Sentences with phrase «year of treatment of»

Following this meeting, our therapists received additional training from Joan and Ida -, before the 2nd cohort started, and around 1 year of treatment of the 1st cohort.

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In an essay penned for the March 2018 issue of Vogue, Dunham revealed that she underwent a total hysterectomy to remove her uterus and cervix, after «years of complex surgeries measuring in the double digits» and trying alternative treatments.

An important trigger this year will be the outcome of a study where Darzalex is being tested as first - line treatment in combination with Celgene Corp's Revlimid.

Muhga Eltigani's waist - length tresses were thin and brittle, but, while in Africa during her junior year at the University of Pennsylvania, she discovered homemade hair treatments using avocado and mango.

These products — largely innovative and pricey specialty medications that include breakthrough Hepatitis C treatments and immuno - oncology drugs — reflect the increased productivity and improved pipelines of pharma's R&D departments in recent years.

Lilly faced a devastating clinical setback last year with a late - stage failure for its experimental Alzheimer's treatment, the studies for which cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars.

Other, recent experimental treatments from the likes of Axovant, Merck, and others, have also crashed spectacularly; Pfizer announced it's largely exiting the space this year.

Sarepta Therapeutics, which won a pioneering Food and Drug Administration approval for its Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug last year, has settled a patent dispute with rival BioMarin over the «exon - skipping» technology at heart of the companies» muscular dystrophy treatments.

Part of the reason is that it can take years to access prison rehabilitation programs if you have a longer sentence because people with shorter sentences get priority; despite recent national efforts to make opioid antidotes and addiction treatments more widely accessible, many prisons still don't have these programs in place, leaving addicts who make it out of prison far more susceptible to relapse.

The company took advantage of a number of U.S. programs meant to spur «orphan drugs,» or treatments for the kinds of disorders that afflict less than 200,000 Americans each year.

The world learned of the scandal about two weeks later, when the EPA issued a formal notice of violation relating to nearly 500,000 2.0 - liter diesel cars — stretching across seven model years and three generations of exhaust - treatment configuration.

The backstory: Illinois - based Marathon Pharmaceuticals won U.S. FDA approval of deflazacort, a common steroid that you can order for less than $ 1 per pill from abroad through online pharmacies, under the brand name Emflaza for a topline price of $ 89,000 for a year's treatment.

Maass has worked as a benefits broker in the Bay Area for almost 14 years, giving him extensive experience with Silicon Valley's treatment of contractors.

It sparked a national conversation on U.S. carriers» treatment of customers in an industry comprising just a handful of competitors following years of mergers and consolidations.

The IRS also says its rules are backward looking, so you could be subject to penalties for improper tax treatment of Bitcoin income in prior years.

Pentair Ltd. (NYSE: PNR) P / E: 30.7 Yield: 1.5 % 1 - year total return (CA$): 63.0 % A large - cap maker of pumps, valves and water - treatment solutions.

«We believe that when this treatment is approved it will save thousands of children's lives around the world,» said Tom Whitehead, the father of a 12 - year - old who is now cancer - free after receiving CTL019.

They retroactively assessed Frito - Lay the MFN tariff rate of 11 percent on the grounds that Frito - Lay had missed a «one - year filing time limit» to claim preferential treatment under NAFTA.

Orozco's daughters» years of treatment have been expensive, but they've also yielded results, he said.

Because of my own work these past few years with organizations and individuals who are in some form or fashion working to address inequality, I have come to understand that many of the initiatives that are often described as entitlements or preferential treatment are usually neither.

As I've chronicled extensively, Exondys is an extremely controversial treatment, and the FDA's decision to approve the therapy over the objections of the agency's own scientific staff stunned many observers last year, raising questions about whether or not the FDA had succumbed to a well - orchestrated and heart - wrenching PR campaign by patients and advocates.

Blitzer disputed that estimate, noting that the RAND Corporation estimated in 2016 that between 1,320 and 6,630 transgender service members were on active duty, and that only 29 to 129 of those service members were likely to seek gender - transition - related treatment each year.

Cancer vaccines are largely not regarded as a standalone treatment within the scientific community, and immunotherapy stills demand several years of intense research.

Late last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected Sprout Pharmaceuticals» treatment for hyposexual desire disorder (HSDD) in women — in simple terms, a lack of sexual desire — because it wasn't convinced of the benefits.

The year of the gene - based treatments continues with FDA priority review for Spark Therapeutics.

Its biggest business is diabetes treatment, including various types of insulin whose list prices have more than doubled in recent years.

In a late - stage study, Aimmune, a biotech immunotherapy allergy treatment taken via pill, found that of the roughly 500 kids with peanut allergies between the ages of 4 - 17 who were part of the trial, 67 % of those who received the treatment were able to tolerate 600 milligrams of peanut protein (about two to four peanuts) after about a year of treatment, while only 4 % of those who got the placebo could tolerate that dose of peanut protein.

At 55 years old, Carol Cesario's stage IV lung cancer treatments induced hallucinations of Jon Bon Jovi, a rock star she's loved since the»80s.

Indeed, many have received the profile treatment from Fortune in recent years — or have been the subject of regular coverage.

Sales of Low T treatments have now reached $ 2 billion a year, and are projected to hit $ 5 billion by 2017.

Last year's scandal over Mylan's 500 % price hike of the EpiPen, a potentially lifesaving allergy treatment, tarnished Bresch's reputation, but it didn't hurt her business as much as some expected.

David Nierengarten, head of health - care equity research at Wedbush, told CNBC, «Celgene has a big revenue hole to fill over the next few years» and Juno's treatment could potentially «fill that gap.»

No mere observer of the start - up process, Lewis launched his own company with $ 200 while in college.He operated from his dorm for two years before relocating to a space sandwiched between a sewage - treatment plant and a nuclear - dump site.

Just this year, over 50 U.S. genetics and gene therapy startups raised at least $ 1 million to support genetics - based treatments, including speeding trails, improving accuracy of tests, and providing better platforms.

His disease costs $ 100,000 to $ 400,000 a year to treat, and the treatment doesn't prevent many of the worst symptoms.

The companies have begun to market their «biosimilar» (a generic version of expensive biologic drugs) of Remicade — a copycat of J&J's best - selling rheumatoid arthritis and immunology treatment (which garnered more than $ 5 billion in U.S. sales last year) and was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April — at a striking 35 % discount to its list price.

Though hailed as «a new therapeutic principle» in 1990, it nonetheless took another eight years for the FDA to approve the first antisense drug, fomivirsen — for the treatment of AIDS - related retinitis caused by human cytomegalovirus.

Legal issues aside, the tweet could be viewed as a heavy - handed move for a company already under scrutiny after an earlier Medium post by a 25 - year - old employee identifying herself as Talia Jane, who complained of low wages and poor treatment in her customer service role at Yelp food delivery subsidiary Eat24.

After he was discharged, Charlie # 1 spent the next 25 years in and out of hospitals and treatment centers.

The 32 - year - old CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals became a target of widespread ire in September when he boosted the price of the toxoplasmosis treatment Daraprim by over 5,000 % after acquiring the drug in August.

The biggest one to date for a biosimilar product in the U.S. — the treatments have only been around for a handful of years in America despite widespread and long - standing availability in Europe and other regions — Renflexis may ultimately not do much to curb health care and patient spending, as the Wall Street Journal «s Charley Grant points out in an astute note.

In 2010, Genovese accepted a three - year fellowship from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the controversy - courting animal welfare nonprofit, to conduct research into cultured meat.

«Further testing is required before Song's device could be approved as a treatment for dementia or Alzheimer's, but if it is able to help those patients regain even part of their lost memory function, the impact would be felt not only by the patients themselves, but their families and even the economy at large,» says Science Alert, which notes that Alzheimer's was responsible for a whopping $ 236 billion in healthcare costs last year.

At the American College of Cardiology's meeting in Chicago on Saturday, Novartis told doctors that clinically stable heart patients, as well as those considered least stable, both appear to benefit from taking Entresto compared to enalapril, a generic introduced 35 years ago that remains a standard heart failure treatment.

In subsequent posts, McAfee explains the treatment he has received from Belize authorities and shares details of his life on the run with his 20 - year - old Belize girlfriend, Samantha.

The situation is pressuring U.S. hospitals to pay at least $ 230 million more a year than they ordinarily would to find alternative treatments, according to Michael Alkire, COO of Premier, an alliance of hospitals and health care providers.

Hypothetically, if the drug treatment did add 35 percent to the lifespan of humans, it would bring average life expectancy to between 95 and 100 years.

In the US, treatment of chronic kidney disease is expected to exceed $ 48 billion per year, according to World Kidney Day.

It's a thousands of years old treatment called apitherapy,» Paltrow told the New York Times in 2016.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.