ZMapp, an experimental cocktail of Ebola antibodies, has been given to seven people (two of whom died) and received enormous attention despite a complete absence of clinical data that
suggests the treatment helped.
Not exact matches
Talk to your doctor: While colic alone is not the medical condition that requires
treatment, your pediatrician can
suggest over the counter medications and remedies for gas such as Mylicon gas drops, probiotics to
help promote intestinal health and homeopathic remedies that can ease bouts of crying.
colic child care fact sheet (from central district health department)
treatment and
suggested help for baby colic.
The doctor can rule out any underlying medical condition,
help you manage bed - wetting, and may
suggest treatments, such as a bed - wetting alarm.
Research
suggests that medical marijuana can
help manage the pain and
treatment of cancer and other serious illnesses.
The specific mention of the
treatment of alleged victims
suggests the committee is largely sympathetic to the claims of some MPs, including former Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant, who claim their phones were hacked but that the police have done nothing to
help them establish the facts.
The training enables clinical scientists to
help doctors diagnose a patient's disease and
suggest treatment.
This is important, they emphasise, as around a quarter of all strokes are recurrent, and targeting
treatment of conventional risk factors among the lonely and isolated might
help stave off further heart attacks and strokes, they
suggest.
The findings
suggest that these particles, which end up at municipal sewage
treatment plants after being washed off in showers, could eliminate microbes that play vital roles in ecosystems and
help treat wastewater.
Research into natural chemicals that mimic marijuana's effects in the brain could
help to explain — and
suggest treatments for — pain, anxiety, eating disorders, phobias and other conditions
This research
suggests that functional brain scans — those that measure damage to the brain's communication network — may
help predict recovery and guide
treatment.
A 2007 study
suggests that nicotine
treatment could
help alleviate the dyskinesia often experienced by Parkinson's patients being treated with L - dopa (left).
New research posted online by the Nature journal Leukemia
suggests blocking part of a DNA repair complex that
helps some types of leukemia resist
treatment can increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy and enhance survival.
While she does not believe music would replace current epilepsy therapy, Charyton said this research
suggests music might be a novel intervention used in conjunction with traditional
treatment to
help prevent seizures in people with epilepsy.
«Our study
suggests that in patients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation, catheter ablation is an effective alternative
treatment that can
help patients avoid or discontinue this drug to reduce the risk of these long - term side effects.»
Studies since have
suggested laser
treatment could, in some procedures,
help protect teeth, reduce pain and accelerate healing.
Steven Landeg, a senior radiographer from the Royal Marsden, who is presenting the data, said: «These findings
suggest that offering fluorescent radiotherapy tattoos as an alternative to dark ink ones could
help ameliorate the negative feelings some women feel towards their bodies after
treatment.
«Our findings in two independent populations that allergic disease is associated with greater severity of COPD
suggest that
treatment of active allergic disease or avoidance of allergy triggers may
help improve respiratory symptoms in these patients, although causality could not be determined in our cross-sectional study,» said Dr. Hansel.
Health insurance company WellPoint hired it in September to
help doctors make diagnoses and
suggest treatments by quickly scanning clinical guidelines and medical records.
«This
suggests there may be similar mechanisms to non-trauma and trauma - dependent depression that may
help guide
treatment.»
The organoids have already
helped clarify new pathways that lead to pancreatic cancer, Tuveson says, and unpublished data
suggest that they will
help researchers predict which
treatments will be most effective.
The results
suggest that genetic analysis might
help dentists to personalize
treatments for their patients, which could lead to improved outcomes.
«These results represent a significant advance in our understanding of how commensal microbes can regulate host intestinal immune responses and
suggest that the identification of downstream targets in macrophages and dendritic cells along the GM - CSF axis can
help the rationale design of novel strategies for the
treatment of IBD patients with defective GM - CSF function,» explained Dr. Merad.
More investigation of brain - based biomarkers and brain imaging could
help predict how patients will respond to
treatments, she
suggested.
They
suggest that this
treatment should be used more widely in children over age 4 to manage otitis media with effusion and
help treat the associated hearing loss.
Treatments that zap the brain with magnets or electricity are rising in popularity, and some evidence
suggests they can
help lift depression.
Dr Lucy Clark, lead author, Queen Mary University of London, UK, said: «We found that a self -
help approach to a graded exercise program, guided by a therapist, was safe and also
helped to reduce fatigue for some people with chronic fatigue syndrome,
suggesting that GES might be useful as an initial
treatment for patients to
help manage symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.
A new study
suggests that the virus responsible for the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa is not evolving as quickly as earlier reports had
suggested,
helping to alleviate fears that it could become more contagious and more resistant to current
treatments.
The national, multicenter study confirms earlier findings
suggesting that identifying silent beta - amyloid plaque build - up in the brain could
help guide care and
treatment decisions for patients at risk for Alzheimer's.
Probiotic
treatment corrects memory problems in an Alzheimer's mouse model,
suggesting that altering the microbiome may
help delay the disease (Harpreet Kaur, abstract 126.23, see attached summary).
Drawing on findings from other studies, the researchers
suggest that possible reasons for the inequalities between those who did and did not seek
help for infertility include not understanding or acknowledging that a problem exists, fear of being labelled infertile, concerns about the cost of
treatment, the physical and psychological burden of
treatment, or simply not wanting to get pregnant.
The findings also
suggest that identifying the brain circuits affected by mutated genes linked to psychiatric disease could
help scientists develop more personalized
treatments for patients in the future, Feng says.
In a paper published in the October 17, 2017, edition of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, the researchers
suggest that brain exercises could be an effective non-pharmaceutical
treatment for
helping those with bipolar disorder function more effectively in everyday life.
«Our findings
suggest that restricting dietary intake of methionine and tryptophan might
help slow tumor progression and improve
treatment outcomes,» says first author and OSUCCC — James researcher Kamalakannan Palanichamy, PhD, research assistant professor in Radiation Oncology.
Parry and Greenhough
suggest the first steps towards a fairer future, pointing towards community - owned biobanks and efforts to grant donors the legal right to access
treatments and cures their tissues
helped create.
These findings
suggest that similar combination
treatments also might
help patients with Alzheimer's disease in the future.
Writing in a linked Comment, Dr Pratik Choudhary from King's College London, UK, says,» OpT2mise provides a compelling case for the clinical effectiveness of insulin pump
treatment in type 2 diabetes,
suggesting that it can
help improve glycaemic control in this difficult to treat group of patients who are unable to achieve glucose control despite increasing doses of insulin.
Nonetheless, taken as a pilot study, this work
suggests that video - game play may
help guide future
treatment of amblyopia.
The findings also
suggest that testing levels of microRNA 135b could
help identify patients likely to develop aggressive bowel cancer, and who might need the most intensive
treatment.
«Medicare Part D was created to increase access to prescription drug
treatment among beneficiaries, but our data
suggest that current policies are interfering with that goal when it comes to specialty drugs,» said Doshi, adding that making Part D out - of - pocket costs more consistent, and limiting them to more reasonable sums would
help mitigate this negative impact.
In recent years, a number of clinical studies have
suggested that «matching» particular types of alcoholics with particular
treatments — for example, teaching someone with poor impulse control how to think through actions before taking them — would
help them quit drinking.
We
suggest that for beekeepers suffering from colony losses, disruption of the potential IIV / Nosema relationship using
treatments that are available to control Nosema species may be one option to
help reduce honey bee mortality.
Bethesda, Md., Wed., May 1, 2013 - A comprehensive genomic analysis of nearly 400 endometrial tumors
suggests that certain molecular characteristics - such as the frequency of mutations - could complement current pathology methods and
help distinguish between principal types of endometrial tumors, as well as provide insights into potential
treatment strategies.
The findings
suggested that immunotherapy, a
treatment in which the immune system is used to attack cancer cells, could
help these patients, says Michael Overman, M.D., associate professor of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology.
New research
suggests that psilocybin - assisted therapy
helps alleviate
treatment - resistant depression by reviving emotional responsiveness in...
The findings, by an NIH - funded research network,
suggest that genomic classification of endometrial tumors could
help guide
treatment strategies.
«It also
suggests we could develop ways to
help patients who don't initially respond to immune - mediated
treatment, such as direct injection of their own CD103 + dendritic cells.
«This work
suggests that activating autophagy to
help rid cells of stress granules offers a new approach to neurodegenerative disease
treatment,» Taylor said.
Dr. Petty
suggests that in addition to preventing overtreatment, BRIM could be used to
help more broadly with breast cancer
treatment decisions.
In terms of
helping physicians diagnose whether a prostate cancer is likely to metastasize, this research
suggests that if a patient's tumor lacks the key tumor suppressing genes then a potential preventative
treatment could be diet, or a future fat - blocking drug.