Sentences with phrase «by some individual patients against»

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The FDA traditionally has taken a product - specific approach to drug approval decisions by focusing on the data generated and submitted by a drug's manufacturer and balancing the benefits against the known risks to the individual patient.

That automation is a clear selling point for Matthew De Silva, whose company, Notable Labs, is trying to devise personalized treatments for brain cancer by testing combinations of thousands of Food and Drug Administration — approved drugs against each individual patient's tumor cells.

Even if claims against individual health care providers were likely to be successful, it should be added that tort law challenges to individual decision - makers may not be ideal from the perspective of patients with rare diseases as a group, as the individualized outcome in tort cases does not necessarily lead to the larger, policy change desired by many patients.

In Singapore, cancer is still seen as a terminal disease with little hope of recovery, and there is also a stigma against psychological counselling and psychiatric support, facilitated by the general stigma against mental illness amongt both patients and, paradoxically, healthcare professionals.67 Furthermore, a family - centred model of decision - making tends to be predominant in Asian populations, 68 and in Singapore this is further encouraged by public policy such as healthcare subsidies that are based on a calculation of the immediate family's total income, rather than individual income.69 Beliefs or expectations of the role that the family caregiver ought to play may thus exist and may influence the way individuals respond to the intervention.