Sentences with phrase «patients after therapy»

«Future studies are necessary to determine the incidence of positive xenodiagnostic results for B. burgdorferi after antibiotic treatment, if these results represent viable organisms or remnants of infection, and whether these results can be related to ongoing symptoms in patients after therapy for Lyme disease,» they write.

These stem cells are frozen and then later administered to the patient intravenously to rescue the patient after therapy.

Not exact matches

Shares of biotech Spark Therapeutics rose 4.5 % in early Monday trading after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to review its gene therapy for vision loss patients who have vision loss due to a rare genetic condition called biallelic RPE65 - mediated inherited retinal disease (IRD).

Physical therapy aimed at rebuilding neural pathways can often improve a patient's level of functioning in the months and years after a spinal cord injury.

The inspiration for the social - media campaign came from the recent WHO HIV / AIDS recommendations that stated that «patients should be put on an antiretroviral therapy of three drugs immediately after diagnosis» and «everyone at risk of becoming infected should be offered protective doses of similar drugs.»

After surgery, patients are fitted with a prosthetic arm and are given therapy to strengthen their core muscles and training on how to use the arms.

Shares of Exelixis, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXEL) were trading higher by 20 percent early Monday morning after the company announced an encouraging update for its CABOMETYX (cabozantinib) therapy for the treatment of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

Although the biotech has only conducted preclinical studies so far, there are several potential advantages to nonviral therapies, including being quicker to develop and possibly eliminating the need for a lengthy monitoring period of patients after treatment.

His struggles intensified the summer after he graduated, and instead of enrolling at A&M in the fall of» 04, Gattis entered a 30 - day in - patient rehab program in Canton, Texas, followed by three months of therapy at an outpatient facility.

In general, patients will require physical therapy after the procedure.

After almost three months of medication and talk therapy, I'm feeling better than I can remember; I'm patient, loving, and grateful for my son, and am able to see pregnant women and babies without crying.

Whether continued tocolysis after 48hours of rescue tocolysis improves neonatal outcome is unproven.To evaluate the effectiveness of maintenance tocolytic therapy with oral nifedipine on the reduction of adverse neonatal outcomes and the prolongation of pregnancy by performing an individual patient data meta - analysis (IPDMA).

For example, would the p11 - boosting therapy — which incorporates into recipients» genetic code — continue to function even if a patient's depression has subsided after treatment?

Hep C patients being treated for opioid addiction achieved high rates of sustained virologic response after 12 weeks of therapy with elbasvir - grazoprevir compared to those taking placebo for 12 weeks before beginning the drug treatment.

This study analyzed preserved tumor samples from 43 prostate cancer patients who later received radiation therapy after rising PSA levels were detected following a radical prostatectomy.

Sato accepted full responsibility, admitting fabrication of the fraudulent Neurology papers, which reported on the effects of therapies to reduce hip fractures both after stroke and in Parkinson's disease patients.

A new study has identified a group of molecules in prostate - cancer cells that doctors might one day use to distinguish which patients should be treated with radiation therapy if rising PSA levels indicate their cancer has recurred after surgical removal of the prostate.

At baseline, study patients had an average Clinician - Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) score of 79, but after MDMA - assisted therapy, CAPS scores dropped to 23.4 in the 13 - person MDMA group, whereas an eight - person placebo group averaged a score of 60.

In particular, the study suggests that two miRNAs — miR - 4516 and miR - 601 — in tumor cells along with Gleason score and lymph node status may help identify patients who might experience rising PSA after they've been treated with radiation therapy.

To uncover how this resistance occurs, Guo and Lu teamed with Xu, Herlyn and colleagues examined both cell lines and tumor biopsies from melanoma patients before and after either BRAF inhibitor therapy or BRAF / MEK inhibitor combination therapy.

At Amgen, the drug made it all the way to a phase III clinical trial before the company pulled the plug partway through the trial after concluding that the therapy was unlikely to help patients live longer.

But up to 30 to 40 percent of these patients experience rising PSA levels after surgery, and these patients are often treated using radiation therapy.

Patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer will always progress after chemotherapy, so most patients go on to be treated with immunotherapy, a type of therapy that uses the body's immune system to fightPatients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer will always progress after chemotherapy, so most patients go on to be treated with immunotherapy, a type of therapy that uses the body's immune system to fightpatients go on to be treated with immunotherapy, a type of therapy that uses the body's immune system to fight cancer.

ASMI researchers are involved in different fields such as biomechanics (motion analysis, which includes cadaver research, namely, the use of human limbs to analyze anatomy, motion, and the strength of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones) and clinical research (tracking patients to see how successful they are returning to sport after treatment with surgery or physical therapy).

Dr. Rassool says that a clinical trial is planned to test whether low doses of a DNMT inhibitor, decitabine, and an investigational PARP inhibitor, talazoparib, can be safely combined and whether this therapy shows efficacy for AML patients, especially those who can not receive intensive chemotherapy, whose leukemia is resistant to treatment, or who have experienced a relapse after treatment.

Glover also worries that with such a new technique, no one has any idea if it carries side effects: perhaps after a while the pain will worsen, or perhaps the therapy could stop patients feeling useful pain in other situations.

After diagnosis, patients in the studies were recommended to drug - only therapy (pharmacotherapy), talk therapy (psychotherapy) or a combination of the two.

«Medical cannabinoids should normally only be considered in the small handful of conditions with adequate evidence and only after a patient has tried of number of standard therapies,» said Allan.

Researchers estimate that as many as 2.1 million patients with mild cognitive impairment could develop Alzheimer's dementia over a two - decade period while waiting for evaluation and treatment resources after approval of an Alzheimer's disease - modifying therapy by the federal Food and Drug Administration.

After just nine weeks of internet - delivered cognitive behavioral therapy, the brain of patients suffering from social anxiety disorder changes in volume.

In that case, six patients suspended antiretroviral therapy for 12 weeks after infusion with zinc finger nuclease — altered CD4 cells.

Six months after completing therapy, 86 percent of the patients were alive with continued responses.

Seven years after Moore's initial therapy, Golde asked his patient to sign a contract relinquishing his rights and those of his heirs to any cell lines or products derived from his blood or tissues (Moore's spleen had been removed in the course of his treatment).

The gene produces an enzyme that, if inhibited via a specific drug therapy, could offer hope to patients prone to deep - vein clots, such as those that sometimes form in the legs during lengthy airplane flights or during recuperation after major surgery.

In the 1970s, after completing a residency in psychiatry and a two - year fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine that focused on family therapy with severely psychotic patients, he began working at a mental health clinic in the South Bronx.

While the patient eventually relapsed and died more than a year after CAR T - cell therapy, the brain tumor never recurred.

«The need for more research into the possible benefits of breathing exercises as a physical therapy for asthma was identified by the James Lind Alliance (JLA) after patients, carers and clinicians highlighted it among their top 10 questions for research into asthma.

One 18 - year - old patient died in a trial in 1999, and a promising French trial of therapy for inherited immune deficiency was suspended last year after three patients developed leukemia, leading The Wall Street Journal to proclaim that «the field seems cursed.»

Researchers in US and Canada funded by the Cooperative Studies Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research compared the costs and benefits of etanercept - methotrexate first versus triple therapy first in 353 patients enrolled in the RACAT trial who continued to have uncontrolled symptoms of RA after at least 12 weeks of methotrexate therapy.

Gene therapy death The Food and Drug Administration stopped a gene therapy trial this week after a patient undergoing the experimental treatment for a severe form of arthritis had a fatal reaction.

After seeing promising results in phase 1 of the Pediatric Leukemia Adoptive Therapy (PLAT - 02) trial with 93 percent of patients with relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) achieving complete initial remission, researchers at Seattle Children's are continuing their quest to improve the experimental therapy and reduce the rate of relapse, which is about 50 pTherapy (PLAT - 02) trial with 93 percent of patients with relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) achieving complete initial remission, researchers at Seattle Children's are continuing their quest to improve the experimental therapy and reduce the rate of relapse, which is about 50 ptherapy and reduce the rate of relapse, which is about 50 percent.

In the past few years alone, researchers have had to backtrack on the health benefits of low - fat, high - fiber diets and the value and safety of hormone replacement therapy as well as the arthritis drug Vioxx, which was pulled from the market after being found to cause heart attacks and strokes in high - risk patients.

The response rate 24 weeks after therapy has been at 75 % — not only most patients still lived after six months, but 75 % had their tumour shrunk and had lower PSA.

(Trials of another CAR - T therapy, by Juno Therapeutics, were halted in 2016 after five patients died from brain swelling.)

«We have identified a subgroup of older patients at sufficiently low risk of recurrence for whom omission of postoperative radiotherapy after breast - conserving surgery and adjuvant endocrine therapy is a reasonable option.

This high mortality is primarily caused by resistance to therapy and the diagnosis of ovarian cancer after it has already metastasized, which occurs in approximately 80 percent of patients.

After being treated by health care teams at National Jewish Health, children who underwent in - patient therapy saw an average reduction in symptoms of 71 percent, they maintained healthy skin a month after returning home, and, perhaps most important, did so without relying solely on medications typically prescribed to these patiAfter being treated by health care teams at National Jewish Health, children who underwent in - patient therapy saw an average reduction in symptoms of 71 percent, they maintained healthy skin a month after returning home, and, perhaps most important, did so without relying solely on medications typically prescribed to these patiafter returning home, and, perhaps most important, did so without relying solely on medications typically prescribed to these patients.

The patients also showed stabilization and even improvement in measures of insulin production after 12 weeks, suggesting that the therapy might arrest beta cell destruction, the authors say.

OBTAIN (Outcomes of Beta - Blocker Therapy After Myocardial Infarction) is an observational multicenter registry in which beta - blocker dosing information was collected in patients with an acute heart attack at participating centers to assess the effect of dose on survival.

After the faecal microbiota transplantation therapy, the patient's microbiota was followed for a year.