Sentences with phrase «medicine testing as»

Most people now know about Functional Medicine testing as a means of investigating root causes of disease expression.

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These shops seemed to have key medicines and products in stock, such as pneumonia medications, rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria, and antimalarials.

Evolution has been relentlessly tested and confirmed and is further validated in direct applications ranging from medicine to agriculture to engineering (the same is true of all the other relevant scientific disciplines which creationism requires to be so fundamentally flawed as to be effectively useless, i.e. physics, chemistry, geology, paleontology, astronomy, etc).

He was bounced from the Olympics after his hair - loss medicine led toa positive drug test; he broke his heel; he was photographed at a nightclubwith Paris Hilton; and a disgruntled fan tried to sell him on eBay as a «slightly used, washed - up» goalie.

The material is also tried and tested in other areas of medicine, such as in dentistry in the production of precision models or in orthopaedic technology to create both internal and external prostheses.

aTaking HIV medicine as prescribed can make a person's viral load very low — even so low that a test can't detect it (called an undetectable viral load).

Medical evidence showed that Unger has had epilepsy since roughly the 1980s but had not been taking medication as prescribed before the crash, as tests taken at the hospital showed that the level of medicine in his blood was far below the proper level, according to court documents.

Delaware County Public Health is holding a «Medical Countermeasures» drill today to practice and test the ability to dispense large amounts of medicine in the event of a public health threat such as a disease outbreak or bioterrorism threat to the community.

«The goals of asthma treatment are to reduce the patient's symptoms, help ensure that they can maintain their normal activities, perform well on pulmonary function tests and minimize asthma associated risks such as future asthma attacks and medication side effects,» said Jennifer McCracken, UTMB assistant professor in the department of internal medicine, division of allergy and immunology.

«The cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..

As head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Clinical Decision Making Group, which works to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to medicine, Szolovits knew that intelligent systems could optimize care by working together better to eliminate errors as well as avoid repetition of medical testAs head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Clinical Decision Making Group, which works to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to medicine, Szolovits knew that intelligent systems could optimize care by working together better to eliminate errors as well as avoid repetition of medical testas well as avoid repetition of medical testas avoid repetition of medical tests.

«This study has broader implications for the health care system, as most hospitals continue to redundantly test people for chest pain and other symptoms,» says report author Jeffrey C. Trost, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine, director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory and co-director of interventional cardiology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

However, there is now a glimmer of hope for patients: Thanks to a newly tested substance, the pain can be reduced to a tolerable level, as indicated by the promising results of an international phase II study involving the Center of Dental Medicine at the University of Zurich.

«The blood test included a selection of 15 measures of immune and hormonal system imbalances as well as evidence of oxidative stress,» said Diana O. Perkins, MD, MPH, professor of psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine and corresponding author of the study.

Although hydrogen gas has not been systematically tested in people, there are no signs that it is toxic, suggesting that it could be given as a preventive medicine against strokes, one of neurology's long - held goals.

You have been described as a quack - buster for your work testing alternative medicine.

But down the road, Baker says, the new designer protein could serve as the basis for a cheap diagnostic — akin to a pregnancy test — for detecting flu and possibly even medicines able to knock it out.

Genetic tests for mutations in the so - called breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, may not reveal as much about cancer risk as earlier reports have estimated, according to two studies published in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine.

«Before we get too excited about this being a new form of infertility treatment, these cells can not as yet be made into functioning sperm, so we have no idea if they can pass «the acid test» — the ability to fertilise female eggs as is achieved with donor sperm in IVF treatment,» says Malcolm Alison of the London School of Medicine and Dentistry in the UK.

They then successfully treated the creatures with existing antiepileptic drugs, suggesting the worms could potentially serve as fast and efficient tools for testing new medicines.

«This study shows that researchers working on problems in rare diseases, such as blood pressure in synucleinopathies, can pool together data and ideas and develop a simple bedside test that can perhaps help spot these problems earlier,» says Dr. Kaufmann, the Felicia B. Axelrod Professor of Dysautonomia Research in the Department of Neurology, and professor of medicine and pediatrics at NYU School of Mmedicine and pediatrics at NYU School of MedicineMedicine.

Based on that assumption, many companies tested PKC inhibitors as drugs to treat cancer, but they didn't work,» said co-senior author Alexandra Newton, PhD, professor of pharmacology at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

Nearly half of the medicine samples tested for animal DNA contained genetic material from multiple animals, and more than three - quarters included DNA from animals not listed on the packaging, such as water buffalo, domestic cows and goats.

«The phi test helps physicians distinguish prostate cancer from benign conditions by utilizing three different PSA markers (PSA, freePSA and p2PSA) as part of a sophisticated algorithm to more reliably determine the probability of cancer in patients with elevated PSA levels,» said Kevin Slawin, MD, director, Vanguard Urologic Institute at Memorial Hermann Medical Group, clinical professor of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine and director of Urology, Memorial Hermann Hospital ‐ Texas Medical Center, who performed some of the key research that led to the development of the phi test and who also began using the test in February.

«While tumor profiling holds the promise of improved therapeutics through personalized medicine, it is important that both clinicians and patients discuss the possibilities of incidental findings prior to ordering the testing, as the findings can have serious implications for both the patient and their family members,» said Melinda Yushak, M.D., M.P.H., first author on the study and a medical oncology fellow in Yale School of Mmedicine, it is important that both clinicians and patients discuss the possibilities of incidental findings prior to ordering the testing, as the findings can have serious implications for both the patient and their family members,» said Melinda Yushak, M.D., M.P.H., first author on the study and a medical oncology fellow in Yale School of MedicineMedicine.

«Not only could the test have a major impact on treatment of prostate cancer, but it could also be adapted to open up the possibility of precision medicine to patients with other types of cancer as well.»

The latest study of a new at - home test kit, published today in Science Translational Medicine, found that even untrained users were able to measure sperm count and concentration as well as motility (the percentage of actively moving sperm), detecting abnormal semen with 97 percent accuracy compared with traditional lab testing.

As scientists decode and find ways to replicate these environments, they are pioneering a number of new treatments that can transform medicine, showing how they can be used to regenerate damaged tissue, create new muscle where there was none before — even grow «organelles» that can be used to test new drugs.

«Now that we know the mice can be vulnerable to Zika infection, we can use the animals to test vaccines and therapeutics — and some of those studies are already underway — as well as to understand the pathogenesis of the virus,» said senior author Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at Washington University.

In a related editor's note, JAMA Internal Medicine Editor - in - Chief Rita F. Redberg, M.D., M.Sc., writes: «These findings suggest that the current practice of performing a stress test on low - risk patients in the ED is unnecessary and prolongs the length of stay in EDs as well as increases unnecessary medical imaging, with significant associated radiation risk for tests that include nuclear imaging.

«As the price and accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests and other diagnostic instruments improve, I think we have a chance to really make a difference in clinical settings facing huge burdens of acute undifferentiated febrile infections that I believe are being misdiagnosed,» said Stoler, who also holds a position in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the UM Miller School of Medicine.

The team's research also identified that NK cells may be vulnerable to new medicines that inhibit BCL - 2, which are also becoming widely tested as anti-cancer treatments.

A new tool in development by computational biologists at Baylor College of Medicine and analytics experts at IBM research and tested as a «proof - of - principle» may one day help researchers mine all public medical literature and formulate hypotheses that promise the greatest reward when pursuing new scientific studies.

As part of a wider # 500k epidemiology research collaboration with Guide Dogs, the researchers in the University's School of Veterinary Medicine and Science have created and tested a questionnaire - style decision tool which could help trainers from Guide Dogs to monitor and evaluate their dog's behaviour.

Diana W. Bianchi, a reproductive geneticist at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Mass., agrees that fetal genomes could inform treatment in the future, but she questions the need to replace conventional genetic testing with whole - genome sequencing to diagnose genetic diseases such as beta - thalassaemia and cystic fibrosis.

In a study published in the current online issue of JAMA Psychiatry, an international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, report finding a highly accurate blood - based measure that could lead to development of a clinical test for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk in males as young as one to two years old.

«Our study shows that TB testing that once took two to three months can now be done in as little as a day,» said co-author Richard Garfein, PhD, professor in the Division of Global Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

In the case of the family examined by the Brigham Genomic Medicine Program (BGMP), the primary patient tested negative for the genetic mutations that cause Marfan syndrome as well as all other mutations known to cause TAAD.

The use of all antibiotics and steroids (which can be harmful to individuals who actually have TB), as well as the total number of medicines given, decreased sharply when the pharmacy staff decided to refer the patient to a doctor, which was far more commonly done when the patient presented with a lab test confirming TB, thus making the diagnosis apparent to the pharmacist.

As well as patent pending the SkimuneTM test, the Newcastle University team have set up a company Alcyomics Limited which aims to take the technology forward to offer personalised medicine, enabling an individual to be tested for drug responseAs well as patent pending the SkimuneTM test, the Newcastle University team have set up a company Alcyomics Limited which aims to take the technology forward to offer personalised medicine, enabling an individual to be tested for drug responseas patent pending the SkimuneTM test, the Newcastle University team have set up a company Alcyomics Limited which aims to take the technology forward to offer personalised medicine, enabling an individual to be tested for drug responses.

Reference materials are critical to properly evaluate the next - generation of gene sequencing and genetic testing methods that will increase the reliability and effectiveness of precision medicine (also known as «personalized medicine»), in which a person's genetic profile is used to create treatments and therapies unique to that individual.

The projected 10 - year, $ 4 billion All of Us study, proposed by then - President Barack Obama in 2015 as part of a push for personalized medicine, has already enrolled more than 12,000 participants for pilot testing.

Miller, who serves as director of clinical research and executive vice-chair of Emergency Medicine at Wake Forest Baptist, said the study built on previous research findings that more complex patients managed in an observation unit with stress CMR testing experienced a reduction in care costs of about $ 2,100 per patient per year.

A team of researchers from the Messerli Research Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, and the Medical University of Vienna showed in laboratory tests that virus - like particles of harmless adeno - associated viruses (AAV) are particularly suitable as carriers.

In a related Comment published today in The Lancet, Jonathan Barasch, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and pathology and cell biology at CUMC, and colleagues Drs. Joseph Bonventre (Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital) and Richard Zager (University of Washington Medicine) explain that the blood test, which measures serum creatinine — a waste product that is removed by the kidneys and excreted in urine — only offers a snapshot of the kidney's function at a given moment, which can vary depending on individual factors such as body size and muscmedicine and pathology and cell biology at CUMC, and colleagues Drs. Joseph Bonventre (Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital) and Richard Zager (University of Washington Medicine) explain that the blood test, which measures serum creatinine — a waste product that is removed by the kidneys and excreted in urine — only offers a snapshot of the kidney's function at a given moment, which can vary depending on individual factors such as body size and muscMedicine) explain that the blood test, which measures serum creatinine — a waste product that is removed by the kidneys and excreted in urine — only offers a snapshot of the kidney's function at a given moment, which can vary depending on individual factors such as body size and muscle mass.

Dawn Dudley, a scientist in UW - Madison's School of Medicine and Public Health, says the tonsils were chosen as a site for testing because they are typically a source of infection for influenza and Epstein - Barr virus.

«We will conduct further research with many more infants to refine and validate test accuracy,» said Elizabeth Alpern, MD, also a co-author on the study and emergency department physician at Lurie Children's, as well as Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

The research, part of a phase I clinical trial to test the safety of the treatment, was published as a letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine earlier this week and will be in the September issue of Human Gene Therapy.

As the team reports today in Science Translational Medicine, no one developed malaria or suffered serious harm in this first phase of human tests, and the vaccine triggered antibodies against the sporozoites.

Neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, where there are no objective measures of disease progression, is another area where in silico medicine could be used in a trial setting to test the effectiveness of new treatments.