Sentences with phrase «survival times from»

These therapies may increase survival times from months to years.

The operation was successful, improving the woman's likely survival time from about a year to several years or more.

The median survival time from CKD diagnosis was 226 days (ref)

Not exact matches

More disturbing than the incidence of cardiac arrest in fairly healthy people, however, are the variations in survival rates, which can swing from as low as 3 % in some US counties to as high as 20 % in others, The New York Times reports.

Survival rates obviously depend on economic conditions and so will vary from one time period to the next.

Meanwhile, it's nice to know that after the loan is due, you should have an easier time borrowing money from the venture debt company who still has a vested interest in your company's survival due to the warrants it owns.

It gave freedom from the tyranny of already antiquated forms of thought; freedom from the necessity of accepting at their face value, as part of a divine revelation, puerile and sometimes revolting survivals from primitive times.

«I studied philosophy and law and then practiced law in big international firms in Amsterdam and Brussels for seven years before dramatic circumstances in my life brought me and my wife to consider an invitation from Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna and Grand Chancellor of the ITI, to come to Austria to help him with building up and professionalising the ITI, which at that time had existed for only 7 years and which was dealing with serious financial problems and battling for its survival.

God addresses to the Church the question whether it has the courage to undertake an apostolic offensive into such a future and consequently the necessary courage to show itself to the world sincerely, in such a form that no one can have the impression that the Church only exists as a mere survival from earlier times because it has not yet had time to die.

Because it absorbs sunlight better, which is required for the processing of vitamin D. Genetic differences that are advantageous to the survival of the species have a higher rate of survival and reproduction, and over eons of time, through geographic isolation and genetic draft, new species arise from the old.

* Interesting fact: Greg once told me that we are the only mammals that consume milk beyond the time that it's needed from the mother for survival (unless it is given to a pet).

A Canadian study published this year around the same time titled «Coconut oil protects cortical neurons from amyloid beta toxicity by enhancing signaling of cell survival pathways» observed that coconut oil and its medium chain fatty acids (MCFAs) protect against amyloid beta (Aβ) induced neurotoxicity in primary rat cortical neurons.

From the turn of the last century, through Prohibition and the Great Depression, throughout the challenges of survival in the 20th and 21st centuries, it is the story of one family's adaptation and reinvention, not once, but multiple times.

The course is based around the skills he learned from his time with the British Special Forces and his many survival missions to every extreme wilderness on the planet.

Last time these two meet was back in december 2015 when Real Madrid ran out 4 - 1 winners at Santiago Benrabeu and can expect another similar performance from Madrid against a relegation threatened Getafe side who are 2 points behind Granada for the La Liga survival race.

After experiencing relegation last time, you'd expect Sean Dyche would have learned from the experience and will be better placed this time to engineer a survival.

She and her husband try their best to spend their family's time and money wisely by doing all kinds of crazy things, from shopping for bulk food online and reviewing family survival courses for fun.

Throughout its one hundred year history the Cabinet Office has, at times, had to fight for its survival — as much from the predatory activities of senior departmental civil servants as from ministers.

Equally, however, it has been the dramatic improvement in the survival rate of infants that for the first time has freed women from the social obligation for a lifetime producing and rearing babies.

Again, using mouse models of glioblastoma — this time created from brain tumor cells that were resistant to the herpes virus — the therapy led to increased animal survival.

With little hope for Giese's survival, Rodney Willoughby, an infectious disease specialist at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, induced a coma to protect her brain from viral attack, giving Giese's immune system time to rev up to combat the virus.

A team from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has determined for the first time the high - resolution structure of a complex (R2TP) involved in key processes for cell survival and in diseases such as cancer.

Increase survival from the time of listing by more than 1 year (adjusted for quality of life) as compared to waiting for transplantation based on antibody status.

Analysis of blood samples taken at several points in time from a group of patients with different forms of advanced metastatic breast cancer found CTC clusters in the blood of 35 percent of patients and that the survival of those with more clusters in their blood was significantly reduced.

Glioblastoma is the most aggressive type of tumor that originates in the brain and with no curative treatments currently available, the average survival time for patients ranges from 15 to 18 months.

A team of researchers from the Hyperbaric Biomedical Research Laboratory at the University of South Florida (USF) doubled survival time in an aggressive metastatic cancer model using a novel combination of non-toxic dietary and hyperbaric oxygen therapies.

Boeke and others plan to grow this batch for thousands of generations over the next several years to see how they evolve over time, which will give scientists a better understanding of fundamental biology, from the role of «junk DNA» to the absolute minimum of genetic code necessary for survival.

To find out how climate change will affect the overall survival of Arctic mosquitoes (Aedes nigripes), a team of researchers placed mosquito larvae taken from ponds in western Greenland into chambers with temperatures ranging from 4 °C to 19 °C, simulating temperatures measured in the ponds during mosquito development, and then timed how long it took for the adults to emerge.

Usually, treatment would require whole - brain radiation which is extremely toxic and the average survival time is just 3 - 6 months from diagnosis, with fewer than 20 per cent of patients surviving more than one year.

Cardiac arrest victims who received a shock from a publicly - available AED that was administered by a bystander had 2.62 times higher odds of survival to hospital discharge and 2.73 times more favorable outcomes for functioning compared to victims who first received an AED shock after emergency responders arrived.

This method will be capable of giving an effective certainty at the moment of establishing the treatment, will also save time and decrease rejection, increasing the quality of life, allowing the survival of more patients and optimizing the health system, informed Gilberto Castañeda Hernández from the department of Pharmacology.

Researchers found that implementing a bundle of care — including a special guideline - based protocol, TCPR training and quality improvement — resulted in gains in several areas, including a reduction in the time to first bystander chest compression (from 256 to 212 seconds), an increase in TCPR rates (from 44 percent to 53 percent) and most importantly an increase in survival to hospital discharge (from 9 percent to 12 percent) and in favorable functional outcomes (from 5.6 percent to 8.3 percent).

The researchers caution that it's impossible to draw broad conclusions about Neandertal life histories from this one sample, such as whether Neandertals weaned their children earlier or later than modern humans who lived at the same time, or whether Neandertal children grew up faster, as some earlier studies have suggested — questions that could heavily bear on why Neandertals could not keep up with modern humans in the survival sweepstakes.

A study from investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center has, for the first time, identified genomic differences between the breast tumors of African American and white women, differences that could contribute to the recognized differences in recurrence rate and survival.

The findings push back the estimated timing of the FOXP2 gene's selective sweep (rapid spread of a gene mutation due to the survival advantage it conferred) from 200,000 to 350,000 years ago, when the common ancestor of Neandertals and humans roamed the earth.

A considerably superior survival, both specific to breast cancer and from any cause of death, was found for BCT in the early stage T1 - 2N0 - 1M0 cancers in both time cohorts,» says Prof Siesling.

In their report published in Cancer Immunology Research, a team from the Vaccine and Immunotherapy Center (VIC) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) describes how adding AMD3100 (plerixafor)-- previously approved for the stimulation of stem cell production prior to bone marrow transplantation — to their investigational drug VIC - 008 more than doubled the animals» survival time.

Vincent, who has referenced Duesberg's theory in his own papers, believes that cancerous cells exploit an ancient survival mechanism, reverting to the form of protozoa - like organisms from before the time when single cells began cooperating to create multicellular organisms like us.

The average progression - free survival — the time from randomization to the first evidence of metastasis — was 40.5 months for participants receiving apalutamide, compared with 16.2 months for those taking a placebo.

«BRAIN: The World Inside Your Head» uses a variety of interactive components to explain complex functions of the brain — lean on electrodes and perform tasks to see real - time EEG measurements and simulated imaging of corresponding brain activity; look through a microscope to view real neurons from different species; and use a mirror and peephole to see how the brain attends to movement first, a sign of the survival instinct.

While the incidence of childhood cancer has changed only slightly since Candlelighters inception in 1970 (an increase from 11.4 per 100,000 population in 1974 to 14.8 per 100,000 in 2004), the overall survival rate for childhood cancer has increased drastically during that time period.

Overall survival, commonly referred to as OS, is the length of time from either the date of diagnosis or the start of treatment that patients are still alive.

Now, a research team from the Salk Institute has uncovered for the first time a protein that controls both the survival and function of Tregs.

Recurrence - free survival from the time of randomization to the date of the first local or distant recurrence of melanoma or death due to any cause is the primary endpoint.

Privately insured children and those with Medicaid at the time of a cancer diagnosis experience largely similar survival trends, with slight evidence for an increased risk of cancer death in children who were uninsured at diagnosis, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

From an evolutionary perspective, this is probably a survival mechanism — if one member of the group is awake at all times, they'll be able to alert other members of the group to potential threats.

«During that time, survival with good brain function increased from 7 to 10 percent for those who received bystander CPR,» said lead researcher Dr. Carolina Malta Hansen, of the Duke Clinical Research Institute in Durham, N.C.

From an evolutionary and survival standpoint it is quite logical that a tissue that releases heat would be essential in times of prolonged hibernation and immobility.

This is an extraordinary survival mechanism if you are in danger, but if the stress continues over a long period of time (let's say you are going through a divorce, bankruptcy, the death of a loved or some type of major crisis) your adrenal glands will eventually become damaged from being so hyperactive.

Improving The Prognosis For Breast Cancer Survival: Dangerous DNA Damage Can Be Prevented With Vitamins, Citrus and Soy Nutrition Science News Ask women about their greatest health fears, and many will rank breast cancer close to the top, even though they're five times more likely to die from heart disease.