Sentences with phrase «of life saving treatments»
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«We believe that when this treatment is approved it will save thousands of children's lives around the world,» said Tom Whitehead, the father of a 12 - year - old who is now cancer - free after receiving CTL019.
As Clinton said in the documentary, «If you want to save lives and stop an epidemic that has claimed the lives of tens of millions of people, treatment is the best prevention.
There, the cantankerous and often brutish physician bulldozed through social niceties and conventional wisdom, ignoring professional criticism and even the pain and suffering of young children to help develop a successful treatment that eventually saved thousands of lives.
At the FDA, we're committed to helping expedite the development and review of groundbreaking treatments that have the potential to be life - saving.
Services include their flagship Ride With Emilio transportation program that provides free reliable rides to and from the hospital to ensure that no child misses a life - saving cancer treatment due to lack of transportation.
The detection of melanoma at its most curable stages can result in decades of high - quality life saved, versus the treatment of this terrible disease at late stages, which offers several months of life extension, at best.»
A soldier could refuse, as extraordinary treatment, even a life - saving amputation, in view of the horrific burden of the treatment.
The Province of Ontario, Canada, has limited life extending treatment for terminal colon cancer patients to save $ 9 million.
Together, over the past five years, Belvedere Vodka has raised enough money to provide 30,000 HIV - positive women with access to life - saving ARV treatment that stops the transmission of HIV to their children.
Legal recognition of unborn babies doesn't preclude life - saving medical treatment.
C - section is the life saving treatment for a worrisome velamentous cord insertion because it reduces the risk of perinatal death to near zero, not homebirth, which guarantees the baby's death if the blood vessel is torn.
Once everyone knows and understands the overall goals of care — such as the use of life - saving therapies or ways to reduce pain — you can talk about treatment options.
While early detection and treatment save lives, primary prevention of breast cancer is the ideal «cure.»
But the government needs to make sure it does not just create a cash windfall for the supermarkets, instead of lowering prices of other goods or supporting better prevention and treatment of alcohol abuse to cut crime further and save lives.»
«But the Government needs to make sure it does not just create a cash windfall for the supermarkets, instead of lowering prices of other goods or supporting better prevention and treatment of alcohol abuse to cut crime further and save lives.»
From 2000 through 2015, the scale - up of malaria prevention and treatment interventions saved approximately 6.8 million lives globally, and malaria death rates in Africa were cut by more than half.
The ban as currently constituted could also hinder the legitimate use of these substances for medical research and therefore delay the development of new life - saving treatment.
«This comprehensive investment addresses each component of heroin and opioid addiction - prevention, treatment, and recovery - to help individuals and families break this cycle of misery, save lives and create a stronger, healthier state for all.»
The goal of the task force was to find strategies to address the root causes of the epidemic, improve access to life - saving treatment, and expand support to those in recovery.
The book outlines their slow opening up for treatment, the trauma they had buried, and also the real life experiences of the men's time on 9/11 trying to save people in the World Trade Centre in detailed and shocking clarity.
Commercial testing of non-medical products is largely opposed, but fewer place the welfare of laboratory animals above the development of life - saving medical treatments.
The health secretary Alan Johnson today unveiled details of the government's new stroke strategy, designed to ensure faster treatment and save lives.
«The pain and damage of this flawed federal policy is especially repulsive in this case of preventing a child from getting life saving treatment,» Cuomo said in a statement.
«He is very proud of the progress the company has made over the years and hopeful it will develop a potentially life - saving treatment for the millions of individuals suffering from Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis.»
It continued: «We uphold that there is a fundamental difference between abortion, and necessary medical treatments that are carried out to save the life of the mother, even if such treatment results in the loss of life of her unborn child.
Allergy sufferers have enough concerns to worry about — the availability of life - saving medical treatment should not be one of them.
This legislation would allow students to self - administer treatment and also empowers school personnel to be trained by licensed health care providers to assist students in the event of an emergency, when seconds can really matter in saving the life of a young person.
As the Carruthers report explains, innovation in the NHS has the capacity both to save lives and drive up standards of care in the health service, but also to promote efficiency and reduce the cost burden of treatments and procedures.
Many people suffering heart attacks now receive life saving drugs on the doorstep and in some areas of the country are being delivered directly to specialist units for treatment.
Drug maker Mylan said it will offer a generic version of the life - saving allergy treatment EpiPen for half the list price of the brand - name treatment after it became the center of a national controversy over skyrocketing drug prices.
«I also see the profound opportunity in lives and quality of life which will be saved if we are able to answer objections and pursue the treatments and cures which will be available to us through this stand of medicine,» he added.
«This multipronged plan addresses each component of heroin and opioid addiction — prevention, treatment, and recovery — in order to help break this cycle of misery and save lives.»
«I lost two of my own brothers to HIV, and I was one of the lucky ones — there were families of 10 that only had two members left,» says Sikwese, who coordinates an HIV treatment advocate network called AfroCAB, which campaigns for the speedy development and approval of life - saving treatments.
But — until now — the potential number of lives that could be saved if SPRINT - based intensive treatment were fully implemented among eligible U.S. adults was unknown.
The shortage of available organs for transplantation, for example, leaves many patients on lengthy waiting lists for life - saving treatment.
In their paper published online in Annals of Internal Medicine, the team led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Yale School of Public Health describes how a 33 percent cutback in funds earmarked for HIV / AIDS prevention, treatment and research in recent budget proposals would only save $ 900 per year of life lost in the countries of South Africa and Côte d'Ivoire.
Researchers who previously showed that a gene therapy treatment could save the lives of dogs with a deadly disease called myotubular myopathy — a type of muscular dystrophy that affects the skeletal muscles — have found that the therapy is long - lasting.
«No matter how uncomfortable syringe service programs make us, they are proven to save lives, both by preventing the spread of diseases like HIV and hepatitis C, and by connecting people to treatment that can put them on a path to recovery,» he wrote.
Although the few attempts to replicate the treatment have not saved the lives of any other rabies patients, I fervently hope that we are on the right track.
Within three months of starting treatment, he was cancer - free and eligible for the kidney transplant that ultimately saved his life.
«The identification of markers that accurately predict, at an early stage, prostate tumours that are likely to metastasise could guide the urgency and aggressiveness of treatment — and this could save lives.»
EpiPens save lives, but the available long - term treatments offer mixed results to those exhausted by an allergy to mold or the annual release of pollen.
Silymarin was cited in the Commission E study as a supportive treatment for inflammatory liver conditions and as a life - saving treatment in cases of poisoning.
«These are remarkable data,» says Amit Nathwani at University College London, who is using AAVs in potential treatments for a blood disorder called haemophilia B. «Liver fibrosis is a major clinical problem and if these data can be reproduced clinically, the National Health Service would save billions and patients would be given a new lease of life.»
And although treatment with rehydration salts and proper food can save lives, researchers have been working for years on a vaccine that could reduce the severity of the disease, especially in developing countries with poor health care and nutrition.
Our analysis suggests putting treatment beds in place just one month earlier could have further reduced the size of the outbreak and potentially saved thousands of more lives.
Despite this advancement, the authors of the lymphoma roadmap write in a Letter to the Editor of Blood that limitations in research infrastructure, funding, and collaborative approaches across research centers present potential challenges on the road to developing life - saving treatments for this disease.
She survived, but the treatment that saved her life robbed her of her fertility, so she will never have the family she dreamed of starting.
He has been making that point since 2004, when in testimony to the U.S. Senate, he warned embryonic stem cell opponent Sam Brownback of Kansas, «Those in a position of advice or authority who participate in the banning or enforced delays of biomedical research that could lead to the saving of lives and the amelioration of suffering are directly and morally responsible for the lives made worse or lost due to the ban, or even of a moratorium that would deny such treatments in that short window of time when it could help or save them.»