Sentences with phrase «of certain therapies»

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Why have we made more progress on certain diseases while other mass - scale killers, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are largely off of people's radars and so difficult to treat in an age of therapies which can resemble magic?

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).

Parents can count a child's copays and therapy costs, which private insurance may cap at a certain number of sessions per year, towards meeting the 10 percent threshold, Levy said.

The essence of the therapy lies in patient's immersion in simulation, where he drives the Hammer and suddenly a homemade device explodes in a certain place.

Gilead's therapy (which the biotech giant acquired after snapping up developer Kite Pharma for just under $ 12 billion at the end of the summer) is approved for certain types of the blood cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Novels are particularly rich in their explorations of these issues, though such understanding need not be gained only from novels: In The Therapy of Desire (1994) Nussbaum seeks» not always successfully» to discover in certain Hellenistic thinkers a distinctively philosophical account of the value of the emotions.

Julie and Red: For starters, I'm fairly certain that many of the home videos, photos, and stories I've written down about Malakai's first few years are going to be fodder for a therapy session... or seventy... one day.

Certain gestalt therapy methods, for example, complement TA, by providing effective means of changing growth - blocking Parent and Child tapes.

«As a form of therapy, it would seem to be useful only in certain situations, such as in the case of disabled infants, «he said.

If you try all of these tips and still notice that your baby is having a hard time turning their head and neck a certain way or they are developing a flat spot, it may be time to discuss occupational or physical therapy treatment with your pediatrician.

Even though scientists are not certain yet how the essential oils used in this form of therapy works, it is a well - known fact that good smells have a way of improving your mood.

Some can be treated with medicines, while others can be helped with special techniques like light therapy (where someone sits in front of a lightbox for a certain amount of time each day) or other practices that can help reset a person's body clock.

Gay conversion therapy is the latest high - profile legislation that Christie has addressed in recent days, the others dealing with medical marijuana and his veto of a bill that would ban certain guns.

Drugs that impact DNA methylation are increasingly a target for drug development; in fact, several of these therapies are already in clinical use for certain cancers.

The first gene therapies approved in the United States are treating patients with certain types of leukemia and lymphoma.

Matching unique genetic information from cancer patients» tumors with treatment options — an emerging area of precision medicine efforts — often fails to identify all patients who may respond to certain therapies.

«We found that those on a certain class of antidepressant, called tricyclics, didn't need the levodopa therapy until much later compared to those who weren't on that type of antidepressant medication,» Collier said.

If the results are right, and if certain gut bacteria are necessary for MS, they could serve as the basis for microbiome - based therapy or even prevention of the disease.

If a woman's health history doesn't support the use of hormone therapy, or she just isn't interested, there are nonhormonal options, such as certain antidepressants, and also nondrug lifestyle approaches.

The analysis suggests that alternative therapies for certain mild infections — which may be easier to develop — could indirectly slow development of antibiotic resistance in more dangerous bugs.

Frequent, low - dose chemotherapy regimens avoid this effect and may therefore be more effective at treating certain types of breast and pancreatic cancer, according to the murine study «Metronomic chemotherapy prevents therapy - induced stromal activation and induction of tumor - initiating cells,» which will be published online November 23 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

«The challenge has been how to direct certain therapies designed to manipulate genes of interest in specific cells without developing a specific drug carrier for each specific cell type.

One of the biggest challenges that remains is making sure therapies continue to work with patients in the long term and pinpointing if that means cancer therapies should be administered in combination or deployed in a specific order for certain patients.

FDA approves CAR - T cell therapy to treat adults with certain types of large B - cell lymphoma.

Phage therapy, which exploits the ability of certain viruses to infect and replicate within bacteria, shows promise for treating antibiotic - resistant bacterial infections.

Certain groups of people were more likely to receive inappropriate therapy, including patients who were in the hospital or a nursing home within the past year, as well as those with impaired function and / or multidrug - resistant pathogens.

«There is a clear path for developing therapies for certain diseases,» said co-senior author Dana Carroll of the University of Utah, who co-developed one of the first genome editing techniques over a decade ago.

For example, they were more likely to start hormonal therapy, which is considered the gold standard in treatment for certain types of breast cancer.

In October 2005, The New England Journal of Medicine sparked a huge reaction when it published studies which showed that adding Herceptin to standard cancer therapy reduced the recurrence rate of certain breast cancers.

A study shows that a certain intervention called testimony therapy plus ceremony reduced symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression among Khmer Rouge torture survivors from across Cambodia.

This would enable us to spot mothers who might be at risk of certain conditions and to help develop appropriate therapies.

British science writer Simon Singh has won an important appeal in his defense of a libel action by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA), which is suing Singh for calling certain chiropractic therapies «bogus» in a column.

It's the first CAR - T therapy to come before the FDA, leading a pack of novel treatments that promise to change the standard of care for certain aggressive blood cancers.

Rigorous, quantitative studies of psychotherapy are challenging certain widely held views of how the unconscious mind works and how patients in therapy make progress

The series started in 2009, when the U.S. government funded a team of researchers to recruit and study participants for the Testosterone Trial — a group of seven long - term studies of how testosterone therapy affects sexual activity, energy level, memory, heart and bone health, and the ability to walk a certain distance.

«Antibodies in the blood provide clues to transplant recipients» likelihood of rejection: Presence of certain antibody types may indicate the need for aggressive anti-rejection therapy.»

Breast conserving therapy (BCT, breast conserving surgery combined with radiation therapy) is superior to mastectomy in certain types of breast cancer patients, according to results from the largest study to date, to be presented to the European Cancer Congress 2017 today (Monday).

Certain kinds of oral contraceptive pills, hormone replacement therapy, or hormones taken as treatments for other health conditions also contribute to higher risk for stroke.

But as Scott Strome of the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, put it, «I don't know that we can ever be certain of the role gene therapy played.»

Güler added, «If we can use gene therapy to exert control over neurons, the potential exists to modify or eliminate the effects of certain neurological diseases by controlling ill - firing neural networks.

In - the - body gene therapies often take advantage of the natural tendency of viruses to infect certain organs.

«If we can understand the genetic events causing the development of these different types of tumors, we can point away from certain types of treatments and refine the therapies we recommend,» said Mark Applebaum, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Chicago Medicine.

We've found innovative ways to treat challenging diseases (the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of CAR - T cell therapy for certain blood cancers is our No. 8 story).

Dietrich's research includes aspects of cancer therapy, obesity, health effects of certain elements in drinking water, and special risks to people over 50.

Among other things, we plan to include certain gene therapy products that permanently alter tissue and produce a sustained therapeutic benefit as part of the products that will meet the definition of being eligible to come under the pathway enabled by RMAT.

In a relatively new but rapidly expanding field of study, researchers aim to decipher which of these microbial players are key to certain diseases, and which can be targeted to develop new therapies for patients.

Since the development of this combination treatment approach more than 20 years ago, antiretroviral therapy has helped millions of people with HIV escape a once - certain death sentence.

The discovery could help in the development of new cancer - selective viral therapies and may help explain why aging and certain diseases seem to open the door to viral infections.

It is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating certain types of leukemia and is helpful in other conditions that require immunosuppressive therapy.

The next step is to determine if phenformin alone would be a sufficient therapy for certain subsets of NSCLC or if the drug would perform better in combination with existing cancer drugs.