Sentences with phrase «test effective treatments for these diseases»

We plan to use these techniques to design and test effective treatments for these diseases.

Not exact matches

«We have effective screening tests for several cancers, which allow physicians and other health - care providers to identify the disease at an earlier stage — often before symptoms surface — when treatment is more likely to result in a cure,» said senior author of the report and IPHI Director Kenneth W. Kizer.

Although there remains no cure for Alzheimer's, researchers hope that testing potential drugs or therapies prior to mental decline will prove to be more successful than previous attempts at finding the most effective treatment in the battle against the debilitating disease.

«We urgently need markers to predict which therapies are going to be effective and which will not be effective in individual patients with advanced prostate cancer,» said lead study author Emmanuel Antonarakis, MD, an assistant professor of oncology and urology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Md. «AR - V7 testing may be extremely valuable in guiding treatment decisions for men with hormone - resistant disease in the near future.»

Although this type of analysis is less likely to be easily translated to the clinic, it could be very effective for clinical trials, as so many of the current tests for progression of Parkinson's disease and impact of treatments are very subjective and not sensitive to changes in clinical state.»

An important step in developing effective treatments for human disease is finding an effective animal model of the disease to test potential therapies.

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``... these cuts will disenfranchise a segment of the population and lead to increased non-compliance with their doctor's requests for pathology testing due to the requirement of a co-payment... including: delaying the effective early diagnosis of cancer leading to premature deaths; compromising the effective treatment of diabetes and chronic diseases; and threatening the services of rural pathology» (Dr Michael Harrison RCPA).