Sentences with phrase «lead to new treatment approaches»

The discovery of an inhibitor of the Insulin Degrading Enzyme (IDE), a protein responsible for the susceptibility of diabetes because it destroys insulin in the body, may lead to new treatment approaches for diabetes.

Research primarily funded by the Rett Syndrome Research Trust (RSRT) and the National Institutes of Neurological Disease and Stroke (NINDS), and published in the journal Nature reveals important information that could lead to new treatment approaches.

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It's not every day that a knock in the head leads to an entirely new approach to treating disease, but that's what sparked SuperBetter, Jane McGonigal's free online game, which introduced a radical new approach to the prevention and treatment of depression, anxiety and other neurological conditions.

With further study, the patterns of prodromal symptoms and risk factors may lead to new approaches to identifying young persons who are likely to develop BD, and might benefit from early treatment.

In an effort to reduce patient misdiagnoses and associated poor patient outcomes from lack of prompt treatment, a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality researcher is helping to lead the way in providing hospitals a new approach to quantify and monitor diagnostic errors in their quality improvement efforts.

In a new study, University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified genetic clues that explain how breast cancer spreads, or metastasizes — findings that may lead to better treatments or approaches to prevent its spread at the onset.

A new study led by University of Kentucky researchers suggests a new approach to develop highly - potent drugs which could overcome current shortcomings of low drug efficacy and multi-drug resistance in the treatment of cancer as well as viral and bacterial infections.

Dr. Cooper joined MDACC in 2006 as section chief of cell therapy at the Children's Cancer Hospital, where he cared for children undergoing bone marrow transplantation and led scientific efforts to develop new treatment approaches that pair genetic engineering with immunotherapies.

«Our findings suggest that e-learning can provide an efficient and scalable approach to training large numbers of clinicians in new evidence - based treatments,» said Dr. Bradley D. Stein, the study's lead author, a practicing psychiatrist and a senior scientist at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

«Understanding the principles and mechanisms involved in neuronal homeostasis may lead to new approaches in the treatment of these and other brain disorders like Alzheimer's disease.»

Professor David Wraith, who led the research, said: «Insight into the molecular basis of antigen - specific immunotherapy opens up exciting new opportunities to enhance the selectivity of the approach while providing valuable markers with which to measure effective treatment.

While it is difficult to say at this point what types of cancer might be amenable to such an approach, this new concept could lead to an improvement in human cancer treatment in the long term, the researchers say.

Lead researcher, Cancer Research UK scientist Professor Henning Walczak from the UCL Cancer Institute, said: «Igniting the fuse that causes lung cancer cells to self - destruct could pave the way to a completely new treatment approach — and leave healthy cells unharmed.

A thorough understanding of the underlying chemistry and electrical activity of the brain will lead to a new suite of approaches for precise diagnosis and effective treatments that allow clinicians to restore disrupted or damaged neuronal circuits.

Stronger - SAFE is a # 3.9 m Wellcome Trust funded project that will increase our understanding of how trachoma is transmitted, and hopefully lead to the development and testing of new, more effective interventions and treatment approaches.

Understanding how weakening of the heart affects metabolism and vice versa could lead to new approaches to treatment.»

Understanding the mechanisms leading to disease will help in developing new approaches to its treatment and prevention.

His group has developed a new approach to the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, and this approach has led to the discovery of subtypes of Alzheimer's disease, followed by the first description of reversal of symptoms in patients with mild cognitive impairment and early Alzheimer's disease, with the ReCODE (Reversal of Cognitive Decline) protocol.