Sentences with phrase «as physician groups»

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Look for this health combine in the coming year or two to absorb one or more physicians groups, and maybe enrich CVS's in - store «Minute Clinics» with an independent network of neighborhood walk - in centers as well.

BB&T Bank sold one of its closed branches in Bethlehem Township to a physician group that plans to use the property as a medical office.

Carolina has been working as an assistant to a group of physicians for more than ten years, one of whom recently offered Angelyss advice about her college search.

Moneyball was used as a metaphor to illustrate the power of analytics in health care and targeted hospitals, health systems and large physician groups.

Amos stated to Rockefeller, as to the alcoholic group he had investigated, that the alcoholics were «all considered practically incurable by physicians.»

As stated by one group of physicians, «as the physician manually performs breech extraction of the body of a live fetus, excepting the head, she continues in the apparent role of an obstetrician delivering a child.&raquAs stated by one group of physicians, «as the physician manually performs breech extraction of the body of a live fetus, excepting the head, she continues in the apparent role of an obstetrician delivering a child.&raquas the physician manually performs breech extraction of the body of a live fetus, excepting the head, she continues in the apparent role of an obstetrician delivering a child.»

You may find it strange, but sometimes the physician forgets to actually check the «clear» box on the version of the most commonly used preparticipation evaluation form - the one produced by the group of five medical organizations known as the «Five Society Monograph» - which is used in various versions around the country.

Ask your physician if your baby qualifies to receive Synagis to prevent RSV, and stay out of group childcare environments for as long as you can.

For at least two decades, lay midwife advocates have argued that they should be recognized by the state as legitimate caregivers, but physicians groups have opposed them.

Avoid contact with your nipples, as this can also stimulate milk supply, cautions the Maricopa OBGYN physician group.

The aim of this study was to evaluate adherence to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm by subjects working from memory as compared to subjects using a decision support tool that provides auditory and visual prompts to guide implementation of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm during simulated neonatal resuscitation.Healthcare professionals (physicians, nurse practitioners, obstetrical / neonatal nurses) with a current NRP card were randomized to the control or intervention group and performed three simulated neonatal resuscitations.

There was indeed one SIDS death in the omega - 3 — fortified formula group, but as the trial explained, the attending physician believed that the death was unrelated to the formula the baby was drinking.

The same exclusion criteria were applied to this group as to the physician group.

Concern is mounting among physicians, health professionals, environmental advocacy groups, public safety officials, as well as consumers because of the possible effects of these chemicals on our children.

Dr. Rotbart regularly speaks to large national audiences of parents, school, and youth sports organizations, as well as to community groups around the country, and national professional organizations of physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals.

Republicans also denounced the effort, and one anti-abortion group pre-emptively defined the new party as synonymous with late - term abortion because abortion law changes embraced by Cuomo would have delegated to a physician's scope of practice, which could be amended by state Department of Health officials.

Each PPS is made up of different provider groups such as physicians, hospitals, community - based organizations and others that interact with Medicaid patients.

That will drive up New York's already high medical malpractice insurance rates for physicians and hospitals as well as drive up the already high cost of health care insurance for New Yorkers, the group argues.

Collins took money from groups representing anesthesiologists, cardiologists, dentists, dermatologists, hospitals, neurologists, oncologists, optometrists, psychiatrists, radiologists, physicians assistants, pain physicians, renal physicians and urologists, as well as PACS representing several pharmaceutical and biomedical firms.

«As California is a highly populous majority - minority state, we are soon going to learn how diverse racial and ethnic groups respond to legalizing physician - assisted death,» Periyakoil said.

The American Medical Association, as well as the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), also has several groups and initiatives aimed at addressing the concerns of women in their roles as physicians and physician - researchers.

His graduate advisor, Pamela Davis, was a physician as well as a geneticist, and Chen was exposed to medicine when Davis opened group meetings with stories from her recent rounds.

In his book, The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease, Swedish physician Uffe Ravnskov asserts that as of 1998, 27 studies on diet and heart disease had been published regarding 34 groups of patients; in 30 of those groups investigators found no difference in animal fat consumption between those who had heart disease and those who did not.

«The phi test helps physicians distinguish prostate cancer from benign conditions by utilizing three different PSA markers (PSA, freePSA and p2PSA) as part of a sophisticated algorithm to more reliably determine the probability of cancer in patients with elevated PSA levels,» said Kevin Slawin, MD, director, Vanguard Urologic Institute at Memorial Hermann Medical Group, clinical professor of Urology at Baylor College of Medicine and director of Urology, Memorial Hermann Hospital ‐ Texas Medical Center, who performed some of the key research that led to the development of the phi test and who also began using the test in February.

But this shouldn't be used as an excuse to skip dreaded physician's visits, cautions Michael LeFevre, a family physician at the University of Missouri medical school and co-vice chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a group of independent experts that evaluates the benefits of preventive measures.

An essential new way to move discoveries forward has emerged in the form of multi-stakeholder collaborations involving three or more different types of organizations, such as drug companies, government regulators and patient groups, write Magdalini Papadaki, a research associate, and Gigi Hirsch, a physician - entrepreneur and executive director of the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation.

Dr. Ray, a physician and researcher at the hospital's Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, has studied birthweights among different ethnic groups because babies who are considered to be small or large just before birth can trigger medical interventions such as Cesarean deliveries.

As a group, transplant physicians feel they're doing something to save people's lives and underestimate the impact of a transplant.

Patients in the control group were given the widely used anticoagulant unfractionated heparin, as well as glycoprotein IIb / IIIa inhibitors, another class of anticoagulants, at the physician's discretion.

The stakeholders participating in the Roundtable — including scientists, physicians, the pharmaceutical and insurance industries, government, patient groups, and others — discussed a case study, which was used as a springboard to confront issues from the highly technical to the economic, ethical, and regulatory that will need to be addressed if personalized medicine is to be incorporated into the mainstream of health care.

If MD - PhD programs are to be viewed as an experiment in training physician - investigators, then what is the appropriate comparison group?

Specifically, the new center will bring together a centralized group of all constituents within this area creating a multi-disciplinary interest group whereby industry, big pharma, physicians, scientists, government and regulatory agencies as well as other stakeholders can convene to share ideas, develop education offerings and advance the utilization of radionuclide therapy.

Various types of meditation have been shown to improve well - being among different populations such as physicians and the general public.14, 15, 16 Preliminary evidence suggests that meditation - based interventions may slow cellular aging rates by increasing telomerase activity, but many such studies lacked an active control group.17, 18 Recent randomized trials in breast cancer suggest that long - term intensive meditation interventions might have positive effects on telomerase activity.

They also argue that as long as patients with dementia are excluded from clinical trials of therapies for common age - related diseases, such as osteoporosis or arthritis, physicians will have insufficient data to make evidence - based recommendations for this rapidly growing group.

The authors argue that as long as patients with dementia are excluded from clinical trials, physicians can't make evidence - based recommendations for this rapidly growing group.

Although three out of four primary care doctors support the use of financial rewards as an incentive for better medical care, most of these physicians oppose public reporting of such quality assessments at the individual or group level, report researchers from the University of Chicago in the March / April issue of Health Affairs.

Physician characteristics included physician age in 5 - year increments (the oldest group was categorized as ≥ 70 years), indicator variables for the medical schools from which the physicians graduated, and type of medical training (ie, allopathic vs osteopathic29 tPhysician characteristics included physician age in 5 - year increments (the oldest group was categorized as ≥ 70 years), indicator variables for the medical schools from which the physicians graduated, and type of medical training (ie, allopathic vs osteopathic29 tphysician age in 5 - year increments (the oldest group was categorized as ≥ 70 years), indicator variables for the medical schools from which the physicians graduated, and type of medical training (ie, allopathic vs osteopathic29 training).

«He was known within the University as an outstanding teacher who trained many of the current leaders in the field, as a key player in assembling the world - renowned medical oncology group here, and as a compassionate physician who took excellent care of his patients until just a few weeks before his own death.»

In addition, physicians may have payments reported for participating in the National Institutes of Health or cooperative group trials using donated drugs, 8 receiving grants from charitable organizations such as the Conquer Cancer Foundation, or coauthoring manuscripts, 15 without having had direct interaction with any corporation.

Recruit research participants through social media, advertisements, and community outreach (such as support groups, events, physician offices).

The physician's evaluation and routine clinical laboratory tests served to identify medical conditions considered exclusionary for CFS, specified in the 1994 case definition [23] as further clarified by the International CFS Study Group in 2003 [31].

Follow - up care, cooperation with the patient's non-hospital-based physicians, and access to self - help groups all have an important role to play as part of an integrative treatment concept.

If you're working a shift job or one that requires heavy labor, now's the time to prioritize sleep, good nutrition, and exercise, says Diana Bitner, MD, an ob - gyn at Spectrum Health Medical Group in Grand Rapids, Mich. «I work with many nurses who work night shifts and long hours, as well as female physicians; I myself had preterm labor as an ob - gyn resident,» she says.

There are countless examples of «expert physicians» who have given extremely bad recommendations over the years — from insistence in the 1950s - 60s that cigarette smoking is not harmful, to cardiologists in the 1970s recommending potent (and toxic) anti-arrhythmic drugs for the treatment of benign PVCs — until randomized controlled trials documented increased mortality in the treatment group, to numerous unnecessary surgeries that used to be commonplace (such as tonsillectomies, elective C - sections, spinal fusion for back pain, etc., etc..

It is also important for physicians to be aware that the prevalence of celiac disease is increased in certain high risk groups, such as insulin dependent diabetics, people with either Down's syndrome, IgA deficiency or autoimmune thyroid diseases, Alzheimer's or autism and children with juvenile arthritis.»

This group has online listservs and support groups, moderated by physicians who specialize in thyroid cancer, as well as lists of endocrinologists and other specialists who focus their practices on thyroid cancer.

This group included 35 892 women with an incomplete depression history (ie, those who did not report their depressive status in 1996, 1998, or 2000 or did not return or answer the Mental Health Index [MHI] questionnaire9 - 11 [a 5 - item subscale of the 36 - Item Short - Form Health Survey] in 1992 or 1996), as well as women who reported taking antidepressants in 1996 (n = 2052) or had a physician - diagnosed episode of depression in 1996 or earlier (n = 3445), those with an unknown start date (n = 131), or those who reported severe depressive symptoms (score, ≤ 52) on the 1992 (n = 2381) or 1996 (n = 2271) MHI questionnaire.

The International Herpes Alliance describes the role of a support group as an enterprise that can provide medical health advice, relate sufferers to treatment centres and physicians and help individuals pass through different psychological levels.

As Jo becomes a member of Mueller - LaRousse's elite group of talented physicians, the stress of his internship is soon lifted, replaced by a compromising situation that may not only cost Jo his career, but his life as welAs Jo becomes a member of Mueller - LaRousse's elite group of talented physicians, the stress of his internship is soon lifted, replaced by a compromising situation that may not only cost Jo his career, but his life as welas well.

The pharmaceutical industry has long cultivated physicians as experts and financed organizations, like patient advocacy groups, to promote its products.»