Sentences with phrase «useful treatments of»

In the past, ACE inhibitors alone have been the most useful treatment of the disease.

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.
Although there are no guarantees that anyone other than the taxpayer involved will receive the promised treatment, private letter rulings serve as useful barometers of the IRS's thinking.
Whether the Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity is the most useful treatment to own and read is a matter that will depend upon the predilections, patience, and tolerance of the reader.
To be commended to your regular attention is the Get Religion site, the very useful and unique site that pursues what it calls «holy ghosts», the traces and hints of religion in mainstream news stories and analyzes the major media's treatment (sometimes good, but often clueless or biased and sometimes very clueless or very biased, or both at once) of religion and religious people.
The author opines, rightly, how useful it would be to construct a synthesis of mental health treatments and authentic Catholic spirituality, fleshing this out with some brief case studies.
However, classifications such as these can be useful for purposes of research or treatment in science and law.
And just to make matters worse, the still useful and traditional distinction between ordinary and extraordinary treatment has been corrupted, making it appear as if it is mere ordinary treatment to preserve the body of a PVS patient indefinitely.
To be commended to your regular attention is the Get Religion site, the very useful and unique site that pursues what it calls «holy ghosts», the traces and hints of religion in mainstream news stories and analyzes the major media's treatment (sometimes good, but often clueless....
Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.
In addition to a helpful glossary and an indispensable index, The Literary Guide features some useful and, in several instances, excellent general essays such as Helen Elsom's superb treatment of the New Testament and Greco - Roman literature, Gerald L. Bruns's brilliant study of midrash and allegory, and an interesting essay by Alter on the characteristics of ancient Hebrew poetry.
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.
Vitamin D and calcium also can be useful as part of a medical treatment.
Other Uses and Benefits: Garlic may be useful in the treatment of colds, insomnia, asthma, and cancer.
The master can use their position to subject the worker to all manner of degrading and humiliating treatment (a useful summary of these abuses is available here).
CGA tools offer a useful way of making treatment decisions on the basis of functional status rather than chronological age.
«Instead of using humor to build relationships, leaders should work to build strong relationships through other means such as through clear communication, fair treatment, and providing clear and useful feedback.
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.
Many of the microorganisms isolated and cultivated through MaCuMBA are exhibiting properties with potential positive human health impacts, and could be useful in the treatment of a variety of conditions.
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.
However its current use as a treatment to block new blood vessel growth in the wet form of age - related macular degeneration means there is already a body of research from which we can perhaps draw useful insights.
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.»
But even if anti-inflammatory drugs prove to be a useful treatment, the causes of schizophrenia will still be unknown.
These bubbles are thousands of times smaller than the tip of a pencil lead — so small they are invisible even under most optical microscopes — and their stability makes them useful in a variety of applications, from targeted drug delivery to water treatment procedures.
«This mouse model also will be useful in studies to further investigate impact of the omega - 3 omega - 6 ratio in disease prevention and treatment
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.
Preventative treatment of malaria is a useful strategy to protect young children in Africa, but it is unclear which drug and dosing strategy is most effective, especially with the rise of resistance to a class of drug known as antifolates, such as sulfadoxine - pyrimethamine (SP) and trimethoprim - sulfamethoxozole (TS).
«This interesting study looking at maternal ethnicity provides useful data based on a large number of women undergoing fertility treatment.
Originally developed as an anticonvulsant drug, gabapentin has also been found useful for treatment of chronic pain.
«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.»
Study co-author Peter Sandercock, Professor of Neurology, University of Edinburgh said, «I can not over-emphasise how useful these analyses are — they provide the type of clear information that patients and their families need when weighing the benefits and risks of this important treatment
«These results from our laboratory research give us a strong reason to believe that this drug could be more useful to some men earlier in their course of treatment,» says Dr. Knudsen.
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.
In addition to offering early evidence of a drug's effectiveness, if depth of response predicts patient outcomes, then, Doebele says, depth of response may be a useful goal of treatment.
Longo believes that it might be useful in the treatment of cancer and, perhaps eventually, as an antiaging supplement.
«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.
Quercetin did not prevent all of the symptoms associated with the disorder but researchers hope that it could offer a useful treatment option in the early stages of disease.
«The level of conservation in the toxin sequences is not only really unusual, but this is why the corresponding tiger snake antivenom is so useful in treatments against bites from many Australian snakes that affect the blood in the same way,» Dr Fry said.
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 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 use of organoids, tiny 3 - D spheres derived from a patient's own tumor, may be useful in the future to guide treatment of patients.
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