Much
of the therapeutic work in family systems centers on boundaries, not the physical boundaries of walls and borders, but psychological boundaries.
Some practitioners of Restoration Therapy do most
of their therapeutic work in RT and also do training and supervision.
Not exact matches
You can find the same types
of long - running disagreements across the
therapeutic board
in clinical trials, as I wrote about years ago
in an essay for the New York Times, entitled «Do Clinical Trials
Work?»
The ebbu team believes
in the power
of cannabis to change people's lives and is
working toward a new paradigm where patients can be assured consistent
therapeutic effects — and consumers can confidently choose the exact experience they desire.
Founded
in 2015 after six years
of work as part
of the Enteroendocrine Discovery Performance Unit
of GlaxoSmithKline, Phoundry Pharmaceuticals has created a portfolio
of optimized peptides
in various
therapeutic categories, most notably diabetes and obesity.
There are a variety
of reasons for this gap
in understanding: The time gap between discovery research and the translation
of that discovery into a
therapeutic or a commercial product can take decades, and public and political attention spans are short; the natural human inclination is to pay more attention to things that don't
work rather than things that do.
But it also subtly accommodated itself to such elements
of late modernity as the
therapeutic culture, increasing numbers
of wives
working outside the home, and a new expectation that husbands as well as wives should involve themselves emotionally
in home life and the well - being
of the children.
Heather Tomlinson travelled to Birmingham to profile the pioneering
work of Betel
of Britain, a Christian
therapeutic community where people are finding healing from addiction through faith
in Jesus
Borrowing from the
work of sociologist Donald Miller, Wells sees «postmodern spirituality» at
work in emerging, extra-denominational «new paradigm churches» characterized by three modes
of thinking» the
therapeutic, the individualistic, and the anti-establishmentarian.
justification brings forgiveness for Wesley, but the real point is the
therapeutic work of grace
in restoring the ability to love
in regeneration and sanctification.
Browning does not disown the recent past, but without question he wants to go beyond the stance that he and Oden shared then: «The preoccupation with
therapeutic acceptance and Christian forgiveness characteristic
of the 1960s, especially
of the
work of Paul Tillich, Seward Hiltner, Daniel Day Williams, Thomas Oden and myself, was not so much wrong as one - sided
in its emphasis» (p. 104).
Major Peter Hofman, the head
of one such center
in Cleveland, reports, «We find our
work program
of immeasurable
therapeutic value.»
The internist is equipped to treat the physiological problems and administer Antabuse; the psychologist is trained to do testing through which the alcoholic's
therapeutic needs can be evaluated, and he may be trained to do research and psychotherapy; the psychiatrist, being a medical doctor like the internist, can prescribe medication, but his unique skills are
in the area
of individual and group therapy and their relationship to drug therapies; the social worker may be trained to help the alcoholic
work through his marital and vocational problems and do group as well as individual therapy; the social worker may also
work with spouses; the pastoral counselor is specially equipped by training to help the alcoholic with his «spiritual» problems as these relate to his sobriety and his interpersonal relationships; he may also be trained to do group and marital counseling; 40.
Many
of his insights concerning the power and pervasiveness
of human sexuality from the beginnings
of life are useful for growthful parenting as well as for
therapeutic repair
work later
in life.
The central Rankian theme — the primacy and ambivalence
of the will — is relevant and useful
in both educational and
therapeutic growth
work.
Being
in the water highlights a sense
of freedom, fun, and playfulness for many children, making it a fabulous fit for
therapeutic work and optimal results.
Athletic Trainers
work closely with physicians and other health professionals and are responsible for being current
in several areas, including: an evidence based practice (EBP), prevention and health promotion (PHP), clinical examination and diagnosis (CE), acute care
of injuries and illnesses (AC),
therapeutic interventions (TI), psychosocial strategies and referral (PS), healthcare administration (HA), and professional development and responsibility (PD).
As a therapist, I am well aware
of the problems we have
in this country
in parenting our children and have
worked with many families
in a
therapeutic setting on parenting skills and other issues.
«My team at Nationwide Children's has
worked with commitment and dedication to develop a therapy that may subsequently be shown through future clinical trials to potentially alter the course
of this unforgiving condition and provide a
therapeutic option for the families and infants with SMA1,» says Jerry Mendell, MD, principal investigator
in the Center for Gene Therapy at Nationwide Children's.
Of approximately 300 staff at the Center for
Therapeutic Research, only nine postdocs and students are conducting basic research; the rest
work in drug discovery and development.
«We hope that our
work will provide the basis for a larger study
of patient samples that may ultimately identify biomarkers that can be used as surrogate markers to determine the benefit
of therapeutic interventions
in diagnosed but asymptomatic HD patients to prevent or delay disease onset.»
Although the bulk
of the commercial manufacturing uses cultures
of bacteria, such as Escherichia coli or Chinese hamster ovary cells, a few biotech companies are trying to produce
therapeutic proteins
in the milk
of transgenic mammals (such as GTC Biotherapeutics, which is using goats; PPL Therapeutics, which is using sheep; and BioProtein Technologies, which is
working with rabbits), transgenic chicken eggs (such as Avigenics or Vivalis), or even
in transgenic crops (such as ProdiGene or Meristem Therapeutics); but it is early days for these «pharming» methods.
Another interesting aspect to the
work is that it demonstrates the possibility
of adding new machinery to human cells to enable them to make
therapeutic agents
in response to disease signals.»
UT Southwestern Medical Center cancer researchers have identified a protein critical to the spread
of deadly cancer cells and determined how it
works, paving the way for potential use
in diagnosis and eventually possible
therapeutic drugs to halt or slow the spread
of cancer.
This
work provides a proof
of principle for a new approach
in the study and treatment
of cancer: the aberrant expression
in a tissue or organ
of genes specific to other tissues could become a new tool for establishing a prognosis and personalizing
therapeutic care.
The
work, which appeared
in Cell Reports on January 2, 2018, suggests that astrocytes may be good
therapeutic targets to prevent or reverse the effects
of normal aging.
The
work published
in Cancer Cell complements previous research efforts from the CNIO Melanoma Group, which could lead to the development
of novel drugs that selectively target the mechanism
of cell autodigestion as a potential
therapeutic strategy.
«We are excited by the
work of Dr. Pourdehnad and colleagues and believe these results are an important advance
in understanding the role
of myc pathway dysregulation
in multiple myeloma, and ultimately allow for the development
of therapeutic strategies to address it,» said Jeffrey Wolf, MD, a UCSF blood disorder specialist and director
of the Stephen and Nancy Grand Multiple Myeloma Translational Initiative at UCSF, a sponsor
of the research.
University
of Calgary researchers including Luchman, Weiss and Dr. Greg Cairncross — director
of SACRI, and leader
of the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) «
Therapeutic Targeting
of Glioblastoma research program at the university — are now
working with cancer researchers Dr. Warren Mason (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
in Toronto) and Dr. Lesley Seymour (Director
of the NCIC Clinical Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program), and drug manufacturer AstraZeneca, to plan a clinical trial testing a similar, but newer, drug related to AZD8055 (called AZD2014),
in combination with TMZ,
in patients with glioblastoma.
The other aspect
of the job that I find rewarding is the variety, not only
in the type
of documents that have to be written, but also
in the different
therapeutic areas I
work in.
«Psychiatry has long struggled with the fact that, while lithium is highly effective for treating bipolar disorder, the narrow
therapeutic window and side effect profile often makes lithium both difficult and sometimes dangerous to
work with clinically,» said Todd Gould, MD,
of the Department
of Psychiatry at the University
of Maryland, an expert
in the mechanisms
of lithium and the neurobiology
of bipolar disorder.
The researcher concludes that «there is plenty
of work to do
in order to attain a genetic diagnosis
of the disease; however if genetic basis knowledge goes further, new
therapeutic intervention could be fostered and autism will stopped to be only treated by palliative and unspecific strategies.»
«StimDust is the smallest deep - tissue stimulator that we are aware
of that's capable
of stimulating almost all
of the major
therapeutic targets
in the peripheral nervous system,» said Rikky Muller, co-lead
of the
work and assistant professor
of electrical engineering and computer sciences at Berkeley.
«A significant amount
of work remains
in the development
of teixobactin as a
therapeutic antibiotic for human use — we are probably around six to ten years off a drug that doctors can prescribe to patients — but this is a real step
in the right direction and now opens the door for improving our
in vivo analogues.»
The study, published
in the PNAS journal, has opened the door to a new
therapeutic pathway that consists
of complementing the physical treatments received by these patients with therapies to overcome attention deficit disorders, such as
working with video games.
Yet, for Kaileh, the most rewarding aspect
of her research has been engaging
in biomedical
work that could have real
therapeutic implications.
«Our
work and that
of our colleagues on stress and CRF have been mechanistically implicated
in Alzheimer's disease, but agents that impact CRF signaling have not been carefully tested for
therapeutic efficacy or long - term safety
in animal models,» said the study's principal investigator and corresponding author Robert Rissman, PhD, assistant professor
in the Department
of Neurosciences and Biomarker Core Director for the Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS).
The Myelin Repair Foundation, which funded this
work as part
of a multi-institutional effort to accelerate research and development
of treatments for MS, has entered into a cooperative agreement with the National Institutes
of Health to assess guanabenz as a
therapeutic candidate
in MS clinical studies.
Strahl said, «We think this
work will lead to a greater understanding
of cancer biology, and open the door to future
therapeutic approaches for patients
in need
of better treatment options.»
«Physicians do use the database, but it's not yet common for them to use it for every prescription because it's still lacking a lot
of information on pharmaceuticals,» said Lööf, chairman
of the Drug
Therapeutic Committee at the Centre for Clinical Research
in Västerås, which
works with local physicians to provide drug therapy strategies.
«Neuregulin - 1 has broad
therapeutic potential, but mechanistically, we are still learning about how it
works,» says the study's senior investigator Kuo - Fen Lee, a professor
in the Salk Institute's Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology and holder
of the Helen McLoraine Chair
in Molecular Neurobiology.
Working for a CRO will expose recruits to many different phases
of clinical trials
in diverse
therapeutic areas.
«This
work provides a proof
of principle for using stem cell - derived human intestinal organoids
in a
therapeutic setting.»
On the morning
of Monday, October 3, the Nobel Committee announced that immunologist Ralph Steinman had won the Nobel Prize
in Medicine for his
work on immune cells and a discovery that led to the first
therapeutic cancer vaccine.
The study evaluated the delivery
of Letting the Future
In, an NSPCC - designed programme that sees social
work professionals deliver
therapeutic support to children aged four to 17 who have experienced sexual abuse.
Hwang's 2004
work illustrated the feasibility
of therapeutic cloning, but he was still
working out kinks
in his protocol.
Richard Lindsay, a PhD student who
worked on the research team, added: «Our findings are
of central importance
in understanding how microbial infections evolve, but also have wider significance for the treatment
of cancer and the
therapeutic control
of disease
in humans, animals and plants.»
«Future studies on how PAF / PAFR signaling controls UCP1 levels through beta3 - AR production
in the BAT
of animals and humans may reveal new
therapeutic targets to treat metabolic disorders associated with obesity,» said Junko Sugatani, Ph.D., a researcher involved
in the
work from the Department
of Pharmaco - Biochemistry at the School
of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University
of Shizuoka
in Shizuoka, Japan.
Editing the genomes
of human embryos for a
therapeutic use — for example, to eradicate a genetic disease — is illegal
in the United Kingdom, but research
work is possible under licence from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).
Today that department is at least five times the size, and it
works in or with a variety
of therapeutic classes, new disease areas, and a very large network
of physicians participating
in clinical trials across the country.