Sentences with phrase «take years of treatment»

I suffered depression for years and took years of treatment so I do «get it»; however, I believe there is a time and place for it.

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Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

The company took advantage of a number of U.S. programs meant to spur «orphan drugs,» or treatments for the kinds of disorders that afflict less than 200,000 Americans each year.

In a late - stage study, Aimmune, a biotech immunotherapy allergy treatment taken via pill, found that of the roughly 500 kids with peanut allergies between the ages of 4 - 17 who were part of the trial, 67 % of those who received the treatment were able to tolerate 600 milligrams of peanut protein (about two to four peanuts) after about a year of treatment, while only 4 % of those who got the placebo could tolerate that dose of peanut protein.

Though hailed as «a new therapeutic principle» in 1990, it nonetheless took another eight years for the FDA to approve the first antisense drug, fomivirsen — for the treatment of AIDS - related retinitis caused by human cytomegalovirus.

At the American College of Cardiology's meeting in Chicago on Saturday, Novartis told doctors that clinically stable heart patients, as well as those considered least stable, both appear to benefit from taking Entresto compared to enalapril, a generic introduced 35 years ago that remains a standard heart failure treatment.

It will take at least a couple of years for Theralase Technologies Inc.'s cancer treatment technology to become regulated (and at least a year before we know how well it works on humans), but the healthcare tech they have under development is worth talking about.

A National Treatment case there takes years to prosecute and carries substantial risk of failure unless it presents clear evidence of mistreatment.

Designers could revolutionise the health sector by helping patients take greater control of treatments, according to the curator of an exhibition at this year's Dutch Design Week.

The big increase in the in the last six months of 2012 was because of tax changes, with entrepreneurs and companies trying to close deals before New Year's to take advantage of capital gains treatment, John Guzzo, managing director of Berkery Noyes, said.

Now Robert Spaeth of St. John's University in Minnesota has taken a second look at what John Paul actually said and he concludes that there really was no apology or admission of error — at least not explicitly so — with respect to the Church's treatment of Galileo more than three hundred years ago.

When the Utah Compromise was passed two years ago, Moore and Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission colleague Andrew Walker called the effort to ensure fair treatment of LGBT individuals «well - intentioned,» but took issue with the «arbitrary threshold» for which entities gained religious exemption under the policy.

Ramsey was forced out for 10 months following the tackle, but has since come back stronger than ever, and Stoke fans took an almighty panning online for their treatment of the 25 - year - old.

None of the parents knew that their beloved and winning coach — this glib, engaging soul who had lived with and among them, who had so generously baby - sat their kids, taken the youngsters to movies and bought them expensive gifts — had undergone more than five years of treatment in two state mental hospitals for child molesting.

• A 33 - year - old man was taken to Silver Cross Hospital for treatment of back pain after the vehicle he was driving was rear - ended at 159th Street and Twin Lakes Drive on June 21.

It took me six years to conceive these babies, with the help of fertility treatments.

We had seen a fertility specialist and had taken a single rotation of the prescription drug Clomid since my period went AWOL for months after many years on the pill; but we were not undergoing official treatment.

A real - time electronic poll of BME teachers attending the seminar found that: 78 % do not think the work and contribution of BME teachers is recognised and valued by schools; 58 % do not think treatment of BME teachers has improved in the last decade; Only 36 % feel outcomes for BME pupils have improved in the last decade; 98 % feel that racism continues to be a serious problem in the UK today; 53 % do not see themselves still being in the teaching profession in the next five years, with 31 % saying they are planning to change career and the rest saying they plan to retire or take a break from the profession.

When he was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma several years ago, he was forced to take on the cost of much of the treatment himself.

In budget negotiations in 2012, the Welsh Liberal Democrats proposed their idea of an innovative treatments fund, which the Welsh Government agreed to take forward with the creation of a # 25million Health Technologies Fund to fund medical equipment and IT over three years.

After two years of treatment, 11 of those patients were taken off the antibody.

After six months on the trial, 95 percent of participants reported no problems taking the drug, and while several discontinued treatment for varying periods of time during the study period, the investigators estimate that 90 percent would have tolerated the treatment if they had continued the full two years.

Ms Koechlin, Professor Philippe Autier and colleagues used statistical models to work out whether current cancer death rates were due more to the effects of age, the year of birth (which takes into account exposure to cancer - causing agents such as sunshine during early life), or to the recent introduction of new medical technologies or treatments.

With appropriate treatment, approximately 81 percent of patients significantly improve and, with a recovery process that takes an average of 2 years, can fully recover.

While the means to cure some conditions may take years to develop, identification of genetic markers can lead to early treatment.

Of those who took cortisone tablets, but did not receive protective treatment, 4.1 percent had broken their hip after around 15 months (1.3 years).

Shermer's article is a shallow and tendentious treatment of a complex subject that does not take proper account of rebuttals to critical attacks on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, in which a comet strike more than 12,000 years ago caused the megafaunal extinction in North America, and misrepresents the state of the argument around my theory that this event wiped out an advanced human society as well.

Women younger than 40, those using donor oocytes and those with male partner - related infertility that was treated with either intracytoplasmic sperm injection or sperm donation achieved live birth rates after five or six cycles, taking a median two years of trying, which were similar to rates in couples who were trying to conceive and were not using any form of treatment after an average of one year.

This was the situation for the 14 arm amputees who took part in the first clinical trial of a new treatment, invented by Chalmers researcher Max Ortiz Catalan, and further developed with his multidisciplinary team in the past years.

In a study at University College London Hospitals, researchers analysed baseline PET - CT scans — ie those taken before treatment — and then followed up with the patients for an average of three years later.

Results showed that taking a pill or drinking a daily up of tea were the preferred treatments, though some were unwilling to adopt any intervention even if it meant gaining an additional year or five years of life.

ACS occurred in the general population at a rate of 3.3 / 1,000 person - years, compared to 5.7 / 1,000 person - years among those patients with RA actively on TNF inhibitor treatment and 8.6 / 1,000 person - years among those with RA who had never taken a biologic medication.

Current drug therapies for drug - sensitive tuberculosis require six to eight months of treatment; for drug - resistant tuberculosis, treatment can take as long as two years.

Over the course of about a year, his new venture took shape: Perlstein Lab — PLab for short — a for - profit, public - benefit corporation that aims to develop treatments for rare diseases.

«The special treatment of this adze gives us a rare and intimate glimpse of the complex funerary rituals that were taking place graveside on the banks of the River Shannon over 9,000 years ago.»

WASHINGTON — Paralyzed rats can breathe a sigh of relief: A new treatment can restore lung function, even a year and a half after a spinal cord injury that takes it away.

Large - scale clinical trials evaluating combination methods of prevention and treatment are often prohibitively expensive and take years to complete.

The goal of both was to accelerate progress in cancer research and treatment enough to do in 5 years what would have taken 10.

Only approximately one - third of patients respond to lithium treatment, and its effect is only found through a trial - and - error process that takes months — and sometimes years — of prescribing the drug and monitoring for response.

In the last few years, scientists in Southampton have been at the forefront of research into the role of the immune system in Alzheimer's, so it is encouraging to see this study taking these ideas forward by identifying a specific mechanism that could be a target for future treatments.

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.

Hence, many survivors — nearly 40 percent of them, according to one study — stop taking AIs long before their customary five - year treatment period expires.

The effect of glucocorticoid treatment is most prominent on trabecular bone and is therefore likely to be larger on vertebral bone than on hip bone.3 Glucocorticoids are associated with an increased rate of fracture, and higher doses and longer use of glucocorticoids are associated with higher risks of fracture.4 Compared with patients not taking glucocorticoids, the risk of hip and vertebral fracture among patients taking glucocorticoids is increased by 60 % and 160 %, respectively.4 Among 80 - year - old patients, the hip fracture risk is increased by a magnitude of 2.1 and is independent of BMD.5 Most studies indicate that fracture risk is increased following at least 3 months of treatment with daily doses of 5 mg of prednisolone or more in older men and women.4

The challenge takes on even more urgency with recent developments, including a federal administration now more open to exploring the potential of stem cells, the recent FDA approval of a human trial involving embryonic stem cells, as well as the reported case of a young boy who developed a brain tumor four years after receiving a stem - cell treatment for a rare genetic disorder.

Treatment of cGVHD can take two to three years and, in most cases, patients recover after five years.

Paradoxically, researchers also found that less than 1/3 of the Americans taking an antidepressant medication had seen a mental health professional in the past year - making medication their sole route of treatment despite the acknowledgment of mental health as a complex realm that requires multiple care approaches.

One of the most outspoken is singer Selena Gomez, who revealed in 2015 that she had taken time off to undergo treatment for lupus a few years earlier.

After one year of treatment, people taking TNF inhibitors had no higher risk of serious infections than those taking other types of drugs.

35 - year old Rosamund Pike looks to be aging naturally and taking good care of her skin, possibly with heavy duty anti aging products and regular laser treatments to get rid of fine lines and wrinkles.

A «WOW» maple syrup finding: Take this 2015 study reported in Oncology Reports: the researchers examined the effect of three grades of maple syrup (grades are based on the color of the syrup and ranges from light to darker with color being influenced by time of year and processing technique) on the proliferation, migration, and invasion of colorectal cancer (CRC) cells in order to investigate whether maple syrup is suitable as a phytomedicine for cancer treatment.