Sentences with phrase «made from a patient»

The personalized vaccine is made from patients» own immune cells, which are exposed in the laboratory to the contents of the patients» tumor cells, and then injected into the patients to initiate a wider immune response.

Reprogramming holds great potential for new medical applications, because reprogrammed pluripotent stem cells (or induced pluripotent stem cells) can be made from a patient's own cells and embryos will not be needed.

Researchers have for the first time developed a technique that coats anticancer drugs in membranes made from a patient's own platelets, allowing the drugs to last longer in the body and attack both primary cancer tumors and the circulating tumor cells that can cause a cancer to metastasize.

Patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) treated with an experimental vaccine made from the patient's own resected tumor tissue showed an improved survival compared with historical patients who received the standard of care alone, according to an analysis of a phase 2 trial of this vaccine that was recently published in the journal Neuro - Oncology and accompanied by an editorial highlighting the importance of the trial.

iPSC are made from patient skin cells rather than from embryos and can become any type of cells, including brain cells, in the laboratory.

The findings, published online today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine, indicate they also could become a new source of corneal transplant tissue made from the patient's own cells.

But in their experiments with both fly and human brain cells made from patients with the ALS - associated C9orf72 mutation, Rothstein and Lloyd discovered RanGAP is clumped up outside the nucleus.

Takahashi's team transplanted retina cells made from the patient's skin cells into the patient's eye with the goal of treating macular degeneration.

I am excited by the ability of regenerative medicine to provide replacement tissue made from a patient's own cells and what it can mean to the patient's recovery and long - term health.

So, vast amounts of stem cells could be made from a patient's own differentiated cells, like skin cells.

Injections of Growth Factors, when used for many other types of medical treatments, are made from a patient's own blood and blood cells and is called PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) or PDGF (Platelet Derived Growth Factors) Therapy.

Not exact matches

Cancer patients, especially those on chemotherapy, can really benefit from a personal chef who knows how to make food that's especially appealing when chemotherapy drugs make food unappealing but when it is important to maintain nutrition for strength and the best health possible.

In addition, it could make your investors more patient by extending their investment horizon to their retirement years, which is a huge benefit from your perspective.

Because it makes up more than 13 % of all new cancers and nearly 27 % of all cancer deaths in the U.S. Just 17.7 % of diagnosed patients are still alive five years out from their diagnosis.

To make their own mini-retirements possible, Orion and Justice transitioned their professional work from patients to more administrative work.

The research brought him to a town with a mayor and a basketball player who took its residents off the power grid, the founder of an online network which allows medical patients to swap treatment stories and share knowledge and the maker of an engine that runs on liquid air made from a lawn mower and a can of antifreeze.

This places a greater amount of control with PBMs and payers, while removing some of the decision making from physicians and patients.

Patient interaction varies from the simply following a point around a circle on the screen to more complex scenarios that require the patient to make a cognitive decision — should the image popping onto the screen be saved (the world) or destroyed (an Patient interaction varies from the simply following a point around a circle on the screen to more complex scenarios that require the patient to make a cognitive decision — should the image popping onto the screen be saved (the world) or destroyed (an patient to make a cognitive decision — should the image popping onto the screen be saved (the world) or destroyed (an alien).

Patients that have a defective gene called RPE65 — which is responsible for producing a protein that makes light receptors in the eye — suffer from leber congenital amaurosis and retinitis pigmentosa, yet now have hope.

For now, the partnership Wojcicki's company has made with Genetech is fairly contained in scope: The two companies will work together to generate sequencing data for the roughly 3,000 spit samples 23andMe has collected from Parkinson's patients in an attempt to identify new treatments for the disease.

«Our hope is, can we collect this information and give it back to patients so that they could really learn from these assumptions we're making?

It's also a brigade of courageous, enterprising patients themselves who are making the most of that tech — from innovative smartphone apps to social media to online genomic databases to telemedicine.

I made the decision after speaking with representatives from patient groups in 2017, who clarified what the reports could tell me and what I might want to do before looking at them.

It's not a big grower — the company makes money by collecting a facilities fee from patients — but earnings should expand by mid-single digits in the coming years.

New product ideas may come from surgeons frustrated with an uncomfortable handle on a surgical tool or a hospital bed company looking to make a more efficient and safer way to move patients around a hospital.

In 1987, Princess Diana made headlines when she removed her gloves to shake hands with HIV - positive patients, during one of her many public visits to people suffering from HIV and AIDS.

«We're excited to partner with Hitch Health, an organization focused on creating and delivering health solutions that remove barriers for patients in underserved communities, in a collaboration that marries our unique API solution with their innovative technology to make it easier for people to get to and from their healthcare appointments,» said Gyre Renwick, VP of Lyft Business.

Antiretroviral therapy has turned HIV from a death sentence into a manageable condition but patients need to stay on the treatment for life, so there is a growing focus on making medication as convenient and well - tolerated as possible.

DaVita teammates far and wide showed up to help support any dialysis patient that could make it in for lifesaving treatment, including dozens of patients from neighboring clinics.

Entrepreneurs from across the U.S. are coming up with solutions to address a huge problem in medicine: making it easier for patients to keep track of their medications and take them properly.

According to the release, the company will be «free from profit - making incentives and constraints» as it tries to find ways to cut costs and boost satisfaction for patients, with an initial focus on technology solutions.

In China's health system, low salaries and skimpy budgets drive doctors, nurses and administrators to make ends meet by accepting money from patients, drug suppliers and others.

VICTORIA — A leaked memo from Island Health Authority shows that Christy Clark's underfunding of healthcare is forcing the authority to make cuts and put patients at risk.

In the advancing portion of this cycle, Ben Bernanke's blind, stubborn recklessness made patient adherence to a value - conscious, historically - informed investment discipline itself indistinguishable from blind, stubborn recklessness.

And this relationship is an ongoing life - changing one in which if you allow him to, God will transform you from the inside out, making you kinder, more patient, loving.

In signing laws that have increased Wall Street regulations and stopped health insurance companies from rejecting patients with preexisting conditions, Obama said at the breakfast, he wanted to «make the economy stronger for everybody.»

But Richard Niebuhr's patient, resourceful flank attacks were already making me see that something was there which could not be ignored, something which makes theology a discipline more clearly distinguishable from philosophy than I had suspected.

I can't imagine anyone on a mission trip withholding medical care until the patient first hears a sermon or is coerced into making a (false) profession of faith so that the missionary can notch his belt with the number of «souls saved», nor can I imagine that the missionary's home church receives any monetary benefit from this new member you imagine they have strong - armed into joining.

«Unlike businesses and schools we can't close down, we still have a lot of in - patient care going on so [we're] moving patients away from windows, boarding up windows and making sure supplies are all in place if the hospital does get cut off and transport becomes very difficult,» he added.

While reciting the sutra the patient takes several steps away from the home, again suggestive to the cough, but all this after being fed with a churned drink or hot porridge, i.e., making prudent use of a home remedy, like drinking hot lemonade, to make a cure doubly sure.

If we can make pluripotent ES - like cells directly from patients» somatic cells, that will be a tremendous advantage in regenerative medicine.»

The current arrangement of the theological curriculum makes no more sense, he explains, than if a medical school were to claim that it had to keep students away from patients in order really to teach them about medicine.

Attenborough aims to persuade first through the detail and intimacy of his account of insect life: the female bumble bee's patient construction of the chamber in which she lays her eggs; the cooperative relationship between African acacias and the ants that make «mansions» in the «bloated and hollow» bases of the tree's protective spines (and sting the muzzles of grazing predators, driving them away); the cunning design of the mole cricket's burrow, which amplifies the male's mating song so that, «on a windless night, he can be heard from nearly half a mile away.»

In some of those most disturbing news in an already dark news cycle, the owner of a medical company reportedly told nurses from Hospice — an end - of - life care company — to speed up patients» deaths so the company could make more money.

Before any decision could be made two doctors would have to confirm the patient was terminally ill and had reached the decision without any pressure from friends of family.

AND And teaches us to say yes And allows us to be both - and And keeps us from either - or And teaches us to be patient and long suffering And is willing to wait for insight and integration And keeps us from dualistic thinking And does not divide the field of the moment And helps us to live in the always imperfect now And keeps us inclusive and compassionate toward everything And demands that our contemplation become action And insists that our action is also contemplative And heals our racism, our sexism, heterosexism, and our classism And keeps us from the false choice of liberal or conservative And allows us to critique both sides of things And allows us to enjoy both sides of things And is far beyond any one nation or political party And helps us face and accept our own dark side And allows us to ask for forgiveness and to apologize And is the mystery of paradox in all things And is the way of mercy And makes daily, practical love possible And does not trust love if it is not also justice And does not trust justice if it is not also love And is far beyond my religion versus your religion And allows us to be both distinct and yet united And is the very Mystery of Trinity

I am going to weigh in, being a catholic and the whole shabang... First of all this is not infringing on anyone's right to practice their religion... Requiring insurance companies to provide contraception for women does not mean the woman has to use it or purchase it... Catholic hospitals take federal funds for their patients, therefore they are not exempt from employment laws... If the Catholic Diocese doesn't want to provide the insurance claiming religious beliefs, then they can no longer accept federal funded patients... They also know that they will be subjected to discrimination lawsuits based hiring and religious discrimination — non-catholics work there, and therefore are being denied healthcare due to catholic beliefs... Majority if not all Catholic women do, have, or had used contraception in their lifetime... God does not nor does the bible say anything about contraception, since it had not been invented yet — so this is a man - made law, made by a bunch of men, who have never had a menstrual cycle — and the pain that comes with it....

StemExpress unequivocally denies the allegations made by Holly O'Donnell and The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) and reaffirms that it has never obtained blood or tissue samples from a patient without first obtaining consent.

That is, while mental health professionals usually acknowledge referrals from social agencies and physicians and will in turn refer patients back, with clergy referrals the referral is not acknowledged, nor is referral back to the clergyman made.

Borrowing from the new secular ethic of «compassionate death,» even the Catholic Health Association now publishes articles encouraging «futility policies» for hospital ethics committees that enable them to force the withdrawal of treatment from patients or families who do not make the «right» choice.