Sentences with phrase «areas of medicine where»

The examples presented in the proposal were meant to be illustrative of the benefits based on a few areas of medicine where some relevant data was available.

That is hardly surprising, in that obstetrics is one of the very few areas of medicine where a negligent act has the ability to injure two or even three people, and where such injuries can be life changing and lifelong in terms of their consequences.

«There are great examples in other areas of medicine where we've seen innovation really make a difference,» says Insel.

«Women's health,» Dr. Mielnik told me, «is the only area of medicine where physicians have stopped trying to diagnose and treat appropriately the underlying causes of a woman's reproductive health problem» and as healthcare consumers, we have allowed this to happen by not expecting more.»

Not exact matches

According to Living Goods, clients may also be reluctant to buy drugs from other private providers because of the risk of getting a counterfeit medicine.63 Living Goods sent us a study conducted at the midline of its RCT that claims that both availability of counterfeit drugs and drug prices decreased at private retailers in areas where CHPs worked.64 According to the study, about 37 % of private drug shops in the areas it studied sold fake ACT drugs, 65 and availabilty of fake ACTs was about 50 % lower among non-Living Goods sellers in the areas where Living Goods worked.66 Additional results on these potential effects will be made available when the full RCT is published.

The adaptive pathways concept applies primarily to treatments in areas of high medical need where it is difficult to collect data via traditional routes and where large clinical trials would unnecessarily expose patients who are unlikely to benefit from the medicine.

But regular CD4 count monitoring is no trivial matter in many areas of Africa where clinics and trained staff are in low supply and transportation is difficult, says David Ross, a clinical epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

There are four main areas where molecular imaging can have a major impact, according to the study's lead author David A. Mankoff, MD, PhD, the Gerd Muehllehner Professor of Radiology and director of the PET Center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

«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.

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.

This process, called seismic tomography, works in a manner similar to imaging techniques employed in medicine, where 2 - D x-ray images taken from many perspectives are combined to create 3 - D images of areas inside the body.

According to Earl Brown, professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa, the more limited ability of the avian flu virus to infect cells in the human airway thus also appears to be associated with infection of the deep areas of the lung where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.

That's one area where scientists are hard at work, according to Carl L. Keen, a professor of nutrition and internal medicine at the University of California, Davis, who has collaborated with chocolate manufacturer Mars.

Neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, where there are no objective measures of disease progression, is another area where in silico medicine could be used in a trial setting to test the effectiveness of new treatments.

Juergen arrived in 2005 in Australia as the Plunkett Chair of Molecular Biology (Medicine) in Sydney where he continued many of his investigations as well as branching out into new areas by establishing new collaborations in Australia particularly in relationship to complex genetic traits, especially heart disease.

Previous experience also includes a role as Senior Scientist with Eli Lilly and Company where she was part of the Pharmacogenomics and Translational Medicine Group in charge of discovering and validating genetic / genomic biomarkers in different therapeutic areas (oncology, cardio - metabolic and neurosciences).

To enable young, superbly trained, community - oriented physicians to build a better network of care in the underserved areas where they learned their profession, the University of Chicago Medical Center is initiating the UCMC REACH (Repayment for Education to Alumni in Community Health) program, which will encourage Pritzker graduates to return to the South Side of Chicago to practice medicine in underserved communities.

To improve the lives of men, women and children by providing innovative medicines in areas of health where there is urgent need for better treatments.

There are currently three main areas defined where GENYO will perform its scientific activity: Area of Genomic Medicine, Area of Genomic Oncology and Area of Pharmacogenomics.

But we need to be vigilant as cure rates have fallen in areas where artemisinin resistance is established,» said Dr Elizabeth Ashley, lead scientist of the TRAC study and Clinical Researcher at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), University of Oxford.

«[PAM] is highly lethal but very rare, even in areas where it's endemic,» says Stanley Deresinski, MD, a clinical professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at Stanford University.

Plus, women often have stronger stress reactions than men, says David Rakel, MD, director of integrative medicine at the University of Wisconsin, maybe because the area where emotions are processed in our brains is larger.

But when you get outside of those areas where they're so good and we get to the day - to - day practice of medicine, not only is conventional medicine not very good but much of what conventional medicine does makes people sicker.

His influence through practising Natural Medicine, teaching, representation and writing is beyond the area of New Zealand and Australia, where he lives and works, but throughout the world.

She founded Snohomish Valley Holistic Medicine with a vision of offering an integrated healing environment where different types of practitioners could work cooperatively to help serve the health and wellness needs of the greater Snohomish area.

Teachers with at least some real - world knowledge and experience in a subject area — whether it's aviation, computer science, or medicine — can offer students insights into where their studies can lead them and can give them a better grasp of practical applications of their subjects.

In production animal areas where there is a shortage of veterinarians, we want to continue to provide incentives and to help enable schools of veterinary medicine and others to see the tremendous opportunities there are for veterinarians in the food animal sector.

I practiced small animal medicine in Seattle, Washington and Bozeman, Montana prior to moving to the Phoenix area, where I helped open Goodyear Animal Hospital in August of 2004.

This presentation includes the history of HQHVSN, where it started, how this area has grown, models for providing HQHVSN, where we are now and how HQHVSN relates to Shelter Medicine and new guidelines.

After completion of her doctorate, Dr. Reynders joined a busy companion animal clinic in the Buffalo, New York area, where she practiced small animal medicine for 7 years.

She is an associate veterinarian at The Animal Hospital at Lake Brandt where primary area of interest is companion animal medicine and surgery.

This legislation addresses an inconsistency in our tax code involving the treatment of student loan repayment programs while ensuring the Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program's limited funding is more directly focused on bringing animal health providers to the areas where they are most needed.»

Periodontal disease is the number one health problem in cats and dogs, and yet it is the only area of veterinary medicine where preventative care is not routinely practiced.

Following completion of his formal education, Derek then moved to the greater Seattle area to participate in a small animal general rotating internship, where he pursued electives in cardiology and emergency medicine.

After graduating veterinary school Dr. Ecker completed a one year rotating internship, where he was trained by board certified specialists in the areas of internal medicine, surgery, and emergency and critical care.

These are areas where flocks of colorful macaws and other parrots visit to obtain salts and medicines.

IBM has created a new predictive analytics software that can be used to collect huge amounts of complex information about wildlife - such as what people think about them, where the animals are located, why they are hunted, how everything from education level to access to medicines impacts their decisions - and figure out the best areas to focus conservation efforts.

And of course, in every personal injury case where medical issues are so important, an attorney with knowledge and experience in many of the vast areas of medicine (such as orthopedics or neurology) is invaluable.

This area is also a regional center of medicine and biotechnology and a place where thousands of people have established businesses.

«We are on the cusp of reaching the point where we are going to see more areas in clinical care, including preventive medicine, psychiatry, adolescent pediatrics, geriatrics, pain clinics and cardiology, where health care professionals recommend volunteering as a therapeutic behavior,» Post says.