Sentences with phrase «respond to other therapies»

Surgery — In some cases, surgery can either cure or significantly improve quality of life for children with continued, disabling seizures that do not respond to other therapies.

The devices are being developed and studied by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign as a potential treatment for pain that does not respond to other therapies.

Based on his therapeutic work in mental hospitals with «regressed» patients who had failed to respond to other therapies, Berne came to a startling conclusion.

An oral cancer drug improves outcomes while minimizing side effects in women with gynecologic cancers who carry a BRCA mutation and whose disease is not responding to other therapies, suggests preliminary research.

Because of the procedure's complexity, it has been used, until recently, only to help patients whose pulmonary thromboembolic disease causes severe hypertension and has not responded to other therapies.

Not exact matches

The therapist conducts the therapy without conscious plan and responds to the other person with his whole being, «his total organismic sensitivity.»

Also, because the treatment is invasive — requiring brain surgeons to drill into the skull and deliver the therapy to the right spot in the brain — it should only be used by severely afflicted patients that don't respond to other drugs.

CAR - T cell therapy is particularly exciting because it works well in people whose cancers haven't responded to other available treatments, says Renier Brentjens, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

These are no - fault disorders that respond to medication and other therapies but without proper diagnosis and treatment, these bothersome symptoms can last a lifetime.

For example, changes in certain genes could indicate that his cancer was more likely to respond to a particular drug, while other mutations might predict little benefit from a specific therapy.

The results of this study suggest that a combined therapy targeting IL - 21 and TNF might be beneficial for patients that do not respond to anti-TNF therapy or other current therapies.

Patients with ALK rearrangements do not respond to EGFR - TKIs, but are sensitive to other targeted therapies (such as ceretinib).

«While there is understandable excitement around new therapies that enlist the immune system to fight cancer, we are still in a situation where greater than half of patients don't respond in melanoma and the response rate is even worse in other cancer types,» Hanks said.

Currently, patients with hypopituitarism must take expensive, lifelong hormone replacement therapies that poorly mimic the body's complex patterns of hormone secretion that fluctuates with circadian rhythms and responds to feedback from other organs.

And while those who respond well to initial therapy do tend to survive longer, they require additional treatment for recurring cancer just as frequently as other women whose initial treatment response was not so pronounced.

TNBC is deadly because, unlike other types of breast cancers such as estrogen receptor (ER) positive or HER2 amplified breast tumours which have effective targeted therapy, TNBC tumours do not respond to targeted therapy.

«It is quite possible that by increasing the immune function in patients they will also respond better to some other therapies.»

City of Hope will be the one of the first authorized centers in the nation to provide axicabtagene ciloleucel, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today is the first approved CAR T therapy for adult patients who have not responded to or who have relapsed after at least two other kinds of treatment.

Patients who respond to therapies might continue their course of care or transition to other therapies, including reduced - intensity bone marrow transplants.

However, escitalopram therapy is currently limited by the fact that some patients do not respond well to the drug, while others develop adverse reactions requiring discontinuation of treatment.

Like most phase - I trials, this therapy will be tested first in patients with disease that has not responded to standard or other investigational therapies.

These results reveal new risk markers in the genome that could be used to predict which children are likely to respond poorly to albuterol and other current first - line anti-asthma drugs, and to guide the development of new therapies that will be more effective and reduce the outsize burden of mortality in minority populations.

Despite adjustments for age, weight, concomitant medications, and renal or hepatic function, certain patients respond well, some experience severe adverse effects while others do not respond to the same drug therapy.

This «humanized» mouse is susceptible to human liver infections and responds to human drug treatments, providing a new way to test novel therapies for debilitating human liver diseases and other diseases with liver involvement such as malaria.

Unfortunately, none of the other CSAs are known to respond to vitamin or other medical therapies.

My goal is to understand how and why a person may or may not respond to therapy by evaluating certain markers — genetic changes, proteins, and other features — in blood or tumor tissue.

What are we really looking at when we talk about heart disease or other diseases that respond favorably to chelation therapy?

They effectively help conditions that have not responded well to other therapies.

However, other dogs do not respond to antibiotic therapy alone.

These dogs have participated in a special therapy dog training program to assess their disposition, test their ability to respond to a variety of commands, and otherwise prepare them for visiting nursing homes, hospitals, schools, and other public places.

The study is focused on determining the response to therapy: how long it lasts, do certain types of lymphoma respond better than others to prednisone, and most importantly how quality of life is improved.

Other reasons you might pursue chiropractic care include musculoskeletal conditions that are recurring or not responding to conventional therapy, treatment following recovery from a significant lameness or trauma and preventive or maintenance care for horses in training.

Some dogs respond well to water therapy while others have had success with a drug called Adequan, which has been used successfully in horses.

Other cats respond to treatment with glucosamine, but, like psychological therapy, results are also inconsistent.

Since FloridaWild Veterinary Hospital has thoroughly trained, experienced holistic practitioners on staff, your elderly pets can be treated with acupuncture and other rehabilitative therapies which can greatly facilitate pain relief for pets who are affected with these and other conditions that respond positively to these alternative treatments.

FloridaWild Veterinary Hospital's thoroughly trained and experienced holistic practitioners are able to offer their elderly patients acupuncture, chiropractic care, and other rehabilitative therapies; this can help relieve pain for those who respond positively to these treatments.

Cats with type II disease may respond to other forms of therapy.

Unfortunately, the need for enemas or other methods of removing feces from the colon often becomes more and more frequent, and ultimately, cats with advanced stages of the disease simply stop responding to medical therapy and the colon becomes little more than a big, flaccid bag containing a mass of hard feces.

Charted and recorded information in client files.Tracked client movement on and off the unit by documenting times and destinations of clients.Checked facility for open windows, locked doors, malfunctioning smoke detectors and other safety hazards.Quickly responded to crisis situations when severe mental health and behavioral issues arose.Efficiently gathered information from families and social services agencies to inform development of treatment plans.Documented all patient information including service plans, treatment reports and progress notes.Collaborated closely with treatment team to appropriately coordinate client care services.Developed comprehensive treatment plans that focused on accurate diagnosis and behavioral treatment of problems.Consulted with psychiatrists about client medication changes, issues with medicine compliance and efficacy of medications.Organized treatment projects that focused on problem solving skills and creative thinking.Referred clients to other programs and community agencies to enhance treatment processes.Created and reviewed master treatment and discharge plans for each client.Guided clients in understanding illnesses and treatment plans.Developed appropriate policies for the identification of medically - related social and emotional needs of clients.Assisted clients in scheduling home visits and phone calls and monitored effectiveness of these activities.Evaluated patients for psychiatric services and psychotropic medications.Monitored patients prescribed psychotropic medications to assess the medications» effectiveness and side effects.Evaluated patients to determine potential need to transfer to specialized inpatient mental health facilities.Administered medication to patients presenting serious risk of danger to themselves and others.Conducted psychiatric evaluations and executed medication management for both inpatient and outpatient facilities.Led patients in individual, family, group and marital therapy sessions.Diagnosed mental health, emotional and substance abuse disorders.Recorded comprehensive patient histories and coordinated treatment plans with multi-disciplinary team members.Consulted with and developed appropriate treatment and rehabilitation plans for dually diagnosed patients.Referenced and used various therapy techniques, including psychodynamic, family systems, cognitive behavioral and lifespan integration psychotherapy.

That is, not just therapy sessions, but day - to - day programming, discipline, the ways staff respond to behavior, the language used in describing residents, the way weekend leave passes are used, the way staff meetings are conducted - and every other aspect of the program can he fitted into an overall framework that employs therapeutic ideas.

A wide range of activities and creative arts techniques are incorporated into the therapy responding mostly to the child's preferences and this is the biggest difference between other types of specialized therapies such as art, music, and drama programs.

and creative arts techniques are incorporated into the therapy responding mostly to the child's preferences and this is the biggest difference between other types of specialized therapies such as art, music, and drama programs.

In Talks 3 and 4, Jeffrey Young and Arnoud Arntz will respond to talks 1 and 2 and each other in a discussion of this line of investigation in the context of its contribution to a much needed theoretical expansion of Schema Therapy and the possibilities opened up for new discoveries about about the nature of schemas, corrective emotional experience and broad life changes.

This approach has been shown to be an effective form of treatment for children who struggle with various mental health issues and have difficulty responding well to other forms of therapy.

You will be guided to explore your own experience in the moment, respond to others, and give and receive feedback as we discuss some of the basics of Gestalt Therapy.

Couples therapy can help you understand these needs and respond to them in a way that supports connection with each other.

Teaching parents how to respond effectively as a «regulatory other» for their child is therapy.

Because Schema Therapy works by MODE not symptom it can be used effectively with the majority of complex psychological problems including personality disorders, complex trauma and chronic mood or interpersonal problems which have not responded to other treatments.