Sentences with phrase «many of our patients»

«From 2012 to 2015, the absolute number of patients treated with nitroprusside decreased by 53 %, and the number treated with isoproterenol decreased by 35 %,» wrote the study authors.

A number of these highly addictive painkillers get diverted, landing in the hands of patients who misuse them or lack a legitimate medical need; often, they wind up with people to whom they were never prescribed.

Gates dubs Mukherjee a «a quadruple threat,» as he not only takes care of patients, teaches medical students, and conducts research, but also pens Pulitzer Prize - winning science books.

Composing a Top 10 Best List works too, for example the title to a post could read «Top 10 Mistakes Business Managers Make» or «Top 5 Ways to Increase the Number of Patients at Your Practice.»

For instance, it can help providers with remote patient monitoring, and give physicians a fuller picture of a patient's lifestyle and behaviors.

«Watson is able to give us faster, better matching of patients to potential clinical trials that our oncologists wouldn't have otherwise be able to see — and I sit with our oncologists who work on this kind of thing,» Christopher Ross, CIO at the Mayo Clinic, told MobiHealthNews in an interview.

Every subsequent doctor visit or treatment would be added to the blockchain, including those in different cities and countries, creating a complete, historical record of the patient's health.

Doctors can snap pictures of their patients and upload them to FDNA's mobile app, which then spits out a list of disorders they might have by analyzing telltale facial features associated with those conditions (the tech is not a diagnostic tool, but rather a way to narrow down the list of possible genetic suspects).

• AccessOne, which is backed by Capital One Bank and Frontier Capital, agreed to acquire HealthFirst Financial, an Oregon, Ohio - based provider of patient financing programs for healthcare organizations.

What this all hopefully adds up to is a smarter clinical trial — one that doesn't ignore the reality of the patients involved in it.

They apply different techniques that affect the senses to improve the mental state of their patients on a daily basis.

The consultants estimate that the use of such surgical technology, which includes machine learning and other forms of AI, will result not only in better outcomes but also in a 21 percent reduction in the length of patient hospital stays.

In the most recent of these reports (in the latest issue of Science), Dr. Jennifer Wargo, a surgeon and research scientist at M.D. Anderson, along with several dozen colleagues at other institutions, reveal that the composition of a patient's gut microbiota can significantly influence whether he or she responds to an immune checkpoint inhibitor — the type of cancer immunotherapy that releases the emergency brakes in the car analogy above.

In treatment of melanoma, for example, a significant percentage of patients who enter full remission with immunotherapy remain there.

In both countries, many readmissions are caused by preventable clerical issues: poor record keeping, lack of patient education or unclear lines of communication — exactly the sorts of problems that startups like Seamless MD are trying to address.

Not everyone was totally comfortable with the idea of patients owning their data.

«The client fills it out with their doctor, and when the doctor signs it, it becomes a doctor's standing order,» she said — it becomes part of the patient's medical record, and medical professionals are bound to follow it.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

Rather, it's to gain enough share of the patient market to thrive during an era when the fundamental business model of healthcare is transforming.

Among them: «a lack of data standards in treating cancer, lack of data sharing in the research and development enterprise, lack of patient input and participation in clinical trials,» and more.

A «brain training» iPad game developed in Britain may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia, helping them in their daily lives at home and at work, researchers said on Monday.

Called Companion, it's an app nurses, psychologists, and social workers can use to monitor the psychological states of their patients, who record and upload audio diaries.

The increasingly competitive market for transcatheter valves is expected to expand from $ 3 billion currently to $ 5 billion in 2021 as more types of patients get treated with the valves.

Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan ruled that forcing patients to buy marijuana through the mail from a licensed producer was an «arbitrary and overbroad» violation of patients» charter rights.

The slice of patients above the age of 60 consumes about 85 % of the drugs and devices and diagnostics out there,» says Justin Stephenson, senior life sciences analyst at Vancouver - based independent investment dealer Haywood Securities Inc. «That is only going to get significantly bigger in the western world, which is the main market for Canadian health - care products in the next five to 10 years.

The company is partnering up with a group of clinicians at Stanford, as well as telemedicine vendor American Well, to test whether Apple Watch's heart rate sensor can detect abnormal heart rhythms in a cohort of patients, according to two people familiar.

And nothing illustrates the problem more vividly than the picture of patients forced to wait weeks upon weeks for care that, at these prices, should be available practically the same day the patient calls.

In a study cited in Shawn Achor's book The Happiness Advantage, three groups of patients treated their depression with medication, exercise, or a combination of the two.

This approach ensures that when the technology is put in the hands of patients, devices like smartphones become incredibly powerful in educating them on how to make good decisions in terms of taking medication and finding lower - cost alternatives.

Sanofi, a diabetes specialist which is now facing increased competition from rivals, has been on a mission to boost its treatment pipeline with new products for diseases that affect a wide swath of patients.

The headline number is that 85 % of patients are seen within four hours.

Lastly, the network standard will also help usher in a new era of «personalized health care,» in which massive volumes of patient data can be used to develop predictive analytics which can then be tailored to an individual patient and their illness.

So, along with Memorial Sloan Kettering, Grail plans on following hundreds of thousands of patients over the next few years and trying to see if they can detect CTDNA in those patients whenever they develop cancer.

However, analysts say patient numbers can be a murky metric because medical marijuana patients may register with more than one licensed producer and as the overall number of patients grows.

It is «How do I get rid of this patient?»

«At this time, we do not know the root cause or incidence rate of patient death, nor have we been able to definitively attribute the deaths to the devices or the insertion procedures for these devices,» said the FDA in a notice.

«If we bring forward innovative drugs that make a difference in the lives of patients, they'll continue to get attractive pricing,» he says, noting Biogen's work on potential breakthrough Alzheimer's and (additional) multiple sclerosis meds.

They need to develop a care plan that makes sense based on individual characteristics of the patient.

They use a scanner to create images of various areas of a patient's body.

Improving the diagnosis and management of patients with fatty liver conditions was the motivation for the 2014 WA Innovator of the Year winner, Resonance Health.

The number of patients at the clinic grew 40 percent in a year and people now wait several weeks for an appointment, Rashid said.

All of the patients were relocated in 1990.

The drug was a single infusion of a patient's own immune cells that have been modified reprogramed to attack their deadly cancer.

«The health and safety of our patients is a critical priority,» said Marybeth Hays, executive vice president of consumables and health at Walmart U.S.

(By contrast, in some cases, traditional surgical approaches require splitting open a large portion of a patient's neck.)

Speaking of checkpoint inhibitor drugs... Merck's star cancer immunotherapy treatment Keytruda is facing some troubling clinical trial incidents which have now compelled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt three studies of the drug in multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer, after a number of patient deaths.

With a trillion gigabytes of patient data collected from devices, EHRs, labs, and DNA sequencing, alongside surrounding factors such as weather, geo - location, and viral outbursts taken into account, computers learn quickly, and they learn everything.

Led by Nina Bhardwaj, M.D., director of immunotherapy, the Personalized Genomic Vaccine trial uses the genetic sequence of a patient's tumor to create a customized vaccine.

The FDA says there have been no known reports of patients being harmed by the vulnerability to date.

«It's really in its infancy, but this will replace CPAP in 50 to 70 percent of patients eventually,» predicts Roizen.