Sentences with phrase «study more effective treatments»

The goal of this program is to learn more about the cause of epileptic seizures in dogs and cats and study more effective treatments for seizures in our companion animals.

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The study is particularly encouraging because autism diagnoses are currently done on children between the ages of two and four, and earlier diagnoses allows for more effective treatment measures.

But the study also suggested that some antidepressants were more effective than others; several older antidepressants were found to be more effectivee than more modern ones, but the modern treatments (such as Prozac) were better tolerated by patients.

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.

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The new study, called FOR - DMD (Finding the Optimum Regimen of Corticosteroids for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy), will determine whether daily steroid treatment or an alternative regime is more effective in slowing the disease progression and managing side effects.

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

Depressed men with localized prostate cancer were more likely to be diagnosed with more aggressive prostate cancer, received less effective treatments and survived for shorter times than prostate cancer patients who were not depressed, a UCLA study has found.

«One of the broader goals of our research is to make regenerative treatments more accessible and clinically relevant by developing easy, efficient and cost - effective ways to engineer human cells and tissues,» said Shyni Varghese, a bioengineering professor at UC San Diego and senior author of the study.

A blood pressure drug may make a type of lung cancer treatment more effective, suggests a new study.

The team's recent study in mice has found that the treatment reduced the mass of ovarian cancer tumors and was more effective at suppressing tumor growth than chemotherapy.

The Canadian study is especially important because newer, more effective treatments for breast cancer were available during the 25 years when study participants were followed.

«More people than ever are surviving cancer due to the development of targeted and effective treatments,» said Shelley Johns, Psy.D., the clinical health psychologist and health services researcher who led the Regenstrief - IU study.

Joseph Firth, the lead author on the study, said: «Establishing an exercise regime for people with psychosis is likely to be much more effective when they are younger, and in the earliest stages of treatment.

During the study, the participants were observed while on highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, which normally consists of three or more drugs and is currently the most common — and most effective — treatment for HIV - positive adults.

Most importantly for individuals with FOP, the study identifies HIF - 1α as a therapeutic target — knowledge that will likely contribute to the development of more effective treatments for FOP and related common disorders of heterotopic ossification.

«If miR - 10b - 5p measurements can provide a faster and more effective way to determine whether or not a specific treatment is protecting brain neurons, it may be possible to study more potential treatments for HD more quickly.

Our findings in these new studies will advance our clinical efforts to develop more effective, personalized treatments for children.»

«Our study on the TACC3 - chTOG interaction will allow cellular biologists and researchers on microtubule dynamics to better understand how microtubule assembly is regulated during cellular division,» says Montoya, and he anticipates that «it could also help in developing new anti-microtubule drugs, providing more effective therapeutic options in cancer treatment.»

A study of 172 women suggests that HRT treatment is more effective than a placebo at preventing symptoms of depression from emerging during early menopause

A new test using peripheral vision reaction time could lead to earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment of mild traumatic brain injury, often referred to as a concussion, according to Peter J. Bergold, PhD, professor of physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and corresponding author of a study newly published online by the Journal of Neurotrauma.

«This is a promising treatment option that may prove not only to be more effective than chemotherapy alone prior to surgery, it may also be better than chemotherapy and standard radiation,» said lead study author Kimmen Quan, MD, a radiation oncologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Recently a series of drug recalls have pulled back the curtain to show how the media, the public, and some doctors can misinterpret medical studies or take them out of context in ways that make medical treatments look safer and more effective than they actually are.

The anti-vascular endothelial growth factor drugs ranibizumab and aflibercept, used to treat vision loss from diabetic macular edema (DME), and approximately 20 to 30 times more expensive than bevacizumab, are not cost - effective for treatment of DME compared to bevacizumab unless their prices decrease substantially, according to a study published online by JAMA Ophthalmology.

These subtypes known as memory T cells may explain why some immunotherapies are more effective than others and potentially lead to researchers designing more effective studies using combination checkpoint blockade treatments, according to experts at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

An innovative new study takes a network theory approach to targeted treatment in rural Africa, and finds that a simple algorithm may be more effective than current policies, as well as easier to deploy, when it comes to preventing disease spread — by finding those with «most connections to sick people».

A byproduct of the fermentation process in making beer and wine is more effective in combating seizures associated with exposure to a nerve agent than currently recommended treatments, say US authors in a study using rats.

9/24/2008 Study Shows Radiation Device May Customize Therapy, Enable Some to Avoid More Lengthy Treatment A study of the first approximately 100 patients who have received partial breast irradiation with a small, whisk - like, expandable device inserted inside the breast has shown that after one year, the device is effective at sparing nearby healthy tissu... MoStudy Shows Radiation Device May Customize Therapy, Enable Some to Avoid More Lengthy Treatment A study of the first approximately 100 patients who have received partial breast irradiation with a small, whisk - like, expandable device inserted inside the breast has shown that after one year, the device is effective at sparing nearby healthy tissu... Mostudy of the first approximately 100 patients who have received partial breast irradiation with a small, whisk - like, expandable device inserted inside the breast has shown that after one year, the device is effective at sparing nearby healthy tissu... More...

These finding means that there is now a model for studying the eye disease in greater detail, which can lead to more effective treatment.

Medical Necessity: Any diagnostic study, procedure or treatment needed to prevent, diagnose, correct, cure, alleviate, or prevent the worsening of conditions that endanger life, cause suffering or pain, result in illness or infirmity, threaten to cause or aggravate a handicap, or cause physical deformity or malfunction, if there is no other equally effective, more conservative or less costly course of treatment available.

City of Hope researchers may have discovered a more effective treatment for patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) according to a study published today in Nature Medicine.

By studying how stem cells are able to reproduce without causing damage, scientists may be able to better understand the disease and determine more effective treatments.

«Cognitive difficulties adversely affect many people with MS, but much more needs to be done to study these deficits and develop effective treatments,» explained Dr. DeLuca.

These research studies improve our understanding of the disease by uncovering the mechanisms of response and resistance, potentially gaining insight that would allow us to predict the future patients who will benefit from each of these treatments and to develop new therapies that are even more effective.

While laser treatments based on work pioneered at Joslin in the 1960s have helped to minimize this damage, injecting a drug called ranibizumab can be more effective, according to results from a major clinical study by the Diabetes Retinopathy Clinical Research Network (DRCR.net) announced today.

Led by Leena Gandhi, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and director of thoracic medical oncology, researchers from the KEYNOTE - 021 study demonstrated for the first time that combining an immune checkpoint inhibitor — in this case, pembrolizumab — with a platinum - doublet chemotherapy regimen might be more effective than chemotherapy alone as first - line treatment for advanced, non-squamous NSCLC.

NIMML researchers employ advanced computational tools in combination with experimental and clinical studies to capture variation and diversity of immune responses, and develop safer, more - effective precision medicine treatments for infectious and immune - mediated diseases.

The study shows that treatments tailored for different disabilities caused by MS could be more effective than treatments intended to target multiple different disabilities.

An active physician, teacher and clinical researcher, Cohn works with other investigators locally and worldwide studying the biologic underpinnings of clinically aggressive, high - risk neuroblastoma in order to develop more effective, targeted treatments.

«Inhibiting ULK1 would eliminate this last - ditch survival mechanism in the cancer cells and could make existing anti-cancer treatments much more effective,» says Matthew Chun, one of the study's lead authors and a postdoctoral fellow in the Shaw lab at Salk.

Studies that help scientists and doctors pinpoint the cause of amorphous autoimmune diseases like Crohn's bring us closer to finding more effective treatment.

Additional study is needed, but the researchers in that study claimed that camel milk was more effective than medical treatments in those particular cases with no observed side effects.

Multiple studies have found that black seed oil has anti-asthmatic effects and depending on the cause of asthma, it was sometimes more effective than conventional treatment.

Recent studies show that propolis reduced the pain and duration of cold sores and fever blisters and that it even made conventional medical treatments more effective as well.

More research is definitely needed, but these initial studies show that Vitamin K may be an effective (and inexpensive) possibility for the future of cancer treatment.

Although walking in nature could enhance or supplement existing clinical depression treatments, more studies are required to understand exactly how effective walking in nature can be for helping improve psychological function.

Here are 6 more studies that found dandelion to be a powerful and effective anti-cancer treatment:

Recent studies find that yoga shows promise as a complementary treatment for back pain; it has been shown to be more effective than exercise or a self - care book for improving back functioning in people with back problems.

Adding to that benefit, studies have shown that Dermapen treatments are more effective than traditional microdermabrasion and chemical peels, due to how the disposable needles reduce the risk of cross-contamination.

Another study found similar results, showing that coconut oil led to a 68 % decrease in eczema severity, making it significantly more effective than mineral oil in the treatment of eczema (20).