Sentences with phrase «useful treatments for»

This is one of the most important problems in visual neuroscience as a field, to be able to take basic research in the laboratory and translate it into useful treatments for patients — and glaucoma, I really believe, is the place to do that.

«It affects many more children than brittle bone disease, so we're very hopeful that sclerostin antibody therapy will be a useful treatment for them as well.

Sports massage can be a useful treatment for tennis elbow, particularly more chronic conditions.

Tryptophan is also a useful treatment for insomnia; significantly reducing the time needed to fall asleep.

It is a powerful antioxidant that scavenges free radicals, increases antioxidant capacity, and reduces oxidative stress; it is a useful treatment for various sexual problems such as erectile dysfunction in men and menstrual pain in women; pycnogenol has various benefits for individuals with type 2 diabetes; it speeds up healing and reduces scar formation; and it also helps reduce ADHD symptoms and asthma symptoms in children.

In fact, Metformin is an extremely useful treatment for women who are diabetic or become diabetic during pregnancy.

A systematic review of the tricyclic studies suggested that tricyclics were of uncertain benefit.3 The present systematic review of cognitive behaviour therapy studies seems to show that it is a useful treatment for children and adolescents with depressive disorders.

«Increasingly, research is showing that dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) can be a useful treatment for a range of mental health problems.

Therapy is another useful treatment for a disruptive behavior disorder.

Not exact matches

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.

However, classifications such as these can be useful for purposes of research or treatment in science and law.

To further underscore the absurdity of universal HPV vaccination, let's look at the concept of «number needed to treat,» or NNT, an extremely useful statistic for evaluating any medical treatment.

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

Sometimes nipple ointments such as Lansinoh ™, Purlan ™ and others can be very useful for mild to moderate pain, but fixing the latch is still the best treatment.

Share your symptoms with your doctor so that a useful treatment plan can be created for you.

Why: Shah is both a practicing physician and an expert in systems - based methods to improve treatment while improving efficiency — a useful skill set for managing a health - care delivery system as large and complex as New York's.

Given the brevity of the revised Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire — and its potential for patients — it could become a useful tool for research as well as treatment of patients and intervention for those who are predisposed toward a number of mental health disorders, Fergus said.

They suggest that the 11 percent figure may be useful for purposes of strategic planning and military preparedness — including the need for treatment and rehabilitation for survivors of combat - related spinal injuries.

«We think this is a useful tool for patients and their providers because it helps to tailor knowledge of the risks and benefits of different treatment choices to their individual situations.»

Whether MALT1 inhibitors may also be useful for the treatment of more common forms of psoriasis is currently under investigation.»

Because cGVHD has a similar pathophysiology to some autoimmune diseases, it is likely that these findings will be useful for developing new treatments and preventive therapies in other conditions.

But all the steps for producing fish avatars, from implanting the tumors to analyzing the results, would take just 2 weeks to 3 weeks, so they could be useful for choosing a patient's initial treatment, she says.

Silva agrees but remains cautiously optimistic about the prospects for translating his and Josselyn's research into useful treatments.

Recently, a team at the «Hospital Sant Joan de Déu de Barcelona» contacted the chemists at IRB Barcelona in order to adapt the shuttle to useful molecules for the treatment of a kind of paediatric brain cancer in which the barrier is intact.

These components offer natural protection to trees from fungal and bacterial infections and might be useful for wood surface treatments in the future.

Originally developed as an anticonvulsant drug, gabapentin has also been found useful for treatment of chronic pain.

In Class I, there is evidence for and / or general agreement that the procedure or treatment is useful and effective.

For example, many of the genes in the new networks are related to cancer, suggesting that certain cancer treatments that target these genes might also be useful to treat ASD.

They are only useful for six months or less of treatment.

In addition, Zeitels notes, the treatment's mechanism of eradicating the blood vessels supplying a tumor — highly effective for conventional vocal - cord cancer — is even more useful for treating tumors caused by HPV infection, which are characterized by an excessive overgrowth of blood vessels.

Dr. Dong said the findings have significant implications in the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes and could prove to be useful targets for modulation of insulin sensitivity and glucose homeostasis and as a target for therapeutic agents to increase liver function to prevent diabetes.

The new treatment approach could be particularly useful for severe or antibiotic - resistant bacterial infections.

«This could be especially useful for the treatment of solid tumors where T cell therapies have been largely ineffective,» Roybal said.

«It would really be wonderful if tau reduction turned out to be useful not only in Alzheimer's disease, but also in other disabling neurological conditions for which there currently are no effective treatments,» said senior author Lennart Mucke, MD, the director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and a professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco.

The technique used to assess addiction - like behavior in rats can also be used in humans, so if similar results are found in addicted people, the researchers hope the technique may help identify people most susceptible to addiction and be useful for predicting the efficacy of oxytocin treatment.

Botox — best known for its ability to smooth wrinkles — has been extremely useful for the treatment of over-active muscles and spasticity as it promotes local and long - term paralysis.

For example, these factors might be useful for early detection of the diseases through a simple blood analysis, or even serve as new targets for possible treatment,» concludes the researchFor example, these factors might be useful for early detection of the diseases through a simple blood analysis, or even serve as new targets for possible treatment,» concludes the researchfor early detection of the diseases through a simple blood analysis, or even serve as new targets for possible treatment,» concludes the researchfor possible treatment,» concludes the researcher.

«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.»

The authors hope that these findings may be useful for policy - makers to update guidelines for the treatment of infections during pregnancy.

This information will be useful for ensuring better access to hepatitis c care and treatment in the coming years.»

Dr Lucy Clark, lead author, Queen Mary University of London, UK, said: «We found that a self - help approach to a graded exercise program, guided by a therapist, was safe and also helped to reduce fatigue for some people with chronic fatigue syndrome, suggesting that GES might be useful as an initial treatment for patients to help manage symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.

Data from brain scans may also prove useful for assessing a treatment's effectiveness, says Pelphrey, who has worked with Piven's team in the past.

Dr. Zhu said he believes the study provides the scientific community with an important animal model to further investigate ARID1B's role in human brain disorders and will be a useful tool for therapeutic testing of potential treatments for autism, intellectual disability, and Coffin - Siris syndrome.

Gilead's scientists say their drug may be useful as «an early treatment after exposure to HIV... or as a preventive measure for those at risk of infection».

A new review published by a joint scientific working group of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) and the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) finds that current evidence continues to support the potential for bone turnover markers (BTMs) to provide clinically useful information for monitoring osteoporosis treatment.

The self - help approach means that patients do not need to travel to a clinic, and the authors say the intervention might be useful as an initial treatment for patients to help manage the symptoms of CFS.

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.

Antimicrobial therapy can be useful for many patients with persistent diarrhea, but a lab - established diagnosis is necessary for treatment, according to DuPont.

The study is important because it links diet to changes in the gut microbiota as well as bile acid profile, opening the possibility that probiotics and bile acid receptor agonists may be useful for the prevention and treatment of hepatic inflammation and progression into advanced liver diseases such as cancer.

Reh envisions this approach could be useful for treatment of acute eye injuries and central retinal arterial occlusion — a stroke of the eye.