Sentences with phrase «other patients in the study»

The University of Florence team's 2011 statistical analysis of health outcomes for almost 1,700 male patients showed that those involved in stable extramarital relationships had about twice the cardiovascular disease as other patients in the study, particularly if the man reported that his wife was still sexually interested in him.

Her symptoms got worse through the initial treatments — a common experience for other patients in the study who she said had suppressed memories due to child abuse — before they got better.

Not exact matches

In our symptom study, we obtained questionnaires from 7,847 patients about nasal, sinus and other health symptoms.

Other studies, meanwhile, are examining tryp's potential efficacy as an antifungal agent; and as a prognostic indicator in patients with brain cancer (as seen by increased uptake of the amino acid on a PET scan).

«While we are disappointed CheckMate - 026 did not meet its primary endpoint in this broad patient population, we remain committed to improving patient outcomes through our comprehensive development program, including the ongoing Phase III CheckMate - 227 study exploring the potential of the combination of Opdivo plus [our other cancer immunotherapy] Yervoy for PD - L1 positive patients, and Opdivo plus Yervoy, or Opdivo plus chemotherapy in PD - L1 negative patients,» he added.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

A study of the patients visited regularly by the students (compared with a matched control group of other patients) showed that the program had made a significant difference in the general improvement and discharge rate of those visited.

They point to several studies that show that there is a lack of cholesterol in the brains of Alzheimer's patients which is so vital for several functions, and also note that other studies show this cholesterol deficiency in dementia and Parkinson's disease as well.

Other studies have highlighted similar factors.19 20 21 Though attempts are being made to try to simulate home birth in hospital — a midwife known to the patient arranging delivery in a non-clinical environment close to a specialist unit — some women will continue to choose home birth.

Citing a 2010 study finding that patients who had at least two 2 rehabilitation visits for persistent dizziness after a concussion showed improvement in their DHI scores (2), the study said that on - field identification of dizziness could lead to earlier implementation of vestibular rehabiliation and other modalities to treat dizziness, which may expedite recovery from concussion.

For example, the fact that 27 transfer patients are listed as having a physician as their planned birth attendant is most likely due to errors in birth - certificate completion; data are currently lacking to inform the degree of misclassification related to this and others factors that affect the study outcomes.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

A 2012 study in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity found that people who listened to a relaxation CD before and after surgery had less stress and a speedier recovery than other patients.

Diagnosis was always confirmed by a physician, and breastfeeding information was always confirmed by patients» mothers or other older close relative (as previously mentioned, this was not a requirement in pediatric studies).

That study showed how a similar model can be used to understand immune response in patients with pancreatic cancer who survive longer than others.

The study adds to a growing body of research highlighting other cognitive functions affected by aphasia, and indicates that the consequences of brain damage in aphasia patients may be more extensive than originally thought.

«In making effective treatments easier for patients, the hope is that we can reduce vision loss from glaucoma, and possibly other diseases,» said study author James D. Brandt, M.D., director of the UC Davis Medical Center Glaucoma Service.

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

Eighteen out of a projected 21 patients in Mithoefer's study have already been treated, and in many cases just two sessions dramatically diminished symptoms, which is remarkable because PTSD in this group of subjects has been resistant to other types of treatment.

Three Swedish hospitals and other European clinics will cooperate during the study which will target patients with conditions resembling the one in the case study — that is, people who suffer from phantom pain and who have not responded to other currently available treatments.

Other molecular information from patients may reveal these so - called «hidden responders,» according to a Penn Medicine study in Cell Reports this week.

Plastic surgeons and other cosmetic professionals are familiar with the challenges posed by patients with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) seeking cosmetic procedures, reports a survey study in the February issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

By the early 1960s more than 1,000 studies on LSD and other hallucinogens discussing the experiences of 40,000 patients had been published in reputable medical journals.

Over a 30 - day period, seniors were 54 percent more likely to be readmitted to the hospital compared to patients younger than 65 years, the study reports, after accounting for differences in other medical problems.

Now a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published online ahead of print in the journal Oncogene offers compelling evidence explaining this failure and offering a possible strategy for the use of retinoic acid or other retinoids against some breast cancers: Because early clinical trials are often offered to patients who have already tried other more established therapies, breast cancer cells may have been pushed past an important tipping point that offers retinoic acid resistance.

A single scan could diagnose the cause of foot pain better and with less radiation exposure to the patient than other methods, according to a study in the March 2015 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

In other studies, Fried actually saw associations forming — neurons that originally fired for celebrities (like Clint Eastwood) began to also fire for landmarks (like the Hollywood sign) after patients saw pictures of the celebrity - landmark pairings.

Prof. Khatri and his team studied the way the immune system responds to infection by looking at gene expression — which genes are active and which are not — and whether there are differences in patients with malaria compared to other infectious diseases.

«These studies set the stage for newer approaches to lower the levels of these lipids in patients with Gaucher disease and others with precursors for myeloma.

«In addition, we believe our study design sets an important precedent for other genetic diseases and will help inform discussions of how clinical research can coexist with deep concerns about genetic privacy and patient autonomy.»

«Previous studies examined patients undergoing hip - fracture repair or other urgent surgeries, in which initial blood samples were collected after a significant stressor had already occurred,» she added.

The new drugs offer the hope of treatment to perhaps thousands of HIV patients who have stopped responding to other medications, says William Towner, medical director of the Kaiser Permanente HIV / AIDS research trials program and member of the study team, which reported its findings online today in The Lancet.

«Use of steps one to three triage criteria is not sufficient for identifying intracranial hemorrhage and death or neurosurgery for older patients who suffer head trauma,» said the lead author of the study, Daniel K. Nishijima, MD, MAS, of the University of California Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, Calif. «While we wait for other studies to confirm our research, we strongly urge patients to make their medication history available and known to their families and EMS providers, especially for situations that may arise where they can not speak for themselves.

Patients can save about $ 5,600 a year in transportation and other related expenses by staying in their local hospital and avoiding transfer to a larger hospital elsewhere, the study found.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

The researchers also measured increased glutamate levels in patients, which lines up with strong support for elevated glutamate reported in other studies of first - episode psychosis.

Also, the VA patient population was almost all male, and tended to have more chronic disease than the groups looked at in other studies.

She and her colleagues will be publishing other studies in the future where patients» mental health is assessed over a period longer than four weeks.

Dr Grainger and his team are now working with other groups at The University of Manchester to carry out further studies on monocytes, particularly from patients with inflammatory conditions, and are focused on identifying situations where this gut information system may have gone wrong such as in inflammatory bowel diseases.

Although he is far from recovered, and although hopeful results in one patient don't mean the technique will work for others, the study adds to evidence that there might be a way to restore consciousness to some patients — even years later.

Past studies have suggested depression and other neuropsychiatric symptoms may be predictors of AD's progression during its «preclinical» phase, during which time brain deposits of fibrillar amyloid and pathological tau accumulate in a patient's brain.

The first study will examine these patients over time, in order to analyze other important variables such as melanoma relapse, mortality, resistance to treatment, development of a second melanoma or other cancers, and metastasis, including spread of the cancer to nearby lymph nodes (sentinel nodes).

The new findings, reported in JAMA by a team from the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, confirm directly what other studies have predicted or implied: That Medicaid expansion can help relieve hospitals» burden of caring for patients who have little or no means to pay.

While the studies addressed in the paper focused on patients taking opioids for non-cancer pain such as back pain and other musculoskeletal ailments, similar studies are now underway to examine the effect of naloxegol in patients with chronic cancer - related pain.

«These patients had a lower disease burden and were treated earlier in the course of their disease, which distinguishes it from other studies,» Gill said.

In their study, Fiona Havers, MD, MHS, and a team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several other institutions analyzed data for approximately 6,800 patients with acute respiratory illness who were seen at five outpatient care centers in Washington state, Wisconsin, Texas, Michigan, and PennsylvaniIn their study, Fiona Havers, MD, MHS, and a team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several other institutions analyzed data for approximately 6,800 patients with acute respiratory illness who were seen at five outpatient care centers in Washington state, Wisconsin, Texas, Michigan, and Pennsylvaniin Washington state, Wisconsin, Texas, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Because there's evidence that the words we hear and the words we recall or imagine trigger similar brain processes, the study, published online today in PLoS Biology, suggests scientists may one day be able to tune in to the words you're thinking — a potential boon for patients who are unable to speak due to Lou Gehrig's disease or other conditions.

At UC Berkeley, psychologists such as Allison Harvey, a co-author on the Journal of Neuroscience paper, have been garnering encouraging results in studies that use sleep therapy on patients with depression, bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses.

«One criticism of the PARP drugs is they are not active in patients who have developed resistance to other therapies, but we found veliparib appears to be effective in some platinum - resistant patients with recurrent or persistent disease,» said Robert L. Coleman, MD, lead author of the study and professor and vice chair of clinical research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

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