Sentences with phrase «patients in the study did»

Patients in the study did not pay for sequencing.

Not exact matches

Besides randomized controlled clinical trials, there are a number of ways researchers can study how a particular cancer treatment is playing out in the real world: there are retrospective studies, observational studies, and even prospective research done using patient registries.

«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.

Amgen Executive Vice President of Research and Development Sean Harper said the study was designed to explore Kyprolis dosing regimens, noting that the the trial did not meet its goal in improving progression - free survival versus Velcade in patients who had not yet been treated for the disease.

In a study, conducted by a faith - based group no less, it was shown that ICU patients who knew they were being prayed for tended to suffer more complications and problems than those who were not or did not know.

In the Rutgers Study (http://www.templeton.org/pdfs/articles/060331Reuters.pdf), patients who were prayed for did WORSE.

If one has never journeyed into the deep — prayed (which includes Scripture / theological study, faith sharing, adoration, spiritual formation / retreats, pilgramages, Mass, reconciliation, fasting, listening for God's voice, and more) on an ongoing fashion or done God's will (been obedient, patient, humble, unconditionally sacrificing, unselfish) to the extent that they understand what it means to be Catholic and God being your number one priority — that His Ways and those of His Church are not the ways of the world (trade vices for virtues) and that we are being called into communion with Him via love for Him and one another in our faith community and broader community — then it is no wonder some are lost or disillusioned.

They did it right, a nice study in the hospital of heart attack patients, those who were and were not prayed for, those who knew they were prayed for, those who did not, those prayed for by family, those who didn't know, and they had strangers pray for them.

Then my supervisor told me about a study on prayer in which patients who didn't know they were being prayed about got better faster than patients who weren't being prayed about.

The hospital birthing center where I had my baby offers it... My midwife was actually excited that I wanted to do water labor but no water birth... I was the only one of her patients who DID N'T intend to birth in the water and she needed people birthing out of the tub for a control group in a waterbirth infection study she was contributing to.

You can not randomize patients in a homebirth study, and you don't need to in order to determine whether homebirth is safe.

Physiologic studies also have shown that healthy infants are able to protect their airways and do not have increased apnea when placed supine.20 Meyers and Herbst21 showed that the amount of gastroesophageal reflux in healthy patients was not significantly affected by changes in sleep position.

Previous research shows that giving an EPA - DHA supplement to patients with cardiovascular disease reduces their chance of dying from the disease by as much as 20 percent, authors note in the study, but supplementing with margarine didn't seem to cut it.

It does not include medical information, apart from for cancer patients or those participating in studies.

In the beginning, teaching was my passion, but I didn't just want to be a teacher; I wanted to be a teacher with a difference, I wanted to teach how to save lives, so I decided to study medicine, that way I get to be a doctor and a teacher at the same time, which I still want to do, but over the years I have come to fall in love with medicine, I want that instant gratification of treating a patient and seeing them get better right in front of you, I mean that is the definition of joy for mIn the beginning, teaching was my passion, but I didn't just want to be a teacher; I wanted to be a teacher with a difference, I wanted to teach how to save lives, so I decided to study medicine, that way I get to be a doctor and a teacher at the same time, which I still want to do, but over the years I have come to fall in love with medicine, I want that instant gratification of treating a patient and seeing them get better right in front of you, I mean that is the definition of joy for min love with medicine, I want that instant gratification of treating a patient and seeing them get better right in front of you, I mean that is the definition of joy for min front of you, I mean that is the definition of joy for me.

Dr. Jessica Gregg, who wrote an editorial that accompanied the study, told Reuters that doctors likely don't know patients previously overdosed — as people who misuse are unlikely to report it — and there are no systems currently in place to notify them.

Previous studies showed that, in depressed patients, lipid rafts sequester a protein involved in cell signaling, called GαS, keeping it from doing its job.

In a group of patients who underwent surgery for epilepsy, over half had stem cells where healthy individuals do not have them, according to a study from Sahlgrenska Academy.

A new study published by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests that the drug oseltamivir — commonly known as Tamiflu — does not cause an increased risk of suicide in pediatric patients.

While the researchers did not directly compare survival rates and neurological outcomes with whether individual patients received bystander CPR or defibrillation, they did find increases in both over the duration of the study.

Studies have found that people have an aversion to washed clothing worn by murderers, and that they don't want an AIDS patient to occupy a hospital bed after they've left it — implying a belief in causality, which goes, weirdly, backward through time.

Despite a growing interest in comparative effectiveness research, little medical study is being done to improve this aspect of patient care

Of the patients who received the high dose in study, 11 patients are able to speak, 11 patients are fed orally and seven do not require bi-level positive airway pressure as of the data cut - off (August 7, 2017).

«In the meantime, this study does a good job of alerting clinicians to the growing interest in CAM alternatives and of the critical role of health providers in helping educate patients on the potential risks and benefits of all options.&raquIn the meantime, this study does a good job of alerting clinicians to the growing interest in CAM alternatives and of the critical role of health providers in helping educate patients on the potential risks and benefits of all options.&raquin CAM alternatives and of the critical role of health providers in helping educate patients on the potential risks and benefits of all options.&raquin helping educate patients on the potential risks and benefits of all options.»

«One of the toughest challenges of lung cancer is what to do for patients when the cancer comes back in an area that's been treated previously with radiation treatment,» said James J. Urbanic, M.D., lead author of the studies and a radiation oncologist at Wake Forest Baptist.

«Obese patients don't need to lose weight before total joint replacement, study finds: Long - term relief from joint replacement surgery similar in obese and non-obese patients.»

A large study published last month in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that beta blockers did not prolong the lives of patients — a revelation that must have left many cardiologists shaking their heads (JAMA, vol 308, p 1340).

Autism is complicated, and if you try this on five patients, perhaps it might help two — so if you aren't thoughtful in your [study] design and don't do a fairly substantial group of patients, it's not going to be very useful information.»

A study of four medical marijuana outlets in California suggests that many of their customers don't fit the profile expected for businesses focused on sick patients.

She added: «However, we found in our study that patients with refractory cardiac arrest treated without the support of extracorporeal life systems do not have such a dismal prognosis as one might think, which encourages longer resuscitation attempts.»

«Previous studies have demonstrated an association between stress and skin symptoms, but those studies relied on small patient samples, did not use standardized tools, are anecdotal in nature, or focused their analyses on a single skin disease,» says Gil Yosopovitch, MD, Chair of the Department of Dermatology at LKSOM, Director of the Temple Itch Center, and corresponding author of the study.

Doctors and patients simply do not know enough about this type of response and where to refer these patients to participate in a study.

Many of the studies in the review did not control for whether patients immediately moisturized after the bath to prevent dryness.

«We found that nearly one in four patients with small tumours are at risk of distant metastases and do benefit from chemotherapy,» said Dr Fatima Cardoso, senior author of the study, Co-Principal Investigator of MINDACT and Director of the Breast Unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal.

The study didn't include people with a psychotic disorder, but the findings line up with brain alterations found in patients with schizophrenia.

More studies will need to be done to confirm whether the results of the smaller studies are seen in larger groups of patients.

Many patients with ulcerative colitis don't receive recommended testing and treatment for the common problem of iron deficiency anemia, reports a study in the October issue of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, official journal of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA).

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

«Opioids administered in ER don't influence patient satisfaction, study shows.»

Two of his studies influenced 2009 treatment guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology, which recommended the use of β - blockers in «patients undergoing surgery that doesn't directly involve the heart.»

In addition to helping understand disease by providing more powerful study models, «what this technology would allow you to do is reprogram a skin cell, for example, from a Parkinson's patient... into a pluripotent cell and then in a petri dish redirect that cell into... a neuron» to treat that patienIn addition to helping understand disease by providing more powerful study models, «what this technology would allow you to do is reprogram a skin cell, for example, from a Parkinson's patient... into a pluripotent cell and then in a petri dish redirect that cell into... a neuron» to treat that patienin a petri dish redirect that cell into... a neuron» to treat that patient.

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found depressed patients with chronic kidney disease did not benefit from a common antidepressant.

The study was also the first of its size to look at all colon removal surgeries, including open surgery, which was done over the study period in 51.7 percent of patients.

Not only does the study suggest these drugs are safe for this subset of migraine patients, it could also have implications for the nearly 10 million migraine sufferers who experience auras — a disturbance in vision, touch, speech, thinking, or strength that usually precedes a migraine headache.

«Currently a majority of patients undergo colon resections for large polyps that don't harbor any cancer cells, which means in many cases a person's colon is being removed for noncancerous reasons, based on subjective criteria,» said lead study author Emre Gorgun, MD, FACS, FASCRS, a staff surgeon in the department of colorectal surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio.

Since randomized clinical trials — the gold - standard in research — don't accommodate patients» preferences, Zoellner and her research team used a study design called a «doubly randomized preference trial» to investigate whether giving patients a choice affects their treatment outcomes.

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.

For anxiety, there is one study of 24 patients with social anxiety in which half received a single dose of cannabis derivative and scored their anxiety doing a simulated presentation.

The eighth patient in the study had a malfunctioning chip that did not release any medication, which might lead some to worry about potential for accidental release of excessive dosages.

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.