Sentences with phrase «patients after treatment»

Alteration of Taste Acuity in Pediatric Cancer Patients after Treatment Completion: A Cross-Sectional Study Using a Filter - Paper Disc Method

Tumour reduction in TSC patients after treatment with rapamycin, an inhibitor of mTOR, is partial and reversible probably due to feedback activ....

The MRI - based method also holds promise for scanning patients after their treatment is complete, when the ability to monitor them without radiation would be especially valuable.

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.

Key Accomplishments • Prepared and maintained the most comfortable dental treatment environment which led to 20 % increase in patient satisfaction and 30 % increase in referral and returned patients • Co-wrote and co-designed clinic's instruction booklet for patients after treatments and surgeries

Not exact matches

• After divorcing Charles, Diana became a world famous advocate for different causes, like better treatment for AIDS and HIV patients.

Shkreli's basic modus operandi in the biopharma sphere was to take niche drugs in treatment spaces where U.S. patients have few options (although those medicines may very well have been approved and available in other countries) and bring them to market, after which he'd maintain carte blanche on the products» prices.

But before his arrest, he said he'd use KaloBios as a vehicle to nab another niche drug, this time for treatment of the parasitic infection Chagas disease, and dramatically increase its price to the $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 range after helping it win FDA approval (the drug is approved in other countries and is provided to patients in the U.S. on a special and selective basis).

He also points to the «outcomes - based» pricing model that the company will be instituting alongside the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-- Novartis will only receive reimbursements for Kymriah if patients respond to it after the first month of treatment.

Speaking of checkpoint inhibitor drugs... Merck's star cancer immunotherapy treatment Keytruda is facing some troubling clinical trial incidents which have now compelled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt three studies of the drug in multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer, after a number of patient deaths.

One is an agreement with Harvard Pilgrim, a nonprofit health plan covering 1.2 million people, to pay rebates if a patient's vision doesn't meet certain thresholds in 30 to 90 days, and then 30 months after treatment, under a model known as outcomes - based pricing.

In clinical trials the treatment — which involves extracting individual patients» immune T - cells, modifying them to seek out tell - tale biological markers associated with blood cancers like aggressive lymphoma, and then pumping those modified killer cells back into the body — has shown major promise, in some cases eliminating all signs of the cancer in patients six months after treatment.

«More than twice the number of patients [were] still living at the end of the study after receiving IMAB362 plus chemotherapy compared to chemotherapy alone,» according to Ganymed CEO Özlem Türeci, with patients showing the highest level of that protein biomarker responding best to the treatment.

When Jedd Wolchok, a cancer doctor and immunologist leading a Yervoy trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering, examined a melanoma patient's scan 12 weeks after he'd received his course of treatment, the results were utterly disappointing — just like those of any other metastatic patient in the final throes of the disease: The tumors had gotten bigger, and there were more of them.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Alnylam Pharmaceuticals the green light to relaunch clinical trials of its treatment for the bleeding disorder hemophilia after pausing the studies after a patient death.

It's the second approval for this pioneering approach to cancer treatment, which involves re-engineering patients» own immune cells to become cancer killers, after the FDA's approval of Novartis» Kymriah in August.

But there are future changes; in the next 18 months we'll be asking patients how they feel after treatments.»

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.

The proportion of patients with full - time jobs fell from 61 % before treatment, to 45 % after treatment.

The trial doesn't have a control group, but that seem's much longer than patients who relapse after treatment with Jakafi.

During a study that led to Dupixent's approval, injections every other week, combined with topical steroid creams helped 69 % of patients achieve 75 % clear skin, after 16 weeks of treatment.

Sara Sutton Fell was invited to serve on the «Employers Perspective Panel» to discuss the importance of work flexibility for cancer patients and their caretakers, during and after treatment.

After all the futile treatments and the succession of helpless doctors, when grief has come even before the death, you sit there with a little cracked ice for the patient's parched mouth and throat, and think... At last I can do this one little thing right.

In the Far West, a mental health center has established a panel of fifty qualified community professionals who accept patients for individual and group psychotherapy after screening and evaluation at the mental health center The center pays a small fee to the panel members and retains responsibility for the patient's total treatment program.

After the patient has returned home from the hospital, the next stage of treatment is consolidation, in which patients receive several additional rounds of chemotherapy to build upon the effects of induction.

Your patient may need to avoid makeup, extreme temperatures, or certain medications before and after treatment.

Irregular / heavy menstrual bleeding can be treated in several ways: 1) Hormonal medication (a low dose birth control pill or cyclic progestin); 2) A hormone - containing intrauterine device (the most common one used is the Mirena IUD, which manages bleeding very effectively and is placed during an office visit and lasts for 5 years); 3) Endometrial ablation is a surgery commonly performed as an outpatient procedure; the entire lining of the uterus is cauterized (many women never get a menstrual period after an ablation); 4) Finally, I reserve hysterectomy as the treatment of last resort — typically only when the above options have not worked for a patient.

Patients who underwent timed intrauterine insemination after the Cap - Score Test had a higher chance of pregnancy than under other treatment regimens for unexplained infertility.

Approximately 95 percent of patients see an improvement after one to three treatments with this procedure.

Over 30 % of our patients come to VCRM after suffering failed fertility treatments at other clinics.

Only after the diagnostic testing is completed will he recommend a treatment plan, and the majority of patients try less invasive and less costly options first and never have the need for IVF.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

PFC offers CCS as an option for patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF), as a treatment for recurrent miscarriage, prevention of aneuploidy in pregnancy, and for women that wish to improve implantation rates, reduce miscarriage rates, and reduce the risk of multiple pregnancy after IVF.

But autonomy doesn't mean doctors should do whatever the patient wants; it means doctors should allow patients to make treatment decisions after considering the risks, benefits, and doctor's recommendations.

Doctors may refer patients to Cranial Technologies for treatment after surgery.

If you feel as though you need to seek infertility treatment, don't delay — some clinics do not accept patients after 40.

Patients come to me all the time after having exhausted all Western treatment strategies and are willing to try an alternative approach.

The W.H.O. member reveals about half of Hepatitis B patients contract the disease before age five but detection and treatment could delay until about 45 years after extensive damage to the liver.

«I have carefully considered the facts, and after meeting with patients and their families I have come to the conclusion it's time for New York to offer a highly restrictive, tightly regulated network to provide patients access to treatment that will improve their quality of life,» O'Mara said in a statement released today.

Irrespective of this, a history of non-compliance is not necessary for a CTO to be imposed; it can be applied to a patient after a first compulsory admission for treatment provided the necessary criteria are met.

Tessa Jowell receives a standing ovation in the House of Lords, after she delivers moving speech on cancer care, appealing for patients to be able to trial treatments https://t.co/krOn1sstn2 pic.twitter.com/Fa 1bOJgKDi

There are a lot of built - in incentives for both providers and patients to opt for more expensive treatments instead of cheaper but equally effective ones, because after all «my insurance will cover it».

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned the treatment of a symptom - free nurse quarantined in New Jersey after she returned from caring for Ebola patients in West Africa, saying, ¿ What happened to her was inappropriate.

Melanie Porter is the sister of a children's center patient who has recovered after treatment.

Other patients had tumors that shrank but didn't disappear, or that remained stable while on — and even after — treatment.

Fifteen years after an experimental peanut allergy shot killed one patient, researchers have ramped up the science to find alternative treatments, including protein powders and herbal mixtures

AFTER he lost his first patient to cancer in 1891, William Coley was desperate to find an alternative treatment to offer next time, not just surgery and morphine.

After two years of treatment, 11 of those patients were taken off the antibody.

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?

A patients» tumors from cholangiocarcinoma, a rare liver cancer that typically fails chemotherapy, shrunk significantly after treatment with FGFR inhibitors, which were prescribed based on results of next generation sequencing.