Sentences with phrase «new type of treatment»

Even patients with only a short time to live showed improvement from this new type of treatment, which had fewer side effects than other therapies.

These drugs, introduced in 1998, were the first new type of treatment of asthma in 20 years.

Findings from a phase III clinical trial of about 300 women may introduce PARP inhibitors as a new type of treatment for breast cancer

«Our new type of treatment only targets metastatic tissue, which enables us to avoid some of conventional chemotherapy's unwanted side effects,» said Zhao, who is a member of the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at UCI.

This group's achievement will lead to the clarification of the mechanism behind the localization of GLUT4 and the mechanism for developing diabetes, as well as the development of new types of treatment drugs.

Hsp90 inhibitors are among several innovative new types of treatment designed to attack cancer indirectly, by destabilising multiple different proteins required for the growth and survival of cancer cells.

The increase in demand can also be attributed to upgrades in many new types of treatments.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis made history as the first company to win Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a groundbreaking new type of cancer treatment known as CAR - T.

U.S. regulators this week approved the first drug for a new type of cancer treatment, confirming a theme some stock pickers have found in biotech.

But BMS» rival treatment Opdivo has been significantly outpacing Merck in sales, and the company is trying to amass new approvals for treatments to different types of cancers as quickly as possible.

So, Loncar took matters into his own hands and created a new type of biotech index that focuses exclusively on the red - hot field of cancer immunotherapy drugs (treatments which use the body's immune system as a conduit to fight cancer).

Last month, Novartis AG (NOVN.S) won U.S. approval for the first of a new type of potent gene - modifying immunotherapy for leukemia, a $ 475,000 treatment that marks the start of a potential new treatment paradigm for some cancers.

Effective PARP inhibitors are particularly sought after by drugmakers because of their potential to be used in combination with other types of cancer treatments to create new breakthroughs in treatments.

Ophthalmology (New England Eye Center) at Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center specializes in the testing and treatment of all types of eye diseases and visual problems.

And with the right type of treatment, your anxiety symptoms will really decrease, and you'll be able to connect with your baby and really enjoy being a new mom.

Medical applications might be as ambitious as new types of genetic therapies and antiaging treatments.

«Discovery of this mutation adds to the growing list of insights gained from genomic studies that can be used to develop new treatments and customize existing treatments for type 2 diabetes and related metabolic disorders,» Dr. Damcott says.

And there are different medications that we could think about now that influence, you know, the GABA system and some of our treatments — some of the newer medications like topiramate — influence s this system and we could think that, ah, if you have this biologic predisposition in the GABA system, you may respond better to this type of pharmacologic treatment.

A new type of cancer drug developed at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, but not yet tested in clinical trials may have triggered the deaths of three patients who were undergoing an alternative cancer treatment by a nonmedical practitioner in Germany.

New research posted online by the Nature journal Leukemia suggests blocking part of a DNA repair complex that helps some types of leukemia resist treatment can increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy and enhance survival.

But these findings point us to new strategies and novel compounds that can be developed as treatments that will be more effective for an array of cancer types because they are less susceptible to the emergence of resistance.»

The science is still too new to know for sure which types of stem cells will be best suited to which kinds of research and treatments.

By the early 1990s, Swedo and the NIMH team were treating the Sydenham group and pioneering some of the same types of treatments used for patients like Paul Michael today: steroids such as prednisone to stanch the tide of immune molecules; plasmapheresis, a technique to filter the blood, cleanse it of autoantibodies, and return it intact to the patient; and intravenous delivery of a new, healthy immune system with IVIG.

A blood pressure drug may make a type of lung cancer treatment more effective, suggests a new study.

The finding may also lay the framework for developing new treatments, even for very different types of the disorder.

The researchers hope these findings will aid in developing new treatments by using animal models that more closely represent the types of mutations apparent in the vast majority of patients with enchrondromas.

The research of different types of cancer and the testing of new treatments depends on accurate mouse models.

«This is a very exciting finding, obtained by studying patients» cells, that has the potential to result in a new treatment for this chronic complication of longstanding Type 1 diabetes,» Dr. Folli said.

«Major study heralds new era in treatment of type 2 diabetes.»

MIT engineers hope to improve treatment for diabetes patients with a new type of engineered insulin.

This could be a good way to test new types of drugs that target cancer cells specifically and spare patients the side effects from treatments if they are not working.»

Because biologists like Daley are convinced that embryonic stem cells — the most generic, versatile type — may not only lead to dramatically different new treatments but can also uniquely illuminate the origins of disease in a way adult stem cells never will.

Chair of the Congress and President of ECCO, Professor Peter Naredi, from the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, who was not involved with the research, commented: «For rare cancer types it is difficult to evaluate new treatments in normal sized trials.

«Discovery of new hormone opens doors to new type 2 diabetes treatments.»

He is also working on new receptor types that could allow cell therapies to more effectively penetrate disease sites and reside there for the duration of the treatment.

«This knowledge is crucial for developing new treatments for not just Parkinson's disease, but also for addiction, ADHD and bipolar disorder, as all of these diseases are associated with some type of disorder in the function of the dopamine neurons, and specifically in the dopamine transporter,» states Kopra.

Now, researchers have developed a device that can detect even a single cell of any type of cancer circulating in blood, allowing early treatment of metastasis and new insights into cancer genetics.

Knowing that inflammation improves insulin signaling rather than hindering it could usher in a new era for treatment of type 2 diabetes, one that targets molecules in the inflammatory pathway.

Experts aim to halve the number of deaths from a type of meningitis by changing drug treatment as a result of a new medical study.

These findings provide renewed hope for developing new treatments for this aggressive type of leukemia.»

New research published in The Lancet has shown that a drug, currently used in the treatment of Type II diabetes, can be effective in clearing fatty liver disease from some patients.

«While there are clearly other factors that can cause these types of abnormalities, including genetic vulnerabilities, demonstrating that immune activation alone can produce these effects offers new hope for treatments that might reduce their severity, or prevent them altogether, in certain individuals.»

Two case studies provide an important potential new avenue for treatment of these types of tumors, which are resistant to traditional radiation therapies and difficult to manage even with surgery, the current standard of care.

Photoreactive compounds developed by scientists of Ludwig - Maximilians - Universitaet (LMU) in Munich directly modulate nerve - cell function, and open new routes to the treatment of neurological diseases, including chronic pain and certain types of visual impairment.

The downside, Johnson cautions, is that this type of therapy is still very new, and there are numerous factors that are involved at the tumor level that may limit treatment.

Furthermore, besides offering valuable insight into the function of this novel RNA type, the researchers also believe that the findings will open new avenues for novel treatments in which cell - specific enhancer sequences can be targeted to alter gene expression.

Researchers from the University of Exeter simulated the effects of street lighting on artificial grassland plots containing a community of invertebrates at night, exposing them to two different types of light treatment — a «white» light similar to newer commercial LED street lighting systems and an «amber» light simulating the type of sodium street lamp still found in much of the UK.

The discovery offers a new treatment option beyond chemotherapy for this aggressive type of breast cancer.

The six benchmarks are: 1) HDR brachytherapy procedures are supported with the appropriate team as described in the report of the AAPM TG 59 and the American College of Radiology HDR Brachytherapy Practice Standard; 2) commissioning of the treatment unit, treatment planning system and each new source is performed by a qualified medical physicist and verified through a QA process; 3) assay of the HDR brachytherapy unit source is performed using a well - type ionization chamber with a calibration traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and this assay is performed or confirmed for each source change.

Theoretically, such stem cells can form any of the body's cell types and could be used in new treatments for Parkinson's disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, cardiac disease, and spinal cord injuries.