Sentences with phrase «by young patients»

This includes funding a paediatric Clinical Trials Unit and a biobank, which collects tissue and blood samples generously donated by young patients involved in research.

With features including mobile reminders and messaging with healthcare providers, the «iMHere» (interactive Mobile Health & Rehabilitation) system is feasible for use by young patients with spina bifida, according to the new research by Dr. Brad E. Dicianno of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and colleagues.

We also make many different formulas as required by our youngest patients.

Not exact matches

Spark, for its part, won a unanimous FDA panel backing for its own gene therapy to treat an inherited disorder that leaves young patients blind by repairing the havoc wreaked by defective genes.

Yet young people will not normally discover this without the sustained and patient insistence by adults that they expend effort in significant work.

the doctor was attempting to protect her patients during a time when the... i believe attorny general whom was anti-choice was investigating clinics and subpeoning their medical records which would have exposed these young ladies to harm by the religious community.

The clinic, which sets 55 as the maximum age for patients seeking a donated egg, was fooled by the woman's relatively young appearance and her falsified documents.

«As health care providers dealing with concussions, we need to be aware that many concussed patients may be bullied or shamed on social media by friends or teammates who may not believe that they are experiencing concussion symptoms, or that those symptoms are lingering,» notes Mark Halstead, M.D., a sports medicine physician and Director of the Washington University Sports Concussion Clinic & Young Athlete Center.

We have a birth center that is wildly popular with the younger generation (like in their 20's) it's run by a lay midwife, and our hospital birth center takes in their patients whose births are going wrong.

Recently a young man in his 20's was recommended to me by his mother who was a patient of mine.

In «Love Child,» four young African - American moms — stingingly named ShaWanda, DaWanda, TaWanda and LaWanda — reluctantly enroll in parenting skills classes at a home for unwed mothers, run by a frustrated yet patient social worker (Michelle Williams).

Tapping into two issues affecting the hospital experience of young parents: the quality of care for the mother and newborn, and patients» rights • By HANNAH KATSMAN When Gaia (last name withheld) was expecting her second baby, she hoped for a better hospital experience than she had with her first son, who was born prematurely.

Tapping into two issues affecting the hospital experience of young parents: the quality of care for the mother and newborn, and patients» rights • By HANNAH KATSMAN When... [Read more...]

Many kids each year are strangled by mini blinds and emergency rooms see hundreds of young patients a month that are burned by hot water in their home.

The Republican chosen by local party leaders to oppose Hochul was so tone - deaf and so noncommittal on important core GOP issues, its understandable that a young no BS combat vet might not be so patient with her.

Patients with diabetes mostly fall into one of two categories, type 1 diabetics, triggered by autoimmunity at a young age, and type 2 diabetics, caused by metabolic dysfunction of the liver.

The revision followed evidence that the drug was well tolerated by the young AML patients.

«This is important to know because semen stored by young cancer patients is taken at a time of great emotional stress when future fertility is unlikely to be an immediate priority.»

Attacked by critics who insisted it wasn't ethical to use the drug on young patients who weren't yet psychotic, McGlashan says he supplied «about 200 pounds» of supporting documentation to the federal Office for Human Research Protections before he got a green light to continue.

According to the nationally representative study, patients who will gain Medicaid under expansion programs supported by the ACA will be younger (average age of 36 versus 38), with a larger proportion being male (49 percent versus 33 percent) and white (60 percent versus 50 percent) compared to the current Medicaid population.

For the 12 - week, $ 170,000 pilot project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will begin later this month, Young's team plans to recruit about 60 patients from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center who are experiencing chronic pain, are on long - term opioid therapy, and have reported other behaviors — such as drug or alcohol abuse — that put them at high risk of addiction.

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.

Their young patient had a severe form of the disease known as junctional EB, caused by a mutation in a gene encoding part of the protein laminin 332, which makes up a thin membrane just below the epidermis.

Progeria affects one in every four million to eight million births; there are about 50 cases currently recognized worldwide with 10 to 12 in the U.S. Common symptoms include fragile bones, hair loss, limited growth, stiff joints and wrinkling of the skin by as young as age two; about 90 percent of progeria patients die by age 13 from fatal heart attacks or strokes, according to the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

The slight loss in bone mineral density associated with HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) antiretroviral use is reversible in young adult patients who stop taking the drugs, according to findings presented by researchers today at the 23rd Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston.

Triheptanoin is an investigational medicine being developed by Ultragenyx Pharmaceuticals for patients with fatty - acid metabolism disorders and Glucose Transporter Type 1 Deficiency Syndrome, which leads to epileptic seizures in young children.

A special type of leukemia, which is particularly difficult to treat and often occurs in very young patients, is the subject of research carried out by Prof. Robert Slany and his team at the Division of Genetics at FAU.

The papers «Emergency Department and Inpatient Hospital Use by Medicare Beneficiaries in Patient - Centered Medical Homes» and «Changes in Emergency Department Use Among Young Adults After the ACA's Dependent Coverage Provision,» along with an accompanying editorial («Patient - Centered Medical Homes May Reduce ED Use: What Does this Tell Us?»)

Previous in vitro studies conducted by researchers in other countries showed that this molecule was able to reduce the multiplication and increase the mortality of cells from melanoma, the most aggressive type of skin cancer, as well as breast cancer and neuroblastoma, a tumor that typically affects patients aged 15 or younger.

Chair of EBCC10, Professor Fatima Cardoso, who is Director of the Breast Unit at the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal, said: «This study suggests that the worse prognosis seen in breast cancer patients from ethnic minority groups in the UK can be at least in part explained by the younger age of this group.

An international team of hematologists including Guy Young, MD, of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, has found that in patients with hemophilia A with inhibitors, a novel therapy called emicizumab, decreases incidence of bleeding episodes by 87 %.

Dose - densified chemoimmunotherapy followed by systemic central nervous system prophylaxis for younger high - risk diffuse large B - cell / follicular grade 3 lymphoma patients: results of a phase II Nordic Lymphoma Group study.

They found the number of ED visits by patients age 21 and younger for any reason who were diagnosed with addiction or dependency on opioids — which include prescription painkillers as well as illicit drugs such as heroin — rose from 32,235 in 2008 to 49,626 in 2013.

«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.

GM1 gangliosidosis, or Landing disease, is a rare inherited neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorder characterized by severe cognitive and motor developmental delays resulting in the death of most patients at a very young age.

«However, younger patients may also be more likely to have faster growing cancers or to have more intense treatment,» Dusetzina said by email.

Our researchers show how more frequent, higher doses of chemotherapy improves survival in some young patients by two - thirds.

Measuring the concentration of leukemia cells in patient bone marrow during the first 46 days of chemotherapy should help boost survival of young leukemia patients by better matching patients with the right intensity of chemotherapy.

Dr. Jesse Berry, 36, has long been frustrated by not being able to tell the parents of her young retinoblastoma patients what to expect.

«We are cautiously optimistic that any impact of levofloxacin on antibacterial resistance will be balanced by the reduction in use of other antibiotics, but long - term monitoring antibiotic resistance patterns in young ALL patients will be needed to prove this,» Wolf said.

There were also no clear differences in the association between statin use and outcomes in analyses stratified by age older or younger than 55, 60, 65, or 70 years, with very similar estimates from 7 trials (eTable 6 in the Supplement).14, 19,20,26,29,31,35 None of the trials that enrolled patients older than 75 years18, 20,22,23,27,29 reported results in this subgroup.

But the researchers saw different patterns when they broke the group down by age: For patients younger than 65, symptoms worsened when the deep brain stimulation system was turned on; for older patients, the treatment seemed to slow down their decline over one year.

Finally, a study performed by University of Colorado scientists published in the January, 2006, issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation indicates that soy foods could seriously harm patients afflicted with cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that affects 1 in 500 Americans and is the leading cause of death in young athletes.

In fact, according to the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (ACFAS) in 2006, an increase in usage of flip - flop sandals by teens and young adults has led to an increase in heel pain.3 ACFAS spokesperson Marybeth Crane, DPM, has reported that practitioners are seeing more heel pain more than ever in patients 15 to 25 years old, noting that heel pain is a marker of plantar fasciitis which accounts for 15 % of all adult foot complaints.3 Furthermore, the ACFAS recommends that patients with heel pain should avoid flat shoes with paper - thin soles and should also avoid walking barefoot since wearing flat shoes (including flip - flops) and walking barefoot provides little cushioning as well as little to no arch support.3 This lack of arch support and cushioning of the heel while wearing flip - flops seems to exacerbate any abnormalities in the biomechanics of foot motion, and may perpetuate heel pain and inflammation.

Wasson describes how many of her young, single and female patients aged around 25 - 30 experience a pressure from seeing their friends marrying and starting family, a strain that's further compounded by the omnipresent biological clock.

I look younger than my age & I'm a former gastric by - pass patient.

Based on the excellent book by Josh Bazell that was adapted by Billions creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien, the story follows a young ER doctor whose life is upended when a patient recognizes him from his past life as a mafia hitman.

Meanwhile at CIA headquarters a turf spat has broken out between Mike's former handler Lasseter (Connie Britton, pictured) and her preppy younger boss Yates (Topher Grace), who has decided to flex his muscles by wiping out her sleeper agent, the only success of a programme to train up mental patients as government assassins.

In this place of concrete and telephone wires, transients subsisting on very little and tourists lost on the way to the nearby theme park, six - year - old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) runs amok with a shifting group of friends and gets into trouble with the motel's usually patient manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe), while being occasionally looked after by her very young, alternately lackadaisical and ferocious mom, Halley (Bria Vinaite).

Sam, of course, has his O.C. - style melodrama to contend with, since his rich kid adversary from the recent academic decathlon is flirting with his dream girl Laura (Emmy Rossum), while Sam's mom (Sela Ward) sits bedside with a young cancer patient in a cloying side - story (further ruined by Harald Kloser's prosaic score) meant to warm our frostbitten hearts.