Sentences with phrase «when patients in the study»

When patients in the study heard the voice of a family member calling their names out loud and reciting stories while they were in an MRI, their brains showed increased neural activity.

Not exact matches

Patient experiences in the TV drama Grey's Anatomy are, unsurprisingly, portrayed inaccurately when compared with real - life trauma cases, according to a new study.

When he co-founded Twine in 2013, Moore was a researcher at MIT studying how technology could be used to help patients improve their health.

But if he had the charge of a hospital, or lived in a city where the pestilence was raging, if he would be studying fermentation, the circulation of the blood, blisters, and the like, and such like excellent points, when he should be visiting his patients, and saving men's lives; if he should even turn them away, and let them perish, and tell them that he has not time to give them advice, because he must follow his own studies, I would consider that man as a most preposterous student, who preferred the remote means before the end itself of his studies: indeed, I would think him but a civil kind of murderer.

While multiple studies have shown that the pregnancy rate is slightly lower when replacing a single embryo, as compared to 2, the pregnancy rate is still very high in a selected patient population (< 35 with extra blastocysts to freeze).

A study published in the current issue of the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing shows that depression symptoms worsen in PPD patients when their quality of sleep declines.

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.

When residents move into the Eltona, they will participate in a research study performed by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine tracking the health of asthma patients.

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, recently published in the journal Resuscitation, found that patients discharged in «good neurological condition» after a brief cardiac arrest (when the heart suddenly stops beating normally and can not pump blood effectively) had significant memory problems and a 10 to 20 per cent reduction in size of their brain's memory region, the hippocampus.

When the researchers gave concentrated broccoli sprout extracts to 97 human type 2 diabetes patients in a 12 - week randomized placebo - controlled trial, obese participants who entered the study with dysregulated disease demonstrated significantly decreased fasting blood glucose levels compared to controls.

«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.

A new analysis of existing studies strongly supports the idea that there are increased levels of chemicals, called cytokines, in the body and brain that promote inflammation in individuals who are contemplating or have attempted suicide, even when compared to patients being treated for the same psychiatric disorders who are not suicidal.

In patients with anorexia nervosa, the study indicates that the increase in sweating experienced when viewing images of thin bodies is explained by the presence of a specific form (allele) of the gene in questioIn patients with anorexia nervosa, the study indicates that the increase in sweating experienced when viewing images of thin bodies is explained by the presence of a specific form (allele) of the gene in questioin sweating experienced when viewing images of thin bodies is explained by the presence of a specific form (allele) of the gene in questioin question.

One of the studies, published in 2008, suggested that patients whose antiretroviral treatment was deferred until their CD4 cell counts were below 250 were at greater risk of opportunistic infection than those that received antiretroviral treatment when CD4 cell counts were higher than 350.

In the study, published in the journal Behavioral Science and Policy, Rutgers researchers report that patients are three times more likely to get vaccinations when their physicians make appointments than when they are invited to make the appointments themselveIn the study, published in the journal Behavioral Science and Policy, Rutgers researchers report that patients are three times more likely to get vaccinations when their physicians make appointments than when they are invited to make the appointments themselvein the journal Behavioral Science and Policy, Rutgers researchers report that patients are three times more likely to get vaccinations when their physicians make appointments than when they are invited to make the appointments themselves.

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.

When chemically intolerant patients first came to the attention of the medical profession in the 1980s, their condition was called «multiple chemical sensitivity» (MCS), and there was enough curiosity to spark studies.

«Throughout their studies, they learn how to translate and impart the necessary information so when they are in a working pharmacy situation, they not only know how to fill a prescription but can also counsel the patient on how to properly use medical devices.»

Some of the best support for this contention came in 2012, when researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and their colleagues published a meta - analysis of 29 studies involving nearly 18,000 patients, which found that traditional acupuncture produced a somewhat greater reduction in pain than placebo or sham acupuncture.

In light of the late stage when pancreatic cancer is typically diagnosed and the significant rate of people diagnosed with acute pancreatitis that are subsequently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the study's authors suggest that patients over the age of 40 with acute pancreatitis should be evaluated for pancreatic cancer with esophageal ultrasound.

In a 2010 study, Harvard medical researcher Ted Kaptchuk showed that some patients with irritable bowel syndrome improved even when they knew the treatment they were being given was a sham, suggesting that deception could, at least in some cases, be unnecessarIn a 2010 study, Harvard medical researcher Ted Kaptchuk showed that some patients with irritable bowel syndrome improved even when they knew the treatment they were being given was a sham, suggesting that deception could, at least in some cases, be unnecessarin some cases, be unnecessary.

When combined with darunivir and a third drug, it led to undetectable virus in 82 percent of 82 patients, according to the study.

The study published in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin reports preliminary results showing that a blood test, when used in psychiatric patients experiencing symptoms that are considered to be indicators of a high risk for psychosis, identifies those who later went on to develop psychosis.

Studies in cancer patients indicate reduced rates of relapse when patients are pretreated with epigenetic drugs due to its far - reaching capabilities; killing progenitor cells at the site of the tumor, in circulation, or at a distant site.

Those patients already had metastatic disease when screened, but they were not diagnosed at the time, and so they are not counted in Messing's study.

In another study, the brain of a patient who appeared to be in a vegetative state responded just like a healthy person's when asked to imagine playing a game of tenniIn another study, the brain of a patient who appeared to be in a vegetative state responded just like a healthy person's when asked to imagine playing a game of tenniin a vegetative state responded just like a healthy person's when asked to imagine playing a game of tennis.

Most of the 15,000 patients that visited drug shops with a fever chose to buy an rapid diagnostic test when offered one by the trained vendors taking part in the study.

The authors note some limitations, including that the last measurement in their study is at the age of 53, when COPD is just starting to emerge, but most patients are diagnosed in their sixties.

«We know that doctors rarely take the weather forecast into account when treating or making recommendations to heart failure patients,» said Prof. Pierre Gosselin, lead author of the study from Universitié Laval in Canada.

The study, which compared each model's success in Caucasian women with those of Asian descent (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean and Vietnamese), also raised important questions about the effect of race on cancer development: When Caucasian and Asian patients with similar family histories of breast and ovarian cancer were compared, the Asian women had higher rates of genetic mutation, although the rates of these cancers for Asians have traditionally been lower.

In one small study in Japan, human patients with mild cognitive impairments showed significant improvement when given the mushrooms in powdered forIn one small study in Japan, human patients with mild cognitive impairments showed significant improvement when given the mushrooms in powdered forin Japan, human patients with mild cognitive impairments showed significant improvement when given the mushrooms in powdered forin powdered form.

When patients like Godfrey Catanus in the study heard the voice of a family member calling their names out loud and reciting stories while they were in an MRI, their brains showed increased neural activity.

A global analysis of metabolites and small molecules in urine samples from patients with adrenal cancer has identified four biochemicals that, when measured together, can distinguish malignant from benign adrenal tumors, according to study results presented at the 2015 Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

In the remaining five patients, the engineered grafts functioned normally to the study's conclusion, which was between 6 months and 20 months, depending on when the patients enrolled.

The study also did not determine if hospitals experienced a dip in uncompensated care, the costs of which hospitals have to absorb when patients lack insurance.

The researchers also found a striking demonstration of the underlying brain regions that are involved in gambling when they studied the gambling behaviour of patients who had experienced brain injury due to a tumour or stroke.

When Fishel and Kolodner heard of the accumulation of mutations in cancer cells from patients with familial colon cancer, they suspected that the gene responsible would be similar to the bacterial and yeast genes they had studied.

«Very early on in this disease — at a time when outside a study like ours the majority of people would not have been diagnosed with COPD — patients appear to be losing lung function,» said lead author Mark T. Dransfield, MD, medical director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Lung Center.

The study, Developing an Interventional Stroke Service: Improving Clinical Outcomes and Reducing Cost and Delivering Great Cost Savings Benefits to Health Economy, conducted at the University Hospital of North Midlands, Stoke - on - Trent, U.K., found that mechanical thrombectomy (the use of a device to retrieve a clot from the vessel) in the treatment of stroke reduced the average stroke patient's hospital stay to 14 days when compared to previously recorded 90 days.

A new study appearing in the February 4th issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS) found significant benefit from surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis with and without degenerative spondylolisthesis — debilitating spinal conditions causing leg and back pain, numbness and weakness — and no higher overall complication rate and no higher mortality for patients age 80 and older when compared to patients younger than age 80.

Over time, patients end up providing a wealth of information to their health care providers, and when all our data are aggregated, they are also a boon to researchers studying trends in diseases and demographics for clues in how to better treat illness.

In brain imaging studies, the OPFC is highly active when people deliberate between actions with uncertain risks and rewards, and clinical reports describe patients, such as Gage, whose inability to consider long - term consequences can lead to tragic outcomes.

The ultimate conclusion of the study is that the Canadian medical system is as good as the U.S. version, at least when measured by a single metric — the rate at which patients in either system died.

«While many people think of the ED as simply a place to go when you have a car accident or some type of major trauma, it is increasingly the case that the emergency department is caring for complex medical patients,» said lead author Renee Y. Hsia, MD, professor of emergency medicine at UCSF and director of health policy studies in the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine.

Price variation similarly occurs when patients are hospitalized, according to a separate study also led by Hsia and published in the August 2014 issue of PLOS ONE.

He launched the study when he discovered heart attack patients were being treated with much lower doses of beta - blockers than were used in clinical trials.

The study assessed ambulance - dispatch patterns in New York state, over a period of several years, to examine how otherwise similar groups of patients fare when given varying levels of treatment; different hospitals tend to provide different levels of treatment, and thus expenses, in emergency care.

The ORBIT data «showed that patients who have seropositive rheumatoid arthritis are just as likely to respond to rituximab therapy when compared to anti-TNF therapy,» said Duncan Porter, MD, Honorary Associate Professor and a consultant rheumatologist at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, and one of the lead authors of the study.

«We would recommend being selective when indicating patients for injection, and limiting use of injections to people unlikely to undergo knee replacement in the near future,» said lead study author Nicholas Bedard, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.