Sentences with phrase «treatment studied works»

No therapies for IBS are perfect, but nearly every other current treatment studied works better than Rifaximin.13, 14

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It studies DNA in the blood, detecting biological signs of cancer and then making predictions about where the cancer is and what kind of treatments would work best.

A new study using lab - engineered microtumors allowed doctors to better predict if a cancer drug treatment will work in a patient.

While the research was aimed at eventually developing treatments for those suffering from PTSD, the study authors said these initial findings were also useful for those of us who just have to deal with normal negativity like marital spats and nasty work disagreements.

Whereas Vermes first stakes out a topic and then works his way to particulars by adducing historical considerations, Crossan isolates a cluster of sayings on a topic, considers only the earliest and doubly attested, and then compares the treatment of the theme with Greek as well as Jewish materials in order to develop an interpretation based on anthropological studies of Mediterranean peasants.

Visser and Hary apparently wanted treatment in the European manner — a big hotel, liberal charge privileges and no serious studies or outside work.

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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.

She led some of the first work on the role of weight - bearing exercise in building and maintaining bone mass and studied bisphosphonates as an osteoporosis treatment.

He added that the method used in this study, called «network biology» — where computer systems are used to identify gene networks that work together to underpin disease — may also help find treatments for other conditions.

Fluge and Mella are now working on a multicenter study and monitoring their original patients as they receive booster treatments, to try and determine optimal treatments for CFIDS.

The work helps explain a biological mystery and could open scientific doors to studies of novel treatments for neurological disease, said lead researcher Jason Slot, an assistant professor of fungal evolutionary genomics at The Ohio State University.

The article reports that the study of several new treatments, including monoclonal antibodies and synthetic bile acids, are in the works.

According to the charity SignHealth, which commissioned the work, the study «revealed shocking inequality in treatment, which means that some Deaf people are at risk of reduced life expectancy.»

Dr. Bira is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry within UT Health San Antonio's Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine, where she works with the STRONG STAR research consortium studying treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder.

In a small study, the compound was particularly helpful for people with treatment - resistant depression — that desperate minority for whom therapy and drugs do not work.

«While significant effort is being put into developing treatments to slow or block the progression of Alzheimer's dementia, little work has been done to get the medical system ready for such an advancement,» said Jodi Liu, lead author of the study and a policy researcher at RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

This work provides a proof of principle for a new approach in the study and treatment of cancer: the aberrant expression in a tissue or organ of genes specific to other tissues could become a new tool for establishing a prognosis and personalizing therapeutic care.

If treatment works, it might be particularly helpful for women who drank heavily in their first trimester before realizing they were pregnant, says Joanne Rovet, who studies fetal alcohol syndrome at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

The antiretroviral drugs, of course, can only work if they are in the blood or tissues when HIV attempts to establish an infection, so nonadherent participants who are in treatment arms of these studies make it exceedingly difficult to tease out whether infections occurred because of the drug failure or their own behavior.

«Our work could also contribute to ongoing efforts in immuno - oncology and the treatment of cancer,» explained Tao Xu, postdoctoral scholar in Ding's laboratory and first author of the study.

«For someone like myself, in this kind of work, this is the kind of result that you get to see once in your career,» said study co-senior author Philippe Armand, MD, PhD, medical oncologist in the Hematologic Oncology Treatment Center at Dana - Farber.

«It's very interesting work but not practical for clinical treatment of patients,» says Denis Paré, a neuroscientist at Rutgers University in New Jersey who is also studying pharmacological approaches to manipulating fearful memories.

Because genes and the proteins they code for are often highly conserved across species, the researchers suspect their discoveries — boosted by preliminary studies in mice — could lead to new treatments for people whose insomnia or off - hours work schedules keep them awake long after their heads hit the pillow.

Lydia Villa - Komaroff, a molecular and cellular biologist and co-founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos / Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, underscored the value of basic research, noting that her work studying strains of infection - resistant bacteria led to a discovery that «made it possible to make insulin and other treatments in bacteria.

«By understanding how stress accelerates invasion in aggressive breast tumor cells, this work will inform future studies into whether beta - blockers could be a useful adjuvant therapy in the treatment of some aggressive breast cancers.»

Lu and fellow researchers Michael Lindsey of New York University, Sireen Irsheild of University of Chicago, and Von Eugene Nebbitt of Washington University examine the conceptualization of depression among Black adolescents and make recommendations for improving treatment in the study, «Psychometric Properties of the CES - D Among Black Adolescents in Public Housing,» newly published in the November 2017 issue of the Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research.

Dr. Stergiopoulos noted the study is important for those who work directly with disadvantaged populations because it highlights that adaptations and improvements need to be made to treatment and support options.

Getting Treatment Right Despite the prevalence of cancer in the elderly, treatment studies rarely include people older than 70, leaving doctors without clear guidance on what works best for such Treatment Right Despite the prevalence of cancer in the elderly, treatment studies rarely include people older than 70, leaving doctors without clear guidance on what works best for such treatment studies rarely include people older than 70, leaving doctors without clear guidance on what works best for such patients.

The study, published in the PNAS journal, has opened the door to a new therapeutic pathway that consists of complementing the physical treatments received by these patients with therapies to overcome attention deficit disorders, such as working with video games.

However, our study shows there is a lot more work to do to understand why many depressed patients do not begin treatment.»

To better understand the benefits of a new, family - based cognitive behavioral therapy and how it may work to improve sleep in children with ASD, McCrae and Micah Mazurek, associate professor of health psychology, are conducting a sleep treatment study through the Research Core at the MU Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders.

In the new Nature Biotechnology study, graduate students Robert Citorik and Mark Mimee worked with Lu to target specific genes that allow bacteria to survive antibiotic treatment.

«With this new structure, we can start to see how this treatment works,» adds Liam King, a TSRI graduate student and first author of the study.

The Myelin Repair Foundation, which funded this work as part of a multi-institutional effort to accelerate research and development of treatments for MS, has entered into a cooperative agreement with the National Institutes of Health to assess guanabenz as a therapeutic candidate in MS clinical studies.

«In this exciting new study, the authors provide support for a new experimental treatment approach that works by helping nerve cells digest toxic proteins that might otherwise cause cell death,» said John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.

«There are other costs, most of which tend to be borne by individuals and households, such as the cost of traveling to and from treatment and lost income due to lost time at work,» said study co-author Yara Halasa, a health economics researcher at Brandeis University.

Even simple baker's yeast, which consists of only one cell to our billions, is playing a role in studies of how cancer treatments work.

They were selected for the study as all other available treatments did not work for them and they were at risk of early death because of anorexia.

«Drugs can be an ally, but they shouldn't be the core of treatment,» says back pain researcher Manuela Ferreira, one of the Sydney scientists who worked on the anti-inflammatory and acetaminophen study.

«We're far from having a treatment based on this, but it's exciting to think that one day, we might be able to turn down the pruning process in some individuals and decrease their risk» of developing the condition, Beth Stevens, a neuroscientist who worked on the new study, and an assistant professor of neurology at Boston Children's Hospital, said in a statement.

While their study confirms the identity of the compound responsible for NDMA formation and encourages treatment plants to continue implementing intervention methods, their work is far from complete.

«The behavioral measures give you perspective on whether a treatment could actually work in helping improve the communicative abilities of older adults, while biological or auditory electrophysiology measures give you an indication of the actual mechanistic pathways that the training may be affecting,» says Frank Lin, an otolaryngologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who was not involved in the study.

Using the findings of the TRIO study [2] as the basis for their recommendations, the Working Group recommends measuring serum PINP (procollagen type 1 N - terminal propeptide) and CTX (collagen type 1 C - terminal telopeptide) levels at baseline and after 3 months of initiating treatment.

Future work will focus on identifying cellular targets of ampulexins, and potentially generating a useful animal model for the study of Parkinson's disease treatments.

«We've demonstrated that the concept works in retrospective studies but this is really the first step in integrating the novel imaging and treatment prospectively in patients.

As a result, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis are difficult,» says Dr. Rajeet Singh Saluja, a neurosurgeon and the study's first author working under the guidance of Dr. Alain Ptito, a neuropsychologist whose laboratory is at The Neuro.

PCORI now spends about $ 500 million a year on studies looking at which of two treatments works better, an area known as comparative effectiveness research.

The authors review over 800 recent studies addressing human rights violations against sex workers, HIV, law and policy, concluding that criminalization of sex work fuels and fosters human rights violations and increases sex workers» susceptibility to HIV, including by reducing sex workers» access to HIV prevention, treatment and care.

Study co-author Elizabeth A. Stuart, PhD, an associate professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Mental Health, says that before this, it was not possible to determine whether a specific suicide prevention treatment was working.