Sentences with phrase «brought by another patient»

The professional is a person who can provide value - added elements to the patient from what they hear at a workshop that was brought by another patient.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has struck claims brought by patients and health care professionals who argued that the province failed to protect them and to manage the hospital system properly after they contracted communicable diseases.

While it appears that no recorded cases have considered human rights legislation in the context of patients with rare diseases seeking treatment, this avenue has been successful in analogous situations, and thus a review of cases sheds light on how courts may decide claims brought by patients with rare diseases.

Acted as counsel for hospital in claim for loss of consortium and loss of enjoyment of life brought by a patient's spouse

Not exact matches

Chunyu, a Chinese mobile healthcare app company that connects patients and doctors, raised $ 50 million from China International Capital Corporation (CICC), Rushan Venture Capital under DunAn Holding Group, Pavilion Capital run by Temasek, and BlueRun Ventures, and HealthEdge, a provider of a cloud - based or on - site integrated financial, administrative and clinical software platform for healthcare payers focusing on medical claims and benefits management brought in $ 30 million

Despite this, our report presents an optimistic road ahead for R&D and business leaders and explores the emerging technologies that have the potential to dramatically transform the productivity and efficiency by which drugs are discovered, developed, and brought to patients.

The goal is to allow physicians to spend more face - to - face time with patients, by bringing together many services from Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud including Custom Speech Services (CSS) and Language Understanding Intelligent Services (LUIS), customized for the medical domain.

PokitDok started with a mission to put patients in charge by bringing an e-commerce experience to healthcare.

When neurosis is viewed as the product of the impossible demands made on the individual by an overdeveloped conscience, therapy may be directed not toward helping the patient live up to his or her conscience, but rather toward bringing down the conscience to the level of behavior.

By accepting what the patient could not accept in himself, he brought a healing dimension to the relationship.

I think Wenger needs to really serve Ozil well by bringing a patient ball distributor, not a runner, like Wilshere / Ramsey but a strategist, someone who can move the ball quickly when the pressure is on, someone who is not afraid to thread the ball in narrowest of spaces in split second openings, someone who lets the ball do the magic.

Chuba can be a strike partner with Oliver, then bring in Mehrez or Draxler, and we can also bid for Barca's Munir then we can have a great season, our pre-season last year was better than this, only to got beaten by west harm, so don't raise your hope high gunners, just be patient and pray for wenger to have a change of heart.

1 Many people are aware of Elisabeth Kübler - Ross's ground - breaking 1969 book, On Death and Dying, 2 that brought today's widely accepted «five stages of death» faced by terminally ill patients: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and... [Read more...]

The Legislature passed a scaled - back version of Lavern's Law that would start the window to bring medical malpractice cases involving cancer when an error is discovered by the patient, not when the mistake occurred, as under current law.

The first, which Politics.co.uk reported on recently, is a case brought by the Migrants» Rights Network against the sharing of patients» personal data between NHS Digital and the Home Office for immigration purposes.

By the time some patients learn that they have cancer (sometimes years later), not only is treatment delayed but the opportunity to bring litigation has passed.

And during 2008 we will bring forward a patients» prospectus that sets out how we will extend to all 15 million patients with a chronic or long - term condition access to a choice of «active patient» or «care at home» options — clinically appropriate to them and supported by the NHS.

The health select committee says independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) have increased patient choice but warns they have not made any major contribution to bringing down waiting times and their job could be done by other NHS providers.

They were intended to increase capacity to cut waiting lists, bring down prices, increase patient choice and stimulate innovation in other NHS organisations by providing competition.

And on the wall by each entrance was posted a notice: «Bringing food to patients in the ward is not allowed — Management.»

Figures obtained by Labour showed that in 2011/12, 287 hospitals in England reached capacity and were no longer able to accept any new patients brought in by ambulance, apart from life threatening cases.

The Legislature on Wednesday passed a scaled - back version of Lavern's Law that would start the window to bring medical malpractice cases involving cancer when an error is discovered by the patient, not when the mistake occurred, as under current law.

Refractory cardiac arrest patients brought to hospital with ongoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can survive with good brain function, according to research in nearly 4,000 patients presented at ESC Congress today by Dr Helle Søholm, a cardiologist at Copenhagen University Hospital Righospitalet in Denmark.

The researchers found that they were able to make nine of the unconscious patients bring their hands up and open their mouths, just by stimulating a part of the brain we know is linked to those actions in non-human primates.

Ziskin, a Hollywood film producer who died of metastatic breast cancer, was a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer, an initiative founded in 2008 by nine women in the entertainment industry to accelerate groundbreaking research and bring new treatments to patients as quickly as possible.

In a first - of - its - kind - study led by Suskind, published today in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, diet alone was shown to bring pediatric patients with active Crohn's and UC into clinical remission.

Or perhaps the LSA simply detected the patients» recovery as reflected by their writing but not brought about by it — in that case, programs such as LIWC could aid doctors in diagnosing illness and gauging treatment progression.

A targeted anti-inflammatory drug can reduce the risk of heart attacks or strokes, often brought on by narrowed coronary arteries (pictured), in high - risk patients.

The French case brings to at least four the number of patients «awakened» by a brain - based intervention, including Monti's at UCLA.

Scientists are bringing precision medicine to rheumatoid arthritis for the first time by using genetic profiling of joint tissue to see which drugs will work for which patients, reports a new Northwestern Medicine multi-site study.

By funding this work, the NHGRI hopes to bring the cost of sequencing a mammalian sized genome down from $ 10 million to $ 1000 in the next 10 years — cheap enough for patients to have their genome sequenced before they receive genome - tailored treatments.

«Medicaid expansion brought across - the - board relief for Michigan hospitals: Fast, sustained drop in uninsured patients, and rise in Medicaid - covered patients, seen by hospitals with Healthy Michigan Plan.»

To be able to take medication once a month or even longer will make it much easier for patients to be compliant while at the same time help bring the drug to tissues of the body that are not easily reached by conventional medicines.»

Seven patients went on to require neurosurgery, which allowed the scientists to investigate in detail changes in the brain brought on by CAR T cell treatment.

Dr Josie Billington, Deputy Researcher, Centre for Research into Reading, said: «Our study indicated that shared reading could potentially be an alternative to CBT in bringing into conscious awareness areas of emotional pain otherwise passively suffered by chronic pain patients.

«Patients with head injuries do better when treated by trauma centers, even if it means bypassing other hospitals: Study shows a major opportunity to improve outcomes for the half of severe head injury patients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centersPatients with head injuries do better when treated by trauma centers, even if it means bypassing other hospitals: Study shows a major opportunity to improve outcomes for the half of severe head injury patients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centerspatients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centers.»

According to press reports, a cancer patient who received Pfizer's antifungal drug Vfend swears he saw a Wookiee leaning over his bed — a hallucination brought on by the drug.

The TOPCARE (Transforming Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care) model brings a nurse care manager into the equation to discuss treatment plans with patients suffering from chronic pain, and to ensure monitoring occurs; provides online resources to assist prescribers, and coordinates an individualized educational session for primary care providers conducted by an expert in opioid prescribing.

«Impaired fertility brought about by cancer treatment leads to long - term psychological distress and lowered quality of life for cancer patients of a reproductive age.

Patients and family members «can be wracked with guilt,» says Sloan, who is also concerned by the growing movement to encourage doctors to bring up religion and to offer to pray with their pPatients and family members «can be wracked with guilt,» says Sloan, who is also concerned by the growing movement to encourage doctors to bring up religion and to offer to pray with their patientspatients.

Physician - scientists have always brought a unique perspective to biomedical research that is inspired by their personal experience in caring for patients.

«We look for innovation in science or medicine and bring that innovation to patients by providing the capital and expertise of building a company,» says Shapiro, who is a senior associate at Third Rock.

Lencz explains: «TAGC advances the goal of bringing personal genomics to the clinic, as it tells the physician whether a mutation in a patient's genome is shared by healthy individuals, and can alleviate concerns that it is causing disease.

«Given the aging of the population, emergency physicians need to be prepared to balance their obligations to the patient by documenting findings, reporting suspicions and referring patients to appropriate agencies,» said Marguerite DeLiema, Ph.D, of the Stanford University Center on Longevity in Stanford, Calif., the lead study author of «The Forensic Lens: Bringing Elder Neglect into Focus in the Emergency Department.»

In the analysis of 23 relevant studies, investigators found that many clinicians are broadly informed about the risk to their patients» fertility brought about by cancer treatment, but many factors hinder the appropriate discussions and referrals needed to provide adequate fertility support to patients of reproductive age.

Convened in part by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the meeting will bring together academics, government officials, industry experts, and patient advocates to discuss the use of naloxone both in and out of conventional medical settings.

Scientists from UCLA's Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research are bringing stem cell science funded by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell agency, directly to patients in two exciting new clinical trials scheduled to begin in early 2014.

Concerns about driving often come up with glaucoma and may be brought to the doctor's attention by the patient or a family member.

On the safety side, the panelists delved into the possible risks of injecting genetically modified cells into patients, including the potential for deadly viral infections, brain toxicity, and, paradoxically, the growth of new tumors brought about by CAR - T cells years after treatment.

Even though GSK is in the middle of multibillion - dollar lawsuits brought by thousands of patients, it still has hundreds of documents hidden from public view under court seal — a feature of the US system that leaves documents provided under discovery accessible only to the parties involved in the litigation.