Sentences with phrase «studying treatments other»

Allender and colleagues at several other institutions also are studying treatments other than nebulizing snakes.

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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.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

During a study that led to Dupixent's approval, injections every other week, combined with topical steroid creams helped 69 % of patients achieve 75 % clear skin, after 16 weeks of treatment.

What's missing, in other words, is children with something actually to worry about — worries less amenable to the «low - cost treatment» proposed by NYU's Child Study Center.

A revealing study of the exploitation of women in counseling and other forms of treatment.

Other studies show that the goji berry benefits eye health by protecting the retina from ganglion cells so goji antioxidants act as a natural treatment for glaucoma.

Potential subjects were accepted into the study if they had none of the following conditions: severe or symptomatic cardiac disease or hypertension; history of bleeding disorders; chronic history of gastric, intestinal, liver, pancreatic, or renal disease; any portion of the stomach or the intestine removed (other than an appendectomy); history of intestinal obstruction, malabsorption, or use of antacid drugs; cancer (active or use of medications for a history of cancer treatment within the past 5 y); history of chronic alcoholism; a convulsive disorder; or abnormal results in screening blood or urine samples.

After residency, Dr. Chandra spent 5 years studying with, and working with, Dr. William Lee Cowden, MD a leading expert in the treatment of chronic Lyme disease and other complex medical conditions.

However, whether varicocele treatment improves pregnancy success rates in all cases is a matter of debate, with some studies showing improved conception rates and others not.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

In 3 studies, children were receiving medication for ADHD, all other studies either specifically excluded children receiving concurrent treatment or did not give details of concurrent treatment.

The difference in the average treatment effect in overall fetal loss and neonatal death across included trials between women allocated to midwife - led continuity models of care and women allocated to other models has an average risk ratio (RR) of 0.84, with 95 % confidence interval (CI) 0.71 to 0.99 (participants = 17561; studies = 13).

The difference in the average treatment effect in all fetal loss before and after 24 weeks plus neonatal death across included trials between women allocated to midwife - led continuity models of care and women allocated to other models has an average risk ratio (RR) of 0.84, with 95 % confidence interval (CI) 0.71 to 0.99 (participants = 17561; studies = 13).

In addition, the probiotics studied were used alone or in combination with other probiotics (and in 1 study a prebiotic) and 9 studies involved a combination of prenatal (last 2 — 6 weeks of pregnancy) and maternal postnatal (6 — 24 months) treatment.

In his summary of a consumer reports study, E.P. Seligman Ph.D. reports that marriage counseling is not as effective as other treatment modalities.

However, given that the largest study on chiropractic treatment with the best scientific design showed NO DIFFERENCE in overall crying times, my suggestion would be to focus on some of the other more promising options instead.

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.

«While the wage gap is smaller in New York state compared with other states, this year our Department of Labor study will uncover the true reasons for the unequal treatment of women in the workplace and recommend reforms that will right this injustice.»

And other studies have found that refusing treatment for HIV and other illnesses to foreign nationals could actually cost more money.

«While the wage gap is smaller in NYS compared with other states, this year our Department of Labor study will uncover the true reasons for the unequal treatment of women in the workplace and recommend reforms that will right this injustice.

Senator Betty Little of Queensbury, who helped organize the forum, said the state legislature will create a task force to study tick - borne illness, and that she believes legislation should be passed to introduce more funding for disease research, and to require health insurance companies to cover treatments associated with symptoms of Lyme and other diseases.

He added that the method used in this study, called «network biology» — where computer systems are used to identify gene networks that work together to underpin disease — may also help find treatments for other conditions.

«In our Northern California study population, it does not appear that families use complementary and alternative treatments due to the lack of availability of conventional services, as has been suggested by other research,» Hansen said.

People with drug addictions who started opioid abuse later in life use injections for their drugs, or increased their use of downers before starting drug treatment, are more likely to relapse from treatment than others, says a new study from McMaster University.

«In making effective treatments easier for patients, the hope is that we can reduce vision loss from glaucoma, and possibly other diseases,» said study author James D. Brandt, M.D., director of the UC Davis Medical Center Glaucoma Service.

In animal studies, the technique more effectively targeted melanoma than other immunotherapy treatments.

Eighteen out of a projected 21 patients in Mithoefer's study have already been treated, and in many cases just two sessions dramatically diminished symptoms, which is remarkable because PTSD in this group of subjects has been resistant to other types of treatment.

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.

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

In addition to suggesting that creatine could slow the progression of HD, these results also imply that neuroimaging may provide a useful biomarker of disease modification in studies of other potential treatments.

Placebos are used to help accurately measure clinical responses / outcomes when studying the effects of medications, therapies, and other treatments.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

According to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, companion animals — like dogs, cats or the guinea pigs in the study — may prove to be a helpful addition to treatment programs designed to help children with ASDs improve their social skills and interactions with other people.

In comparison, other studies have found that Internet search engines for urgent symptoms only led to content that suggested emergency medical treatment 64 percent of the time.

In past imaging studies, my colleagues and I noticed that cervical tumors that took up a lot of glucose prior to radiation treatment tended to be more resistant to radiation therapy than other tumors.

«Our results provide evidence for clinicians to consider HRT as compared with CRT as a preferred radiation treatment in men with intermediate - risk prostate cancer and at low risk of other complications,» stated Trevor Royce, MD, MPH, radiation oncologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and first author of the study.

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.

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.

Either way, Churchyard says, his team's study illustrates how broken South Africa's TB treatment system is, a problem echoed across other countries with high incidences of TB.

The IU team is now planning studies in animals and, ultimately, will look to others to partner on clinical trials that implement the new treatment in humans.

The bookended pre - and post-transplant treatments, which have been tested separately in other studies, already had promising track records in controlling cancer and preventing severe GVHD.

This study also showed evidence that nanosecond laser treatment in one eye can also produce positive effects in the other untreated eye.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

Studies in recent years by Beatty's laboratory and others have pointed to one potential source of this treatment resistance: Pancreatic tumors tend to surround themselves with a protective «microenvironment.»

«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.

This work provides a proof of principle for a new approach in the study and treatment of cancer: the aberrant expression in a tissue or organ of genes specific to other tissues could become a new tool for establishing a prognosis and personalizing therapeutic care.

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.

These and other data are used to study breast cancer risk factors and the effectiveness of breast cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment.

The first study will examine these patients over time, in order to analyze other important variables such as melanoma relapse, mortality, resistance to treatment, development of a second melanoma or other cancers, and metastasis, including spread of the cancer to nearby lymph nodes (sentinel nodes).