Sentences with phrase «standard treatment improves»

«Adding abiraterone to standard treatment improves prostate cancer survival by 40 percent.»

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However, health minister Lord Warner defended the treatment centres, saying they provided a good standard of care, improved patient choice, had driven down prices and were also providing competition to get NHS trusts to «raise their game».

Drug resistance experts applauded the suggestions to reduce unnecessary medication use and to improve standard treatment protocols when possible.

While patients often improve on the drug and live longer than they would on standard treatment (results will be presented Sunday at ASCO), the drug, vemurafenib, usually stops working within a year.

In order to ensure uniform standards of treatment and hence to further improve patient safety, the European Academy of Robotic Colorectal Surgery (EARCS, Homepage: www.earcs.pt) is providing special training courses to comprehensively train surgeons in the use of the new method.

The study was a randomized phase II trial testing whether the addition of local treatment, in the form of consolidative radiation therapy, to the standard treatment of systemic therapy improved progression - free survival for patients with limited metastatic NSCLC.

A study led by the University of Southampton has found that people who continue to get problems from their asthma, despite receiving standard treatment, experience an improved quality of life when they are taught breathing exercises.

It is the first time a therapy has improved progression - free survival over the current standard first line treatment with platinum - based doublet chemotherapy.»

Zubizarreta says the reason is as follows: «People are somewhat wary of the idea of living in a wooden house: it's an organic material, it's less consistent that concrete or steel and can catch fire, etc.» In this researcher's view, the reason for this wariness is largely a cultural one: «Today, there are excellent treatments to improve the durability of timber; with respect to behaviour in the event of fire, the CTE - M standard specifies how the structure has to be designed.

«Working together to set the standard of care improves patient treatment and outcomes by building and maintaining quality, effective programs.»

«Fecal microbiota transplants improve cognitive impairment caused by severe liver disease: Fecal microbiome transfer significantly reduced the number of hospitalizations compared to standard of care treatment.»

For patients with cervical cancer that has recurred after treatment or has spread elsewhere in the body, adding the experimental drug cediranib to standard chemotherapy improves tumour shrinkage and adds a modest improvement in progression - free survival, researchers report at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid.

This data provides us with valuable treatment patterns that can help us determine a standard or best practice that all institutions can apply for the same technique, which will improve the quality of care for children.»

The reported survival times of 18 months and 24 months were comparable to standard surgical outcomes and both improved symptomatically, and did not experience any acute or late treatment - related toxicity, the researchers reported.

The original, randomized, open label study, which enrolled 20 outpatient men with cirrhosis and recurrent HE receiving standard - of - care (SOC) treatment, had previously reported that a single FMT enema after antibiotic pretreatment improved cognitive function at Day 20 and reduced HE episodes and hospitalizations over the following 5 months compared with SOC.1 The long - term outcomes of this study, which were presented today at The International Liver Congress ™ 2018 in Paris, France, demonstrated sustained and statistically significant reductions in the number of HE episodes and hospitalizations as well as improvements in cognitive function over 1 year in the men who received FMT compared with the control group.

The drug lenvatinib can significantly improve overall survival rates in a group of thyroid cancer patients whose disease is resistant to standard radioiodine treatment, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Clinical trials found that it is safe to regularly infuse brain and lung cancer patients with 800 — 1000 times the daily recommended amount of vitamin C as a potential strategy to improve outcomes of standard cancer treatments.

«Prostaglandin EI inhibits leukemia stem cells: Targeting leukemia stem cells in combination with standard chemotherapy may improve treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia.»

Standard treatments try to replace the missing dopamine, which can improve tremors and stiffness, but doesn't slow down the disease.

With a strong focus on the patient using tested treatment protocols to improve health, Okyanos is a state - of - the - art facility that provides a first class standard of service supported by some of the industry's top physicians, scientists and medical professionals.

July 13, 2016 Simple procedure could improve treatment for common eye disease: Rejuvenating the cornea could reduce the need for cornea transplants A new, minimally invasive procedure appears to be effective for many patients with Fuchs endothelial dystrophy (FED), a common eye disease, without the potential side effects and cost of the current standard of care, a cornea transplant.

May 8, 2013 Rethinking treatment goals improves results for those with persistent anorexia A new, multinational randomized clinical trial has found that patients with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa will not only stick with treatments but also make significant improvements with just a slight modification of the standard goals and methods of treatment.

Patients who have solid tumors and blood cancers may be able to significantly improve their treatment experience, outcome and quality of life, by maximizing the performance of their immune system in addition to receiving standard treatments.

But these epigenetic drugs have shown some success in improving patients» response to chemotherapy or immunotherapy, or in overcoming resistance to those standard treatments.

«We found that memory, as assessed with standard memory tests, improved in the treatment group.

APRIL 23, 2015 — Two powerhouses of cancer support — the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN)-- have jointly awarded Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia $ 1 million over three years to determine whether molecularly tailored treatment for pancreatic cancer improves survival compared with the current standard of care.

Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors have been demonstrated to improve learning and memory in a number of animal models of cognitive dysfunction, as well as being a standard of treatment in patients exhibiting clinical signs of memory loss.

The drug, a monoclonal antibody called ipilimumab, is the first treatment of any kind ever shown in a large, randomized phase III clinical study (study MDX010 - 20) to improve overall survival in patients with metastatic melanoma who no longer respond to standard therapy.

When tai chi was combined with a standard depression treatment for a group of older people with depression, researchers found better improvement in the level of depression, as well as improved quality of life, better memory and cognition, and more overall energy, in comparison to another group in which the standard depression treatment was combined with a health education class.

I take pride in empowering psoriasis sufferers just like you across the world to take control of their own health instead of relying on a failing medical system that continues to do nothing to improve treatment standards and ignores the very research that holds the keys to the psoriasis puzzle.

We found that on this delayed outcome, the treatment had a statistically significant impact on children's reading comprehension, improving performance by.04 SD (standard deviation) overall and.05 SD in high - poverty schools.

In addition to an integrated intake system with mirror - image porting for optimized engine breathing; low - inertia turbocharger; high - pressure fuel injection system that is more responsive, quieter and offers more precise fuel delivery; and standard selective catalytic reduction emissions after - treatment that contributes to improved NOx reduction, the 2.0 - liter EcoBlue features multiple innovations that reduce friction, including:

Improved navigation, new front seats, a refreshed grille / air intake / taillight treatment and standard start / stop are new across the model line.

Training for veterinary students in order to improve the standard of treatment given to working animals is a key part of SPANA Myanmar's work.

At Kirkpatrick Foundation, we believe that by minimizing animal suffering and elevating the standards of care, treatment, and welfare for all Oklahoma animals, the condition of all Oklahoma citizens will be greatly improved.

The mission of Dogs Deserve Better comprises the following six principals: advocate and become a voice for dogs living chained or penned outside; educate society to evolve to higher ethical and moral standards for the treatment of dogs living under these conditions; meet with caretakers of dogs chained outside to advocate on behalf of the dogs and discuss other options available to them; fence yards to improve the quality of life for these dogs; provide low - cost or no - cost housetraining for dogs whose caretakers wish to bring them into the home; temporarily foster and find new homes for dogs whose caretakers wish them to have a better life, but are unwilling or unable to provide that for them.

Proposition B promotes the humane treatment of dogs in Missouri's large - scale commercial dog kennels, which will improve the lives of dogs by requiring large - scale breeding operations to limit the number of breeding female dogs to 50, as well as provide each dog with common sense standards such as sufficient food and clean water, regular veterinary care, adequate housing and space, and access to regular exercise.

The four key differences are: 1) unlike the Energy Policy Conservation Act (EPCA), the CAA [Clean Air Act] allows for the crediting of direct emission reductions and indirect fuel economy benefits from improved air conditioners, allowing for greater compliance flexibility and lower costs; 2) EPCA allows Flexible Fuel Vehicle (FFV) credits through model year 2019, whereas the EPA standard requires demonstration of actual use of a low carbon fuel after model year 2015; 3) EPCA allows for the payment of fines in lieu of compliance but the CAA does not; and 4) treatment of intra firm trading of compliance credits between cars and light trucks categories.50

By continuing to modernize waste treatment, help NGOs raise citizen awareness of the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle), build more incentives for the industry to improve, reduce and recycle materials (think of Bill McDonough's idea), and better enforce standards for waste disposal, Chinese cities like Beijing have a shot at dealing with their growing trash pile — and making much more money than Beijing's freelance recyclers make now.

Evaluated training and analyzed staff competencies, tested staff knowledge and technical aptitude in meeting standards of care for wound patients through demonstration of thorough consultation with high risk wound care patients for approved treatment recommendations and completing supervisory joint filed visits, resulting in improved outcomes and reduction in visit frequency.

Planned in - depth chemical water analyses, strengthening and improving the accuracy of industry standard sampling treatment techniques Accurately prepared specimens and specific chemicals for utilization in the laboratory environment.

California About Blog Gina Pera is an award - winning journalist and pragmatic problem - solver who saw a crying need for increased ADHD awareness, support, and improved treatment standards and set out to fill that need.

Specifically, the Improving Mood — Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment (IMPACT) 2 model of care implemented in US primary care settings has set the standard for collaborative care at an international level.

Especially for couples who do not improve with traditional couples therapy, how can a couple therapist help partners shift from intense, negative patterns of relating that do not respond well to standard treatments?

Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples and families (EFT, Dr. Susan Johnson) is an empirically validated treatment approach that meets the gold standard set out by bodies such as the American Psychological Association (APA) and has been shown to be effective in assisting couples in both addressing trauma, and improving their relationship functioning.

For the children rated high on CU traits at baseline, this novel treatment significantly improved their levels of affective empathy, and decreased conduct problem behavior, in comparison to standard PMT.

Standard DBT strives to increase behavioral capabilities, improve motivation for skillful behavior through management of issues and problems as they come up in day - to - day life and reduction of interfering emotions and cognitions, and structure the treatment environment so that it reinforces functional rather than dysfunctional behaviors.

Thus, studies seeking to improve available treatments might best be conducted by comparing the improved treatments to the best available parenting intervention; studies seeking to determine if briefer interventions are effective should be compared to the standard treatments to see if there are significant reductions in effectiveness.

This continuing education opportunity will teach the fundamental components of treatment planning that are based on ethical guidelines and standards of care while providing insight as to how they can enhance care, improve therapeutic rapport, and increase client engagement.

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