Sentences with phrase «of effective treatments for this disease»
Identifying this dysfunction could lead to the development of effective treatments for this disease.
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InvivoSciences will continue to contribute to the improvement of human health by establishing a new paradigm for discovering drugs that focus on diseases with limited treatment options such as cardiac fibrosis, scleroderma, and lupus in a time - effective manner while remaining safe and cost effective.»
By accelerating promising drug candidates through the drug discovery and development pipeline and spearheading innovative public - private partnerships, we increase the chance of finding an effective treatment, and a cure, for Alzheimer's disease.
He also «promoted the product as, among other things, an effective treatment, cure and preventative for cancer, heart disease, arthritis and diabetes, and as a means of achieving substantial weight loss of up to 80 pounds in eight months,» according to a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission.
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Not only does this suggest that the cause of Crohn's disease in these patients may be oxidative stress due to dysfunctional MDR1, but that for the subset of patients with this dysfunction, bile acid sequestrants may be an effective treatment.
However these new discoveries provide us with vital information to develop new treatment strategies that could lead to a safe and effective way of switching off inflammation for treating disease,» Dr Nachbur said.
«In making effective treatments easier for patients, the hope is that we can reduce vision loss from glaucoma, and possibly other diseases,» said study author James D. Brandt, M.D., director of the UC Davis Medical Center Glaucoma Service.
The new study, called FOR - DMD (Finding the Optimum Regimen of Corticosteroids for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy), will determine whether daily steroid treatment or an alternative regime is more effective in slowing the disease progression and managing side effecFOR - DMD (Finding the Optimum Regimen of Corticosteroids for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy), will determine whether daily steroid treatment or an alternative regime is more effective in slowing the disease progression and managing side effecfor Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy), will determine whether daily steroid treatment or an alternative regime is more effective in slowing the disease progression and managing side effects.
But while the drug had few side effects, it wasn't an effective treatment for either of the diseases.
A drug which has already been in use for decades to treat liver disease could be an effective treatment to slow down progression of Parkinson's disease, scientists from the University of Sheffield have discovered.
«In part, some of the results are explained by more effective treatments for cancer and heart disease, with advances in medicine making such physical illnesses easier to treat, whilst there have been less advances in the treatment of neurological conditions»
Professor Nutt said increasing our knowledge of the mechanisms that controlled the immune response was vital for understanding how immune and inflammatory diseases arise and, ultimately, developing more effective treatments.
«Meta studies have shown that the controlled grafting of fecal transplantation from healthy donors is a safe and very effective treatment of acute diarrheal diseases caused by the pathogenic bacterium Clostridium difficile,» said Sieglinde Angelberger, gastroenterologist at the University Clinic for Internal Medicine III of the Medical University of Vienna and author of the study: «this was the reason why we applied this therapy for the treatment of patients with chronic intestinal diseases.»
«It showed the strong potential of using a NOX inhibitor as an effective treatment for this devastating disease,» said Brenner.
Now, a study published online April 27th, in the Journal of Immunology, confirms that the cytokine GM - CSF (Granulocyte macrophage colony - stimulating factor) likely plays an important role in human disease and offers a new explanation for why the MS treatment interferon - Beta (INF - β) is often effective at reducing MS attacks.
One of the hundreds of trials in the field is actually going to provide an effective treatment for this disease; that's my hope, anyway.
«This creates entirely new conditions for our understanding of what happens inside the brain and for the development of more effective treatments for diseases such as Parkinson's disease and chronic pain conditions than can be achieved using today's techniques,» concludes Jens Schouenborg.
«There is hope that one of the newer ongoing studies may result in an effective treatment for slowing the course of Alzheimer's disease.»
While lithium carbonate has been very effective for the treatment of mania in bipolar disorder, and credited for reducing suicides in depressive phases of the disease, patients who take lithium carbonate are often noncompliant because of adverse effects, including hand tremor, diarrhea, vomiting, weight gain and decreased thyroid function.
«Techniques to correct defective genes in «non-reproductive» cells are already at various stages of clinical development and promise to be a powerful approach for many human diseases which don't yet have an effective treatment.
«We have effective screening tests for several cancers, which allow physicians and other health - care providers to identify the disease at an earlier stage — often before symptoms surface — when treatment is more likely to result in a cure,» said senior author of the report and IPHI Director Kenneth W. Kizer.
One of the arguments for such a large federal investment in research is that it will lead to new and more effective treatments for diseases — leading to reduced healthcare costs, leading to more disposable income, leading to economic prosperity and the continued unbridled freedom of American citizens to enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
«This landmark study draws the conclusion in pre-clinical animal studies that stem cell therapy for disc degenerative disease might be a potentially effective treatment for the very common condition that affects people's quality of life and productivity,» said the senior author, Wenchun Qu, MD, PhD, of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn..
«Future research to clarify the mechanisms underlying the link between PTSD and heart disease in Vietnam veterans and other groups will help to guide the development of effective prevention and treatment strategies for people with these serious conditions.»
Co-lead author, Doctor Mohammed Eslam, said this discovery holds great promise for the development of effective therapeutic treatments for liver disease.
And we really need to understand the process if we want to create better disease models and to help the millions of patients waiting for more effective treatments.»
Currently, the only known and effective treatment for the disease is for patients to follow a gluten - free diet for the rest of their lives.
But he also believes that medical researchers will overcome some of the thorny obstacles to safe and effective therapies — just as once seemingly insurmountable obstacles to kidney transplants were overcome — clearing the way for treatment of diseases such as Parkinson's, blindness, and immune disorders.
Identifying disease - causing DNA abnormalities allows clinicians to better predict an effective course of treatment for the patient.
Protecting this microenvironment, or niche, has thus emerged as a new route for the treatment of these diseases, for which there is currently no fully effective treatment.
The symptoms — jaundice, weight loss and pain — often develop late in the course of the disease, usually too late for effective treatment with surgery.
«It would really be wonderful if tau reduction turned out to be useful not only in Alzheimer's disease, but also in other disabling neurological conditions for which there currently are no effective treatments,» said senior author Lennart Mucke, MD, the director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and a professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of California, San Fradisease, but also in other disabling neurological conditions for which there currently are no effective treatments,» said senior author Lennart Mucke, MD, the director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and a professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of California, San FraDisease and a professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco.
An effective strategy for reducing the transmission, illness and death of active disease is the identification and treatment of LTBI to prevent progression to active disease.
The NIHR Leicester Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit — a partnership between the University of Leicester and Leicester's Hospitals — focuses on promoting the development of new and effective therapies for the treatment of respiratory diseases including severe asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
«These exciting new results suggest that drugs that reduce the activity of TRIM21 could be highly effective new tools for the treatment of conditions that are driven by high oxidative stress, including liver and heart disease,» Zong said.
This study may provide insight for treatments that would be effective in slowing down or postponing the death of neurons for people who carry the HD gene mutation, but who do not yet show symptoms of the disease.
There are known and cost - effective ways to address these common noncommunicable diseases, including prevention, early diagnosis and management of high blood pressure, obesity and high cholesterol and screening and treatment for cancers.
«This could help revolutionize cardiology research by improving the ability to efficiently discover, design, develop and deliver new therapies for the treatment of heart disease, and by providing more efficient screening tools to identify and prevent cardiac side effects, ultimately leading to safer and more effective treatments for patients suffering from heart disease.»
Despite ongoing research effort and improved knowledge about the disease, there is currently no effective preventive or curative treatment for AD, which could result in a public health crisis given the continuous aging of populations worldwide.
They next listed the stimulation sites, either deep in the brain or on the surface of the brain, thought to be effective for the treatment of each of the 14 diseases.
Moreover, if the pharmaceuticals industry does come up with an effective treatment for Alzheimer's disease and other senile dementias, will it be of any value to healthy people?
Their discovery shows the positive effects of drugs that may lead to effective new treatments for the neurodegenerative disease.
This knowledge, the Nature Medicine paper states, is «one essential step» toward developing an effective treatment for this devastating disease — «hopefully sooner than later,» says Eunsil Hahm, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Rush and first author on the study.
The review reports that liver transplantation is the most effective treatment for many patients with end - stage liver disease and irreversible hepatic failure resulting from a variety of causes, including hepatocellular carcinoma.
Professor Thrasher says: «This is a very powerful example of how gene therapy can offer highly effective treatment for patients with complex and serious genetic disease.
«We urgently need markers to predict which therapies are going to be effective and which will not be effective in individual patients with advanced prostate cancer,» said lead study author Emmanuel Antonarakis, MD, an assistant professor of oncology and urology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Md. «AR - V7 testing may be extremely valuable in guiding treatment decisions for men with hormone - resistant disease in the near future.»
Whilst a handful of these genes including DOT1L, BCL2 and MEN1 are already established therapeutic targets, most of them are novel and open up many new possibilities for developing effective treatments against the disease.
A new discovery of a potential biomarker for Huntington's disease (HD) could mean a more effective way of evaluating the effectiveness of treatments for this neurological disease.
Harnessing RNAi holds promise for the treatment of human disease and requires safe and effective delivery.