Sentences with phrase «benefit young patients»

Country 102.5 WKLB is striking a healing chord to benefit young patients at Floating Hospital for Children.

This represents a cumulative total of over $ 2.3 million in funds raised since the tournament's inception in 1997 that directly benefit the young patients treated at Arnold Palmer Medical Center and UF Health Shands Children's Hospital.

This represents a cumulative total of over $ 2.2 million in funds raised since the tournament's inception that directly benefit the young patients treated at UF Health Shands Children's Hospital and Arnold Palmer Medical Center.

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But for young patients like Jonathan, proton therapy does appear to offer more benefit.

Patients who were younger, female, and those who had a college education tended to expect greater benefits from CAM.

A new study appearing in the February 4th issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS) found significant benefit from surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis with and without degenerative spondylolisthesis — debilitating spinal conditions causing leg and back pain, numbness and weakness — and no higher overall complication rate and no higher mortality for patients age 80 and older when compared to patients younger than age 80.

There was also a benefit found in patients with elevated progesterone levels prior to egg retrieval — and this was evident whether they were younger than 35 (47 % freeze - all vs 38 % fresh) or older than 35 (45 % freeze - all vs 30 % fresh).

The benefits of surgery in patients at least 80 years of age were similar to those in younger patients, except for the outcome measures of pain and physical function, which were higher in the under age 80 group.

Although all patients benefited from faster treatment, younger patients with longer life expectancies gained a little more than older patients.

If the trials go well, the company will then seek to treat younger patients who should benefit more from the treatment.

This is troubling because, even though the hype surrounding genetic testing often outpaces its medical value, the evidence that genetic testing benefits younger breast cancer patients is growing.

«With more experience under her belt, the trainee is eventually able to expand research, recruit other young investigators and influence others in the techniques or methods the research uncovered, all for the benefit of patients.»

«The primary goal of GEP testing is to identify patients at high recurrence risk who will benefit from chemotherapy, while allowing patients with a low recurrence risk to forego chemotherapy, potentially offsetting the test costs with savings from reductions in chemotherapy use,» wrote authors led by Young Chandler, PhD, of the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, DC.

People who have knee pain due to a torn meniscus, which is more likely to occur in younger patients who hurt their knees during sports, can still benefit from arthroscopy, says Dr. Azar, of the Campbell Clinic in Memphis, Tenn..

Having children assist in this training shows young people the benefits of patient persistence.

This procedure is most often performed on adults over age 60, but younger patients with disease or injury of the hip may benefit from a replacement as well.