Sentences with phrase «many conventional therapies»

Dissatisfied with, or distrustful of, conventional therapy, the charismatic seeks evidence of Pentecostal power.

And as CSL devises new therapies and shows that existing therapies can treat new diseases, and health authorities spend more, its revenues and profits outpace the growth in demand for conventional therapies.

My uncle has diabetes and might have prostate cancer, I found out today, but instead of changing his diet he will just take drugs and the conventional therapies and feels horrible.

When conventional therapies for post-concussion syndrome didn't seem to helping, Caitlin, as she later told

In this 80 minute audio class, Dr. Aviva Romm will help parents understand the key guidelines for making the decision of using natural vs. conventional therapies.

Lisa managed to turn her own experiences of mental illness into a triumph; not just for herself, but for hundreds of others, by going around the country giving talks, by helping sufferers, sometimes people with no other voice or outlet at all, to create and publish art, and by providing people who find conventional therapies have not worked for them with an alternative therapy, and a good support network.

«Patients with rare diseases often have few therapeutic options, and many conventional therapies fail them,» Velez said.

The scientists also tested the therapy on tumors taken from two patients who had not responded to conventional therapy for their glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer.

In some of the therapies you describe, a menopausal woman would cycle through hormones, often in heavier doses than in conventional therapies, as if she were fertile — even triggering a menstrual cycle.

«Our results indicate it is a promising agent for clinical trials, and a as an add - on to more conventional therapies, to prevent tumour recurrence, further disease progression and metastasis.»

The research is also expensive, and it has attracted only limited funding because it veers so far from conventional therapies.

«Currently there are few options for AML patients who relapse or do not respond to conventional therapy,» said first author Carol O'Hear, M.D., Ph.D., a St. Jude postdoctoral oncology fellow.

Conventional therapies target rapidly dividing tumor cells, but are unable to eradicate the highly chemoresistant tumor initiating cells (TICs), ultimately responsible for relapse and spreading of the tumors in other parts of the body.

The center, founded 15 years ago, offers conventional therapies and self - help programs, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as various traditional Indian healing ceremonies.

«Neuromyelitis optica: Conventional therapies do not achieve the best results.»

Of the 60 cancer patients seen so far at his University of Arizona clinic, «none was taken off any kind of conventional therapy, and 11 who said they would not do conventional therapy were persuaded by our fellows to do it,» he says.

When Reya and her colleagues blocked the hedgehog molecules in mice, they found they could slow the development of cancer even when it had become resistant to conventional therapy.

Christiani would like to see an experiment that compares the survival of patients administered large doses of the vitamin during treatment and follow - up periods against the outcomes of people who rely on diet and conventional therapy alone.

Three months after completing the treatment, the depression in patients treated online even decreased whereas those treated conventionally only displayed a minimal decline: no more depression could be detected in 57 percent of patients from online therapy compared to 42 percent with conventional therapy.

This complexity contributes to its aggressive nature and resistance to conventional therapies such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy,» says Fisher, Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and co-leader of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at Massey Cancer Center, professor and chair of the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at the VCU School of Medicine, and director of the VIMM.

«This applies particularly to immunotherapies, but many conventional therapies such as chemotherapy also rely on components of the immune system for their effectiveness.

«In this study, outcomes for HER2 - positive lung cancer patients treated with conventional therapies were similar to outcomes for HER2 - negative patients treated in the same way.

In one trial involving 53 children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia — the disease that Layla had — for whom conventional therapies had not worked, 29 are still in remission months or years after treatment.

To meet this end, CCIR members take advantage of resources offered by MD Anderson, including the CCSG Shared Resources, Immune Monitoring Core Laboratory and GMP Cell Facility, allowing them to follow the «bench - to - beside» approach to develop and improve cancer immunotherapy in the form of cellular therapy, a vaccine or targeting antibody, either alone or in combination with conventional therapies or newly developed therapies.

Taken together, these observation impinge on one central problem: the development of rational targeting strategies aimed at overcoming therapeutic resistance require the precise elucidation of the molecular mechanisms whereby carcinoma cells that undergo EMT acquire the functional traits that render them resistant to conventional therapy.

Conventional therapy for glaucoma focuses on lowering the eye pressure, but this can be challenging in some while others worsen despite aggressive pressure - lowering.

It is effective in cancer cell samples and cell lines resistant to conventional therapies.

It's very hard to eradicate with conventional therapy — these cancer stem cells,» Diamond said.

The authors call this latency «the greatest barrier to eradicating HIV in patients» because the virus can dodge the immune system and conventional therapies while dormant.

Prostate cancer and metastatic melanoma are both difficult cancers to detect early, and once detected late they are nearly always impossible to cure, causing mortality within three years despite surgery and conventional therapies.

After initial successes using nanoformulations to reduce treatment side effects, researchers have started investigating more sophisticated nano - approaches, with the goal of creating treatments that are more effective than corresponding conventional therapies.

«To do this, we continue to bring outstanding scientists together with leading edge technologies to develop and commercialise innovations that represent the future treatment for diseases that are incurable and poorly controlled by conventional therapies.

August 16, 2011 New drug aids gout patients not helped by standard treatments Pegloticase, a modified porcine enzyme, can produce significant and sustained clinical improvements in 2 out of 5 patients with chronic gout that is resistant to conventional therapies, researchers report in the August 17, 2011, issue of JAMA.

Meditation Meditation, which is intended to relax the body and refocus thoughts, may hold promise for smoking cessation when combined with conventional therapy.

Many people turn to alt med when conventional therapy does nt do the trick, says Richard Nahin, PhD, senior advisor for scientific coordination and outreach at the NCCAM.

Their comprehensive medical training includes studies in conventional medical sciences, clinical and physical diagnosis, laboratory and diagnostic imaging studies, clinical medicine, naturopathic philosophy, pharmacology, and a variety of both natural and conventional therapies.

To be fair, if those laws didn't exist every quack in the country would claim that they could cure cancer with a variety of non-effective treatments and many people would die unnecessarily (although many people are being injured from conventional therapies).

Many states have laws prohibiting the treatment of cancer with anything other than conventional therapies (surgery, radiation etc) so it has been difficult to set up clinical trials for nutrition.

For those completing conventional therapy, naturopathic care can enhance recovery and help minimize risk of recurrence.

Honey was a conventional therapy in fighting infection up until the early 20th century, at which time its use slowly vanished with the advent of penicillin.

Natural therapies are carefully selected to complement conventional therapies including chemotherapy, radiation, targeted therapies, and hormonal therapies, and are well researched to minimize the risk of interactions with these agents.

I began treatment with Nystatin and Diflucan, which are common conventional therapies, but also added a yeast - free food plan, herbal remedies, and probiotics.

-- The life's work of Dr. John F. Prudden showed that bovine tracheal cartilage had unique and powerful effects on wound healing, immune conditions, joint health and other conditions considered to be treatment resistant to conventional therapies.

According to the account of Dr. Norman Doidge, who wrote about her in his best - selling book «The Brain's Way of Healing,» after a year of conventional therapies, the only movement she could do was to roll onto one side.

Many studies have shown that at high doses, vitamin C is toxic to cancer cells, able to work synergistically with conventional therapies such as chemotherapy and radiation.

We offer annual physicals, sports physicals, well - woman care, well - child visits, laboratory testing, vaccinations, therapeutic injections, minor office procedures, and referrals to specialists as any other family physician, in addition to prescriptive rights for conventional therapies.

You've tried it all - the endless research, reading and doing the popular «self - help» programs, and perhaps even months or years of conventional therapy.

Even if you're choosing conventional therapy, nutritional ketosis can be tremendously helpful.

I have suggested alternative medical treatments to patients throughout my career when conventional therapy did not work.

Source: Clinical effectiveness of probiotics therapy (BIO-THREE) in patients with ulcerative colitis refractory to conventional therapy.