Second Sight will be actively adding sites to make the therapy more readily available and encourages interested facilities and patients to contact them.
Argus II is set to become available later this year in U.S. clinical centers, and Second Sight said it would be adding sites to make the therapy more readily available.
Partridge also notes that new therapies spring up in small pockets of the U.S., and if a therapy is not available in the city where the patient is being treated, it may not be considered a viable option by the oncologist.
The NSPCC has called for teachers and doctors to be trained to identify suicide distress signs before children reach crisis point, and wants therapy to be made available for all children who have suffered abuse.
But the truth is that the type of addiction treatment offered in private residential facilities has not changed much over time, and does not typically take advantage of new options available through medically-based therapy.
And, with two NIH-funded Stage IIB trials starting at Drexel University soon, the hope is that PRO 140 can eventually be developed into an effective post-exposure therapy delivered via injection once a week or a few times a month versus the current cocktail of pills available to patients today.