Sentences with phrase «university studied patients»

We would like to consider doing it on a larger scale, maybe having several universities studying patients with different diagnostic categories to see how a controlled psychotherapy trial produces physical brain changes as a result of treatment.

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Scientists at the University of Wisconsin and UCLA conducted the study, which implanted electrodes deep into the craniums of epilepsy patients to monitor their brain activity during seizures.

An early, outsourced clinical research study with real patients was encouraging, but there are many potential pitfalls yet to come, said University of North Carolina diabetes researcher Dr. John Buse, who was briefed by Google on the lens last week.

HEART APP IMPROVES JOHNS HOPKINS» PATIENT OUTCOMES: A new cardiology - focused iPhone app is reducing readmission rates for heart attack patients, resulting in massive savings, according to a Johns Hopkins University study.

Fernando Pagan, a GUMC associate professor of neurology who directs the Movement Disorders Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, said that to his knowledge, the study «represents the first time a therapy appears to reverse — to a greater or lesser degree depending on stage of disease — cognitive and motor decline in patients with these neurodegenerative disorders.»

One such study by the University of Utah found that healthy patients who consumed unprocessed cacao experienced a decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressure by 5 mm within two weeks.

A study conducted at the University of Oxford suggests that Alzheimer's and dementia patients have experienced short - term benefits resulting from consuming coconut oil, even though the results may be temporary.

A recent research study conducted by the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden, in collaboration with DuPont Nutrition & Health (DuPont), yielded breakthrough results demonstrating that probiotic intervention can alter and modify intestinal microbiota in patients with colon cancer.

A first of its kind pilot study titled, «The Celiac Patient Antibody Response to Conventional and Gluten - Removed Beer,» was published online by the Journal of AOAC International, and was conducted by GIG at the University of Chicago's Celiac Research Center.

He points to research by a Stanford University researcher, Allan K. Mishra, who has studied PRP for years, whose in his most recent published research includes a large multicenter study [8] involving a host of well - respected orthopedic surgeons around the country who followed 230 patients in a double - blind randomized control study [the gold standard for medical research].

While at the University of Dorpat, he studied the clinical histories of specific patients and realized that identifying and delineating the patterns of symptoms created his organized method to categorize psychiatric disorders.

My readers have told me they want to be more patient too and a 1999 York University study commissioned by Today's Parent found that patience was the top skill parents felt they needed and impatience was the number - one attitude they didn't want to pass on to their children.Not only is being patient more pleasant for all involved, I also find that it is more effective.

Erie County and each Mall partner are teaming up with the University at Buffalo's School of Public Health to conduct long - term studies of the health outcomes and health care utilization of patients who visit the Health Mall.

In the first study evaluating patient - reported cosmetic outcomes in a population - based cohort of older women with breast cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers found that less radiation was associated with improved cosmetic satisfaction long - term.

Findings from a study into Crohn's disease, led by William G. Kerr, Ph.D., of SUNY Upstate Medical University, and his collaborators at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, provide the first evidence that patients with debilitating inflammatory bowel disease lack sufficient quantities of a protein that comes from the SHIP1 gene.

A new international study led by University of Sydney has found that medication use increases in newly diagnosed dementia patients, particularly unnecessary or inappropriate medications.

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.

«Virtual house calls for chronic diseases like Parkinson's are not only as effective as in - person care but broader adoption of this technology has the potential to expand access to patient - centered care,» said Ray Dorsey, M.D., the David M. Levy Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and lead author of the study.

«Future studies should examine which people or patients may need to limit their intake of saturated fat,» assistant professor Simon Nitter Dankel points out, who led the study together with the director of the laboratory clinics, professor Gunnar Mellgren, at Haukeland university hospital in Bergen, Norway.

Prof Youl - Ri Kim, from Inje University in Seoul, South Korea and lead author on both studies, says: «Our research shows that oxytocin reduces patients» unconscious tendencies to focus on food, body shape, and negative emotions such as disgust.

The UI study, which was published March 28 online in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, adds to the accumulating evidence, including recent human studies from Harvard University, that suggests cerebellar stimulation might help improve cognitive problems in patients with schizophrenia.

Ongoing studies at Uppsala University in Sweden have shown that the chemical agent dubbed Pittsburgh Compound - B, or PIB, is a highly accurate marker of plaque buildup and that its abundance in the brain can predict whether patients with mild cognitive impairment will develop Alzheimer's — and when that decline will likely start.

The study by the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow followed patients in Scotland over the course of a year following a severe form of stroke.

Brennan D. Eadie, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and colleagues conducted a study that included patients who had received intravitreous bevacizumab injections for exudative age - related macular degeneration.

«Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients have limited treatment options and a desperate need for effective therapies,» said University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) neurologist Robert Griggs, M.D., lead author of the study.

This study highlights that sofosbuvir with ribavirin and peginterferon should be considered for interferon - eligible GT - 3 patients, particularly for those with cirrhosis and / or prior treatment failure,» said Graham Foster, Professor of Hepatology, Queen Marys University of London, UK.

In a study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing), a new, simplified Braden QD Scale now describes combined immobility - related and MDPI risk in a broader, more diverse sample of pediatric patients typically cared for in acute care environments.

However, the majority of patients develop treatment - resistant tumors, and only 10 to 15 percent of these patients survive long term, says Ie - Ming Shih, M.D., Ph.D., the Richard W. TeLinde Distinguished Professor in the department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, who led the study with Tian - Li Wang, Ph.D., an associate professor of pathology and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«In order to expand our knowledge in these areas, doctors in clinics and regional hospitals must be on the alert for unusual disease phenotypes and refer such patients to specialized university hospital clinics for further evaluation,» says study author Mike Recher.

In addition, even after hospitals achieved a volume of 100 or so cases, there continued to be improvement in patient outcomes with higher procedure volume,» said John D. Carroll, M.D., professor of medicine and director of interventional cardiology at the University of Colorado Hospital and lead author of the study.

A new study entitled «Oral Nutrition Supplements» Impact on Hospital Outcomes in the Context of Affordable Care Act and New Medicare Reimbursement Policies» and conducted by leading researchers at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, The Harris School at The University of Chicago and Precision Health Economics, and supported by Abbott, found that the use of oral nutritional supplements decreased the probability of 30 - day hospital readmission, length of stay and costs among hospitalized Medicare patients aged 65 and over.

«Hospitals are going to be looking for ways to improve quality of care for Medicare patients in order to lower readmission rates and prevent fines,» said study co-author, Tomas Philipson, Ph.D., who is the Daniel Levin Chair of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

«What's frightening about this emerging street drug is that users themselves may not be aware that they are ingesting it,» said lead study author John Stogner, Ph.D. of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, N.C. «A patient may report heroin use and have symptoms consistent with heroin overdose, but an emergency physician may find that the standard dose of antidote (naloxone) doesn't work.

«Treating splenic artery aneurysms can be very difficult because of their intricate nature and anatomic variations from patient to patient,» said Zlatko Devcic, M.D., a fellow of interventional radiology at Stanford University School of Medicine and collaborating author of the study.

In preclinical studies using cell models that mimicked liver cells of patients with the rare disease Friedreich's ataxia (FA), a widely used cholesterol - lowering drug increased a precursor of HDL (high - density lipoprotein), the «good cholesterol,» according to new research published in PLOS ONE from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

To conduct this work, Drs. Carmen Black and Brian Miller at Georgia Regents University collected and pooled data from 18 published studies, resulting in a combined total of 583 psychiatric patients with suicidality, 315 psychiatric patients without suicidality and 845 healthy control subjects.

A protein called CSN6 has been found to be correlated with poor survival among patients with colorectal cancer, according to a study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Tear samples from patients with diabetes show elevated levels of substance P, which are related to early damage to the corneal nerves, which may contribute to the development of corneal ulcers and poor wound healing in patients with diabetes, according to the pilot study by Maria Markoulli, PhD, MOptom, FAAO, and colleagues of University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James), the retrospective study suggested that a pattern of molecules called microRNA (miRNA) in tumor cells might predict patients» response to radiation therapy.

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.

Dr. David Brandman, lead author of the study and an engineering postdoctoral researcher at Brown University, said that while additional innovations will help to move implantable BCIs like BrainGate toward clinical availability for patients, this advance of rapid, intuitive calibration is a key one.

Moreover, getting a better picture of what the virus looks like and understanding its properties through animal testing and studying patients» blood might help vaccine developers pinpoint specific issues, says Pei - Yong Shi, a virologist at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

«These 2 studies add to the armamentarium of all - oral interferon - free regimens that have revolutionized management of hepatitis C, not only for patients who are treatment naive with no significant liver disease but also for those who are treatment experienced and those with cirrhosis,» writes Hari Conjeevaram, M.D., M.Sc., of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in an accompanying editorial.

«Our study suggests most patient information materials are not fit for their intended purpose, and that organisations are producing materials that may be too difficult for their intended audience to understand,» said Angela Webster, lead researcher and an Associate Professor Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Sydney.

Ten weeks of intravenous antibiotics improved cognitive functioning in Lyme disease patients in a 2004 study funded by the National Institutes of Health and carried out by psychiatrist Brian Fallon at Columbia University.

In the study, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania programmed electronic health records (EHR) to alert care providers when a patient was eligible, and prompt them to choose to «accept» or «decline» a flu vaccination order.

Mice transplanted with cells grown from a patient suffering from Huntington's disease (HD) develop the clinical features and brain pathology of that patient, suggests a study published in the latest issue of Acta Neuropathologica by CHA University in Korea, in collaboration with researchers at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada.

«What [the study authors] are arguing is that a change of 5 on a 0 — 100 pain scale... is noticeable by patients,» David Gorski, a surgical oncologist at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, observed in a blog post.

They are based on a retrospective cohort study of 7,431,858 patients in the University HealthSystem Consortium database, which contains information from contributing academic medical centers in the United States and affiliated hospitals.

Bechara and his team studied 69 stroke patients culled from a registry at the University of Iowa that was assembled to study the effect of brain damage on cognition, memory and motion; they selected subjects who, at the time of their strokes, had been smoking at least five cigarettes daily for more than two years.