of new interventions or better matching of patients to available treatments.

Moderna recognizes the impact of rare diseases on patients and their families, particularly with a lack of effective treatment options.

The reason for the lack of translation may be that many of these compounds are only effective when administered before pathology is present; yet, in humans, pathology is usually quite advanced at diagnosis and treatment.

Because of the poor prognosis and lack of effective treatment options, for pancreatic cancer a clinical trial is nearly always preferred over existing treatment options for everything except localized tumors that can be removed surgically.

The lack of effective strategies for ovarian cancer [1] has led to the development of novel treatment modalities.

They note that a related compound with better pharmacological profiles than CLP257 was as effective in reducing pain in rats as an existing pain treatment called pregabalin, but it lacked the undesirable motor side effects that are often seen with that drug.

«The main reason for this is a lack of effective treatments.»

Because of this lack in training, many women walk away from their medical consultations being poorly evaluated and undertreated even though effective treatment methods are available.

For example, connect with community partners if the barrier is clothing, transportation, housing, access to health or mental health treatment; provide training to teachers and staff to address instructional barriers; review budgets to remedy shortages of staff and / or lack of materials and supplies needed to deliver effective classroom instruction or school - wide accommodations; and engage culturally - competent staff to break down communication barriers between schools and families.

Although definitive tests and effective treatments are still lacking, veterinarians now have a better understanding of how to diagnose and manage FIP in multi-cat environments.

Not overnight but over several generations as they are progressively less - able to maintain and invent new ways of being killed by nature; by pestilence, cold, malnutrition, drowning or as a result of injury and a lack of effective medical treatment.

AGTC's lead product candidates focus on rare diseases of the eye, caused by mutations in single genes, that significantly affect visual function and currently lack effective medical treatments.

The post also explains the usefulness of the MAPS trials due to what the anonymous donor sees as a lack of effective FDA - approved treatments for those suffering from PTSD.

Participate in brainstorming session to generate ideas for more effective techniques in tackling specific health conditions; participate in the testing and experimentation of new strategies; observe patients closely and note the impact of said treatment to determine its efficiency or lack of it

Obesity researchers who included measures of binge eating in studies on obesity treatment concluded that BWL was effective and that there was no need for specialty therapies.12, 13 Limitations of these studies included small sample sizes, lack of longer - term follow - up, and self - report measures of binge eating rather than the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) semi-structured interview.14 Potential advantages of BWL are that it results in clinically significant short - term weight loss and can be implemented by a wider range of health professionals than a specialty psychological therapy.

This can be explained by a number of factors, such as less effective treatment and poor clinical decisions, but a principal cause is the lack of regular access to primary health care.

However, for both child abuse and parent stress, the average effect sizes were not different from zero, suggesting a lack of evidence for effects in these areas.108 Earlier meta - analytic reviews have also noted the lack of sizable effects in preventing child maltreatment — again citing the different intensity of surveillance of families in the treatment versus control groups as an explanation (though the authors did report that home visiting was associated with an approximately 25 percent reduction in the rate of childhood injuries).109 Another review focusing on the quality of the home environment also found evidence for a significant overall effect of home - visiting programs.110 More recently, Harriet MacMillan and colleagues published a review of interventions to prevent child maltreatment, and identified the Nurse - Family Partnership and Early Start programs as the most effective with regard to preventing maltreatment and childhood injuries.

Exposure therapy is widely appreciated as one of the most effective therapeutic treatments for anxiety spectrum disorders; however, it is often underutilized due to problems that present themselves during treatment, such as client unwillingness or hesitancy, or a lack of understanding on the professional's part regarding targeted applications.

The lack of studies of effective treatments in non-Western countries needs to be addressed as research informs us that children and adolescents living in war - torn countries are at great risk for mental health problems.4, 5 This study is to be commended for its demonstration of methods for translating a westernised definition of a mental illness into a culturally relevant syndrome that could be identified and treated effectively.

A contributing factor to this difficulty is the notable lack of research on extradyadic involvement (EDI) among diverse couples to develop an effective treatment approach.