Sentences with phrase «years of treatment using»

Daljinder Kaur gave birth last month after two years of treatment using donor eggs at a fertility clinic in the northern state of Haryana.

Not exact matches

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.

Animal welfare activists remind us that hundreds of millions of animals are used each year as idols for questionable research in science and as victims of inhumane treatment in industry, including food industries that rear and slaughter animals for meat.

Nourishing hair oil treatments have been used for thousands of years, though these use a certain ratio of beneficial oils (and I add honey and magnesium) and these are not used as an everyday product.

Western manufacturers have rediscovered cocoa, 3000 years after it was first discovered the ingredient is now used in many skin treatments in a variety of salons and finished products.

Even though honey has been used for the treatment of ailments since ancient times, it is only in relatively recent years that scientific studies and analysis of the benefits of manuka honey have been undertaken.

This year, however, I'm going to go ahead and indulge my comfort food cravings, but in a different way: using summer vegetables in place of autumn's, but applying the same deep flavor treatments of fall and winter dishes, with lots of spices and long turns in the oven.

Irregular / heavy menstrual bleeding can be treated in several ways: 1) Hormonal medication (a low dose birth control pill or cyclic progestin); 2) A hormone - containing intrauterine device (the most common one used is the Mirena IUD, which manages bleeding very effectively and is placed during an office visit and lasts for 5 years); 3) Endometrial ablation is a surgery commonly performed as an outpatient procedure; the entire lining of the uterus is cauterized (many women never get a menstrual period after an ablation); 4) Finally, I reserve hysterectomy as the treatment of last resort — typically only when the above options have not worked for a patient.

Herbal remedies have been used as medical treatments for thousands of years.

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Global diarrhoea mortality has been dramatically reduced among under - five - year - old children, due to wide spread use of oral rehydration and zinc treatment.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses described above produced treatment - control differences in 15 - year - olds» arrests and reductions in arrests and convictions among 19 - year - old females.32, 33 In a subsequent trial with a large sample of urban African - Americans the program produced treatment impacts on 12 - year - olds» use of substances and internalizing disorders.34

Soy - based formulas were introduced in infant nutrition 80 years ago, when their use was recommended for the treatment of summer diarrhea.

In recent years, dissatisfaction with hospital treatment and policies limiting the number of people attending a birth and a desire for a more natural birth have prompted women to investigate home births and the use of midwives in conjunction with or in place of obstetricians.

A recent study conducted by Dr. Paolo Pigatto and his colleagues at the Instituto di Dermatologia, Università di Milano, in Milano, Italy, have found that the use of colloidal oats for the treatment and management of mild atomic dermatitis is safe even for children under 2 years of age.

Animal rights advocates for years have protested the use of elephants in circuses, citing what they said were cruel treatment of the animals and conditions that can dramatically shorten their lifespans compared with elephants in the wild.

An analysis of data from the Urban Institute's Health Reform Monitoring Survey showed more than 25 percent of people who bought non-group insurance last year did not use the coverage for needed services, like medical treatments, prescription drugs, and tests.

Last year, the town completed an engineering report to evaluate the addition of effluent disinfection at the town's wastewater treatment plant in Monitor Bay, using a $ 19,520 grant from the state Regional Economic Development Councils.

For thousands of years, it has been used in many cultures worldwide as an antiseptic, antibacterial treatment on all kinds of skin and health conditions.

It also says that there have been no formal clinical trials of the procedure but that OvaScience are planning to carry out 1000 rounds of IVF around the world this year using Augment, partly to convince the US Food and Drug Administration to approve the treatment in the US.

When the human genome draft was announced 10 years ago, many researchers and policymakers anticipated using the newly sequenced code to develop a wealth of diagnostic and treatment capabilities.

Although certain gold [Au (I)-RSB- compounds have been used effectively in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis for some years, the molecular basis for such therapeutic action has been unclear.

Islamic traders introduced opium to China in the ninth century, and it was used for the next 800 years for the treatment of diarrhea resulting from dysentery.

Though Van der Baan noted that hydraulic fracturing has been in practice since the 1950s, it has come under increased scrutiny in the last handful of years due to both increased production as well as the use of the increased treatment volumes.

It aims to establish a world - class R&D capability that will support Singapore industries to develop and use economic waste treatment and recycling technologies and is also looking into ways to minimize waste production as the concept of waste minimization holds much promise for Singapore in the coming years.

Ms Koechlin, Professor Philippe Autier and colleagues used statistical models to work out whether current cancer death rates were due more to the effects of age, the year of birth (which takes into account exposure to cancer - causing agents such as sunshine during early life), or to the recent introduction of new medical technologies or treatments.

U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell last year proposed a response, calling for a program to change doctors» opioid prescribing practices, to expand the use of naloxone, a drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdoses, and increase patient access to medication assisted treatments for opioid use disorders.

Every one or two years from April 1999 until September 2016, participants were tested for HIV and surveyed about their sexual behavior, use of HIV treatment, and male circumcision status.

As Scientific American reported earlier this year, more than half of the current cancer clinical trials do incorporate some form of immunotherapy but still oncologists are often only in the early stages of understanding how to use such treatment on a larger scale.

Shantanu Nundy recognized the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis when his 31 - year - old patient suffering from crippling hand pain checked into Mary's Center in Washington, D.C. Instead of immediately starting treatment, though, Nundy decided first to double - check his diagnosis using a smartphone app that helps with difficult medical cases by soliciting advice from doctors worldwide.

In a related Editor's Note, Deborah Grady, M.D., M.P.H., a deputy editor of JAMA Internal Medicine, writes: «It is possible that treatment beyond one year would result in better outcomes, but these data provide no support for use of higher - dose cholecalciferol replacement therapy or indeed any dose of cholecalciferol compared with placebo.»

They found that among people in treatment for drug and alcohol use, the overall rate of smoking was 84 percent, compared with a rate of 31 percent for members of the general population, matched for gender and year of study.

«When used in the right context, specifically in postmenopausal women younger than 60 years old for whom the benefits outweigh risks, menopausal hormonal therapy is effective for both the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis,» said the study's first author, Georgios Papadakis, MD, of the Lausanne University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland.

This work is part of drive by the team to use innovation to bring down the price of treatment and save some of the 125,000 lives lost to snake bite each year.

Women younger than 40, those using donor oocytes and those with male partner - related infertility that was treated with either intracytoplasmic sperm injection or sperm donation achieved live birth rates after five or six cycles, taking a median two years of trying, which were similar to rates in couples who were trying to conceive and were not using any form of treatment after an average of one year.

More than half a million people aged above 65 years die from the use of psychiatric drugs every year in the Western world and the benefits would need to be «colossal» to justify these «immensely harmful» treatments, argues Peter Gøtzsche, professor and director of the Nordic Cochrane Centre, Denmark.

A four - year EU project is now investigating whether these medicines that modulate the function of CaSR, could be used for the treatment of the above - mentioned diseases.

How the ants have managed to use the same chemical treatment for millions of years without being overrun remains unclear, but the authors speculate that part of the ants» success may result from an extremely judicious use of their acid defense; they never use it unless there's an infection, and they only treat infected areas using a precise grooming method.

The findings, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, mark the end of a five year trial and provide a definitive answer to 60 years of uncertainty on the use of progesterone treatment for women with unexplained recurrent losses.

Doctors are advised to use benzodiazepines in short courses of a few weeks in order to prevent patients becoming dependent on them, but researchers complain that doctors sometimes prolong such treatments for years.

«These data establish the use of the oral direct - acting antivirals as an important treatment option in HCV - infected children aged six to 11 years old.»

For example, the United States is planning to sequence the genomes of 1 million Americans over the next few years and use the data to devise individualized treatments.

These so - called hematopoietic stem cells (from Greek meaning «to make blood») have been reliably used over the past 40 years to seed bone marrow transplants in the treatment of some cancers and immune disorders.

So - called cancer immunotherapy — which is the treatment of tumors by the use of antibodies — has been established and used very successfully in human medicine for about 20 years.

Among cigarette smokers not willing or able to quit smoking in the next month but willing to reduce with the goal of quitting in the next 3 months, use of the nicotine addiction medication varenicline for 24 weeks compared with placebo produced greater reductions in smoking prior to quitting and increased smoking cessation rates at the end of treatment and at 1 year, according to a study in the February 17 issue of JAMA.

This feature would be critical for clinical uses, such as transplanting stem cells — with their defects corrected — back into patients, but the researchers emphasize that years of further study remain before such treatments might be possible.

The Wikipedia page also linked to stories about twin 5 - year - old girls who in 2009 had become the first Americans to fight NPC with an experimental treatment called cyclodextrin — but only after their parents had spent years pressing for «compassionate use» of the investigational drug outside of a clinical trial.

Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Philip Cowen, MRC Clinical Scientist, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, says: «The key observation that might eventually justify the use of a drug like psilocybin in treatment - resistant depression is demonstration of sustained benefit in patients who previously have experienced years of symptoms despite conventional treatments, which makes longer - term outcomes particularly important.

Commenting on the two studies, Baas says that finding a good treatment for mesothelioma has been a challenge for many years and has so far led to many disappointments, so there is a need for investigation into new pathways such as the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors that target the PD - 1 / PD - L1 pathway.

More than half of all cancer chemotherapy treatments currently use platinum compounds, which were introduced nearly 40 years ago, so there is a need to explore the benefits which other precious metals could bring.