In response to this therapeutic progress, treatment expectations and goals have evolved to encompass potential remission from the progressive symptoms of MS, known as freedom from disease activity or no evidence of disease activity (NEDA) [ 16].
And many insurers now require therapists, patients or both to document therapeutic progress, providing evidence that what is taking place in the consulting room is working.
The drooling that accompanies mercury poisoning was considered a sign of excellent therapeutic progress, Dr. Ross writes: "Savvy physicians adjusted the mercury dose to produce three pints of saliva a day for two weeks".
He knows that many of his colleagues have concluded that "we are losing the war on cancer"; that therapeutic progress against some forms of cancer is matched by mounting mortality rates in others; and that thousands of symptom-free people have to be screened — with attendant uncertainties, costs, and risks — to prevent even one death.
The novels enact, and describe, therapeutic progress, but St. Aubyn, led by a literary taste for compression, and by the desire to create "vivid and intense and non-boring" fiction, left out much of the process that helped him survive to midlife.
In the same way, calcium channel blockers poisoning is increasing in frequency, and it remains serious despite therapeutic progress.
Conclusion Despite therapeutic progress and prognosis improvement by plasma exchange, this series of TMA patients reveals relatively high mortality.
Therapeutic progress based on protein engineering and possibly gene therapy will also ensue.
Peritoneal metastasis is a major cause of death and preclinical models are urgently needed to enhance therapeutic progress.
In parallel with the therapeutic progresses, the causes of death have changed in hemophilia, hemorrhage being replaced by the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) as the leading cause of death (Mejia-Carvajal et al 2006).
Despite major improvements in our knowledge of the biology of glioma and on the molecular and genetics events implicated in the gliomagenesis, little therapeutic progresses have been made in the past years and the survival median for glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) patients remains low.
