Sentences with phrase «medicine as a treatment»

Ginger has long been regarded in traditional Chinese medicine as a treatment for many different conditions.

They were traditionally used as an expectorant (think: nature's Mucinex), and in Ayurvedic medicine as a treatment for eczema and psoriasis.

Pilar, owner of a Brampton bakery, insists her husband would choose traditional medicine as a treatment plan — an approach he'd been practising for several years with her, she said in an interview.

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So many companies have developed such increasingly effective medicines, such as those that treat more hep C strains with far shorter treatment regimens, that Gilead — a pioneer in the field with Sovaldi and Harvoni — is projecting $ 3.5 billion to $ 4 billion in U.S. sales from these kinds of drugs in 2018, a dramatic drop from nearly $ 13 billion in 2015.

PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all inmedicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all inMedicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

Dr. Nir Barzilai, the director of Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, has been researching the drug, with the hopes of one day getting it approved as an anti-aging treatment by the FDA.

The treatment, named Kymriah, was hailed by doctors and the life sciences community as a major advance in medicine and a boon to children and young adults with a certain form of leukemia (the group for whom the gene therapy is approved).

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

Digital diabetes prevention and treatment platforms such as Virta and Omada Health connect users with support communities and health coaches — who can remotely monitor things like weight, blood sugar, diet, and medicine intake.

The takeover interest in Tesaro underscores the pharmaceutical industry's strong appetite for the acquisition of biotechnology companies with promising medicines under development in lucrative sectors such as cancer treatment.

April 24 U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co reported a quarterly profit on Tuesday on higher demand for its newer treatments such as its diabetes drug Trulicity and psoriasis medicine Taltz.

So far, few patients have received the new drugs, as commercial health plans and Medicare wrestle with how to cover the treatment

The emergence of genetics - based medicines is pushing the cost of treating certain diseases to new levels, forcing hospitals and health insurers to reckon with how to...

Many would argue that it's possible for her to feel better without taking drugs: she could try the «talking cure» (regular sessions with a counselor), or an alternative treatment such as herbal or light therapy If she goes to an M.D., though, she'll likely carry my a prescription for an antidepressant such as Prozac or Zoloft — one of these brave new medicines that promise such good results with so few side effects,

While there is still some debate as to what causes these disorders in children, the intervention of natural medicine, rather than those mass - produced by pharmaceutical companies, is being used more and more throughout treatment programs.

As I combed dozens and dozens of books on medicinal plants and folk medicine searching for chile pepper citations, one of the most frequent references we found were those linking chile peppers to the treatment of skin problems of all kinds.

The organic certification body demands a few strict standards are met, such as not using certain forms of medicine, fair food treatment, etc..

Traditional medicinal uses in both traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as well as Ayurvedic medicine include the treatment of liver disease, skin problems, respiratory and gastrointestinal ailments, sprained muscles, joint pains, and general wound healing.

STAT MED also specializes in sports medicine, providing prompt team physicals and sport injury treatment, as well as travel medicine / immunizations and occupational medicine / work injury requirements.

«I believe as clinician we should regularly question our own science and treatment methodologies,» says Cronin, «but I find those that operate in the world of extremes are favoring their own bias over good medicine.»

Pacific Northwest University and Sports Medicine Advantage will host a sports concussion management conference on the morning of September 15 that will address the «evaluation and treatment of concussions, concussion pathophysiology, the legal aspects of a concussion, recovery, as well as a panel Q & A.»

this reminds me of the evidence based medicine blog recently taking a bunch of studies of induction as a treatment for macrocosmia and saying, look, induction just increases the maternal complication rate while not affecting the fetal complication rate.

And if that happens, you need to follow my treatments to know what to give babies for gas: burping your baby, investing in a special baby bottle with slow flow nipple, avoiding foods containing caffeine especially you can let your baby use kinds of safe medicine such as simethicone, gripe water, Pediatric Probiotics.

He would wake me up, the treatment that I did, I had to take a lot of Benadryl whenever I would go in for treatment, and as someone who doesn't take any medicine, I don't even like taking Tylenol, and they would stuff me full of Benadryl.

Medical anthropology: The anthropology of reproduction (childbirth, midwifery, obstetrics, and the new reproductive technologies); cultural conceptualizations and treatment of women's bodies / health; biomedicine as a cultural system; integrative medicine; politics of knowledge; shamanism.

Medical conditions such as HIV or AIDS or those that involve chemotherapy or treatment with certain medicines can make breastfeeding unsafe.

Treatments through Full Circle Women's Health can include standard western medicine, complementary therapies such as herbs, and counseling regarding diet, exercise, and stress reduction.

Share with your care providers information about your or your child's health, such as a complete health history, symptoms, treatments, medicines taken and any other information that could bear on your or your child's health.

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Treatment often includes antiviral or antibiotic medicines, as well as intense supportive care while the baby's in the hospital.

Your doctor may advise numerous treatment options for postpartum depression, such as support groups, individual therapy or medicines that can be safely used while breastfeeding.

Perinatal mood disorders are treatable, and a range of pharmacological (medicines), psychological (talking therapy) and social therapies (support groups) have been validated as effective treatments for the range of perinatal mood disorders.

«We will fight back, we will fight hard and we will fight for as long as it takes us to get fair treatment,» said Dr Kevin Kane, an acute medicine consultant from London.

One of the biggest fears medical students face in seeking treatment for depression is being branded as unfit to be doctors and having a medical board question their ability to practice medicine.

Now, recent advances in science — from genomic studies to new treatments such as immunotherapy and massive increases in computing power — have delivered a new punctuated state in medicine, he said.

That's why Science recognized the idea of «treatment as prevention» as its scientific breakthrough of the year, crediting the lab of infectious diseases researcher Myron Cohen, a physician - scientist at the University of North Carolina School (UNC) of Medicine in Chapel Hill, with discovering and investigating one of the most promising antiretroviral drugs, HPTN 052.

Because women are increasingly seeking out acupuncture in order to induce ovulation, researchers decided to study whether or not the traditional Chinese medicine therapy could serve as a supplemental treatment along with clomiphene to improve pregnancy outcomes.

«The goals of asthma treatment are to reduce the patient's symptoms, help ensure that they can maintain their normal activities, perform well on pulmonary function tests and minimize asthma associated risks such as future asthma attacks and medication side effects,» said Jennifer McCracken, UTMB assistant professor in the department of internal medicine, division of allergy and immunology.

Important news for men receiving treatment for prostate cancer: Two new studies from the University of Virginia School of Medicine have upended the widely held view that it's best to delay radiation treatment as long as possible after the removal of the prostate in order to prevent unwanted side effects.

«A significant body of research has resulted in a shift from thinking of placebos as just «dummy» treatments to recognizing that placebo effects encompass numerous aspects of the health care experience and are central to medicine and patient care,» said the article's coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medicalmedicine and patient care,» said the article's coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard MedicalMedicine at Harvard Medical School.

Just as was commonplace a generation ago in internal medicine, the broad advances in psychiatric and neurologic neuroscience are driving the development of fundamentally new and exciting treatments for many brain diseases.

Co-author Professor Fabio Levi (MD), Head of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, (Switzerland), said: «Besides enforcing tobacco control — essentially by increasing taxation — national governments and EU policy makers must ensure that all EU citizens have access to the best screening, diagnosis and treatment, including those from central and eastern Europe where major delays are still observed and where cancer mortality rates tend to be higher as a result.»

HEALTH & MEDICINE • Medicine As health care reform rolls out over the next five years and millions of newly insured seek treatment, the shortage of doctors will worsen.

«This study demonstrates the value of using the SEER database to analyze factors associated with surgery as a treatment for localized pancreatic cancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

Anti-epilepsy medicine is also used for the treatment of other diseases such as migraine and bipolar disorder.

«As with other areas of personalized medicine, we would seek to create individual treatment and prevention plans for astronauts we believe would be more susceptible to cognitive deficits from radiation exposure,» she says.

«Our preclinical data suggest that combining low doses of these inhibitors will enhance the clinical effects of both drugs as a potential treatment for patients with AML,» says the senior author, Feyruz V. Rassool, PhD, associate professor of radiation oncology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) and a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC).

Charney, now dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, thinks ketamine could serve as an alternative to electroconvulsive therapy, the current treatment of last resort.

For as long as medicine has existed, the placebo effect has been quietly playing a role in treatment.

«Many therapies have been proposed as the «best» treatment for sarcoids,» says Dr. Doug Antczak, the Dorothy Havemeyer McConville Professor of Equine Medicine, who led the study.

«Before we get too excited about this being a new form of infertility treatment, these cells can not as yet be made into functioning sperm, so we have no idea if they can pass «the acid test» — the ability to fertilise female eggs as is achieved with donor sperm in IVF treatment,» says Malcolm Alison of the London School of Medicine and Dentistry in the UK.