Sentences with phrase «researchers studying the treatment»

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Besides randomized controlled clinical trials, there are a number of ways researchers can study how a particular cancer treatment is playing out in the real world: there are retrospective studies, observational studies, and even prospective research done using patient registries.

Chicago, GenomeWeb — A new study by researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has demonstrated the predictive power of an AR - V7 protein expression test using Epic Sciences» non-EPCAM-based circulating tumor cell detection platform, which could help guide treatment decisions for men with metastatic castration - resistant prostate cancer.

The researchers could not pinpoint the duration of protection exhibited but said they were encouraged that the study will lead to long - lasting treatments for food allergies.

In a new study commissioned by The March of Dimes Foundation and published in Fertility and Sterility, researchers from The Hastings Center and Yale Fertility Center examined the practical circumstances of infertility treatment in the US that influence patients and their doctors to make treatment choices that too frequently result in multiple births.

In one study, researchers wanted to know if IUI treatment would be more effective if the woman remained on her back for 15 minutes after the procedure.

In order to assess the efficiency and safety of domperidone, researchers Catherine Paul et al. analyzed both the limited studies available on maternal and infant exposure to the stimulant as well as larger studies focused on its use in gastrointestinal disorder treatment.

As reported by Reuters, Dr. William Copeland, a psychiatry researcher at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA, stated that: «This study is about righting a longstanding error and prejudice about the differences between these common childhood adversities,» adding: «It suggests that whether we are talking about prevention, screening or treatment, our notions of childhood mistreatment need to be broader and more holistic than they have been.

Are researchers observing ethical standards in their treatment of study participants?

In a second study of 18 children with peanut allergies, the researchers gave the peanut protein treatment to 12 children and placebo powder to the other six.

Because women are increasingly seeking out acupuncture in order to induce ovulation, researchers decided to study whether or not the traditional Chinese medicine therapy could serve as a supplemental treatment along with clomiphene to improve pregnancy outcomes.

The work helps explain a biological mystery and could open scientific doors to studies of novel treatments for neurological disease, said lead researcher Jason Slot, an assistant professor of fungal evolutionary genomics at The Ohio State University.

This also means that we have new opportunities to develop treatment forms to stop the disease,» says Hugo Lövheim, associate professor at the Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation, Geriatric Medicine, Umeå University, who is one of the researchers behind the study.

Now, in a new study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), a potential treatment maybe on the horizon.

Even before treatment, cancer patients in the study had a small number of infection - and tumor - fighting T cells that target these unusual proteins, the researchers found.

In the second study, the Washington University researchers reported that treatment with interferon lambda offers a significant advantage: It not only prevents the start of persistent norovirus infections but also eliminates established persistent infections.

In a study featured in the December issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Australian researchers demonstrate that PET scans can identify which of these prostate cancer patients would benefit from salvage radiation treatment (SRT).

The second process, known as anaerobic ammonia oxidation, or anammox, was discovered by Dutch researchers studying how nitrogen is removed in sewage treatment plants.

Further studies and environmental monitoring could help identify the most harmful pollutants, which ones should be targeted for reduction in gasoline formulations and in optimization of engines and exhaust treatment technologies, the researchers conclude.

Researchers of the report, which is published in the June issue of Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, the scientific journal of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), examined 14 previously published studies to determine the effectiveness of yoga in the treatment of asthma.

While researchers await the results of the Parkinson's studies, they look beyond to nicotine treatments for other disorders as well.

But this quite obvious connection between eating disorders and cultural expectations surrounding femininity is woefully neglected in much treatment, said lead researcher Dr Su Holmes, a reader in UEA's School of Art, Media and American Studies.

For the study, the researchers recruited participants with community newspaper ads and flyers, as well as from the Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center.

For one thing, they point out, acupuncture studies are extremely difficult to double - blind — a methodological approach in which neither the researchers nor patients know who is receiving the treatment under investigation and who is receiving the placebo or sham.

Brandeis researchers hope their new findings may help create more effective models to study heart conditions and their treatment.

He and a group of researcher colleagues have together studied thousands of research articles and other scientific documentation written about different treatments of urinary and fecal incontinence in adults around the world, published between 2005 and 2015.

Researchers say further study is needed using individual patient - level data among men with high risk prostate cancer to assess the benefit of HRT and whether treatment toxicity, particularly those to the bladder and urinary system are also low with HRT.

In a 2010 study, Harvard medical researcher Ted Kaptchuk showed that some patients with irritable bowel syndrome improved even when they knew the treatment they were being given was a sham, suggesting that deception could, at least in some cases, be unnecessary.

«We believe that there is a threshold effect whereby the levels of Klotho, dictated mostly by the age of the patients, are crucial in determining whether they will benefit from this treatment or not,» said Reeti Behera, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the Weeraratna lab and first author of the study.

This synthetic eye could be used to study and test treatments for eye diseases, researchers reported February 16 in a news conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

BABY BLUE Using human eye cells, researchers fashioned an artificial eye surface that could be used to study and test treatments for eye diseases.

Anti-malaria drugs were routinely administered to all patients seen at the Treatment Unit during the Ebola outbreak and had no bearing on the increased survival in Plasmodium - infected patients in the study, the researchers say.

If this 10 - lipid test is validated in larger studies, it could help researchers to develop treatments for Alzheimer's that halt or slow the disease before it even begins.

«Researchers illuminate key role of NOX proteins in liver disease: Study adds credence to new treatment approach now in clinical trials.»

«These findings present a conundrum for designing Dravet syndrome treatments that both control seizures and improve social behavior,» noted Nephi Stella, another researcher on the study from the UW departments of pharmacology and psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

«While significant effort is being put into developing treatments to slow or block the progression of Alzheimer's dementia, little work has been done to get the medical system ready for such an advancement,» said Jodi Liu, lead author of the study and a policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

Researchers conducted a meta - analysis of 186 studies of patients seeking help for mental health issues that examined whether they accepted the treatment that was recommended and if they did, whether they completed it.

In this study, a group of prominent alcoholism researchers randomly assigned more than 900 problem drinkers to receive one of three treatments over 12 weeks.

In this study, tungstate treatment in mouse models of colitis shifted gut microbiota to a more normal state in terms of the balance of bacterial species and also reduced gut inflammation, the researchers report.

Researchers are also studying other imaging technologies for breast cancer treatment monitoring, such as MRI, X-ray imaging, and ultrasound, but Hielscher notes that these have not yet shown as much promise as this new technology.

«Our review highlights that studies to date varied widely in hypotheses and research methods, suggesting that the field needs to develop more standardized methods to allow for a clearer understanding of the role of comorbid depression among adolescents in substance abuse treatment,» wrote the researchers in a joint statement.

Now researchers at Marcus Autism Center are studying delay discounting as it applies to parents» decision - making, when it comes to engaging in treatment for their children's problem behavior.

In March 2016, Penn researchers published a study in Blood that showed long - term ibrutinib treatment reverses the dysfunction of T cells in CLL and that combining CAR therapy with ibrutinib enhanced engineered T cell proliferation in mice.

It is difficult at this stage to foresee the full impact of post-zygotic mutations in terms of treatment options for disease because the study was mainly focused on the technological aspects of these genetic changes, the researchers say.

In further studies, the researchers tested the capacity of ANG to prevent and mitigate radiation - induced bone marrow failure, and in pre-clinical models, they found that survival following radiation exposure was increased after treatment with recombinant ANG protein.

GIS's DNA analysistechnique has allowed the researchers to further study the biology of Opisthorchis viverrini to understand the cause and the eventual development of treatments for bile duct cancer, a condition caused by the parasite.

A study involving Ottawa and Taiwan researchers, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provides new insight into why ovarian cancer is often resistant to chemotherapy, as well as a potential way to improve its diagnosis and treatment.

In the study, the researchers found that although online versions of UK high street pharmacies were compliant with prescription regulations, 80 per cent of the online pharmacies surveyed let customers choose their dosages, the duration and choice of antibiotic treatments.

«One - size treatment for blood cancer probably doesn't fit all, researchers say: Most multiple myeloma studies involve people of European descent, but the disease is more likely to affect African - Americans.»

«Clarification based on rigorous research studies will permit researchers to identify the conditions under which depression can influence substance abuse treatment retention and outcomes, which in turn will help to specify when depression needs to be directly addressed with this population of young people,» explained the researchers.

The discovery of an unexpected biochemical link within tumor cells should lead to clinical trials for experimental drug treatments that indirectly target myc and that already are being evaluated in human studies, the researchers said.