Sentences with phrase «by older patients»

Part of the agreement involved Janssen pleading guilty to misbranding the drug, including marketing it for use by older patients suffering from dementia despite the fact that it was only approved for treating schizophrenia.

Alternatives: Newer - generation antihistamines such as loratadine (Claritin) and cetirizine (Zyrtec) are better tolerated by older patients and present a lower risk for fatigue.

Not exact matches

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

Of course, at one point it was worth asking how a company founded by a then 19 - year - old could invent a new, less - invasive way of drawing blood from patients.

I recalled this decades - old memory when I read an investigation published online yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled, «Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs. Female Physicians.»

Gosnell is charged with killing seven late - term infants by «snipping» their spinal cords and giving a 41 - year - old immigrant patient a fatal overdose of the painkiller Demerol.

The study, by Yusuke Tsugawa and colleagues at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and other institutions, examined the record of a large random sample of Medicare patients, 65 years or older, who were hospitalized from January 2011 to December 2014.

They include — and you should skip to the next paragraph if descriptions of medical injuries will nauseate you — a swollen bloody thumb, recently reconstructed after a fireworks injury; a 17 year - old's foot charred black by an electrical burn; and a worm pulled from a patient's anus.

Using an app created by a company called Medical Realities, viewers from around the globe, each presumably with an iron constitution, witnessed a surgeon at the Royal London NHS Hospital delve into the bowels of a 70 - year - old cancer patient.

But the study also suggested that some antidepressants were more effective than others; several older antidepressants were found to be more effectivee than more modern ones, but the modern treatments (such as Prozac) were better tolerated by patients.

That is the way users want to communicate; we have a certain demographic of patients between 50 and 65 years old who may be confused by an app but actually really understand chat.

Vida Health, a two - year - old, Palo Alto, Ca. - based subscription - based app that pairs patients with health coaches, has raised $ 18 million in Series B funding led by...

The results of another clinical trial published in the journal found that high - dose vitamins and minerals did not protect heart attack patients 50 and older from experiencing additional cardiovascular events, though the research was marred by a high dropout rate.

This should be done in multiple different ways since a patient's chronologic age many times does not correlate with their physiologic age (i.e. some 13 year old boys have reached their maximum height by age 12 whereas others keep growing until age 17).

His autopsy reported his brain was like a 80 year old Alzheimer's patient, caused by the concussions he suffered during his career.

Chelsea fans are not the most patient bunch, and they made their feelings towards the 23 - year - old perfectly clear by chanting «you're f *** ing sh*t» at him as he made his way to the stands, according to Evening Standard reporter Simon Johnson.

An older fan responded to Jeter's insistence to be patient by saying he doesn't have many years left.

This should be done in multiple different ways since a patient's chronologic age many times does not correlate with their physiologic age (i.e. some 13 - year old boys have reached their maximum height by age 12, whereas others keep growing until age 17).

Reviewing twenty years of billing data for the period 1994 to 2013 from an insurance company operating in a large metropolitan area, researchers found the overall incidence of ACL tears among 6 - to 18 - year - old patients increased by 2.3 percent per year.

Because of ALL the doctor's appointments, having a surgery herself, another few days of in - patient testing, and other medical issues in the family, I didn't «officially» start EC until about 4 months old... but by 6 months the nursing staff at our local ER knew I was «that lady who's really tiny baby pees on the potty.»

Sophie's 6 month schedule... or Mommys wan na b schedule.I get up at 6:30 am to get myself ready wake up a 5 yr old and 3 yr old for school let them get dressed when one is not throwing a tantrum or teasing the other one by now its 7:30 a send them to eat and then brush their teeth while I dress the baby who has been very paTient... out the house by 8 for kindergartener to get there on time and next stop grandmas we get her to nurse... and get preschooler to school by 8:30 and I'm off to work I pump by 12p and collect 6oz for her afternoon... grandma feeds her again at 11:30 a. Of breast milk and sometimes it's 5oz / 6oz... we sometimes get her a4oz formula bottle with her cereal.I pick up brothers from school at 1and go drop off with grandma and feed Baby again... she gets 5oz bill around 3:30 p and I get home at 6 pm to nurse her and then get food for the kids and don't forget homework... baby gets her veggies... and mom gets Cold

Older patients are particularly affected by stroke.

Diagnosis was always confirmed by a physician, and breastfeeding information was always confirmed by patients» mothers or other older close relative (as previously mentioned, this was not a requirement in pediatric studies).

Thus, studies in which information about breastfeeding was not provided by the mother of the patient or an older close relative were assigned to the lowest quality group.

This may be explained by delays in diagnosis and the «under - treatment» of older breast cancer patients.

The findings, presented at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in a poster session by Cameron W. Swanick, M.D., should serve as an important discussion point between older patients and their physicians when making treatment decisions.

Moffitt physicians suggest that melanoma screening strategies may be more feasible by focusing on high - risk populations, such as middle - aged and older patients, and using newer diagnostic tools.

Through the analysis of 11 years of hospital data, researchers were able to determine differences in length of stay, episode cost and 30 - day readmission rates for Medicare patients aged 65 and older by comparing cases where oral nutritional supplements were prescribed to patients with the same conditions to those who weren't prescribed oral nutritional supplements.

Most older patients would probably reject the modest potential benefit conferred by these medicines, in favour of taking fewer drugs every day and not having to put up with their possible side - effects, he suggests.

A 38 - year - old psychiatrist by training who still sees patients once a week, Deisseroth entered the field of bioengineering because of his frustration over the inadequate tools available to research and treat mental illness and neurodegenerative disorders.

To date, only six patients (including Menezes) for whom the vaccination strategy failed have survived, the first was 6 year - old Matthew Winkler from Ohio, who was bitten by a rabid bat in 1970 and developed symptoms after receiving a full course of the vaccine (prior versions of the rabies vaccine were not as effective as current formulations).

Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue of JAMA.

Physicians must also take note of the fact that O'Rahilly made these major discoveries by simply being a good old - fashioned doctor who cared about his patients and listened carefully to them.

In another case, a 30 - year - old patient with severe head trauma was declared brain dead by two doctors.

«We know that sleep is a critical factor for overall health as we age, and this new research highlights sleep problems as both a significant health issue for older adults and an underacknowledged one both by patients and their providers,» says Alison Bryant, Ph.D., senior vice president of research for AARP.

Shantanu Nundy recognized the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis when his 31 - year - old patient suffering from crippling hand pain checked into Mary's Center in Washington, D.C. Instead of immediately starting treatment, though, Nundy decided first to double - check his diagnosis using a smartphone app that helps with difficult medical cases by soliciting advice from doctors worldwide.

Researchers analyzed charts for 2,100 patients who were 55 or older with head trauma who were transported to the hospital by EMS.

This large study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging has been following 566 noncardiac surgical patients over the age of 70 for the past five years with the goal of finding new approaches to prevent delirium and its long - term consequences in older adults.

Patients aged 65 years and older are living longer after lung cancer surgery, and with older people representing a rapidly growing proportion of patients diagnosed with lung cancer, this improved survival is especially significant, according to an article posted online today by The Annals of Thoracic SPatients aged 65 years and older are living longer after lung cancer surgery, and with older people representing a rapidly growing proportion of patients diagnosed with lung cancer, this improved survival is especially significant, according to an article posted online today by The Annals of Thoracic Spatients diagnosed with lung cancer, this improved survival is especially significant, according to an article posted online today by The Annals of Thoracic Surgery..

Labs could rejuvenate cells from patients and perhaps then grow them into new tissue that could repair parts worn out by old age or disease.

One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age, greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabetes.

A simplified frailty index created by surgeons at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Mich., is a reliable tool for assessing risk of mortality and serious complications in older patients considering total hip and knee replacement procedures, according to new study findings presented at the 2014 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

The prevention of severe and fatal infection caused by influenza was observed mainly in patients who were vaccinated in both the current and previous seasons, which reinforces the recommendation of annual vaccination for influenza in older adults,» the authors conclude.

The condition is thought to be more common in older people, but the true prevalence is unknown, in part because patients and their relatives may attribute their sleepiness to old age, or older people can compensate by napping.

The distinction between these two pathways may help to explain the difference between outcomes for younger and older patients — PA in younger patients is more likely to be caused by K: B fusion and 5 - year survival is generally high; PA in older patients is more likely to be caused by BRAF point mutations and 5 - year survival is generally lower.

The new study, funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, included 329 patients between two days and 18 years old who experienced cardiac arrest in the hospital setting.

For instance, one of Treffert's patients is a 3 - year - old boy, an above - average reader fascinated by the solar system.

Screening for colorectal cancer based on age alone may contribute to both underuse and overuse of the tests among older patients, according to a study by investigators at the University of Michigan and the Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research.

The old, slow test detected the auto - antibodies using radioactive materials, took several days, could only be performed by highly - trained lab staff and cost several hundred dollars per patient.

A new study could add to the argument over equal pay in the ranks of medicine: Older patients treated by female doctors tend to do better than those treated by males.