Sentences with phrase «treatment of other diseases»

When blood fl ows through the kidneys, the kidneys act as a complex fi lter that removes from blood wastes that are generated from break down of food, old cells, toxins or poisons and many drugs that are given for treatment of other diseases.

The chemical properties of VBP15 also suggest potential for the treatment of other diseases.»

Dr. Alan S. Cross, Professor of Medicine at University of Maryland School of Medicine, who was not involved in the research, shared his input: «This is a major conceptual breakthrough in our understanding of infection and immune disease mechanisms and may have implications for novel approaches to the treatment of other diseases characterized by cytokine storm.

Yin's research also has implications for the treatment of other diseases involving muscle damage, including muscular dystrophy.

These tests alone will not improve the treatment of other diseases.

Anti-epilepsy medicine is also used for the treatment of other diseases such as migraine and bipolar disorder.

Not exact matches

But before his arrest, he said he'd use KaloBios as a vehicle to nab another niche drug, this time for treatment of the parasitic infection Chagas disease, and dramatically increase its price to the $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 range after helping it win FDA approval (the drug is approved in other countries and is provided to patients in the U.S. on a special and selective basis).

It's not every day that a knock in the head leads to an entirely new approach to treating disease, but that's what sparked SuperBetter, Jane McGonigal's free online game, which introduced a radical new approach to the prevention and treatment of depression, anxiety and other neurological conditions.

About Nohla Therapeutics Nohla Therapeutics is a leading developer of off - the shelf cell therapies for the treatment of cancer and other critical diseases.

When Jedd Wolchok, a cancer doctor and immunologist leading a Yervoy trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering, examined a melanoma patient's scan 12 weeks after he'd received his course of treatment, the results were utterly disappointing — just like those of any other metastatic patient in the final throes of the disease: The tumors had gotten bigger, and there were more of them.

• Oyster Point Pharmaceuticals Inc., a San Francisco - based developer of treatments for dry eye and other diseases of the ocular surface, raised $ 22 million in Series A funding.

While some of the firm's flagship treatments are facing patent expiration, Saunders has been on a quest to snap up a huge number of biotechs developing drugs for liver disease, Alzheimer's, and other conditions.

Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1 November 2017 — Cristal Therapeutics, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing targeted nanomedicines for the treatment of cancer and other diseases with high unmet patient need, announced today that it has begun a Phase 1b...

These are useful for the treatment of anemia, arthritis, hepatitis A, chronic fatigue syndrome and various other diseases.

Potential subjects were accepted into the study if they had none of the following conditions: severe or symptomatic cardiac disease or hypertension; history of bleeding disorders; chronic history of gastric, intestinal, liver, pancreatic, or renal disease; any portion of the stomach or the intestine removed (other than an appendectomy); history of intestinal obstruction, malabsorption, or use of antacid drugs; cancer (active or use of medications for a history of cancer treatment within the past 5 y); history of chronic alcoholism; a convulsive disorder; or abnormal results in screening blood or urine samples.

As well as eliminating foods that contain gluten from your diet, a number of other treatments are available for coeliac disease.

He also «promoted the product as, among other things, an effective treatment, cure and preventative for cancer, heart disease, arthritis and diabetes, and as a means of achieving substantial weight loss of up to 80 pounds in eight months,» according to a complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission.

After residency, Dr. Chandra spent 5 years studying with, and working with, Dr. William Lee Cowden, MD a leading expert in the treatment of chronic Lyme disease and other complex medical conditions.

Jiachen Lee, Arooba Ahmed and Jillian Parker, a trio of young scientists from the Half Hollow Hills school district won the $ 100,000 top team award in the prestigious Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology for their research into cell division that could help find treatments to cancers, viruses and other diseases.

Doctors and other health professionals would be immune from professional conduct charges if they pursued a hotly debated course of treatment for Lyme disease under a bill given preliminary approval by the Vermont Senate.

Senator Betty Little of Queensbury, who helped organize the forum, said the state legislature will create a task force to study tick - borne illness, and that she believes legislation should be passed to introduce more funding for disease research, and to require health insurance companies to cover treatments associated with symptoms of Lyme and other diseases.

Those costs include, among other things, medical care for people with opioid - related addiction or disease, treatment of infants born with opioid - related medical conditions and law enforcement and public safety efforts.

The findings held true, even after vitamin D levels and other potentially influential factors, such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, duration of disease, weight (BMI) and drug treatment had been taken into account.

«In making effective treatments easier for patients, the hope is that we can reduce vision loss from glaucoma, and possibly other diseases,» said study author James D. Brandt, M.D., director of the UC Davis Medical Center Glaucoma Service.

The finding, one of the first to show that brain waves directly influence behaviour, could lead to new treatments for Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders.

The team's laboratory research will also focus on expanding the sensing capability of the bandage to other treatment - related parameters — such as pH, bacterial load, oxidative states and specific disease markers — and incorporating an on - demand drug release capacity.

The discovery of the master gene that sends them into action promises a host of new treatments for infections, cancer and other diseases.

In addition to suggesting that creatine could slow the progression of HD, these results also imply that neuroimaging may provide a useful biomarker of disease modification in studies of other potential treatments.

Still, he's open to more animal testing of the idea — and calls on others to be as well, especially given the dearth of treatments for mitochondrial diseases.

Gaining a better understanding of the underlying disease mechanisms could offer the possibility of developing new and better treatments for lupus and other autoimmune conditions in the future.

Other treatments, such as radiation, can affect the heart arteries and cause the development of coronary artery disease or blockages.

Once the disease spreads to other parts of the body, most patients are not candidates for surgery and receive chemotherapy as their primary treatment.

Treatment of knee osteoarthritis is shifting focus from end stage treatment to preventing the progression from early to the late stage of the disease, with the specific aim of decreasing the need for joint replacement and other costly trTreatment of knee osteoarthritis is shifting focus from end stage treatment to preventing the progression from early to the late stage of the disease, with the specific aim of decreasing the need for joint replacement and other costly trtreatment to preventing the progression from early to the late stage of the disease, with the specific aim of decreasing the need for joint replacement and other costly treatments.

He says more research is required to determine whether a direct connection exists between biologic treatment and the improvement of cardiovascular symptoms, and to evaluate how biologics compare to other psoriasis treatments in reducing cardiovascular diseases.

As the number of cancer survivors climbs into the many millions, researchers are trying to learn why some acquire treatment - related diseases and others do not.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

«The identification of a new inflammatory target in rheumatoid arthritis holds promise for better treatment for these patients and perhaps those with other autoimmune or inflammatory diseases.»

These encouraging results in terms of safety and efficacy are paving the way for a new kind of treatment, not only for Still's disease, but other rare inflammatory diseases, too.

The danger of pseudoscience and quackery is very real, says Jeffrey I. Mechanick, an endocrinologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine who has written extensively about the use of dietary supplements in the treatment of diabetes and other metabolic diseases.

The probe also has potential to provide insights into other diseases and treatments in other parts of the body, such as optimising thermal treatment of cancers.

Although surgery that is confined to removing just a small tumor (loco - regional treatment) is generally considered to be low risk, we have previously demonstrated that the proportion of patients who develop postoperative complications strongly increases with age and increasing numbers of other diseases or conditions that they may have.

«The vector used in these studies is one that has already been used in the treatment of other human diseases so this is a promising approach.»

If successful, this procedure could significantly change the treatment of Parkinson's disease and could have an impact on other neurodegenerative disorders as well.

«We hope that these cells can eventually lead to new treatments for glaucoma and other forms of optic nerve disease.»

Certain conditions affect one sex more than the other, he notes, so «if the genetics of a cell affects the progress of a disease, it might suggest specific causes or treatments for disease.»

Uranium - 235 (U-235) is an isotope of uranium widely used for nuclear power generation and, like all other radioactive isotopes used in medicine, it has been also employed for diagnosis and treatment of diseased organs and tumors.

The results provide the foundation for development of the broad - spectrum cell - directed antivirals or their combinations for treatment of Zika and other emerging viral diseases.

Interferon - inducible protein 6 - 16 (IFI 6 - 16), a protein not previously known to be associated with other misfolding diseases but that was uniquely found misfolded in the urine of women with preeclampsia, is known to help prevent cell death and, in breast cancer cells, is responsible for resistance to treatment.

«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.

Detection of dementia at the earliest stages has become a worldwide priority, because drug treatments, prevention strategies and other interventions will likely be more effective very early in the disease process, before extensive brain damage has occurred.