Work on gene therapy for other conditions is proceeding.
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Most work in gene therapy is centred on cancer.
ECONOMIST: The prospects for using genes as a therapy may be improving
To move the gene therapy work forward, Kirk inked a deal in January for a 12% stake of Ziopharm Oncology, a biotech company led by former Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center surgeon Jonathan Lewis.
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The work is significant because it goes a long way towards proving that the concept of gene-targeted therapy can work in major common tumors.
Much of Ramachandran's work since developing mirror therapy has focused on mirror neurons.
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After one of her chemotherapies seemed to shrink the thyroid cancer slightly, I even raised with her the possibility that an experimental therapy could work against both her cancers, which was sheer fantasy.
Peter Hill, a consultant child psychiatrist, says that some patients wait 18 months for therapeutic help despite studies in America which show that behavioural therapy can work, on its own or combined with low doses of drugs.
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Both decided they wanted to work it out, entered therapy, and are still together.
If you don't have apnea, some docs recommend cognitive behavioral therapy: You work with a trained therapist to change how you think about sleep and learn sleep-inducing techniques (like how to set up your sleep space and what to do before bedtime).
Jensen was able to begin patient trials just two years after starting lab work on this designer T cell therapy.
Dave now composes music as therapy - his first work was aimed specifically at people going for their first MRI scan.
They're going to work, you know, hard physical therapy, occupational therapy.
John Cavanagh, of the charity Spinal Research, said any work that could potentially yield a new therapy for people with nerve damage would be good news.
She's still undergoing radiation therapy but is back at work.
The repercussions of the shooting still are felt by the police, many in therapy and some not able to work.
They must inhabit an alternate reality, where magical forces flow through and around the body, and magical, pseudoscientific treatments like acupuncture, healing touch, magnet therapy, and homeopathy somehow really work.
Glaxo will also work with the Italian researchers to develop the gene therapy for six other rare diseases.
Work on a purpose-built day hospice, therapy suites and staff facilities is due to begin later this month.
Can responsibilities to treat work together with responsibilities to report without putting the therapy, and the therapist, at risk?
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The shop was pursuing an experimental cancer therapy that many experts said couldn't possibly work.
It will move the IL-12 drug and other cancer gene therapy approaches through human trials while Intrexon continues to work on basic science.
"If this targeted cancer therapy approach works in GIST and CML, it will work in each and every tumor, " predicted Druker.
What if Kineret and Enbrel work better when given at the same time, as a combination therapy, than either does alone?
Now aged 54 and married with a child, he said he did not connect his experiences at school with years of under-achievement at work, a failed marriage and binge-drinking until he had therapy after a breakdown in April 2005.
The same technique could eventually work for human cancers, especially those that are treated with abdominal radiation therapy such as gastrointestinal, genitourinary, and gynaecological tumours.
Some psychologists insist conversion therapy is dangerous to patients, and say it simply does not work.
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