Sentences with phrase «by patient groups»

There are plenty of conferences put on by patient groups and health care professionals who advise patients.

But it's widely supported by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have faced intense lobbying campaigns by patient groups and the biopharma industry.

«From a treatment provider perspective, this is very exciting as we have been waiting for a simple, affordable, robust treatment tolerated by all patients groups, including those whose treatment outcomes are currently poorer, like patients under antiretroviral therapy,» said Pierre Mendiharat, Deputy Operations Director for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

Not exact matches

It's the biggest health reform legislation passed by Congress since Obamacare and has galvanized a similarly motley crew of industries and lobbying outfits — including big pharma (the legislation's most ardent proponent), patient advocacy groups, mental health organizations, and medical researchers — who fought for its passage over the last three years.

There are numerous other patient groups in America whose quality of life has been dramatically improved by the state - sanctioned use of medical cannabis.»

Consider, a protester's right to camp out by the very same facilities and shout anti-abortion slogans at patients is guaranteed by the Constitution — so why shouldn't an advocacy group have the right to serve those same would - be patients an ad declaiming abortion or offering alternatives to it?

«The companies deliberately exploited the opportunity offered by debranding to hike up the price for a drug which is relied upon by many thousands of patients,» Philip Marsden, chairman of the CMA's case decision group, said on Wednesday.

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

Similarly, innovation in collaborative, patient - centric drug development models that are being promoted by pharma companies, regulators and patient groups, have the ability to transform the industry and improve productivity significantly.

I reached out to several people from my methadone patient Facebook group who got hit by Harvey to get a sense for how they are coping.

A group of Seattle doctors and investors had a plan to revolutionize primary care by freeing themselves, and their patients, from the dictates of insurance.

In a study, conducted by a faith - based group no less, it was shown that ICU patients who knew they were being prayed for tended to suffer more complications and problems than those who were not or did not know.

Among this group, top reasons for leaving were working conditions (for example staffing levels and workload), cited by 44 per cent, a change in personal circumstances (such as ill health), cited by 28 per cent and disillusionment with the quality of care provided to patients, cited by 27 per cent.

In this group experience, alcoholics were lumped together with patients suffering from other functional illnesses treated by the clinic.

A study of the patients visited regularly by the students (compared with a matched control group of other patients) showed that the program had made a significant difference in the general improvement and discharge rate of those visited.

Declaring war / judgment on a people group because of the things already discussed (child sacrifice, etc.) warning them, asking them to repent, having the message / messenger being confirmed by overt supernatural signs, being patient and waiting years, sometimes over a hundred years for people groups to repent...... that's one thing.

For example, such things as life adjustment counseling; community social action; marriage and family life education and counseling; social, religious, and therapeutic group experiences; and the after - care of patients by means of a supporting, redemptive fellowship contribute to positive mental health.

We have visualized the dynamic nature of the training process — where the heart of learning and teaching of pastoral care lies — by seeing the trainee surrounded by: (1) the community of patients, (2) the staff (representing all other helping professions), (3) a peer group of trainees, and (4) the chaplain supervisors.

Palladio Group, together with E Ink, was granted a Silver Award in the 28th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation for their patient - forward packaging design for PhutureMed ™ — an excellent example of packaging innovation that benefits the greater good by advancing patient safety.

Patient Basset Debbie's Gift is examined by Hugh Lewis during the judging of the hound group.

As a labor and delivery RN, I got to work side - by - side with many of their providers and actually am a patient myself within their Certified Nurse Midwife group.

We eradicate stigma by increasing the availability and accessibility of mental health care worldwide by: treating patients, training professionals, including psychologists, therapists, OBGYNs, pediatricians, nurses, and midwives, providing public programs, including new parent groups, breastfeeding clinics, and adolescent services, funding research, providing curated content online, and advocating in public and private sectors.

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Additional information requested from the study group included position of breast scar, implant volume, and whether loss of nipple sensation had occurred after the surgery (as judged by the patient).

Patients were then grouped into six categories by birth setting and birth attendant: hospital - based physician, hospital - based midwife, freestanding birth center with either certified nurse midwife and / or other midwife, and home - based delivery with either certified nurse midwife or other midwife.

Breastfeeding Expert Work Group Mission Statement: ACOG's Breastfeeding Expert Work Group will assist ACOG, specifically the Committee on Obstetric Practice and other committees as appropriate, by providing expertise in breastfeeding medicine and use that expertise to develop and promote breastfeeding tools and initiatives for providers and patients at all levels of the community.

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.

Patients» groups have warned the major reforms of the NHS now being pushed through, combined with the # 20 billion efficiency savings drive sought by 2015, are putting intense pressure on the health service.

United Patients Alliance — a non-profit advocacy and support group campaigning for legal access to cannabis for therapeutic purposes - responded to Flynn's comments by organising a «tea party» protest outside parliament and enacting his call for civil disobedience.

As a self - help group who have been affected by MRSA, we also help with Government funded research to find ways of combating antimicrobial resistance, giving the patient perspective on what matters.

There has been a determination to ensure staff cleanse their hands between patients with the «Cleanyourhands» campaign, although this has now been closed down, there are some in the Health Service who are determined to see the work of the former campaign continue by forming a new advisory group along with patient groups.

As a self - help group who have been affected by MRSA, we also help with government funded research to find ways of combating antimicrobial resistance, giving the patient perspective on what matters.

Patients groups may not be as troubled as the health unions by the principle of competition or «contestability» as Labour described it but we are concerned about how its extension will be designed, managed and regulated.

Almost 100 MPs have so far signed an early day motion backing calls by the Mental Health Alliance, a grouping of 78 different charities and campaign groups, to reform the bill and ensure patients are properly protected.

CCNY is a statewide group of patients, providers, and organizations working together to relieve the suffering of thousands of seriously ill New Yorkers by establishing a carefully regulated medical marijuana program in New York.

COMELS, a group of medical laboratory scientists, together with the Patients Safety Advocacy Africa, condemned attempts by authorities of the Hospital to privatize the Hospital's...

A group of medical laboratory scientists calling itself the Concerned Medical Laboratory Scientists (COMELS), together with the Patients Safety Advocacy Africa, has condemned attempts by authorities of the Tamale Teaching Hospital to privatize the Hospital's laboratory department.

An inquiry by the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Parkinson's along with Parkinson's UK found patients with long - term illnesses were being unfairly refused funding.

The experimental group comprised 55 emergency room patients who had concussions diagnosed by other means.

A research group headed by Gustavo Turecki, professor of psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, recently used the platform to show that miRNAs can be used as prognostic markers for therapeutic responses to an antidepressant medication in patients with major depressive disorder (3).

Another focus in Chan's group is personalized vaccines that are based on neoantigens identified by sequencing a patient's tumor.

Those in the earlier group were nearly 14 times more likely to get a chlamydia test than those seen later, even though there was no drop in clinic visits by such patients.

«Cervical cancer patients are currently treated as a uniform group based on chemotherapy and radiation regimens that help the largest percentage of people; however, one third of these patients are not helped by standard therapies,» Banister said.

A composite biomarker score, created by combining two different ratios, predicted the presence or absence of A-beta plaques in the brain with about 90 percent accuracy in both groups of patients, the researchers found.

An extension of the treatment is that it can be used by other patient groups that need to rehabilitate their mobility, such as stroke victims or some patients with spinal cord injuries.

As expected based on predictive modelling, patients began to return to their baseline LDL cholesterol values by an average of 2 - 3 % per month, meaning they will be back to their starting levels by about 18 - 21 months for the two dose groups.

Then, to determine if this change was caused just by weight loss, Laferrère paired a control group of patients with gastric bypass patients, matching for age, duration of diabetes, and ethnicity.

SVR12 was achieved by 51 of 52 patients (98 percent) with genotype 1b infection overall; and SVR12 rates in patients with genotype 1a were 86 percent to 97 percent across all treatment groups.

CIRM's credibility with the public would also be helped by including on ICOC and various working groups more scientists and patient advocates without ties to institutions funded by CIRM, and by taking other measures to address potential conflicts of interest, the panel said.