Sentences with phrase «using standard treatment»

This allows us to shape treatment to the individual patient rather than using a standard treatment that may not work for everyone.»

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«I hope that someday all of you on the advisory committee can tell your families for generations that you were part of the process that ended the use of toxic treatments like chemotherapy and radiation as standard treatment, and turned blood cancers into a treatable disease that even after relapse most people survive.»

Boston Scientific continues to struggle with evolving standards for cardiovascular treatment, and the steep drop in the use of coronary stents has limited the company's growth prospects.

The treatment of chickens used for meat will also have to adhere to the minimum standards set by the RSPCA.

In 2015, we used the draft FLW Standard to expand our tracking of measurable food waste to eight destinations outlined by the standard, including animal feed, biobased materials / biochemical processing, codigestion / anaerobic digestion, composting, controlled combustion (incineration), land application, landfill, and sewer / wastewater trStandard to expand our tracking of measurable food waste to eight destinations outlined by the standard, including animal feed, biobased materials / biochemical processing, codigestion / anaerobic digestion, composting, controlled combustion (incineration), land application, landfill, and sewer / wastewater trstandard, including animal feed, biobased materials / biochemical processing, codigestion / anaerobic digestion, composting, controlled combustion (incineration), land application, landfill, and sewer / wastewater treatment.

The organic certification body demands a few strict standards are met, such as not using certain forms of medicine, fair food treatment, etc..

Moxa is one of the standard acupuncture in Chinese medicine treatment that we use for many different conditions.

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Most reported cases have been ascribed to the use of contaminated well water for preparation of infant formula.1 — 3 Fifteen million families in the United States obtain their drinking water from unregulated wells.4 In a survey of 5500 private water supplies from 9 Midwestern states, 13 % of the wells were found to have nitrate concentrations > 10 mg / L or 10 ppm nitrate nitrogen, 5 the federal maximum contaminant level.6 It is estimated that 2 million families drink water from private wells that fail to meet the federal drinking - water standard for nitrate, and 40000 infants younger than 6 months live in homes that have nitrate - contaminated water supplies.4 In urban areas, municipal wastewater - treatment discharges (a source of nutrients) on surrounding farmland aggravate the problem.7

Control group women received standard of care treatment, which in our Baby - Friendly hospital includes referrals to the lactation consultant when needed, use of a pump in the hospital, access to 3 breastfeeding classes per week, staff who are highly trained in lactation management, and a free, high - grade electric breast pump for home use if the mother's insurance does not pay for a pump.

«The technique used here can be carried out on standard radiotherapy machines so we anticipate that these results will lead to further uptake of this treatment at centres across the country and worldwide.»

In this new study and for the first time, scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) combined with a standard clinical trial design to derive an unbiased brain - based neurological marker to predict analgesia associated with placebo treatment in patients with chronic knee osteoarthritis pain.

Drug resistance experts applauded the suggestions to reduce unnecessary medication use and to improve standard treatment protocols when possible.

Since randomized clinical trials — the gold - standard in research — don't accommodate patients» preferences, Zoellner and her research team used a study design called a «doubly randomized preference trial» to investigate whether giving patients a choice affects their treatment outcomes.

«As prescription opioid use is under national scrutiny and because surgery has been identified as an avenue for addiction, it is important to recognize effective alternatives to standard pharmacological therapy, which remains the first option for treatment,» the authors write.

«We aim to make technology that people can use in their daily activities, and we would like it to become a standard treatment for every amputation, thus prices would fall,» concludes Dr. Ortiz Catalan.

In order to ensure uniform standards of treatment and hence to further improve patient safety, the European Academy of Robotic Colorectal Surgery (EARCS, Homepage: www.earcs.pt) is providing special training courses to comprehensively train surgeons in the use of the new method.

«We show that these endosomal inhibitors, currently used in, for example, the prevention and treatment of malaria can be used to prevent metastasis of colorectal cancer, without increasing the toxicity of standard treatments.

Exploiting the same pre-clinical model used for their studies, the researchers are testing the efficacy of this kind of drug candidates against cancer stem cells, and the possibility of identifying combination regimens with standard chemotherapies with minimized toxic effects, with the perspective of their possible application for the treatment of human breast cancer.

The strong response to this new use of enzalutamide shows that it can provide a viable, less toxic alternative to chemotherapy in staving off the disease in men who aren't responding to standard first line hormonal treatments,» said Tomasz Beer, M.D., the lead author on the study and deputy director of the Knight Cancer Institute at OHSU.

«This treatment has now been studied in our centre using the most sensitive measure of lung structure — a radiologic measurement of lung density — allowing us to detect changes far earlier than can be seen with standard breathing tests,» said Dr. Kenneth Chapman, Director of the Asthma and Airways Centre at Toronto Western Hospital and the Canadian research lead for the multicentre trial.

In elderly cancer patients like my father and aunt, who suffer from a variety of chronic health problems, physicians often modify standard treatment regimens — perhaps using two chemotherapy drugs instead of three or lowering standard dosages — in the hope that the revised treatment will work well enough.

«What comes with sleep apnea are these changes in the brain, so in addition to prescribing continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP — a machine used to help an individual sleep easier, which is the gold standard treatment for sleep disturbance — physicians now know to pay attention to helping their patients who have these other symptoms,» Macey said.

Genomic data enabled the scientists to tell these two scenarios apart, which would have changed the treatment philosophy used — this would be difficult using standard diagnostic methods.

Hepatic encephalopathy occurs when the liver can not remove certain toxins and chemicals, such as ammonia, from the blood.1 These toxins and chemicals then build up and enter the brain.1 Hepatic encephalopathy is one of the major complications of cirrhosis (scarring of the liver), and a leading cause of hospital re-admission due to its recurrence, despite treatment.1 It can occur suddenly in people with acute liver failure, but is seen more often in those with chronic liver disease.1 Symptoms of hepatic encephalopathy include mild confusion, forgetfulness, poor concentration and personality or mood changes, but can progress to extreme anxiety, seizures, severe confusion, jumbled and slurred speech and slow movement.1 The first step in treatment is to identify and treat any factors that cause hepatic encephalopathy.2 Once the episode has resolved, further treatment aims to reduce the production and absorption of toxins, such as ammonia.1 Generally, there are two types of medication used to reduce the likelihood of another hepatic encephalopathy episode — lactulose and rifaximin.2 However, it remains a leading cause of hospitalisations and re-hospitalisations in cirrhotic patients, despite the use of the above - mentioned standard of care treatment.

Percentage of total body fat and lean muscle mass was measured directly, using the gold standard of dual - energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) at time of diagnosis, one month later, and later during chemotherapy treatment.

When used alongside standard chemotherapy agents daunorubicin and cytarabine in a treatment - resistant AML model, 99.7 percent of cancer cells were killed.

Treatment with the current standard therapy, glucocorticoids, can only be used for a short time due to serious side effects leading to fragile bones and suppression of both the immune system and growth hormone production.

The six benchmarks are: 1) HDR brachytherapy procedures are supported with the appropriate team as described in the report of the AAPM TG 59 and the American College of Radiology HDR Brachytherapy Practice Standard; 2) commissioning of the treatment unit, treatment planning system and each new source is performed by a qualified medical physicist and verified through a QA process; 3) assay of the HDR brachytherapy unit source is performed using a well - type ionization chamber with a calibration traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and this assay is performed or confirmed for each source change.

In 1978 the two Spiegels coauthored the standard textbook in the field: Trance and Treatment: Clinical Uses of Hypnosis.

This information can be used to further personalize cancer care based on patients» unique characteristics, and to find patients who may be prone to be intolerant of this standard type of treatment» said Mayer Fishman, M.D., Ph.D., senior member of Moffitt's Genitourinary Oncology Program.

But when they factored in the long - term medical cost of delaying treatment for hepatitis C, they found the savings, in combination with improvements in the quality of patients» lives, were enough under current standards to justify using them even at early stages of liver fibrosis.

In addition to ECT, the team expects that the effects shown would extend to more standard, less rapidly acting antidepressant treatments and could be used to predict patient response.

The current standard treatment uses glucocorticoids, but is limited due to serious side effects leading to fragile bones and suppression of both the immune system and growth.

Ritalin (methylphenidate) and other stimulants, such as Adderall, Concerta and Vyvanse, are now standard treatments; Strattera, a nonstimulant, is also widely used.

Researchers found that the drugs, called Hsp90 inhibitors, specifically target and inactivate a mechanism commonly used by prostate cancer cells to evade the effects of standard treatment.

With a strong focus on the patient using tested treatment protocols to improve health, Okyanos is a state - of - the - art facility that provides a first class standard of service supported by some of the industry's top physicians, scientists and medical professionals.

Using this model, they screen for the behavioral activity of standard and novel treatments for ADHD.

MD Anderson is working closely with Guardant to expand a highly specialized CLIA - accredited lab (CLIA labs comply with federal standards known as the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments that regulate all clinical laboratory testing on humans), and pre-CLIA labs, where Guardant's digital sequencing technology will be used to create disease - specific assays that will be transferred for use in the CLIA - accredited lab to help detect cancers early and guide treatment.

In many trials, some participants are randomly assigned to the «control» group and receive an inactive «placebo» treatment or a standard intervention currently in use; sometimes the control subjects are later given a chance to try the experimental treatment.

The results will be seen as another step towards personalised therapies, though vaccines are some way off being used as a standard treatment.

Because the long - term use of VPA in the clinical setting amassed pharmacokinetics and safety data, it is rational to test VPA in allogeneic BMT patients in combination with standard GVHD prophylaxis or treatment.

We provide screened, frozen, ready - to - use human fecal microbiota preparations for the treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile infections not responding to standard therapies.

Some treatments are standard (the currently used treatment), and some are being tested in clinical trials.

Areas of focus include: understanding how tumour - reactive T cells and B cells promote patient survival in cancer; defining the effects of standard treatments on tumor immunity; and using genomic approaches to identify novel tumour mutations that can serve as target antigens for immunotherapy.

A standard treatment for prostate cancer, chemotherapy uses drugs to inhibit the growth of cancer cells.

It used to be standard treatment to remove testes in AIS cases because doctors believed leaving them intact increased cancer risk.

In fact, CAM is considered standard treatment in many European countries (including Germany, which regulates herbs, and France, where hospitals widely use acupuncture), so sometimes alternative treatments new to the States have already been researched and used for years abroad.

In those years the standard of care for the treatment for: PMS, Perimenopause, Menopause and Osteoporosis was the use of synthetic hormones.

Dr. Shapiro uses acupuncture and herbal treatment as well as standard prescription thyroid medicines.