Sentences with phrase «term therapy after»

Adding the antiplatelet drug ticagrelor to aspirin as long - term therapy after a heart attack significantly reduced the rate of subsequent death from cardiovascular causes, heart attack or stroke, with the benefit appearing to accrue for nearly three years, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session.

Not exact matches

The U.S. study testing the long - term benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was halted after an interim analysis found that the drugs — a combination of estrogen and progestin — increased the risk of breast cancer, stroke, and heart disease, and that those risks outweighed reduced risks of colorectal cancer and bone fractures (ScienceNOW, 9 July).

«Long - term remissions in some patients after stem cell transplants from donors have been observed, but treatment - related toxicity limits the widespread use of this therapy.»

And the Stafford Act, which allows for short - term mental first aid after a disaster, is not designed to support long - term therapies that help to overcome persistent distress.

He says that if future trials are successful, the experimental vaccine, which can be made relatively quickly and cheaply, could become a short - term therapy administered immediately after diagnosis to try to keep tumors in check.

But by 2004, after researchers had completed two major parts of the Women's Health Initiative — which together formed a massive study of 27,347 women that compared treatment with a placebo in a scientifically rigorous way — doctors realized hormone therapy does more harm than good in most women over the long term.

«Short and long term effects of psychosocial therapy provided to persons after deliberate self - harm: a register - based, nationwide multicentre study using propensity score matching» was written by Annette Erlangsen, Bertel Dam Lind, Elizabeth A Stuart, Ping Qin, Elsebeth Stenager, Kim Juul Larsen, August Wang, Marianne Hvid, Ann Colleen Nielsen, Christian Møller Pedersen, Jan - Henrik Winsløv, Charlotte Langhoff, Charlotte Mühlmann and Merete Nordentoft.

A pathological complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) is a strong indicator of the benefit of therapy and presents an early surrogate for a favorable long - term outcome.

In 2017, follow - up work by Walter and UCSF neuroscientist Susanna Rosi, PhD, a professor of physical therapy and rehabilitation sciences and of neurological surgery, showed that ISRIB even restored long - term memory in mice with traumatic brain injury long after the injuries occurred, an effect neurologists had previously considered impossible.

Radiation Therapy Prolongs Life in Men with Recurrent Prostate Cancer Men whose tumors recur after prostate cancer surgery are three times more likely to survive their disease long term if they undergo radiotherapy within two years of the recurrence.

Several studies reviewed indicated that using yoga as therapy combated insulin resistance by improving fasting glucose (with improvements ranging from a 5.4 % to a 33.4 % decrease in fasting glucose levels), postprandial glucose levels (blood sugar levels after meals), and glycohemoglobin levels (a measure of the long - term control of diabetes mellitus).

The closest ingredients to this ideal are vinpocetine, huperzine A and DHA but even these are mostly useful for the elderly, to slow down neurodegeneration and only effective after long - term therapy.

«Our volunteer therapy teams go into schools, libraries, after - school programs, detention centers, and hospitals where kids are in long - term wards,» says Paula Dalby, READ's national coordinator.

CONTEXT Pramipexole and levodopa both ameliorate the motor symptoms of early Parkinson disease (PD), but no controlled studies have compared long - term outcomes after initiating dopaminergic therapy

By TheK9PT 2017-07-16T17:23:41 +00:00 July 12th, 2017 Categories: education, pathologies, rehabilitation Tags: ACL tear, canine physical therapy, canine rehab, CCL tear, physical therapy Comments Off on Long - term Functional Outcome After Surgical Repair of Cruciate Ligament Disease in Dogs

Dogs that have had their spleen removed, and those that are on long - term immunosuppressive steroid drug therapy, can develop especially severe complications from Babesia, irrespective of whether they are infected before, during or after the particular therapy or procedure.

Sam earned his Canine Good Citizen certificate shortly after his Camp term and became a certified therapy dog at the workshop you sponsored.

Ensure cat eats or drinks after receiving capsule or tablet form Superinfections have occurred in long - term tetracycline therapy Skin sensitivities (pustules or blisters on skin exposed to sun).

After going through numerous treatments — physical therapy, pain medications, cortisone shots — a surgeon tells you that your best option for long - term relief is surgery.

After the initial six sessions, there is a discussion to review the process of the clinical work and to decide if therapy will continue into a longer - term agreement.

The relationship between adherence to hand therapy and short - term outcome after distal radius fracture

As therapy requires a substantial investment of time and resources, many people question its absolute necessity long after they have begun to admit to themselves that a real, long - term issue is indeed present in their household.

Short - term psychodynamic psychotherapy yielded an effect size of 0.90 after therapy and of 0.95 at follow - up.