Sentences with phrase «treatment systems we studied»

«Neither of the treatment systems we studied was designed to remove antibiotics from waste as the primary goal,» Aga says.

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There is an irony that the report from the «Centre for policy studies» failed to mention that the NHS is the only public body, that we are aware of, that has it's own full time litigation authority costing some # 7 million per year set up to deal with the complaints from patients regarding treatment they have received from a healthcare system that is supposed to protect them.

County Executive Steve Bellone announced last week that the county will conduct a lottery to select 19 homeowners who will receive free advanced wastewater treatment systems as part of a pilot demonstration program study.

«The safety and health of the residents of Owasco is our utmost priority and through the governor's leadership, we now have the support needed to complete studies that will pinpoint the best treatment plan and upgrade our water systems as soon as possible,» said Owasco Supervisor Edward Wagner.

Instead, administration officials pointed to the installation of hundreds of private water treatment systems, extensive blood testing and the ongoing study of cancer rates.

Treadwell says he wants to see the study offer ideas on how the county can expand its start up businesses and improve the wastewater treatment systems.

Legislator Kara Hahn has traveled throughout the East Coast to study wastewater treatment systems.

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.

Led by Stella K. Kang, a radiologist with the Department of Radiology at the New York School of Medicine, the study was designed to compare the effectiveness of a treatment algorithm for small renal tumors incorporating the nephrometry score, a renal tumor anatomy scoring system developed by urologists, with the current standard of uniformly recommended partial nephrectomy in patients with mild - to - moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Pre-clinical studies have shown that ALT - 803 activates the immune system to mobilize lymphocytes against tumor cells and could potentially serve as an important component in combination treatments.

«There are also other important measures to reduce methane emissions from coal mining, municipal waste treatment and gas distribution, for example, as well as black carbon emission reductions through elimination of high - emitting vehicles, use of cleaner biomass cooking and heating stoves, replacement of kerosene wick lamps with LED lamps and other measures,» adds Zbigniew Klimont of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, who also took part in the study.

Pembrolizumab, or pembro, an immunotherapy drug that unmasks cancer cells and allows the body's own immune system to help destroy tumors, appears to be safe in treating lung cancers, according to a study by Cancer Treatment Centers of America ® (CTCA) at Western Regional Medical Center (Western) in Goodyear, Arizona.

The new study also used a drug to block acupuncture's manipulation of the HPA system, and found that production of stress hormones equalized in all treatment groups.

Researchers say further study is needed using individual patient - level data among men with high risk prostate cancer to assess the benefit of HRT and whether treatment toxicity, particularly those to the bladder and urinary system are also low with HRT.

The system is becoming instrumental in studying genetically based treatments for diseases including cancer and Parkinson's.

Either way, Churchyard says, his team's study illustrates how broken South Africa's TB treatment system is, a problem echoed across other countries with high incidences of TB.

What's more, the studies suggest how our gut microbes make the immune system turn against nerve cells — a finding that could lead to treatments, like drugs based on microbial byproducts, that might improve the course of the disease.

These are some of the findings of a recent study published in the journal Psychiatric Services, which reported significant racial - ethnic differences in diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric conditions across 11 private, not - for - profit U.S. healthcare delivery systems.

«If we can confirm these results in the larger study that we are planning to begin soon, this imaging system may allow us to personalize breast cancer treatment and offer the treatment that is most likely to benefit individual patients,» says Hershman, who is also a professor of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

«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.

In 2011, the HPTN 052 study investigators reported a breakthrough: Starting HIV treatment early, when the immune system is relatively healthy, reduced the risk of sexually transmitting the virus to an uninfected partner by 96 percent over 18 months.

The study examined 328 patients with cervical cancer and 1,312 controls, matched on age and decade, who enrolled in a hospital - based case - control study drawn from 26,831 patients who received treatment at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and completed the Patient Epidemiology Data System questionnaire between 1982 and 1998.

In the course of a study conducted throughout Germany, medical professionals have compared different treatment methods for Neuromyelitis optica, an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system.

According to a pair of new studies led by Diana Aga, PhD, Henry M. Woodburn Professor of Chemistry in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, two of the most elite waste treatment systems available today on farms do not fully remove antibiotics from manure.

In the context of the current study, the researchers have developed a pre-clinical model system that specifically captures the impact of a treatment on cancer stem cells.

«Self - administered treatment for keloid scars can reduce the economic burden on the healthcare system and provide a treatment option for patients who have limited access to medical care,» comments Professor Jeffrey Karp from Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, US, an expert on medical device design who was not involved in this study.

That such vessels could have escaped detection when the lymphatic system has been so thoroughly mapped throughout the body is surprising on its own, but the true significance of the discovery lies in the effects it could have on the study and treatment of neurological diseases ranging from autism to Alzheimer's disease to multiple sclerosis.

In an accompanying editorial, Michael Davis, CRNP and Jeffrey Kopp, MD (National Institutes of Health) noted that the study also pointed to various factors — such as having access to alternate dialysis in an integrated system, getting access to transportation, and having a stable social situation — that could be important for avoiding missed dialysis treatments.

A group from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) evaluated the live imaging system as a potential alternative to traditional methods of assessing investigative influenza vaccines and treatment in mice, which can be time consuming and require more study animals for valid statistical comparison.

This goal of this study, led by Geisbert and Ian MacLachlan, executive vice president and chief technical officer of Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, was to determine whether it is possible to protect animals against a lethal MARV - Angola infection when treatment was started at a point when animals have detectable levels of the virus in their system and show the first clinical signs of disease.

Even waste treatment systems that are considered to be state - of - the - art often fail to account for chemicals used routinely in modern society, says University at Buffalo researcher Diana Aga, who led the new study.

«The distinct neural markers associated with cognitive performance and GWI revealed in our study can be useful for future research to objectively measure the efficacy of treatments for GWI as well as other brain disorders related to the same neurotransmitter system, like Alzheimer's disease.»

Most importantly, these studies show that treatment with vitamin D3 can significantly restore the damage to the cardiovascular system caused by several diseases, including hypertension, atherosclerosis, and diabetes, while also reducing the risk of heart attack.

The United States has sufficient capacity for treating another outbreak of the Ebola virus, but financial, staffing and resource challenges remain a hurdle for many hospitals and health systems attempting to maintain dedicated treatment centers for highly infectious diseases, according to new study released today.

Pauling denied that the study was a replication of Cameron's experiment because the patients used in the Mayo trial had all received chemotherapy before taking vitamin C so their negative response to treatment with vitamin C may have had more to do with their depressed immune system than the inefficacy of vitamin C.

- In a study with potentially major implications for the future treatment of autoimmunity and related conditions, scientists from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have found a way to remove the subset of antibody - making cells that cause an autoimmune disease, without harming the rest of the immune system.

In addition, municipal water treatment systems are unable to filter antibiotics, and are being studied for their impact on the development of resistance in the environment.

These are skills that we implement for other international trials of gene therapy for rare genetic diseases of the immune system, blood, muscle, vision or liver... We will continue the current study with the objective of providing treatment for patients.»

«We reported last year that this treatment can greatly reduce the amount of virus that's present in someone's blood,» Dr. Schoofs adds, «but we wanted to follow the patients for a longer period of time to study how their immune systems were adapting to the new therapy.»

«By understanding the oxytocin system's dual role in triggering or reducing anxiety, depending on the social context, we can optimize oxytocin treatments that improve well - being instead of triggering negative reactions,» said Jelena Radulovic, the senior author of the study and the Dunbar Professsor of Bipolar Disease at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Ritalin, the brand name for methylphenidate, a central nervous system stimulant used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, is a growing problem among college students who use it without a prescription as a so - called «study enhancer.»

In the last few years, scientists in Southampton have been at the forefront of research into the role of the immune system in Alzheimer's, so it is encouraging to see this study taking these ideas forward by identifying a specific mechanism that could be a target for future treatments.

Vaccine - induced macrophages open a new realm of study into remodeling the immune system to reduce the risk of infections during cancer treatment.

We will discuss the electrical system of the heart, how it can be thwarted to produce arrhythmias and the field of cardiac electrophysiology, which is the study and treatment of arrhythmias.

The study, which is published in PNAS, paves the way for more individualized treatment of diseases involving the immune system, e.g. autoimmune disorders, allergies and various forms of cancer.

The authors note that the formation of each different organ bud type may require some fine tuning to optimize tissue self - organization, and further addition of neural cell types may be necessary, but this research may soon provide exciting model systems for the study of basic biology and pathology as well as providing appropriate replacement tissues for the treatment of many patients with no other viable options.

Potential treatments being studied include training the body to better tolerate myelin, drugs that target the immune system's B cells, blocking proteins that cause inflammation in the body, or even «rebooting» the entire immune system.

The study, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, is a step towards developing personalised treatments based on a patient's own skin cells for diseases of the central nervous system (CNS).

The study, published July 21, 2016, in Scientific Reports, also showed significant changes in the gut microbiome after antibiotic treatment, suggesting the composition and diversity of bacteria in the gut play an important role in regulating immune system activity that impacts progression of Alzheimer's disease.

The INRG studies provide for a unified system of clinical trials that will enable quicker identification of optimal treatments for neuroblastoma.