Sentences with phrase «on experimental therapies»

The Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center is one of 11 Lead Academic Organization sites of the National Cancer Institute's Experimental Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network (ETCTN), which supports the evaluation of early phase clinical trials on experimental therapies.

Not exact matches

This biotech's first year as a publicly traded company has been a terrific ride on the back of an experimental oncology therapy that could have huge built - in demand.

Among its top holdings, Intra-Cellular Therapies (ITCI) was up more than 11 %, continuing a run that has helped the stock double in price since the end of August following positive data on late - stage experimental schizophrenia drug candidate ITI - 007.

On 13 April, the Texas Medical Board voted to accept rules intended to give doctors «a reasonable and responsible degree of latitude» in using experimental stem cell therapies.

And they would love for people in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia to have access to experimental therapies as well, as the death toll from the largest Ebola outbreak on record climbs past 600.

«We were surprised to find so many similarities between these two diseases, but most striking was that some of these common signatures are shared with other conditions like diabetic retinopathy and age - related macular degeneration,» said William A. Beltran, senior author on the study, an associate professor of ophthalmology in Penn Vet's Department of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine and director of the Division of Experimental Retinal Therapies.

Daniel Grinberg and Lluïsa Vilageliu, from the Department of Genetics of the Faculty of Biology, and Joan Blasi, from the Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapy of the Faculty of Medicine, participated in the paper, published on the journal Cell Reports.

Phase I studies focus on questions related to the safety and best dose of experimental therapies.

On 11 August, WHO convened a panel of medical ethicists, scientific experts, and lay people from the affected countries to assess the role of experimental therapies in the Ebola outbreak response.

Cell therapy, as envisaged by the teams of I - Stem, is primarily based on the identification of experimental protocols that can specifically guide differentiation of pluripotent cells to a cell fate, which presents a interest for the replacement of the defective cell population from the patient (the striatal neurons for Huntington's disease, the cells of the retinal pigment epithelium for retinitis pigmentosa, keratinocytes for genodermatoses, etc.).

There are, however, experimental therapies in development — and Charlie's parents have pinned their hopes on one of them.

Specifically, they want their child to undergo nucleoside bypass therapy, a treatment that Cohen called «highly experimental» and which he noted would not work on all mitochondrial diseases.

There are only a handful of approved treatments on the market — most notably Merck's Keytruda and Opdivo — and most of the rest of the estimated 1,500 therapies are still in the experimental stages.

The potential for cell therapy to play a role in the therapy of myelin disorders is under serious consideration, based on years of experimentation of glial cell transplants in experimental models.

Nucleoside bypass therapy is highly experimental and has never been used on someone with Charlie's rare mitochondrial disease, but it has also shown promise in some cases.

Clinical research activities are focused on the implementation of experimental protocols based on gene or cell therapy for the treatment of genetic blood disorders such as ADA - SCID, Wiskott - Aldrich Syndrome, Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, Beta - thalassemia, Chronic granulomatous disease, Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I (Hurler).

University of Pennsylvania immunotherapy researcher Dr. Carl June, who led the development of an experimental therapy for advanced childhood leukemia that is expected to become the first CAR T - cell therapy to win U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, will give the keynote talk today at the Conference on Cell & Gene Therapy for HIV Cure at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research therapy for advanced childhood leukemia that is expected to become the first CAR T - cell therapy to win U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, will give the keynote talk today at the Conference on Cell & Gene Therapy for HIV Cure at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research therapy to win U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, will give the keynote talk today at the Conference on Cell & Gene Therapy for HIV Cure at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Therapy for HIV Cure at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

At this time, any work on gene therapy is generally limited to experimental work related to diseases that have no other cures.

On the other hand, sitting upright with good posture (spine in line, shoulders back) helped people with depressive symptoms feel more enthusiastic and less fatigued, found a recent study published in Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.

On the plus side, the season introduced Meredith to the concept of therapy; introduced a nurse, Rose [Lauren Stamile], who caught Derek's attention while he and Meredith were not together; the trials of the experimental procedure for treating brain tumors, which served to keep Derek and Meredith in close proximity; the introduction of Dr. Erica Hahn [Brooke Smith]; the introduction of Meredith's half - sister, Lexie Grey [Chyler Leigh]; the crumbling of Bailey's [Chandra Wilson] marriage, and the possibility that Erica and Callie [Sara Ramirez] were lesbians.

We pursued chemo and a couple of experimental therapies for Raven, as well as holistic alternatives, but on Sept. 26, 2005, we lost her - only four months after the very first sign she was ill.

On this point, if the scientific evidence is inconclusive on the matter of a therapy's effectiveness, patients seeking these experimental treatments may be unable to tender compelling evidence that their physical pain is increased by the denial of coverage for that treatmenOn this point, if the scientific evidence is inconclusive on the matter of a therapy's effectiveness, patients seeking these experimental treatments may be unable to tender compelling evidence that their physical pain is increased by the denial of coverage for that treatmenon the matter of a therapy's effectiveness, patients seeking these experimental treatments may be unable to tender compelling evidence that their physical pain is increased by the denial of coverage for that treatment.

Behavior therapy is considered probably efficacious for childhood depression, and a number of other experimental interventions show promise but require further evaluation.12 Currently, only 2 research groups have focused on psychosocial interventions for childhood bipolar disorder.13 - 15 Hence, increased attention to creation and testing of treatments specifically targeting depression and bipolar disorder in children is needed.16 In particular, studies should focus on children's developmental needs, address comorbidity, involve family members in treatment, demonstrate treatment gains as rated by parents and clinicians rather than children themselves, and compare experimental interventions with standard care or treatment as usual (TAU) rather than no - treatment or attention control groups.12, 17,18 In addition, parental psychopathology may affect treatment adherence and response.

Attachment therapy has come under attack over the past five years or so because of experimental therapies that have concentrated on control of the child during therapy, to the point of abuse and death.