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If our further research brings expected results, perhaps in the near future we will be able to use them to free up at least some patients from the nightmare of continuous insulin injections,» says Prof. Agnieszka Dobrzyn from the Nencki Institute.

Not exact matches

Any startup that can help health care providers gain more insight into patients» conditions or behaviors is going to at least get a look from even the best and biggest of hospital systems.

So while they've usually proven effective (at least in other nations), there's a chance doctors and patients could be reticent about turning away from established brand names like Remicade.

At the American College of Cardiology's meeting in Chicago on Saturday, Novartis told doctors that clinically stable heart patients, as well as those considered least stable, both appear to benefit from taking Entresto compared to enalapril, a generic introduced 35 years ago that remains a standard heart failure treatment.

A 2001 double - blind study at the Mayo Clinic randomized 799 discharged coronary surgery patients into a control group and an intercessory prayer group, which received prayers at least once a week from 5 intercessors per patient.

From World War II until the late 1960s, no voice raised on behalf of mental patients was more audible and respected than that of William C. Menninger, who talked to at least as many state legislatures as did Dorothea Dix in the previous century.

It is highly unscientific, at the very least, to think that we know everything we need to know about the brain and that any behavior from a PVS patient that contradicts the current theory of «vegetablism» is irrelevant.

Citing a 2010 study finding that patients who had at least two 2 rehabilitation visits for persistent dizziness after a concussion showed improvement in their DHI scores (2), the study said that on - field identification of dizziness could lead to earlier implementation of vestibular rehabiliation and other modalities to treat dizziness, which may expedite recovery from concussion.

Have you considered that at least part of the recent move by some patients away from conventional medicine, and toward more «natural» or «alternative» methods is actually just part of the fallout of this ongoing firestorm of malpractice litigation?

For at least the fifth consecutive legislative session, bills that would open the door to doctors prescribing lethal doses for terminally ill patients were dropped from consideration by the Public Health Committee in the Massachusetts Legislature.

U.S. doctors enrolled 42,418 patients from 623 offices and clinics, treated participants with one of four commonly prescribed drugs, and followed them for at least five years to see how well the medications controlled their blood pressure and reduced the risk of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular problems.

The first phase of the trial was conducted in 1998 - 2002 and included 10,180 patients aged 40 - 79 with hypertension and at least three other cardiovascular risk factors from the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia.

Bechara and his team studied 69 stroke patients culled from a registry at the University of Iowa that was assembled to study the effect of brain damage on cognition, memory and motion; they selected subjects who, at the time of their strokes, had been smoking at least five cigarettes daily for more than two years.

Although nanobacteria may not cause kidney stone disease, Coe notes additional circumstantial evidence: At least four teams have reported tiny spherical deposits in the calcified plaques that often appear in the kidneys of patients who suffer from kidney stones.

In the next phase of the study, researchers will genetically sequence tumor cells from at least 500 patients and follow the course of their disease.

The best evidence for a neural mechanism for dj vu, which around 60 percent of people experience at least once, comes from studies of patients who experience it chronically.

The study uses Medicare claims data for hospital admissions from 2002 to 2011, focusing on patients who were at least 66 years old, and tracking their one - year mortality statistics.

Instead, Macchiarini has plunged Swedish science and KI into their most serious misconduct scandal in decades, with allegations ranging from faking scientific data to subjecting patients to a risky procedure without the necessary approvals, in at least two cases leading to their deaths.

In addition, two - thirds of patients who benefited from the drug had no advance of the disease for at least 12 months.

From that data, the agency concluded the test can predict the absence of lesions on a CT scan with an accuracy of 99.5 percent, making it reliable enough to rule out the need for a scan in at least one third of the patients.

The answer to increasing the effectiveness of immune therapies, or perhaps at least to choosing which patients are most likely to benefit from immune therapies, may lie in understanding the ways viruses (and cancers themselves) have evolved to evade the immune system.

On the basis of those results, at least one company is attempting to replicate the effect in humans using blood plasma from healthy young people to treat patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Data from this non-inferiority trial — the first to evaluate TAVR in patients who are considered intermediate - risk — suggests TAVR is at least as safe and effective as surgery in these patients.

«It is estimated that at least ten per cent of blindness from glaucoma is directly caused by poor patient adherence to their prescribed medications,» says Dr Wong, an Adjunct Associate Professor with NTU's School of Materials Science and Engineering.

The results indicate that from the age of 25 to 39 about a third of patients will have a false positive, and as screening extends to age 75, almost 80 per cent of women screened with MRI will have at least one false positive.

Of the 17 patients in this group who died from the infection, 14 carried at least one copy of the newly identified high - risk variant.

Like most plastic surgeons, Dr. Van Slyke and colleagues required patients to refrain from smoking for at least two weeks before elective procedures.

To understand how the different alleles influence the immune response to vaccination, the researchers next looked in more detail at immune cells from 47 of the patients (34 had two major T alleles, and 13 had at least one minor G allele).

«At least 40 per cent of patients who suffer from severe forms of chronic pain also develop depression at some point,» says Venetia Zachariou of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New YorAt least 40 per cent of patients who suffer from severe forms of chronic pain also develop depression at some point,» says Venetia Zachariou of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New Yorat some point,» says Venetia Zachariou of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New Yorat Mount Sinai in New York.

Chair of EBCC10, Professor Fatima Cardoso, who is Director of the Breast Unit at the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal, said: «This study suggests that the worse prognosis seen in breast cancer patients from ethnic minority groups in the UK can be at least in part explained by the younger age of this group.

Our study showed that BCT is at least as good as mastectomy and that some patients might benefit more than others from BCT in the future,» Prof Siesling will conclude.

Researchers from the Institute of Medical Psychology and Department of Computer Sciences, Otto - von - Guericke - University of Magdeburg, and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self - Organisation, Goettingen, Germany, conducted a retrospective analysis of multiple visual field tests before and after at least six months of VRT in 32 stroke patients with hemianopia, which is a loss of vision in half of the visual field.

Such a capacity, which suggests at least partial awareness, distinguishes minimally conscious patients from those in a vegetative state and therefore has implications for subsequent care and rehabilitation, as well as for legal and ethical decision making.

Nepal police said Amit, now also wanted in Canada and in at least five Indian states from where he harvested a rich crop of kidneys and transplanted them to high - paying patients, was tracked down on the basis of phone calls he made from the hotel.

Within 1 - 2 weeks from SVF therapy 72 % of patients were off the non-steroid analgesics and most of them remain such for at least 12 months.

After 12 months from SVF therapy, at least 50 % clinical improvement was recognized in 81 %, and at least 75 % clinical improvement in 47 % of patients, respectively.

All of these patients, once completely paralyzed from at least the chest down, can now move their legs.

Another study from Sweden even demonstrated that the specific microbiome composition occurring in Alzheimer's patients induces the development of disease - specific amyloid - beta plaques, thereby establishing a direct functional link between the gut microbiome and Alzheimer's disease — at least in mice.

A planned interim efficacy analysis was conducted based on 82 patients who completed at least 183 days of treatment, withdrew from the study, or died.

For this purpose, at least 30 different cell lines derived from biopsies (HNSCC — head and neck cancer — patients) wil be collected and grown in culture to esstablish cell lines.

However, implementation without at least some degree of support risks a backlash from both physicians and patients.»

Estimates were derived from populations in which at least 79 % of patients were diagnosed with limited stage disease, apart from one study in which 29 % of patients presented with limited stage disease.

Of the 28 enrolled patients, ages 7 months to 20 years, 20 patients received at least some benefit from the combination of drugs.

From 2002 to 2006 alone, there were at least 18 randomized controlled studies involving nearly 1,000 patients.

From 1999 to 2013, 4.5 percent of the patients over age 50 years developed dementia, of those, 5.3 percent had sustained at least one TBI during the observation period, which began in 1977.

«We are getting at least one phone call a week from patients asking about the treatment and when we are going to start treating patients,» said co-author Stacy Kahn, MD, instructor of pediatrics at the University of Chicago.

Here, we sequenced two tumor / normal pairs obtained from two pediatric medulloblastoma patients (MB14 / BL14 and MB24 / BL24) with at least 30x coverage on all commonly used, state - of - the - art next - generation sequencing platforms for whole genome sequencing, namely Life Technologies» SOLiD 4 and its completely redesigned 5500xl SOLiD, Illumina's HiSeq2000, and Complete Genomics» technology (Table 1).

Studying mice and tissue samples from the arteries of patients, researchers atWashington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggest this accumulation is driven, at least in part, by processes similar to the plaque formation implicated in brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Tests of samples from cancer patients found the redesigned device at least as effective as the original.

The patients, who ranged in age from 20 to 65, had suffered from disk - related low back pain for at least six months and hadn't found relief from physical therapy, opioid medications, or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen.