Sentences with phrase «treated for the disease»

Amgen Executive Vice President of Research and Development Sean Harper said the study was designed to explore Kyprolis dosing regimens, noting that the the trial did not meet its goal in improving progression - free survival versus Velcade in patients who had not yet been treated for the disease.

Brantly and a fellow missionary, Nancy Writebol, who was serving with SIM, another Christian aid organization, are being treated for the disease at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

He also declared Live8 a success, insisting it had led to more people being fed, more children in school and more people being treated for their diseases.

«I don't know for sure, but I've heard several senators say that Ted Kennedy with a brain tumour, being 77 years old as opposed to being 37 years old, if he were in England, would not be treated for his disease, because end of life - when you get to be 77, your life is considered less valuable under those systems,» he said.

He also wants to improve access to breast cancer screening, after his longtime girlfriend, celebrity chef Sandra Lee was treated for the disease last year.

Jobs had been battling cancer for at least 6 years, telling his employees in 2004 that he was being treated for the disease, and undergoing a liver transplant in 2009.

«It's leading some people to be treated for disease that was never going to bother them.»

We could even use patients» own cells to develop a tailored approach to finding out how we can more effectively treat them for diseases such as diabetes.»

Legal immigrants from endemic regions are treated for these diseases when they enter the United States.

The overwhelming majority of patients treated for this disease suffer relapse and, despite the best multimodal treatment, do not survive.

And prostate cancer was a particularly dramatic example that has led literally millions of American men to be treated for a disease that they were not going to die from or even have symptoms from.

Such advances are expected to increase the number of patients treated for the disease.

WHO estimates that about 240 million people worldwide are infected and more than 66.5 million were treated for the disease in 2015.

Nathanel Zelnik and his colleagues at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, examined 111 children who had been treated for the disease between 1977 and 2001.

In fact, about 95 % of Hirschsprung's patients who have been treated for the disease end up with normal digestion habits and minimal constipation.

However, the bacteria that cause Lyme disease can live in blood, so people currently being treated for the disease should not donate blood.

I am not recommending you should, but if you are someone who hasn't been told by your Dr. that you need to abstain from alcohol or are being treated for disease by a health professional and you really want to lose body fat for summer, then there is a way.

In order to be treated for the disease, patients must be under a physician's care.

All FOHA dogs are spayed / neutered, fully vaccinated, tested and treated for any disease (s) and put on heartworm and flea / tick preventatives.

Just like Coccidia, our doctors might treat for this disease even on negative fecal samples.

When we treat for this disease we address these issues.

However, their prognosis depends on several factors including their age, size, whether or not they have been treated for the disease and whether or not they have any other medical issues.

The diarrhea leads to severe dehydration, shock and death, and is often fatal, even in dogs diagnosed and aggressively treated for the disease.

In these cases we commonly treat for the disease anyway, because the treatment is highly effective.

Even though the Indian government subsidizes the cost of inoculation (it was easier for the Mission Rabies teams to buy vaccine than the spray paint used for marking dogs), getting treated for the disease means leaving work and often trekking to a major city.

The study reported that women's well being two years out from being treated for the disease was overall only modestly lower than for women in general.

Not exact matches

Founded in 2011, Innovent has built a portfolio of 16 potential products for treating cancer, autoimmune disorders and other diseases, and seven of those are in clinical development.

Since metformin was approved for diabetes, it has started to be used off - label to treat conditions like pre-diabetes, gestational diabetes, and polycystic ovarian disease.

• Kala Pharmaceuticals, a Waltham, Mass. - based biotech focused on treating eye diseases with nanoparticles, filed for an $ 86 million IPO Friday.

The price is for Spark Therapeutics» Luxturna, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in December to treat a rare, inherited retinal disease that can lead to blindness.

In an interview with Medium Andrew Conrad, head of life sciences at Google X, explained why our current strategy for treating serious diseases, particularly cancer, is fundamentally backwards:

Google's pill aims to change the strategy from reactive to proactive — adopting a «preventative maintenance» approach — by continuously monitoring the body for disease triggers, so they can be identified and treated as soon as they appear.

While the pill is still in its experimental stage — the company has said it could take up to 10 years for the pill to be prescribed, the AP reports — this technology has the potential to dramatically transform the way we diagnose and treat a host of diseases, most notably cancer.

That could be key for therapies that tend to be hard to deliver, such as drugs to treat gastrointestinal diseases where Suono is starting out.

• Kala Pharmaceuticals, a Waltham, Mass. - based biotech focused on treating eye diseases with nanoparticles, raised $ 90 million in an offering of 6 million shares for $ 15 a piece.

Until now, there was no reimbursable way for pre-diabetic patients to receive care, said Mike Payne, head of medical affairs at Omada Health, the nation's largest federally recognized provider of diabetes prevention programs in the U.S. Medicare has always reimbursed providers to screen for diabetes and to treat those who have the disease, but there wasn't a way for providers to be reimbursed to stop that progression all together.

And hope not for enduring recovery until policy - makers here and abroad make meaningful progress in treating underlying diseases.

And a third, different kind of gene therapy from Spark Therapeutics — to treat a rare inherited form of blindness — is likely to be approved by the end of 2017, too, making this year a landmark for treatments that manipulate the body's own biological mechanisms in novel new ways to fight deadly diseases.

By bringing a drug that's been well - established as safe in other markets to the U.S. for the first time in order to treat a rare disease, the company doesn't just control its pricing destiny — it will also receive a coveted «priority review voucher» which it can hawk to another firm for tens (or even hundreds) of millions of dollars.

Nuplazid, which treats psychosis associated with Parkinson's disease, has been scrutinized for reports people dying while taking it.

In those areas that we have mapped, it typically takes us a few hours to go from a mechanism - inspired idea for treating a disease to knowing the companies that might have relevant clinical and preclinical assets to license, the companies from whom a candidate could be commissioned, trial designs and endpoints, competing and complementary agents, current and future standard of care, market size, comparable pricing, financing strategy, and potential acquirers, all meant to enable a thoughtful first - pass assessment of whether an idea could be worth a much deeper assessment.

What is the limit for CRISPR and what other diseases can this gene technology help treat?

Specialists in infectious disease are protesting a gigantic overnight increase in the price of a 62 - year - old drug that is the standard of care for treating a life - threatening parasitic infection.

At issue is whether previously unknown risks have been found for Nuplazid, which treats Parkinson's disease psychosis.

Salk Institute scientists say they have developed a superior way of cultivating human brain tissue, guiding research for treating neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.

That therapy for treating melanoma is already in the development pipeline, along with 906 other biologics targeting over 100 diseases from autoimmune disorders to viruses.

The drug is also being evaluated for treating two additional rare diseases.

Drug company scientists develop a drug with a range of physiological effects, none of which are terribly helpful, so the marketers must identify and promote a disease for the drug to treat....

Probably creationist don't turn to Leviticus 13 for medical advice on how to treat skin disease (leprosy); nor do they turn to Joshua 6 (Siege and fall of Jericho) for lessons in military science; nor do they turn to the staple of ancient legal science in Exodus 21:23 - 2 (lex talons «eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth») for modern jurisprudence.

While some programs also encourage abstinence or noncoital sex, most are concerned with teaching techniques for «safe sex»; offspring (and disease) are thus treated as (equally) avoidable side effects of sexuality, whose true purpose is only individual pleasure.