Sentence examples for therapy setback from inspiring English sources

A3 SCIENCE/HEALTH Parkinson's Therapy Setback An experimental therapy for Parkinson's disease suffered its second setback in a month when the treatment did not work in a clinical trial.

Compliance to biomedical therapy suffered a setback for four main reasons: dealing with competing regimes of treatment; coming to terms with biomedical treatment of diabetes; the cost of biomedical therapy; and the impact of AIDS on accepting weight loss as a lifestyle measure in prescription packages.

Gene therapy suffered a serious setback when authorities in France and the United States announced that the field's first and only successful experiment may have given a 3-year-old boy an illness similar to leukemia.

Vannoni continues to back the therapy, despite last week's setback.

Conversion therapy has had other setbacks in recent months.

The case could be another setback for gene therapy, a field with a troubled history and numerous treatment failures, including the death of a teenager in 1999 in an experiment.

Gene therapy in humans has had setbacks, including the death of a teenager at the University of Pennsylvania three years ago and the halting of a trial in France this month when a 3-year-old patient contracted a leukemialike disease.

Irrespective of their successes or setbacks, all gene therapy clinical trials targeting the various forms of PIDs have imparted immensely valuable lessons to researchers on the various aspects of gene therapy.

Guatemalan twins separated last summer at the University of California at Los Angeles still need occupational and physical therapy, and one had a neurological setback from contracting meningitis.

The need for chemo-therapy was experienced as a new setback after already having tried to manage the cancer disease and the surgery.

But for Dr. Wilson, who over the past seven years built his institute into the nation's largest academic gene therapy program, the decision is a major setback.