Quotes about Therapies

Terri is in a persistent vegetative state and the court found as such, ... There are no treatments or therapies that can help her and the judge's ruling supports that position.

George Felos

This is a potential platform technology for developing many other kinds of therapies.

Claudio Soto

Fewer than 40 percent of the alternative therapies are discussed with one's physician, ... In my personal view, the current status quo which could easily be described as 'Don't ask and don't tell,' needs to be abandoned -- that is not in anyone's best interest.

David Eisenberg

Early intervention with effective therapies is absolutely vital to prevent the profound disability that afflicts many stroke patients, and to lessen the emotional and financial toll on caregivers and the health care system as a whole.

Allison Brashear

When we got the diagnosis, we were told there's no cure and there's not even any therapies that can be done other than trying to support him with the ventilator and for his breathing. So that's kind of difficult to hear.

Mark Ward

This is not a silver bullet. It would need to be done in combination with a number of therapies.

Keith Whyte

We now can visualize non-invasively and with sensitivity individual cells and their movement to targeted sites. Our new approach offers almost unlimited potential for monitoring cell therapies, such as those using stem cells, and for tracking cellular and developmental processes.

Chien Ho

Ultimately, the knowledge we gain about gene-environment interaction will lead to new drugs and therapies to prevent or treat cancers, and improved environmental regulations that protect humans and animals against toxic exposures.

William Schlesinger

So many cancer therapies are as poisonous to healthy cells as they are to cancer cells. A therapy that is able to distinguish between healthy and cancer cells could be less difficult to endure for those with cancer.

Craig Meyers

For many children current therapies are curative. But the price they pay in long-term side effects is far too high.

Peter Adamson

Lack of adequate NIH funding is particularly dangerous in a relatively small field like spinal cord injury. For our field to continue to grow and push therapies to the patient, NIH funding is critical. Our scientists are telling us the situation is desperate. How do you tell someone recently paralyzed that the science is there but the funding is not?

Kathy Lewis

It's almost impossible for them to figure out how much alternative care substitutes for conventional care. Are people who use these therapies seeing their physicians for the same disorder? Are they seeing them less? Are they getting fewer tests?

Stephen Rosenberg

I suggest people approach an open-minded physician who can guide them through the variety of therapeutic options available (conventional and alternative). I recommend that all clients using alternative therapies engage in such treatments under the guidance of a qualified practitioner.

Bradly Jacobs

Use of this information to select and treat the patients at highest risk for progression earlier may help prevent irreversible liver damage and improve patient compliance with therapy. These results may also enable more cost-effective and timely demonstration of efficacy for new drug therapies by enriching trials with those individuals more likely to suffer from disease progression.

Kathy Ordonez

I think many clinicians, many physicians, are now listening and also learning about complementary therapies.

David Rosenthal

The biotech industry has reached a maturity level capable of producing a steady stream of new and unique therapies. The goal is to produce even more targeted therapies that will result in more effective medicines.

Jim Greenwood

If this is confirmed, it might provide a lead for targeted therapies in these cases.

Professor Carlos Caldas

There are people out there, people we all care for, who are suffering and dying and need therapies now.

Michael West

A lot of patients are being treated inappropriately with the wrong therapies because they're either under-diagnosed or over-diagnosed.

Dr. Gary Onik

It's not OK to just measure disease control and survival. We need to know what children's lives will be like after therapies.

Paul Fisher

We hope this will eventually lead to different therapies, although it's hard to say how many years it would take.

Kelly Doran

Well, negotiations are under way with Merck and other companies to work more closely together hopefully. We've already achieved significant price reductions for two of the recent therapies. But in the future, we frankly want more flexibility when it comes to licenses and other legal issues. Are we going to talk about this in terms of breaking a patent or saving lives?

Rosemeire Munhoz

Is a priority. We need to know what children's lives will be like after therapies. We need to research what therapies protect better the quality of life, as viewed from the patient and parents -- not just the doctor.

Paul Fisher

There is a cure for the hepatitis C virus. Therapies available today have a 50% - 60% cure rate.Get tested and if you have it, get treatment. It can save your life. Please don't wait.

Kathie Bryson

It gives us some reassurance that by continuing to monitor the current virus in birds, we can get a sense as to when it'll be an efficient virus. We may have some time to develop new vaccines and better therapies.

Robert Belshe