Sentences with phrase «of ineffective therapy»

Furthermore, widespread belief in the merit of this ineffective therapy prevents researchers from thinking they need to look into other potential treatment options, the authors say.

In the near future, patients won't have to waste time and be disappointed with months of ineffective therapy, scientists said.

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Because the church believes in healing through prayer, a fantasy which is 100 % ineffective, instead of therapy with a licensed doctor.

«Reparative therapy,» which seeks to change sexual orientation, has been shown to be ineffective and potentially dangerous, discouraged most notably by many of the very Christian leaders who once promoted it within the Church.

His faith in the spontaneous flowering of persons in an accepting - caring - honest relationship is naive and ineffective when one does therapy with those who are locked into self - sabotaging, self - deluding defenses against having to change.

Very scary investigative reporting out of Philadelphia, detailing a city - wide practice of sending drug addicts (or anyone staying in recovery housing) to ineffective therapy programs, as a way to milk Medicaid.

Gene therapy delivered to a specific part of the brain reverses symptoms of depression in a mouse model of the disease — potentially laying the groundwork for a new approach to treating severe cases of human depression in which drugs are ineffective.

If future similar studies can further expand and eventually provide a brain - based predictive best - therapy option for individual patients, it would dramatically decrease unnecessary exposure of patients to ineffective therapies and decrease the duration and magnitude of pain suffering and opioid use, Baliki and Apkarian said.

Thus, one may conclude from this investigation that blanket referrals of all patients with earlier - stage PD for routine physical or occupation therapy appears to be cost - ineffective,» writes J. Eric Ahlskog, Ph.D., M.D., of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., in a related editorial.

New molecular imaging technologies can make it easier to diagnose, monitor, and treat cancers while potentially saving patients from undergoing therapies that are likely to be ineffective and playing a role in minimizing side effects, according to experts from the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Current therapy options, including surgery and injections of corticosteroids into scar tissues, are often ineffective, require clinical supervision and can be costly.

«This could be especially useful for the treatment of solid tumors where T cell therapies have been largely ineffective,» Roybal said.

Current therapies are largely ineffective, or can have significant side effects or potential for abuse, since most contain opioids or opiate - derivatives,» commented Jacky Smith, M.B., Ch.B., MRCP, Ph.D., lead author of the Lancet article, and professor and honorary consultant in Respiratory Medicine, University of Manchester and University Hospital Manchester NHS Foundation Trust.

«Current therapies take advantage of this by using targeted drugs such as Trastuzumab or Lapatinib to specifically inhibit ERBB2, but eventually they become ineffective as the cancer develops resistance to those drugs.»

«We had previously shown that antiangiogenesis therapies were ineffective in animal models of lymphatic metastasis, but there was no data to explain the mechanism behind those observations,» says Timothy Padera, Ph.D., of the Steele Laboratory of Tumor Biology in the MGH Department of Radiation Oncology, senior author of the paper.

This has led to the development of targeted therapies that specifically modulate these molecular alterations or their pathways with an ultimate aim of avoiding giving ineffective and potentially toxic drugs to patients who will not benefit from them.

«A particular intervention «makes sense,» becomes common practice — and often becomes the so - called «standard of care» — only to be proved ineffective when the therapy is subjected to scientific investigation.»

As a patient with severe endometriosis, Libby's quest for optimal treatment felt akin to navigating a minefield of inadequate surgery, ineffective medical therapy, and outright ignorance at the hands of the medical community.

What would you say if I said most therapies designed to reduce pain and improve posture were palliative at best, harmful at the worst, and just plain ineffective at getting to the cause of dysfunction?

After being disheartened by seeing the rapidly growing glut of ineffective & poorly designed light therapy products popping up all over the internet, Leanne finally agreed to all the requests to create her own product line.

So, the fact that even after therapy, your head still tilts, your shoulders tilt, your hips tilt, your foot arch drops, and you still have tightness throughout your body proves that your therapy has been ineffective at alleviating the cause of the problem.

Radiation therapy can help extend the lives of affected dogs, but also is ineffective against tumor cells that have metastasized.

• Administer products for appropriate duration of therapy o Discontinuing treatment early can lead to ineffective treatment or disease relapse.

Ketocacidosis can be caused by untreated diabetes or ineffective treatment of canine diabetes such as insulin therapy that is not working.

Intravenous dextrose solution (5 % — 10 %) can be administered to effect in severe cases or if oral therapy has been ineffective (add 120 — 300 mL of 50 % dextrose solution to 1 L bag of fluids).

Not for use during diabetic emergencies, including diabetic coma Pets who have stopped eating, are anorexic, vomiting, showing signs of extreme drowsiness or fatigue and / or showing signs of severe ketoacidosis Cats with liver, kidney or thyroid disease or a serious infection, illness or trauma Pregnant and nursing cats Known to be ineffective in cats resistant to insulin therapy Pets known to have had an allergic reaction to glipizide or other sulfa drugs Directions:

When medications are ineffective, surgery to scrape the lesion free of debris and dead tissue, cryosurgery or radiation therapy is sometimes required.

Some of the talk therapy apps were found to be ineffective, expensive, inconsistent in the quality of care provided and, at worst, potentially dangerous.

It's important to note here that all legitimate mental health associations agree that conversion therapy is ineffective, too frequently dangerous, and is not in alignment with current professional standards of care for working with the LGBTQ population.

«I am a Doctor of Behavioral Health that specializes in Cognitive - Behavioral Therapy and work primarily with adults where traditional psychotherapies have been ineffective.

For those who do, cognitive behaviour therapy using in vivo exposure and therapeutic modelling can be effective and is clearly the treatment of choice; psychotropic medication, in contrast, is relatively ineffective.2

When other treatments for psychosis are ineffective, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)(aka shock treatment) is sometimes utilized to relieve the underlying symptoms of psychosis due to depression.

It is based on the hypothesis that inaccurate and unhelpful beliefs, ineffective coping behaviour, negative mood states, social problems, and pathophysiological processes all interact to perpetuate the illness.8 9 Treatment aims at helping patients to re-evaluate their understanding of the illness and to adopt more effective coping behaviours.7 8 9 An early uncontrolled evaluation of this type of treatment produced promising results in many patients but was unacceptable to some.10 Two subsequent controlled trials found cognitive behaviour therapy to offer no benefit over non-specific management.11 12 However, the form of cognitive behaviour therapy evaluated may have been inadequate.

Filed Under: Parents of kids with attachment disorder, Parents who advocate Tagged With: ineffective therapies for RAD, lack of funding for effective RAD therapy

I have 10 years of counseling experience and view therapy as a collaborative and unique process.Together we will identify things that are distressing to you or are prompting you to feel or act in unhelpful or ineffective ways.

Four studies of therapy for depression used actual recordings of therapy sessions to study what therapists said and did that was effective or ineffective.

According to the APSAC Task Force, «Proponents of controversial attachment therapies commonly assert that their therapies, and their therapies alone, are effective for children with attachment disorders and that more traditional treatments are either ineffective or harmful.»

During this decade, his observations, along with other psychologists, questioned the ineffective results in family therapy using traditional forms of psychoanalysis.

Trying to resolve these relationship problems through traditional «talk» therapy is ineffective because it does not access the parts of the brain that contain the distressing relationship experiences.

This unfortunate combination renders much of couple therapy ineffective, and leaves most therapists preferring to work with individuals.

In family therapy, I assess for various, often ineffective and rigid patterns of interactions, and I help you find new ways of relating to each other.