Sentences with phrase «medical case reports»

Journal of Medical Case Reports 4, no. 1 (2010): 111; Blaser, M. J. Missing microbes: How the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues.

A survey of sexsomniacs conducted in 2005 by Nik Trajanovic, a researcher at the sleep and alertness clinic at Toronto Western Hospital, Canada, and colleagues concluded it is much more common than medical case reports alone suggest.

The medical case reports of CTE hinged upon autopsies of their brains, the subjects having died of other causes.

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Anyone who has stayed in areas where cases were recently reported should be aware of the symptoms of infection and seek medical attention at the first sign of illness.

But more cases are likely to be reported, the agency said, because some people who may have been infected with the intestinal bug likely have not yet sought medical care.

The new offering, «Watson for Patient Safety,» will gobble up anonymized medical records, claims data, and millions of electronic submissions to the FDA about potential drug side effects (known as individual case safety reports) to see if it can learn about the hidden dangers of medicines before they become too costly.

The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) and the Government of Dominica report needs for 14,000 tarpaulins, 4,813 cases of water per day, road clearance, bridge reconstruction, shelter repair materials, water purification kits, non-food items, generators, dignity and sanitation materials and medical supplies.

But all that could be about to change if the medical team at the club can keep the talented midfielder ready for action and from the sounds of what Jack said this week, as reported by the Daily Star, there is a great chance that this will be the case.

Second, like Dr. Covassin, she noted that it was based on a parent report of concussion symptoms, with about half of the reported cases never diagnosed by a medical professional.

Yes, in the case of transport one or both of us will accompany you and facilitate the transfer of care to the hospital by bringing your medical records and giving a verbal report to the receiving care providers.

Summer is hardly over, and schools, daycare facilities and medical offices across the country are already reporting a spike in cases of flu and viral infections.

Cases are still reported in the medical literature where babies were infected with GBS after any treatment - including IV antibiotics, even though IV antibiotics have significantly reduced the incidence and severity of GBS illness in babies according to the research to date.

In severe cases, seizures can occur due to overhydration, reports John Hopkins Medical Center.

Additionally, medical researchers in hospitals should also provide a monthly report of national malaria cases.

The Massachusetts report, released in 2010, ranked the six academic medical centers by cost per admission adjusted for case mix.

«Just this morning, l got a report from the Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi that another suspected case of Lassa fever was recorded and they were advised to take the patient to the infection unit in the teaching hospital but on their way to the hospital, the patient died with her pregnancy.

I later reported the case to the Police and was issued with a medical form to the hospital where I was later treated and injected with tetanus.»

Further hearing on the case has been adjourned till February 20 to 24, following medical reports from the National Hospital Abuja confirming that the defendant is on medical admission.

The skills of physicians, medical and forensic scientists, and other health workers are uniquely valuable in human rights investigations and documentation, producing evidence of abuse more credible and less vulnerable to challenge than traditional methods of case reporting.

In a reverse example, neurologist Ruth Walker of the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center in New York reported the case of a Parkinson's patient who, treated with the dopamine - enhancing drug ropinirole, began producing large quantities of art.

A new report published in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association earlier this month found that head injuries led an estimated 2.5 million people to visit a U.S. emergency room in 2010, and about one third of the cases were children.

His is the first known instance of reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome — a temporary narrowing of arteries in the brain — to be tied to eating a hot pepper, researchers report April 9 in British Medical Journal Case Reports.

No other U.S. cases have been reported in the medical literature.

«We decided to publish this controversial report to highlight that the safety of any medical intervention should always be a major concern,» said Professor Bart Fauser, Chief Editor of Reproductive BioMedicine Online, «especially in cases where women undergo drug treatment for the sole reason of helping others.»

Crowley and Canzater identify five critical actions that should be priorities for monitoring HCV: 1) expand and standardize reporting to the CDC, 2) utilize electronic medical records to collect data on HCV cases and the cure cascade, 3) fund epidemiologic research using clinical data sets, 4) integrate improved monitoring of HCV with responses to the opioid epidemic, and 5) establish and monitor HCV elimination plans across major US health systems.

The new report shows that even in a very low functioning brain «a shift in observable behaviors from none, a vegetative state, to some limited ones — a minimally conscious state — can occur,» said Dr. Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College who was not involve in the current case.

In one case reported in the medical literature, a man dreamed that he was trying to snap the neck of a deer and woke up to his wife's screams in response to his hands wrenching her neck.

► In a Thursday ScienceInsider, Kelly Servick reported that the case brought by heart stem cell researchers Piero Anversa and Annarosa Leri «against their institution,» Harvard Medical School and its affiliate, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), «for allegedly mishandling a misconduct investigation was dismissed by a federal judge in Massachusetts this week.

In one study that reports on 70 consecutive cases in Saudi Arabia between October 1, 2012 and May 31, 2014, researchers from Prince Sultan Military Medical City, King Saud University and Al - Faisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, found a 60 % mortality rate.

In one of the first analyses to date of the heart problems, a paper in the 25 June Journal of the American Medical Association reports on 18 cases of myopericarditis in the military, including biopsy findings from one.

This fall, Narayan and his colleagues presented Khodadoust's story at a medical conference and are in the midst of publishing reports about OMKO1 and the case study.

The man, identified in a medical journal case report only as «Mr. S,» had been on chemotherapy to keep his head and neck cancer in check.

One concern is the development of multiple sclerosis, which has been fuelled by social and news media reports of cases occurring after HPV vaccination, and an increasing number of case reports published in the medical literature describing vaccine recipients who developed multiple sclerosis as well as other demyelinating diseases.

Today, WHO reported that there have been 1848 cases so far and 1013 deaths; the real numbers almost certainly exceed that tally because some patients don't seek medical care.

Unfortunately, a number of patients died from the infections instead of their cancer; just how many is hard to say since medical studies in the 1800s were not methodical and often consisted of case reports.

The criminal court case had proceeded despite a dismissive 2005 report from the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (INSERM) that had concluded: «It is not reasonable to expect the players involved in the production of growth hormone to have guessed there was a possible risk of CJD from a treatment used since the 1960s» without a single incidence of disease.

«This report ups the ante on the pace at which these cases need to be identified and treated,» says Peter Small, a TB researcher at the Stanford Medical Center in California.

All reported cases of SCA were based on emergency medical service reports containing detailed information regarding cause of the cardiac arrest event.

But in a study published last year Shroff, reported that a baby with Down's syndrome developed better understanding, improved limb muscle tone, and the ability to recognise his relatives after receiving stem cells (Journal of Medical Cases, doi.org/bx3v).

In last January's New England Journal of Medicine study, Strollo and his colleagues reported that the therapy, with a device made by Inspire Medical Systems, reduced subjects» sleep apnea events by 68 percent, from a median of 29.3 events an hour to nine an hour, basically turning severe apnea into a mild case.

In 1884, the British Medical Journal reported that the influential psychiatrist James Crichton - Browne had testified to the UK parliament: «I have encountered many lamentable instances of derangement of health, diseases of the brain, and even death resulting from enforced evening study in the case of young children, with the nervous excitement and loss of sleep which it so often induces.»

In the case of a self - reported heart attack, or death, information was confirmed by medical records and death certificates to ensure that the event was related to CHD.

A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School and Whitehead Institute report that, at least in the case of one variety of cavefish, one agent of evolutionary change is the heat shock protein known as HSP90.

Critically, in January 2011, BMJ, the British Medical Journal, reported the investigation with a three - week package of disclosures and editorials, including three major reports by Deer: How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed, How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money and The Lancet's two days to bury bad news.

Intensive treatment combining radiation and chemotherapy can control locally advanced head and neck cancer, improve survival, and in most cases eliminate the need for debilitating surgery, report researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center and Northwestern University in the April 14, 2000, issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Subacute normobaric oxygen and hyperbaric oxygen therapy in drowning, reversal of brain volume loss: a case report — Paul G Harch — Medical Gas Research

ika virus is associated with a host of medical issues, and in Latin America, health officials are now finding that reported cases of the virus track closely with the onset of a temporary paralysis called Guillain - Barré syndrome.

Earlier this month, the Annals of Emergency Medicine published the first - ever reported case of a fitness tracker assisting a medical decision.

«Data linking Zika virus infection to fetal death have been reported in only a handful of cases,» wrote a team led by Dr. Annemiek van der Eijk, of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

In a case report published in the journal Transgender Health, Tamar Reisman, an endocrinologist, and nurse practitioner Zil Goldstein wrote that they believe this is the «first formal report in the medical literature of induced lactation in a transgender woman.»