The therapeutic rather than prophylactic nature of surgery in these disease-causing mutation carriers is supported by the pathological evidence of cancer foci in most of these "healthy" individuals.
Some male participants, while not doubting the prophylactic nature of VMMC, noted that there are men who would seriously consider getting a circumcision because of the belief that circumcision improves sexual performance.
The majority of issues with product development and scaleup are similar to other pharmaceutical products, although there are some unique challenges because of the site of delivery, prophylactic nature of product application, and diversity in sex and hygiene practices across the developing world [ 13].
In all other cases, treatment with drugs from any of these three drug categories was considered to be prophylactic in nature.
In the next study, would there be consideration of a second rBPI infusion if there is severe acute GVHD, or is the mechanism of action only prophylactic in nature and not therapeutic during early GVHD?
Now, it is, as the court said, therefore in the nature of a prophylactic rule, that is, a rule that when it is violated when the warnings themselves aren't given, it is not true that the statement is thereby as a matter of fact inevitably coerced.
Each clinical picture including this treatment, whatever its prophylactic, preemptive, empirical or targeted nature, was presented by the leading investigator to a panel of ICU physician, infectious disease physician, pharmacist, biologist (n = 4).
"We should have done it as a prophylactic, but maybe it's human nature to tend to respond to an emergency.
In the absence of information modelling the relationships between crop damage and yield loss, growers and stakeholders often adopt a prophylactic approach to disease control due to their highly risk averse nature and risk of incurring substantial losses.
The prophylactic antibiotics are commonly used, however, before more complicated operations that, by nature, are more likely to result in infections, like surgery involving the gastrointestinal tract.
A recent paper from Vincent Tuohy's group, published in the journal Nature Medicine, suggests a new approach for the development of a prophylactic vaccine for breast cancer.
