Sentences with phrase «when patients»

One big question involves why the drugs» effectiveness in treating acute pain often wanes when patients take opioids for longer periods.

«We found that U.S. physicians tended to have a lower threshold for beginning treatment and were more willing to increase the dose or add other medications when patients did not respond,» said lead author, Richard Wang, MD, PhD, a resident in internal medicine at Temple University Hospital.

«Our study suggests that physicians need to recognize within weeks, not months, when patients are failing to respond to antibiotic therapy in cases of severe acne,» said study senior investigator Seth Orlow.

Harris et al. [2] also provided evidence of the presence of retinal hypoxia in the early stages of diabetes by showing that contrast sensitivity was improved when patients with early diabetic retinopathy were made hyperoxic.

This safe process is currently given when patients need extra fluid, for example those with kidney damage.

The first definition was when patients discontinued taking all three drugs.

Is it too late to intervene when patients begin showing symptoms?

The second definition was when patients stopped taking any combination of the drugs or when they added a different drug, including biologics.

And therapists often have no way of knowing when their patients are stuck at home in a dark mood.

Michigan - OPEN researchers have previously shown that when patients are prescribed fewer pills, they consume fewer pills with no changes in pain or satisfaction scores.

She also noted that physiological changes occur within the body when patients are diagnosed with depression, which might help explain the link.

I'm beginning to think there's need for some kind of citizen's watch group that channels public outrage when patients are lured into clinical trials for treating serious diseases based on models / methods that haven't been properly vetted.

Bartek's team also solved another puzzle — why normal cells aren't harmed by disulfiram, even when patients take it for years.

Fischell gets great pleasure when patients benefit from his inventions.

A study of the Department of Neurology of CHU Dinant Godinne — UCL Namur, reveals an improvement in the efficiency of the brain activity when patients receive a treatment combining motor revalidation with non-invasive brain stimulation.

When patients have surgery, surgeons don't know if there are other, smaller lesions elsewhere in the body.

Using sofosbuvir - ledipasvir, which is sold as Harvoni, and is one several new drugs for hepatitis C, researchers compared the costs of treating patients at all stages of fibrosis, zero through four, with the cost of waiting until stages three or four, which is when some patients are usually treated.

«That's definitely true, but the years transitioning to menopause may represent a «teachable moment,» when patients are especially receptive to learning and putting into practice healthy habits that can make a difference in their cardiovascular disease risk.»

The study could lead to new, less invasive diagnostic tests; it also shows that antibiotics — which are often given when patients first present with symptoms — may actually make the disease worse.

They were pioneers in showing that the brain's natural «painkiller» system — called the mu - opioid system — responded to pain when patients got a placebo.

When patients have to remember to take a drug everyday or multiple times a day, we start to see less and less adherence to the regimen.

When patients with oral allergy syndrome take angiotensin - converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors for hypertension and congestive heart failure, they are at an increased risk for a life - threatening allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis, according to new research.

The agency wrote that Wilson and his colleagues enrolled patients who were ineligible for the trial, did not monitor patients properly, did not halt the trial when patients experienced serious side effects, and failed to inform patients that a trial of a similar drug had severely sickened monkeys.

The goal of the guidelines is to help physicians and other health care professionals determine when patients with acute respiratory failure can breathe on their own and to provide clinical advice that may increase the chances for successful extubation.

The finding, published online January 8 in Nature Communications, suggests it may soon be possible for clinicians to identify when patients are at highest risk for seizures, allowing patients to plan around these brief but potentially dangerous events.

The study could lead to new, less invasive diagnostic tests; it also shows that antibiotics — which aren't recommended for Crohn's but are often given when patients first present with symptoms — may actually make the disease worse.

The timing for the assessment at 3 months is optimal because the first weeks after the prescription is given is the critical period of primary non-adherence, when patients are most likely to have discontinued treatment.

When patients have an infusion of clotting factor every 48 hours, the concentration of clotting factor initially reaches 100 % of normal levels and stays there for about 12 hours.

A new study suggests HSV - 2, seen here as orange particles, is constantly active even when patients don't have symptoms.

To make sure that the patients were really free of the parasite, for instance, they had to be persuaded to travel back to the study clinic and undergo painful lumbar punctures 6, 12, and 18 months after the trial — which isn't easy when patients no longer feel sick.

He said most cases of damage to the heart occur during the first 24 to 36 hours after surgery, when patients usually receive narcotic painkillers that can mask cardiac symptoms.

When patients undergo a dual kidney - liver transplant, the liver has a protective effect on the kidney, the study found.

Alvord noticed that when patients felt cared for and respected by their caretakers, they seemed to do better during and after operations.

Dr. Makam said legal concerns, as well as testing practices at institutions, were likely behind the pattern of testing when patients did not exhibit symptoms.

«But we found that these neurons also responded similarly during incorrect trials, when patients made errors about the actual emotion shown on the faces,» Rutishauser added.

When patients do better, there is a temptation for doctors — whether they practice alternative or conventional medicine — to take credit for such outcomes.

When patients were asked about their medication use, 80 to 85 percent reported that they filled all their prescriptions continuously, but the study's analysis of pharmacy fill data indicated that only 55 percent had been fully compliant.

Coupons could be redeemed for two gift cards, a $ 25 gift card when patients had their blood drawn for HIV - related tests, and a $ 100 gift card when they returned to receive test results and develop an individualized health care plan.

This is typically when patients experience the most problems with walking.

The UB researchers found that low testosterone levels were associated with significantly decreased insulin sensitivity; this was demonstrated by a 36 percent decrease in the rate at which glucose is taken up by tissues when patients with low testosterone were administered a set concentration of insulin.

Dr. Zhang points out that the unique value of this study derives from the ability to perform longitudinal assessments of cognition in PD patients over a long time period and access to data from a large cohort that began when patients were in the earliest stage of disease.

«When patients and their families have the option of creating their own composite scores based on their personal medical needs and preferences, they make different choices,» Mukamel said.

Their study, entitled «When Patients Customize Nursing Home Ratings, Choices and Rankings Differ from the Government's Version,» appears in the April issue of Health Affairs.

«Our goal here was to get a picture of what is happening when patients go to a SNF after hospital discharge, and we found that some of the assumptions about the impact of nursing home quality on outcomes may have been overstated,» says the study's lead author, Mark Neuman, MD, MSc, an assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Previous studies have found a decrease in behavioural and psychiatric symptoms of dementia when patients are treated for pain, but this new study now shows, for the first time, a decrease in symptomatic drug use.

«When patients in pain want opioids, but don't get them — which is common — they may report a poor experience.

The new detection of learning also opens up questions about when patients should be classified as being in a persistent vegetative state — in which emergence isn't predicted to be likely — as Terri Schiavo was determined to be at the time.

When patients sign up for clinical trials to test an experimental drug, procedure or device, they give their informed consent after doctors counsel them about the risks and uncertainty associated with a not - yet - approved intervention.

Eyal Oren, UA assistant professor of epidemiology and one of the senior authors of the study, says that most physicians followed the guidelines for testing patients they suspected of having H. pylori infection when the patients came to them with likely risk factors, such as a previously diagnosed peptic ulcer or dyspepsia.

In addition, when patients are started on conservative, low doses in the hospital after a heart attack, they return home so quickly, there is little time to adjust the dosage, Goldberger said.