Sentences with phrase «on human patients»

Tilapia dressings were first used on human patients last year by doctors in Brazil looking for cost - effective methods of treating burns and California vet Jamie Peyton, of the University of California Davis, had adapted the process for animals.

These results concur with studies on human patients, which report a decrease in insulin sensitivity of between 44 and 72 % in obese subjects compared with normal - weight control subjects (34 — 37).

In recent years, the branches of veterinary dentistry have expanded to include many techniques previously only performed on human patients.

Physical therapists have used therapeutic ultrasound on human patients since the 1940s, and veterinarians have used it on animals since the 1970's.

Laser therapy was first used on human patients and now it is gradually being adapted as a valuable component of veterinary technology.

Still, many hurdles remain before the advance can be tested on human patients, Zhao says.

For only the second time, the Food and Drug Administration approved a company's request to test an embryonic stem cell - based therapy on human patients.

Previous clinical trials have evaluated the efficacy, safety and tolerability of CIP on human patients.

Overuse of drugs on human patients and farm animals has helped fuel the rise of such drug resistance.

Not exact matches

Drugs that worked in the microtumor worked 88 percent of the time on humans, and drugs that failed in the microtumor failed 100 percent of the time in the patient.

By printing multiple lung airways — or any other afflicted organ — from a human patient and testing drugs on them, pharma companies can bypass the ethically challenged practice of testing on animals and proceed to human clinical trials with greater confidence the drugs will actually work, according to Wadsworth.

In 2000, Medarex began its first phase of human testing on its new «CTLA -4-blockade» — in patients who had either prostate cancer or metastatic melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer.

Then, through its human - trained algorithms, it makes split - second decisions on triaging patients and getting them where they need to go — prepping the surgical team ahead of time in cases like Rodney's.

'' «At PMV Pharmaceuticals, we are targeting the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer (p53) to make an unprecedented impact on cancer patients» lives.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

Award - winning author Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council.

A general summary was provided by ethics experts who testified before then - Congressman Albert Gore's Committee on Science and Technology in 1982: (1) Though risks in experimentation are inevitable, a strong bias toward the sacredness of human life requires the highest regard for the patient or subject.

Peris saw the therapeutic relationships as an authentic encounter between two human beings, not a variation on the doctor - patient relationship.

Award winning author Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patients Rights Council.

The human material on which the demonstration has been made has so far been rather limited and, in part at least, eccentric, consisting of unusually suggestible hypnotic subjects, and of hysteric patients.

Except for the prudent correction of an imminent danger, I will neither treat any patient nor carry out any research on any human being without the valid informed consent of the subject or the appropriate legal protector thereof, understanding that research must have as its purpose the furtherance of the health of that individual.

Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant to the Patient's Rights Council.

«Thus, also in our century, the Lord, the Holy Spirit, has given us new initiatives with new aspects of Christian life: On being lived by human persons with th ``... If the movements are really gifts of the Holy Spirit, they integrate and serve the Church, and in the patient dialogue between pastors and movements a fruitful form is born, in which these elements become edifying elements for the Church of today and tomorrow

Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism and a consultant for the Patients Rights Council.

Thus, future research on human needs to be conducted to study the efficacy of VCO as rewetting agent on dry eye patient.

In order to protect infant safety and ensure the patient and human rights of mothers and babies, we have built a non-profit organization committed to: (1) the study of exclusive breastfeeding complications that can result in brain injury and, in the most severe instances, death; and (2) raising public awareness to signs of infant hunger and the consequences that can result based on peer - reviewed research.

The Golden Goose Award has honored innovative research that developed a diabetes medication from Gila monster venom, an algorithm based on marriage stability that led to the development of a program to match kidney patients with donors and the «marshmallow test» — a measure of young children's self - control that has led to greater understanding of human behavior.

They stripped the knee joints of calves of all their cells with detergents and enzymes and then, based on digitized x-ray images from an anonymous patient, had machines carve them into cubic - centimeter - size human jaw joints.

The National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee (NHRPAC), a committee of scientists, lay patient advocates, lawyers, professional society members, and ethicists, previously advised DHHS on research matters, but — in a politically charged decision — its charter was allowed to expire recently.

Advocates of biomedical research, professional societies, and patient groups had mobilized to plead for a more careful review, warning that this bill's language was so vague it might hinder research on human stem cells and new medical therapies.

The Wyss team believes the ability of the human gut - on - a-chip to culture the microbiome with human gut cells also holds promise for the field of precision medicine, where a patient's own cells and gut microbiota could one day be cultured inside a gut - on - a-chip for testing different therapies and identifying an individualized treatment strategy.

«If this technology can be scaled to human - size grafts, patients suffering from renal failure, who are currently waiting for donor kidneys, could theoretically receive an organ grown on demand,» says Harald Ott, head of the team that developed the rat kidneys at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

At the patient safety charity, Safer Medicines, we believe this goal is most likely to be achieved through a greatly increased focus on human, rather than animal, biology in preclinical drugs tests.

Besides its potential application in human patients, the newly developed skin tissue also could be used as an alternative to testing cosmetics on animals, the researchers said.

GTC recognized the need to demonstrate on its own the potential for the technology and, in the late 1990s, began a clinical trial of human antithrombin for patients undergoing bypass surgery who develop resistance to the anticoagulant drug heparin.

Although the Harvard criteria were based on zero patients and no experiments were conducted either with humans or animals, they soon became the standard for declaring people dead in several states, and in 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) was sanctioned by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

Johnny Ray, who died on this date six years ago, was Kennedy's patient, his research subject, and the world's first human cyborg, fitted with brain implants that allowed him to communicate directly with a computer.

In 2017, they'll try the device on human participants — paralyzed patients who will use stentrodes to control mechanical exoskeletons.

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

«Our approach does not rely on model systems but on DNA samples and clinical data from human patients.

This take on Michelangelo's famous Sistine Chapel image symbolizes the link between human pain patients and the mouse model: The lab - designed SPR inhibitor (in green), shown within the active pocket of SPR itself (in gray with its atomic structure in colored lines), is the «bridge» between the two species.

Attacked by critics who insisted it wasn't ethical to use the drug on young patients who weren't yet psychotic, McGlashan says he supplied «about 200 pounds» of supporting documentation to the federal Office for Human Research Protections before he got a green light to continue.

Two advocacy groups joined with cancer patients and doctors yesterday to launch a sweeping attack on human gene patents.

A PATIENT who can not read fear on other people's faces has given researchers a valuable clue to how the human brain processes emotions.

Marc Wolfson, public affairs specialist on emergency preparedness for the Department of Health and Human Services, isn't so confident: «We can develop the best countermeasures in the world, but if they're not there in time to help treat the patient, then they're not effective.»

In contrast, observations in humans report on dozens of patients and an order of magnitude more data than in monkeys.»

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However, in tests on tissues removed from 253 human cancer patients, the MasSpec Pen took about 10 seconds to provide a diagnosis and was more than 96 percent accurate.

«Applying a blocker might help to reduce the negative effects on the human heart that are caused by medium - chain fatty acids, especially in patients with increased fatty acid levels in blood,» concludes Hatt.