Sentences with phrase «also studied patients»

The scientists also studied patients» tumor samples and performed visual oral examinations of spouses / partners.

You'll also study patient interviewing techniques for taking patient histories, how to receive and organize data, telephone techniques, and how to write effectively.

Not exact matches

Patients with chronic conditions are 20 percent more likely to be readmitted to the hospital if they also have dementia, according to medical journal studies.

But the study also suggested that some antidepressants were more effective than others; several older antidepressants were found to be more effectivee than more modern ones, but the modern treatments (such as Prozac) were better tolerated by patients.

For industries like healthcare, Larsen points out that various studies have found that the most «satisfied» patients are also those who spent the most on prescription drugs and were 12 percent more likely to be admitted to hospitals.

A large portion of the male and female patients enrolled in this outcomes study are anticipated to also be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.

The National Institutes for Health also brought on six health - care groups in smaller cities to expand the study's reach and ensure a diverse roster of patients.

Despite the fact that this study was conducted in resistance trained males, the observation that insulin and blood glucose levels decreased significantly indicates that time - restricted feeding like leangains method could also improve health markers related to patients such as diabetics and obese patients.

Presentations will highlight the short and long - term effects of Ingrezza on tardive dyskinesia symptoms by body region, long term safety and efficacy data from the KINECT 4 phase 3 open label study and also from RE-KINECT (real - world screening study of patients with possible TD).

The study can only look for an effect from prayers offered as part of the research, they said.They also said they had no explanation for the higher complication rate in patients who knew they were being prayed for, in comparison to patients who only knew it was possible prayers were being said for them.»

A criticism of Byrd's study, which also applies to most other studies, is based on the fact that he did not limit prayers by the friends and family of patients, hence it is unclear which prayers may have been measured, if any.

Here are some parts you left out: - A criticism of Byrd's study, which also applies to most other studies, is based on the fact that he did not limit prayers by the friends and family of patients, hence it is unclear which prayers may have been measured, if any

They point to several studies that show that there is a lack of cholesterol in the brains of Alzheimer's patients which is so vital for several functions, and also note that other studies show this cholesterol deficiency in dementia and Parkinson's disease as well.

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.

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.

«Previous studies have also noted that the financial condition of the most troubled institutions is, to a large extent, a product of an inefficient expense structure, revenue challenges associated with a patient mix that approaches 90 percent public payers and charity care, and overwhelming liabilities (including debt issued long ago for physical plant improvements that, in some cases, are obsolete),» the health department said in its announcement.

A current study with chronic pain patients furthermore seems to imply that Jymmin can also reduce anxiety, a contributor to chronic pain.

With expertise in minimally invasive oncoplastic breast surgery, Dr. Wilson has also studied complementary medicine and provides her patients with a holistic, integrative approach to breast care.

Researchers also identified weight lifting as the cause of injuries in 62 % of the patients studied, trauma in 18 %, and martial arts in 9 %.

The study also found that older people were more likely than younger people to believe it is OK to allow physicians to prescribe life - ending drugs to terminally ill patients who request them, and that the most religious or spiritual people were the least supportive of this idea.

The results of the study show that more than half of the patients with bipolar disorder who had elevated or low levels of cortisol in the blood, also had depression.

Therefore within a few years we hope to be able to start studies in which we will also try treating patients to prevent the development of Alzheimer's disease,» says Hugo Lövheim.

Now, in a study published February 13 in Science Signaling, Lin's team discovered that a chemical compound that activates ATF6 also converts patient - derived stem cells into blood vessels.

Additional data from this study, also presented at The International Liver CongressTM today in Barcelona, Spain, show that 97 % of patients with the same HCV genotype, but without scarred livers, achieved SVR12 after eight weeks on the same treatment without ribavirin (RBV).

Researchers said further studies are also planned that use other methods to analyze the relationship between volume and outcomes, follow patients after discharge from the hospital, and assess how patient outcomes are affected as hospitals gain more experience with TAVR and the technology is refined over time.

Instead, the study authors attribute the risk to «detection bias,» where the group of patients likely to take erection medicines also happens to be more health conscious, more likely to see a doctor, and so more likely to get diagnosed with melanoma than other men of similar age.

The study also reinforces the potential value of brain scans for identifying and understanding schizophrenia in individual patients, for finding promising new therapeutic approaches, and for helping clinicians track a patient's progress during therapy.

A dozen human studies of MDMA, LSD, a powerful African drug called ibogaine and psilocybin, from so - called «magic mushrooms,» are now under way, testing the once - stigmatized drugs as treatments for not only PTSD, but also cluster headaches and addiction, as well as anxiety and depression in cancer patients.

«Our study also suggests the need for further evaluation of patient risk factors prior to surgery and more vigilant surveillance of patients following operative procedures,» said Dr. Brooks Carthon.

It has confirmed that 24 weeks is the optimal duration for a sofosbuvir and ribavirin combination in GT - 3 patients, whilst also finding that sofosbuvir and ribavirin with peginterferon for 12 weeks resulted in the highest SVR12 rates observed to date in a Phase 3 study,» said Professor Tom Hemming Karlsen, Scientific Committee Member, European Association for the Study of the Liver (Estudy,» said Professor Tom Hemming Karlsen, Scientific Committee Member, European Association for the Study of the Liver (EStudy of the Liver (EASL).

Dr. Savage and his team also noticed a trend among the six patients in the study.

The findings echo past studies, which have shown patients with multiple narrowed arteries have better outcomes with coronary artery bypass grafting, also known as CABG or heart bypass surgery, than with angioplasty, also known as percutaneous coronary intervention or PCI, a less - invasive option in which a stent is inserted to hold the arteries open.

A recent study published in Annals of Neurology reports that healthy human tissue grafted to the brains of patients with Huntington's disease in the hopes of treating the neurological disorder also developed signs of the illness, several years after the graft.

It could also identify those patients with early signs of autoimmunity who might be good candidates for clinical research studies.

The study also suggests that targeting the machinery that makes cells mobile, rather than targeting the tissue - clearing process — which has been tested in patients but has not been very effective — may be a better treatment strategy to stop cancers from spreading.

«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.

«At present, therapy for this large proportion of patients with heart failure is empiric, and there remains a huge unmet need,» said Scott Solomon, MD, director of BWH Noninvasive Cardiology, who also led the core echocardiography lab for the study.

MD / PhD psychiatrists and neurologists have opportunities not only to apply these techniques to studies of their patients, but also to develop improved imaging methodologies.

These data also provide support for intervention studies to examine the effects of the DASH diet on blood uric acid level among gout patients as well as for the risk of gout flares, they add.

The TOPCAT trial also presented the opportunity to study cardiac structure and function in this population through an echocardiography sub-study in 935 patients, which demonstrated a high prevalence of abnormal cardiac structure in these patients.

This was the case in the new study, published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry — patients with major depressive disorder who were given a placebo saw their symptoms improve about three quarters as much as those given paroxetine, an antidepressant also known as Paxil.

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.

«This study demonstrates the value of using the SEER database to analyze factors associated with surgery as a treatment for localized pancreatic cancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

Some studies also tested the provision of written information about antibiotics to patients, and encouraging discussion with doctors about whether they are necessary.

A highly underutilized anesthesia technique called neuraxial anesthesia, also known as spinal or epidural anesthesia, improves outcomes in patients undergoing hip or knee replacement, according to a new study by researchers at Hospital for Special Surgery.

Commenting on the results for ESMO, Dr Evandro de Azambuja, Head of the Medical Support Team, Academic Promoting Team, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium, said: «This study shows that it's not only tumour size that is important for breast cancer patients but also tumour biology.

Researchers say further study is needed using individual patient - level data among men with high risk prostate cancer to assess the benefit of HRT and whether treatment toxicity, particularly those to the bladder and urinary system are also low with HRT.

«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.»

In a related study also published today in PNAS, immunologists led by Gurumoorthy Krishnamoorthy and Hartmut Wekerle of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, Germany, examined the gut microbiomes of 34 sets of identical twins, aged 21 to 63, in which only one twin had MS.. They found that Akkermansia was slightly but significantly more abundant in MS patients than in their healthy twins.

Because prior studies have shown that hyperglycemic patients also exhibit elevated nasal glucose levels, it is likely that the sweet taste receptor function we demonstrate here may also contribute to the predisposition of diabetic patients to airway infections.»