Sentences with phrase «area of medicine for»

While in veterinary school she worked in the ICU ward caring for critically ill patients which has become a favorite area of medicine for Dr. Tressler.

The therapeutic use of stem cells is a promising area of medicine for the decades ahead and researchers are examining why stem cells function in certain types of niches, microenvironments, and pockets of activity.

Not exact matches

The area's many colleges and universities make Boston an international center of higher education and medicine, and the city is considered highly innovative for a variety of reasons.

Through talking to experts in the field over the past year, Gates said he had identified five areas of need: Understanding better how Alzheimer's unfolds, detecting and diagnosing it earlier, pursuing multiple approaches to trying to halt the disease, making it easier for people to take part in clinical trials of potential new medicines, and using data better.

Yet another Giving Pledge signatory moving big money, Lyda Hill is best known for her philanthropy in the areas of science and medicine.

He also has activities as a philanthropic donor in areas of serving as the founding Board Member of the Northwestern Center for Integrative Medicine and a member of the Major Gifts Committee of the Edward Hospital Foundation in Naperville.

The divestment of the cancer business may be a deterrent for Takeda, since oncology was one of the areas it had highlighted as driving the case for a Shire deal, along with gastrointestinal medicine and neuroscience.

Biotechnology has been one of the hottest areas for investors over the last five years due to the advent of multiple game - changing new medicines, and the ever - expanding human population that's putting a tremendous amount of pressure on healthcare systems worldwide.

Medicine is an important area for Christian ethical reflection because it is one of the areas of our lives that dramatically display how we allocate human values under the conditions of finitude.

It suggests that, in addition to the contempt shown for human life in these practices, they are also very bad medicine: «One is struck by the fact that, in any other area of medicine, ordinary professional ethics would never allow a medical procedure which involved such a high number of failures and fatalities» (DP 15).

With academics at its core, Bay Area Equestrian Club provides equestrian - focused activities and events; volunteer and community service opportunities; rescue horse programs; leadership training for young people; and educational experiences for people interested in the field of veterinary medicine.

All I can hope for is that ethical studies are done in this regard and in all areas of medicine.

«Our study shows that young knees are more prone to re-injury than the adult population when compared to other research in this area - and is the first study to examine the incidence and risk factors for further ACL injury in a solely juvenile population over the long term,» said lead author Justin Roe of North Sydney Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Centre.

The Virginia Center for Reproductive Medicine (VCRM), is a state of the art Fertility Center located in the Greater Washington, D.C and Northern Virginia area including Baltimore, Bethesda, Rockville, Germantown, Laurel, Silver Spring, Frederick, Hagerstown, Waldorf, Bowie, Washington DC, Reston, McLean, Arlington, Falls Church, Tysons, Alexandria, Fairfax, Chantilly, Ashburn, Herndon, Leesburg, Round Hill, The Plains, Manassas, Gainesville, Charlottesville, Culpeper, Fredericksburg, Centreville, Burke.

Dr Sharara is also a reviewer for Fertility and Sterility and Human Reproduction, the two leading scientific journals in the area of Reproduction, along with Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, Human Fertility, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Research, Imaging in Medicine, and the Middle East Fertility Society Journal, and Reproductive Sciences.

Toys and play equipment should be in good condition, upstairs windows (if any) should have stops or bars, all medicines and other hazardous substances should be out of reach and locked up, bedding should be fresh and firm (to reduce the risk of SIDS for babies), and the outdoor play area should be level and secure.

Dr. Murray Clarke is a doctor of naturopathic medicine with licenses and doctorates in homeopathic medicine and Chinese medicine (including acupuncture and herbology) and is a leading homeopathic physician for children in the Los Angeles area.

«If someone had to give up some of their lawns for a hospital to be built - one specialising in a unique area of medicine that is desperately needed - I think people would say «OK»,» she says.

The son of a congressman from the Buffalo area, he set out for a career in medicine before turning to law and eventually elected office.

The Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine is an agency of the Ministry of Health that was set up in the 1970s for both R&D and as a practical resource (product production & distribution / provision) primarily in areas of biotechnology related to medicinal plants.

Only after completing 3 years of research training do participants in Chicago's research - residency program become eligible for board certification in, say, internal medicine and their specialty area.

Meanwhile, by the end of this year, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are expected to complete a head - to - toe examination of how the office works and whether it keeps abreast with current science, and later this year NASA is holding a major workshop that could lead to a redefinition of special regions on Mars, the warm and wet areas that are off - limits for all but the most sterile of spacecraft.

«Clinicians in dengue - endemic areas should be aware of this association, especially for patients with dengue who have neurologic deficits or for patients with stroke who have unexplained fever,» writes Dr. Chia - Hung Kao, Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, with coauthors.

The study, «Spectrophotometric analysis at the single - cell level: elucidating dispersity within melanic immortalized cell populations,» was supported in part by the Mizzou Advantage program, an initiative that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, staff, students and external partners to solve real - world problems in four areas of strength identified at the University of Missouri, including Food for the Future, One Health / One Medicine, Sustainable Energy and Media of the Future.

«As with other areas of personalized medicine, we would seek to create individual treatment and prevention plans for astronauts we believe would be more susceptible to cognitive deficits from radiation exposure,» she says.

Price said «he wanted his fellow politicians to have a lighter touch in steering research dollars to one disease or area of medicine versus another, noting that the long - standing NIH set - aside for HIV / AIDS lasted too long before its elimination last year,» according to the Emory Report.

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is launching the nation's first official obstetrics — gynecology residency program for «very rural» areas, with the first resident slated to be selected next month.

Bob Knight's kid - reviewed, kid - targeted online journal, Frontiers for Young Minds, now focuses on neuroscience but will expand to include medicine, astronomy and other areas of research.

In its work programs for 2014 and 2015, the commission has flagged specific topics — 16 % of all listed areas, including, for example, archeology, space medicine, and vehicle engineering — in which applicants for funding are required to describe how they will take sex and gender into account.

Humans are not as gifted in this area of course, but the young field of regenerative medicine promises to solve a plethora of medical problems, making it a compelling career choice for any scientist who seeks to really «make a difference.»

Another area that is becoming increasingly important is the translation of basic science research findings into clinical applications, and there is a growing need for physician scientists, says Alan Trounson, president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).

The study of these creatures has the potential to be rather robust in implications for regenerative medicine, an area of treatment for repairing or replacing human cells, tissues or organs on Earth to restore normal function.

«Shedding light on trends in the burden of stroke among Medicare beneficiaries may provide important information for policy purposes, including describing the past and current scope of the condition, assessing the potential effect of stroke prevention interventions on a national level, and identifying areas where resources can be targeted more specifically and effectively,» says lead investigator Margaret C. Fang, MD, MPH, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, who also serves as the Medical Director of the UCSF Anticoagulation Clinic.

Dr Neha Issar - Brown, Programme Leader for the Population and Systems Medicine Board at the Medical Research Council, said: «Sexual behaviour, or rather risky sexual behaviour, can have a negative impact on several other areas of a young adult's life, including their general well - being and health.

«This study opens an entirely new area of discovery for many aspects of cell biology and biomedical research — how cancer cells metastasize, for example — and provides many new therapeutic targets,» said senior author Jack Dixon, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine and associate vice chancellor of Scientific Affairs.

At the end of my high school education, I looked for a university course that combined all of my interests, and so I ended up studying chemistry or, to be more precise, pharmacology, an area that develops new medicines.

The Decision Counseling Program ©, applied here for prostate cancer treatment decision making, is a generic approach that can be applied to other areas of medicine, where options are available, decisions are difficult, and the stakes of decision making are high.

«Human feeding behaviors involve areas of the brain responsible for cognitive control and decision - making,» said Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, Director of the Human Nutrition Unit in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Scientists already knew that stem cells contained in a bulge area of hair follicles are involved in making hair and that SCF is important for pigmented cells, said Dr. Le, a member of the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine.

Ford, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and an investigator at the Neuroscience Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia, says that when he came to the historically black MSM four years ago he chose stroke research as the area he wanted to concentrate on for two reasons: The medical school recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and interests.

GenProfile is based at the Biomedical Research Campus Berlin - Buch, in close vicinity to the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), a national research center, and several university hospitals — one of the fastest growing research areas in the heart of Europe.

The more the surface area of the body is covered by psoriasis, the greater the risk of death for the patient suffering from the condition, according to a new analysis by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Since pediatric critical care was recognized as a specialty area of medicine in the 1980s - 1990s, survival and disease recovery rates for acutely ill children have improved significantly.

Monday morning winners of the prestigious Lasker Awards for three areas of research in medicine and biology were named, and the so - called «American Nobels» often presage their European counterpart.

The study was led by Mike Grocott, Professor of Anaesthesia and Critical Care at the University of Southampton, co-founder of UCL CASE Medicine, who now leads the Critical Care Research Area within the Southampton National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit.

In fact, ACOs achieved meaningful improvements for patients in some key areas,» said lead author of the study J. Michael McWilliams, associate professor of health care policy and medicine at HMS and Brigham and Women's Hospital.

This webinar will focus on what Denmark is doing in the area of translational medicine to advance research, strengthen ties between academia and industry, and provide a fertile environment for innovation and the practical application of new discoveries.

Professor James Tam, dean, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, and Professor Lee Eng Hin, dean of the faculty of medicine, National University of Singapore, announced some very good news in human capability development — that is, education and training — which remains an important area of focus for the nation's new initiatives.

«I think mouse lemurs have great potential for our understanding of primate biology, behavior and conservation, in the same way that fruit flies and mice over the last 30 or 40 years have transformed our understanding of developmental biology and many other areas of biology and medicine,» Krasnow said.

Other areas of medicine have used this approach to define disease processes using biomarkers, for example: bone mineral density, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes are defined by biomarkers.