Sentences with phrase «actually studied these patients»

I think the casual reader might have the impression (from the brain images, etc.) that the authors actually studied these patients and scanned their brains themselves, but this doesn't seem to be what happened.

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The Valeant spokeswoman wrote us that the first alcohol interaction study actually began enrolling patients and argued the drug maker is not responsible if that information is not reflected on the FDA website.

That's because, as a new study notes, meeting patients» basic social needs — including for heating, electricity, food access, and medicines — can actually have a significant effect on basic health indicators like blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

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.

The study asserted that because of the number of complex provisions in the law — such as the requirement that medication must be self - administered by a mentally competent patient — it will actually affect only a tiny fraction of seriously ill patients.

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.

«We did a long series of studies with thousands of patients and showed that this medication, Lucentis, actually reduced wet macular degeneration,» Scheller recalls.

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

A study at Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH) in Elche shows that patients defined automatically as «adherent» by dint of their collecting their prescriptions each month are not necessarily any better than their «non-adherent» peers at actually taking their medication.

«While neuroimaging studies can tell us a great deal about the brain's response to complex events, it's only by studying patients with brain injury that we can see if a brain region is actually needed to perform a given task,» said Dr Clark.

The authors point to studies of harmful and beneficial effects of thrombolytic and antiarrhythmic drugs for myocardial infarction, for example: «Not only would systematic reviews... have reduced waste resulting from unjustified research, they would also have shown how to reduce morbidity and sometimes mortality, both in patients allocated to relatively less effective or actually harmful treatments in unnecessary trials, and in patients generally,» the authors write.

While numerous studies have quantified the incidence rate of TKR and THR and in the U.S., there is very little information about the number of patients actually living with a prosthetic knee or hip.

The theory came under additional fire when one of the authors of the original Science study, Robert Silverman, announced that further research on his part showed the positive specimens from chronic fatigue patients had actually been contaminated with XMRV DNA.

Few studies have actually measured the rate of addiction of these patients.

Not all of these experiences actually coincide with brushes with death — one study of 58 patients who recounted near - death experiences found 30 were not actually in danger of dying, although most of them thought they were.

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.

They've not actually been well studied in the way that you'd want them to be in a large population of patients.»

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.

He adds, «This study was actually a pilot project for a much larger effort within the Center for Molecular Therapeutics to map responses against drug combinations across hundreds of cancer cell lines, not just melanoma, and look for novel combinations that will benefit subsets of patients regardless of the particular type of tumor they have.

Just over half of patients in the study who gave consent and had tumor profiling ordered by a physician actually received results, due to a variety of technical and logistical factors.

While more research is needed, the study suggests that current neurorehabilitation strategies «may actually be working to reduce the overall level of recovery in stroke patients,» he added.

«By using an animal model to expand tumor cells recently removed from patients, we hoped to re-create more closely what actually happens in patients with pancreatic cancer rather than by using existing artificial cell lines,» said Wei Zhang, Ph.D., an endowed Hanes and Willis Family Professor in cancer at Wake Forest School of Medicine, a part of Wake Forest Baptist, and principal investigator of the study.

However, earlier this month a study by George Cotsarelis at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and colleagues published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation (Garza et al., 2011) revealed that patients with AGA actually had had a normal amount of follicle stem cells in their scalps.

Still, only about one - fifth of patients actually get appropriate care, the study authors said.

«That was actually the predominant problem in patients in our study — 78 % of them had health insurance, but many of them were bankrupted anyway because there were gaps in their coverage like co-payments and deductibles and uncovered services,» says Dr. Woolhandler.

In a smaller proportion of patients there is actually an improvement in heart function so that the pump can be disconnected or explanted,» noted study co-author Dr. Stephan Schueler.

Radiologists in the study said they read CT scans more meticulously and felt more empathy when they saw a patient's face, although it's not clear if the photo actually improved their accuracy in interpreting the test results.

Although this study has a very small sample size, it demonstrates that there are some «gluten intolerant» patients who actually have subclinical celiac disease.

And if they were really looking through the scientific literature, and studying that on Ketosis, they'd actually be excited about utilizing those with their patients.

The banana - fed group of patients actually saw success more than those who were medically treated with almost 60 percent of the patients being successfully treated while less than a quarter of the medically - treated patients were free of diarrhea at the final day of the studies.

Actually studies on probiotics and probiotic rich foods would seem to be woefully lacking if there is no discussion of the patient's enterotype or microbiome.

Additionally, numerous studies, including large meta - analyses of a multitude of scientific studies, have concluded that there is no cardio - metabolic benefit for patients to consume it over regular sugar, and actually worsen diseases like diabetes (10).

A study published in the December 2010 Journal of Proteome Research finds that «potential» celiac patients with positive blood tests but negative biopsies actually have the same distinctive metabolic fingerprint as diagnosed celiacs.

The problem with the studies the doctor is describing here is the diets of those patients mentioned actually were consuming about 200 grams of whole grains during the study.

And, as importantly, this study found that patients who experienced reduced T3 as a result of this calorie restriction actually saw a decrease in TSH, indicating an increase in thyroid hormone levels, when the opposite was actually true.

Despite initial encouraging results, in more recent studies, fish and fish oil consumption have not only failed to reduce sudden cardiac death with omega - 3s, but actually increased mortality in cardiac patients.

A 1987 study found that as many as 15 % of patients admitted to a psychiatric hospital for depression actually were suffering from some level of hypothyroidism.

We've gotten our nice randomized study in very sick congestive heart failure patients with low ejection fractions is the V - 4 engine are probiotic use it was actually saccharomyces boulardii and it wasn't that much, about three million.

And, of course, this is as true in our private lives as our work lives: A recent study from medicine showed that even when a heart doctor's patients know it will literally kill them if they don't change personal habits around diet, smoking, and exercise, only 1 in 7 can actually do it.

Actually, studies indicate that few SARDS patients have Cushing's.

The theoretical benefit for utilizing highly digestible «hypoallergenic» diets for patients with colitis includes reducing the digestive challenge to the large intestine and minimizing the likelihood of dietary antigens actually reaching the colon, thus lessening the likelihood of an immunological reaction.21 Several studies in the veterinary literature suggest that some patients may benefit from diets providing novel, highly digestible protein sources.9 - 11 One prospective study reported a resolution in clinical signs associated with idiopathic chronic colitis in 13 dogs fed rice and cottage cheese.

But a major study found that out of 400 patients experiencing «gluten sensitivity,» only 55 people actually had problems with consuming gluten [17].

A 2006 study revealed that up to 30 percent of patients who actually suffer from psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are misdiagnosed with epilepsy [source: ScienceDaily].