Sentences with phrase «of cure for patients»

Armed with knowledge of which mistakes in genes are driving which cancers, doctors and scientists will be able to maximise the chances of cure for each patient by picking the best treatments and by developing new and more targeted treatments for people with oesophageal and prostate cancers in the future.

Not exact matches

While the new mid-stage study results from DNDi were impressive (they showed cure rates of 96 % to 97 % even for the sickest patients and those with liver scarring), more late - stage trials will be necessary before the drug is available on a large scale in the developing world.

This week, for the first time, a hospital edited the genes of a patient, to cure him, one hopes.

When faced, for example, with the decision of whether or not to let a seriously ill or irreversible patient succumb voluntarily in terminal situations, we might avoid making the decision now, arguing for the possibility — maybe next week — that a new cure for the patient's condition will be discovered.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

In listening to our terminally ill patients, we were always impressed that even the most accepting, the most realistic patients left the possibility open for some cure, for the discovery of a new drug or the «last minute success in a research project.»

Either a woman is actually raped (South Africa has the highest rate of rape in the world; the rumor of the «virgin cure» has sent male AIDS patients on the hunt for younger and younger girls to rape), or she is pressured socially and economically.

For every 11 patients with H. pylori who are treated with antibiotics, 10 are cured of their peptic ulcer.

The Bill - which was passed by the House of Lords - would have allowed doctors to test cutting edge new treatments on patients to help find cures for cancer and other serious illnesses.

The hospital opened in 1913 to treat tuberculosis patients and was the site of the first clinical trials for the hydrazides treatment that eventually led to the cure of the disease, according to the EDC.

Patients First and Cure the NHS will accuse the Prime Minister of double standards for vowing to prosecute incompetent hospital staff but not the bureaucrats behind the system.»

For example, a consortium of research groups called the London Project to Cure Blindness aims to test RPE transplants from embryonic stem cells in patients with macular degeneration this year.

«It's not going to cure arthritis, but it will delay the progression of arthritis to the damaging stages when patients need joint replacements, which account for a million surgeries a year in the U.S.»

As treatments for HCV have evolved, genotype 3 patients have become the most difficult subgroup of patients to cure.1 Although there have been recent advances in direct - acting antiviral therapies for HCV genotype 1, genotype 3 remains a challenge and is a highly prevalent strain of the infection globally, with a particularly high concentration of cases in Asia.1

For young AML patients with suitable bone marrow donors, transplantation offers the best chance of a cure.

Patients and doctors know all too well that cancer is not one disease and there is no singular cure for the complex group of disorders.

And although they may represent only another small step toward a «cure» for diabetes, they are beginning to provide patients with levels of control never before seen over their own hormones.

And, longer - term, misdiagnosing Zika as dengue has another complication: Patients may not be on the lookout for the weakness that could signal the early onset of the associated autoimmune disorder; Guillain — Barré has no cure but there are several therapies they could tap that are known to help speed recovery — involving blood removal or injections of donor proteins.

The drug offered a first sliver of hope for patients waiting for a cure, or at least something to slow down the disease's staggering march.

Ocrevus isn't a cure, and it offers no relief for 30 to 40 percent of patients with primary progressive MS. Davis was in that disappointed group.

However, many industry insiders say these changes are opening up unique opportunities for researchers who focus on translating basic science into real - world cures and are eager to explore the molecular mechanisms of disease, test hypotheses, and do work that benefits patients.

A new drug is offering dramatic cure rates for hepatitis C patients with two subtypes of the infection — genotype 2 and 3, say a team of scientists led by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers.

«But the optimal duration of treatment for genotype 3 patients, in order to maximize their chance of cure, remains undefined.

Current chemotherapy treatments cure the disease in fewer than 10 % of patients who have a FLT3 mutation — partly because toxic chemotherapy drugs can be used for only a few days at a time, not killing as many cancer cells as they might.

«Funding research focused on helping patients survive longer is critical, and studies such as this advance our goal of not only improving treatments for brain cancer, but eventually finding a cure.»

Reports of laboratory advances have to be hedged in cautious language for the sake of patients and their families, talking in terms of «treatment» and «survival» rather than «cures».

Researchers have used radioimmunotherapy (RIT) to destroy remaining human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)- infected cells in the blood samples of patients treated with antiretroviral therapy, offering the promise of a strategy for curing HIV infection.

«We're at a pivotal point where we're building upon what we've learned in the PLAT - 02 trial and opening new trials, like PLAT - 04, with the goal of improving this therapy to the point that it becomes a long - term cure for all of our leukemia patients,» said Dr. Corinne Summers, an oncologist at Seattle Children's and the lead investigator of the PLAT - 04 trial.

A 2013 paper in the same journal reported excellent vocal outcomes for the first 92 treated patients, but neither paper included the kind of follow - up data required to confirm the treatment's long - term effectiveness in curing the tumors.

For most of the solid tumors that we work with, unfortunately, once the cancer has spread to a distant place, we're at this point unable to cure those patients, although we can oftentimes improve their quality of life or make them live longer.

The first long - term study of a pioneering endoscopic laser treatment for early vocal - cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and previously shown to provide optimal voice outcomes, finds that it is as successful as traditional approaches in curing patients» tumors while avoiding the damage to vocal quality caused by radiotherapy or by conventional laser or cold - instrument surgery.

«It is through studies like these that we continue to move closer to better treatments, and eventually finding a cure, for these patients who so desperately need our help,» said Catherine (Bracken) Ivy, founder and President of The Ben & Catherine Ivy Foundation.

For his part, Edgerton is cautious about saying that he's found a cure or that this treatment will get spinal injury patients out of their chairs and strolling down the street.

«AML is a disease in which fewer than 30 percent of patients are cured,» said co-senior author Ulrich Steidl, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of cell biology and of medicine and the Diane and Arthur B. Belfer Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research at Einstein and associate chair for translational research in oncology at Montefiore.

Although the cure rate for breast cancer is high — it has an 89 percent 5 - year survival rate — a large number of patients have a recurrence of their cancer.

Current treatments include transplanting patients with donor HSC, which is a potential cure for SCD, but due to the serious risks of rejection, only a small number of patients have undergone this procedure and it is usually restricted to children with severe symptoms.

No cure or vaccine is available for Lassa fever, but the antiviral drug ribavirin may help patients if taken early in the course of the disease.

Establishing a link between allergens and atopic dermatitis remains challenging Patients and parents of young atopic dermatitis patient's often request allergy testing to find triggers that they hope will offer a «cure» or reduce the need for atopic dermatitis treatment.

In the past, ulcer patients underwent stomach operations or took medicines for life, he says; thanks to Warren and Marshall, a simple course of antibiotics is often enough to cure them completely.

But as recently as the early 20th century, intentional infection was seen as cutting - edge: Austrian psychiatrist Julius Wagner - Jauregg won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for injecting blood from people with malaria into patients with neurosyphilis, which putatively cured them of insanity and paralysis.

Other researchers say the degree of recovery is remarkable, perhaps even unprecedented, but they caution that the procedure didn't produce a complete cure and may not work as well for patients who are older or have more severe injuries.

One is the lack of detectable virus in the blood plasma of patients on effective ARV therapy, which makes it difficult for researchers to assess whether an intervention aimed at curing the infection is working.

The researchers found that the WHO criterion for «cure» could not be applied in the majority of patients.

It is worthwhile to give patients expensive new drugs that can cure their hepatitis C much earlier than some insurers are now willing to pay for them, according to a UC San Francisco study that models the effects of treating the disease early versus late in its development.

While certain patients, particularly infants, enjoy cure rates of 90 percent or better, the outlook is worse for high - risk patients, including those whose disease has spread widely.

We only have two years of data on how patients are doing on the drug, and it's premature to say whether it will be a cure for them.»

Given such debilitating effects, an aggressive search is on among scientists to find a cure for MS. Currently available therapies are only partially effective, however, in preventing the onset of permanent disability in MS patients.

More than 30 patients have been treated for SCID, and more than 90 percent of those children have been cured of their disorder — an improvement over the 50 percent chance of recovery offered by bone marrow transplants.

The study reports that 13 of 34 (38 %) patients who achieved complete remission have remained disease - free for over five years and may be cured.

Although the treatment worked in only two of 17 patients, the researchers say this proof of concept, reported online today in Science, should pave the way for more gene - therapy cancer cures.