Sentences with phrase «respond to other treatments»

Steroids are usually only recommended if allergy symptoms are severe and don't respond to other treatments.

Xolair (Omalizumab)-- a humanized monoclonal antibody has had good results with chronic urticaria patients who did not respond to other treatments

It's considered an experimental treatment and is used only in people with near - disabling fibromyalgia who have failed to respond to other treatments.

«But if she does nt respond to other treatments and shes highly symptomatic — disrupted sleep, severe hot flashes, vaginal dryness — and shes not getting adequate relief, a short course of hormones for two to three years should not really increase her risk.»

In fact, one 2005 study in the Journal of the Israel Medical Association investigated the effects of camel milk on children with severe allergies who didn't respond to other treatments.

The new indication puts Kymriah in direct competition with Gilead Sciences» Yescarta, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October for treatment of adults with diffuse large B - cell lymphoma who have failed to respond to other treatments.

«This response rate is unprecedented for patients who had stopped responding to all other treatments,» says Michel Sadelain, a founding director of Memorial Sloan Kettering's Center for Cell Engineering and a cofounder of Juno.

That problem required surgery at the time after it failed to respond to other treatment.

An immersive, therapeutic environment can be life changing for a teen who is not responding to any other treatment options.

If a baby has severe jaundice that hasn't responded to other treatments, a blood transfusion may be done.

Very rarely, Sacktor says, neurosurgeons remove nerve clusters to help disturbed psychiatric patients who do not respond to any other treatment.

To explore this idea, Hopkins oncologists Dung Le, Luis Diaz, and others looked for mismatch repair mutations in tumor samples from patients with advanced colon cancer and other cancer types whose tumors had stopped responding to other treatments.

This research study is studying a drug TAK - 580 (MLN2480) as a possible treatment a low - grade glioma that has not responded to other treatments.

The targeted drug brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris ®)-- a monoclonal antibody linked to a chemotherapy drug — is approved to treat Hodgkin lymphoma in patients whose disease has failed to respond to other treatment and, as of August 2015, to prevent relapse following a stem cell transplant.

Clinical responses in lung cancer patients have been impressive, with responses in patients with advance disease whose cancers did not respond to other treatment approaches.

The FDA approved the drug earlier this month but wanted more detailed data on its effect on survival rates among patients who did not respond to other treatment options.

When you need it: If your knee pain has lasted more than six months, hasn't responded to other treatments and is so severe it's affecting your daily life.

The bone marrow stem cell transplant is performed in the United States, but typically only for severe autoimmune diseases that are not responding to other treatments.

Buddy is one of the few that responded to other treatments without surgery.

The potent medication is a natural derivative of Vitamin A and is only used in extreme cases where acne does not respond to any other treatment including creams and antibiotics.

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.

Not exact matches

Others, for no known reasons, responded very well to treatments.

Many problem drinkers (Alpha alcoholics) do not respond to AA or other alcoholism treatment methods because they are actually not addicted.

Although she doesn't have a BRCA gene, Kati's cancer seems very similar to cancer that her maternal grandmother had and due to the way it has responded to treatment it is most likely related to other genetic factors.

Six others who sustained injuries are still on admission at the hospital and are responding to treatment.

Jamieson wants to provide heroin - assisted treatment to users who have failed to respond to other forms of treatment, in order to deprive organised crime of funds and to break the cycle of acquisitive crime that can often go hand in hand with addiction.

«Sadly, Two (2) of our men sustained gunshot injuries and are currently responding to treatment in the hospital while the other members of the gang escaped with bullet wounds.

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.

Three Swedish hospitals and other European clinics will cooperate during the study which will target patients with conditions resembling the one in the case study — that is, people who suffer from phantom pain and who have not responded to other currently available treatments.

The new drugs offer the hope of treatment to perhaps thousands of HIV patients who have stopped responding to other medications, says William Towner, medical director of the Kaiser Permanente HIV / AIDS research trials program and member of the study team, which reported its findings online today in The Lancet.

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.

«I hate to say it, but we do not know why» some people respond to medications and others do not, says neurologist Michael Rogawski, who studies epilepsy treatments at the University of California, Davis.

Though many people can survive leukemia with chemotherapy and other drugs, Porter's patients had not responded to any of the available treatments.

Men and women respond similarly to many forms of treatment, including the use of naltrexone and other medications for alcoholism.

Of patients who have received only the virus, without other treatment, «about 5 to 10 percent of patients respond really well,» he added.

The study (abstract 3.034) involves 261 people, predominantly children, who have severe epilepsy that had not responded adequately to other treatments.

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.

By linking these layers and others to expand from genomics to multi-omics, scientists might be able to meet the goals of personalized medicine: to figure out, for example, what treatment a particular cancer patient will best respond to, based on the network dynamics responsible for a tumor.

Some patients respond to the drug for years, but in other patients, the treatment either fails early, or the cancer evolves resistance.

The 207 patients enrolled in the clinical trial, known as POSITRON, either did not respond to interferon, could not tolerate it or were unwilling to use it, despite the fact that there were no other treatment options available to them.

These new findings point to GABA neurons as a new, neural drug target that could help treat the other patients who don't respond to today's treatment.

First, a strain of bacteria found in the water tested resistant to vancomycin, an antibiotic considered to be a «last resort» treatment for serious infections that do not respond to other antibiotics.

The comparison revealed very specific differences in how these neurons behave and communicate with each other, and identified striking differences in how the neurons respond to lithium, the most common treatment for bipolar disorder.

It might help guide treatment, if specific DNA affects how kids respond to certain drugs; it might alert doctors to children at risk for other cancers later in life, like breast cancer; and it might pinpoint families that could benefit from genetic counseling.

Researchers have identified a gene variant which explains why some patients with Parkinson's Disease respond well to drug treatment and other do not.

An international research group led by scientists at Aarhus University, Denmark, has now found out why some patients respond to the treatment, while others do not.

A new test may reveal which patients will respond to treatment for graft versus host disease (GVHD), an often life - threatening complication of stem cell transplants (SCT) used to treat leukemia and other blood disorders, according to a study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published online today in the journal Lancet Haematology and in print in the January issue.

We also need to know if there are other non-HRD factors, such as cyclin E positivity, that predict which patients will respond to treatment.

Surgery can be an option for a minority of patients who do not respond to medications or other treatments and have epileptic scar tissue that can be removed safely.