Sentences with phrase «at death of the patients»

An increased amount of miRNA in brain cells was correlated with a younger age at disease onset and an earlier age at death of the patients.

Not exact matches

«At this time, we do not know the root cause or incidence rate of patient death, nor have we been able to definitively attribute the deaths to the devices or the insertion procedures for these devices,» said the FDA in a notice.

Johnson & Johnson's cancer treatment Zytiga significantly cut the death risk for newly - diagnosed, advanced prostate cancer patients by 38 %, according to data unveiled at the ongoing American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting this weekend.

The hospice movement understands that the death of a patient affects not only the patient, but the patient's family and friends, and even society at large.

After all the futile treatments and the succession of helpless doctors, when grief has come even before the death, you sit there with a little cracked ice for the patient's parched mouth and throat, and think... At last I can do this one little thing right.

He directs it chiefly at medical specialists who look upon disease and death as enemies to be conquered and who carry attempts to overcome them to the point of giving the patient false hopes of recovery, disregarding his suffering in futile efforts to score a medical triumph.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

One recent day at the Baltimore clinic where I care for the homeless, I spoke with a patient about the death of Freddie Gray.

But things have apparently gotten so bad at some NHS facilities that doctors are prescribing glasses of water to prevent the staff from forgetting to give elderly patients water, hundreds of whom are dehydrating to death each year.

CKD patients in stage three to five are unable to manage potassium levels in the blood, putting them at risk of heart failure and death.

Also, there is no reporting of medical errors in the U.S., so we really don't have the data to draw conclusions, but the Institute of Medicine in 2000 reported that «at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 Americans die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors,» meaning that «deaths due to preventable adverse events in hospitalized patients exceed the deaths attributable to motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516).»

Medical personnel at the Buffalo VA Medical Center failed to try to resuscitate a patient suffering cardiac arrest in late 2016, pronouncing him dead even though they should have tried to save his life, the Department of Veterans Affairs Inspector General's Office said in a devastating report that recommended sweeping improvements in the facility's practices during life - or - death emergencies.

Moving at a thriller - like pace, the book recounts the decisions he helps his patients to make and the operations he then undertakes — in both cases, often quite literally a matter of life and death.

Officials at the Central New York Psychiatric Center in Marcy are probing the March 12 death of a patient who was civilly confined in the hospital's secure unit for sex offenders.

She notes a further 2,800 avoidable patient deaths have been registered at 14 other NHS trusts and calls on Nicholson to quit given his previous role as chief executive of West Midlands Strategic Health Authority.

Jeremy Hunt has NHS staff could face a new criminal offence of wilful neglect of patients as one of a series of measures adopted by the Health Secretary from the Francis report into the deaths at Stafford Hospital.

Doctors accused the health secretary of making «political capital» out of patient deaths after briefings on the Keogh report into failures at 14 hospitals focused on 13,000 avoidable deaths despite the report discouraging that view.

Three top executives at Coney Island Hospital have reportedly been ousted in the wake of a controversial patient death.

Armor spokeswoman Teresa Estefan said the company had treated more than 200,000 patients at Nassau's jail, and «sadly, there are deaths which are not preventable as is the case in some of the most prestigious hospitals.»

Two medical personnel have been detained by the Senchi - Adome Police over the deaths of three patients at the New Senchi Health Centre in the Asuogyaman District.

«Our research indicates that insertion of cervical pessary at around 22 weeks in both randomly selected women pregnant with twins and in patients with a short cervix of less than 25 millimeters does not reduce the rate of spontaneous early preterm birth, perinatal death, adverse neonatal outcome, or need for neonatal therapy.»

A new type of cancer drug developed at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, but not yet tested in clinical trials may have triggered the deaths of three patients who were undergoing an alternative cancer treatment by a nonmedical practitioner in Germany.

A team at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago reports that isradipine (brand name DynaCirc), a drug currently prescribed to reduce high blood pressure, may block the death of neurons in patients with advanced cases of Parkinson's and may also be able to prevent the development of the disease.

The bill would also create what he calls the Cures Acceleration Network, an independent federal agency, funded at $ 2 billion a year, that would attempt to bridge the so - called valley of death between discovering a potential drug and testing it in patients.

A late - breaking clinical trial, known as the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, to be presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions, November 18, 2013, demonstrates that spironolactone did not reduce the primary outcome of cardiovascular death, heart failure hospitalization, nor surviving a cardiac arrest in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction (pump function).

The primary outcome, a composite of postoperative complications and death at 30 days following surgery, was met by 36.6 percent of patients in the intervention group and by 43.4 percent in the usual care group.

Dr Hashimoto said: «Hemodialysis patients are at increased risk of sudden cardiac death because they often have latent ischaemic heart disease which reduces blood flow to the heart.

In it, critical care specialist Charles Natanson of the Clinical Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, argued that blood substitutes, no matter how they're designed, raise the risk of death by almost 30 % and nearly triple the rate of heart attacks in the people who receive them in clinical trials, mainly surgery and trauma patients.

Patients with both conditions are at especially high risk of serious complications and death.

More unexpected, researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison uncovered a link between sleep apnea and cancer mortality: Cancer deaths among patients with severe apnea were five times higher than among those without.

Charging that thousands of patients are being misled and may be unnecessarily placed at increased risk of death, a U.S. watchdog group last week demanded that federal regulators suspend a major clinical trial exploring when to offer blood transfusions after a heart attack.

The primary endpoint of death and non-fatal heart attack at 30 days was no different between the two groups (7 percent in the aspirin group and 7.1 percent in the placebo group); however, major bleeding was significantly higher in aspirin - treated patients than in the placebo group (4.6 percent vs. 3.7 percent).

Dravet patients usually develop moderate to severe cognitive delays and some features of autism, and are at increased risk of SUDEP (sudden unexplained death in epilepsy).

«We need systems of care that better identify these patients who are at increased risk because getting that follow - up can significantly reduce their risks of heart attack or premature death.»

To test their theory, the researchers examined Del - 1 expression in brain tissue from people who had died from MS.. In MS patients with chronic active MS lesions, Del - 1 was reduced compared to both healthy brain tissue and brain tissue from MS patients who were in remission at the time of their death.

To better understand the formation of metastases in pancreatic cancer, Christine Iacobuzio - Donahue, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pathology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, collected tumor samples from eight patients with the most common form of pancreatic cancer (pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma) immediately after their deaths.

In a study presented at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in New Orleans, researchers will report that patients delivered at home by midwives had a roughly four times higher risk of neonatal deaths than babies delivered in the hospital by midwives.

Roy H. Perlis, M.D., M.S., of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and coauthors examined whether computer - aided natural language processing of narrative hospital discharge notes could help identify patients at risk for death by suicide after medical or surgical discharge from the hospital.

Osteoarthritis patients who received a steroid injection in the hip had a significantly greater incidence of bone death and collapse compared with control groups, according to new research presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

«Our findings provide evidence that the results of earlier studies — that patients who had normal weights were at higher risk of death — may have been related to unintended weight loss as opposed to a protective effect of being overweight or obese.

In the new study, patients with a higher quality of life during their final days included those who avoided hospitalizations and stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapy.

What's more, some patients who did not have malaria were given ACTs anyway, and more troubling, some with malaria were not, leaving them at risk of severe disease or death.

The team, led by Dr Jacob George, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Dundee, compared the risk of cardiovascular events (non-fatal heart attack, non-fatal stoke, or vascular death) in patients taking sodium - containing effervescent, dispersible and soluble medications with those taking non-sodium versions of the same drugs between 1987 and 2010.

A phase 2 trial showed a reduction in the combined outcome of death or myocardial infarction (heart attack) in patients treated with otamixaban compared with unfractionated heparin (UFH) plus eptifibatide (an antiplatelet drug) and showed similar bleeding rates with otamixaban at midrange doses.

For more on death penalty considerations, see Scientific American's editorial in the May edition of the magazine that details how the use of drugs to carry out capital punishment is inadvertently putting medical patients at risk.

«Sudden cardiac death has been very hard to study because most patients had no history of heart problems and were not being monitored at the time of their death,» Lloyd - Jones said.

In patients likely to have surgery, close, active monitoring of small renal tumors confined to the kidneys is associated with low rates of tumor growth or death, according to a study by a researcher at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai published in the September issue of The Journal of Urology.

Data revealed today at The International Liver Congress ™ 2015 show that the long - term use of entecavir (ETV) or tenofovir (TDF) results in excellent 5 - year survival for Caucasian patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), with more than 95 % of patients surviving at 5 years and a significant proportion of deaths coming from liver - unrelated causes.

In a Safety Communication in 2013, the agency said that it «is not aware of any patient injuries or deaths associated with these incidents nor do we have any indication that any specific devices or systems in clinical use have been purposely targeted at this time.»

Rates of readmission or death were also lower at nursing homes that had a higher percentage of patients with moderate to severe pain and acute delirium.