Sentences with phrase «than current treatments»

The whole animal studies suggest that the experimental drug could have fewer side - effects than current treatments.

These trials are used to determine whether a treatment is more effective and / or better tolerated than current treatments and should be used more broadly.

Promising clinical trial results were announced in July that include therapies meant to better address the underlying cause of CF.. The studies show the potential of these next - generation therapies to be significantly more effective than current treatment regimens.

Toronto - based Theralase thinks it can make life easier for patients — and tap into a $ 4 - billion treatment market — with a new procedure that's faster and less invasive than current treatments.

Neither is from Burdick's lab, but as he notes, «It's important we all keep moving forward to figure out how this therapy could be used, because it's different than any current treatment.»

Six months prior, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved sofosbuvir, an oral medication shown to cure most cases of hepatitis C infection, with fewer side effects than the current treatment options.

Placing a high value on therapies that are expensive to develop and deliver, but ultimately cost less over the long - term than current treatment.

In small trials across Africa, the therapies cured people with even the most drug - resistant forms of TB, and more quickly than current treatments

They found that by elevating the activity of PV - GPe neurons over the activity of the Lhx6 - GPe neurons, they were able to stop aberrant neuronal behavior in the basal ganglia and restore movement in the mouse model for at least four hours — significantly longer than current treatments.

The authors, who published their findings today in Nature Communications, identified a new method of treating neuropathic pain in mice, which could be more safe and effective than current treatments comprising of opioids and antiepileptic drugs.

Those early results are very positive, and strongly indicate that the nanoparticles could be useful for assessing how effective a therapy is on a much shorter time scale than current treatments, which usually rely on observing the size of the tumor.

The findings suggest that this strategy could be even better than current treatments at slowing the advance of the disease, or even enhance patients» vision.

«If validated in further clinical trials, this would represent a substantially more effective therapy than current treatments for Alzheimer's disease,» said Mark Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D., UCSD professor of neurosciences, neurologist with the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and the study's principal investigator.

Researchers are testing whether MRI - guided HIFU could lead to quicker recovery with fewer after - effects than current treatments, such as surgical removal of the uterus.

Even once a drug makes it to late - phase clinical trials, patients must be followed for several years, or even a decade or more, to determine whether the new treatment is more effective than current treatments.