Includes nutrition and lifestyle counseling,
clinical monitoring of pregnant person and baby, referrals to other providers as necessary, laboratory testing, preparation for birth and parenting.
Not exact matches
Streamlining the approval
of continuous
monitoring devices will also encourage better self -
monitoring, since users will be able to tell which behaviors negatively and positively affect their blood sugar levels, potentially leading to fewer
clinical visits.
Merck is the latest company to weather bad news in the Alzheimer's drug race, halting a late - stage trial yesterday in an experimental amyloid - targeting candidate called verubecestat after a data
monitoring committee said there was «virtually no chance
of finding a positive
clinical effect,» Reuters reported.
Identifying resistance mechanisms and creating non-invasive tests to aid in the selection and
monitoring of patients during
clinical trials.
Kutcher also sees a second a second potential
clinical benefit
of impact
monitoring systems, one which «stems not from the idea
of monitoring impacts for the presence
of an acute injury - generating hit, but from the potential advantage
of accurately cataloguing the number
of hits and post-impact head acceleration being experienced by an athlete over time.»
The second potential
clinical benefit
of impact
monitoring systems stems not from the idea
of monitoring impacts for the presence
of an acute injury - generating hit, but from the potential advantage
of accurately cataloguing the number
of hits and post-impact head acceleration being experienced by an athlete over time.
«The identification
of a potentially injurious impact or series
of impacts via real - time
monitoring of head impact exposure in athletes may [not only] facilitate the early recognition and management
of brain injury in helmeted sports,» argues Richard M. Greenwald, PhD
of the Thayer School
of Engineering at Dartmouth College, lead author
of an editorial in the March 2012
Clinical Journal
of Sports Medicine, [6] but «permit early intervention, potentially in advance
of an injury, rather than simply as a management tool postinjury.»
The critical point to always keep in mind about impact sensors is that they are just another tool in the concussion toolbox or, put another way, another set
of eyes, with which to identify athletes who (a) may have sustained impacts
of sufficient magnitude that (b) may have resulted in some cases in concussions, so that they (c) may be
monitored for signs
of concussion, or (d) may be asked to undergo a balance, vision, and / or neurocognitive screen / assessment on the sideline or in the locker room, the results
of which (e) may suggest a removal from play for the remainder
of the game and referral to a concussion specialist for formal evaluation away from the sports sideline, which evaluation (f) may result in a
clinical diagnosis
of concussion.
«The identification
of a potentially injurious impact or series
of impacts via real - time
monitoring of head impact exposure in athletes may [not only] facilitate the early recognition and management
of brain injury in helmeted sports,» argues Richard M. Greenwald, PhD
of the Thayer School
of Engineering at Dartmouth College, in an editorial in the March 2012
Clinical Journal
of Sports Medicine, [12] but «permit early intervention, potentially in advance
of an injury, rather than simply as a management tool postinjury.»
CDC
monitors professional breastfeeding support, and this year's Breastfeeding Report Card shows that the number
of IBCLCs — professionals who specialize in
clinical management
of lactation — nearly doubled from 2006 to 2013.
I try to keep a fairly quiet presence, try to work out what the woman and her partner, or partners, whoever's around her, are being able to sort
of do themselves... I think it's probably better to let women go into themselves if they want to do that, so trying to support the woman in the kind
of personality and needs that she has, and keeping that low - key presence with things like
monitoring being a subtle as it can be, and I don't really care for doing regular VEs so it's more about
clinical indications or their impression rather than it's been 2 or 4 h since your last one so therefore you have another one.
Owlet, a leading manufacturer based in Utah, emailed a defense
of its $ 250 «smart sock»
monitor: «We have invested millions
of dollars into data collection, as well as the creation
of a
clinical team... to further knowledge
of the issues affecting infant health.
Clinical project coordinators
of the unit regularly
monitored sites to ensure accuracy
of recruitment and data collection as well as strict compliance to the study protocol.
Up to now, as McGrath notes, «post-exertion protocols for athletic trainers and team physicians have generally consisted
of supervised workouts with general
monitoring for recurrence
of post-concussive symptoms using self - report data along with brief
clinical sideline testing.
The safety
of the vaccine has been established in large
clinical trials and will be continually
monitored as it comes into wider use,» Ed Yong, health information manager at the charity told politics.co.uk
Self -
monitoring of blood glucose People with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes should have access to self -
monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) based on individual
clinical need, type
of diabetes, personal circumstances and informed consent - not on ability to pay..
Their first results confirm that the presence
of low molecular weight DNA in high quantities may be relevant
clinical information for patient
monitoring.
Researchers have not yet determined which
of these components, or if the combination
of all
of them, may offer protection against inflammation, but Bao and her colleagues are interested in exploring this further through
clinical trials that would regulate and
monitor diet.
The device is an improved version
of a
clinical tool called an electrode grid, which is a plastic or silicone - based grid
of electrodes that is placed directly on the surface
of the brain during surgery to
monitor the activity
of large groups
of neurons.
The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP), an office within the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS), develops policies to protect human subjects and
monitors clinical trials at research institutions.
The researchers add that this information will be relevant to the design
of clinical trials
of lipid - modifying agents, which should carefully
monitor participants for dysglycemia and the incidence
of diabetes.
Together, these findings demonstrate that emerging noninvasive techniques to measure corneal nerve fiber alterations such as in vivo corneal confocal microscopy may be useful
clinical tools to screen for and
monitor progression
of peripheral neuropathy in HIV - infected patients.
But regular CD4 count
monitoring is no trivial matter in many areas
of Africa where clinics and trained staff are in low supply and transportation is difficult, says David Ross, a
clinical epidemiologist at the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
For instance,
clinical trial participants can avoid the inconvenience
of visiting research facilities, writing down their daily activities or wearing clunky
monitors.
«A drawback
of clinical trials is that they are highly controlled and highly
monitored to ensure strict adherence to protocol; however, that's not how people take drugs in the real world,» said Andrea V. Margulis, MD, ScD, senior research epidemiologist and co-author
of the paper.
Canzater said that, «Most
of the newly infected HCV cases are among injection opioid drug users, but we often do not have even basic information to adequately
monitor where and how the HCV epidemic is unfolding in the US and we are not using the
clinical data that is already collected.»
Crowley and Canzater identify five critical actions that should be priorities for
monitoring HCV: 1) expand and standardize reporting to the CDC, 2) utilize electronic medical records to collect data on HCV cases and the cure cascade, 3) fund epidemiologic research using
clinical data sets, 4) integrate improved
monitoring of HCV with responses to the opioid epidemic, and 5) establish and
monitor HCV elimination plans across major US health systems.
But Peter Brocklehurst, Professor
of women's health at Birmingham
Clinical Trials Unit, says «the more we use electronic fetal
monitoring, the more harm we do, with little evidence
of benefit.»
To evaluate whether the experimental treatment is safe and whether it might be able to reduce frailty, Maharaj plans to run a battery
of baseline testing on each
clinical trial participant before they get their first infusion
of young plasma and then
monitor their changes for two years: That means cognitive exams, questionnaires about their quality
of life and their indicators
of frailty, and tests to measure biomarkers he believes are linked with aging, such as telomere lengths and DNA methylation.
Obstetrics specialists, Edward Mullins and Christoph Lees, at Imperial College London say that failure to use continuous electronic fetal
monitoring «amounts to a misguided blinding
of the clinician to the
clinical state
of the fetus.»
«Once additional key
clinical and genetic factors are identified, infants who are determined to have a low risk
of requiring medication can be sent home without prolonged
monitoring, and those who are predicted to have a difficult
clinical course can be started on more aggressive treatment earlier, which will lead to shorter hospitalizations and improved outcomes.»
The authors say these sets
of proteins can serve as biomarkers for
monitoring autophagy in the
clinical setting.
In the current study, McKeown and her colleagues analyzed longitudinal data on 1,685 middle - aged adults over a period
of 14 years, obtained from the Framingham Heart Study's Offspring cohort — a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - funded program that has
monitored multiple generations for lifestyle and
clinical characteristics that contribute to cardiovascular disease.
This shortcoming makes it difficult to accurately
monitor whether a patient is improving or declining and also confuses the approval
of new antidepressant drugs, because the scale is a benchmark in judging their efficacy during
clinical trials.
Applications include
monitoring GI activity for patients outside
of a
clinical setting, which cuts down costs.
However, RA professionals are increasingly involved with products during the research and development phases, in the design and
monitoring of clinical studies, marketing, advertising, and communications.
Researchers have developed a wearable system to
monitor stomach activity that performs as well as current state
of the art methods but can be used outside
of a
clinical setting.
These patients had been undergoing an invasive procedure called manometry, one
of a couple
clinical gold standards for objectively
monitoring GI tract activity.
The Memorial Sloan - Kettering team also has a series
of clinical trials under way to
monitor immune system reactions to various cancer therapies, including radiation.
Every
clinical biochemistry lab is filled with technicians measuring blood glucose levels to
monitor diabetes, urea concentrations in urine to spot kidney failure, and dozens
of others.
Under the Ebola Task - Force, researchers are involved in
monitoring survivors, especially in Guinea, from different aspects: surveillance
of clinical and psychological sequelae, and risks
of virus reactivation in patients who have recovered.
In a
Clinical Crossroads article featured in the March 6, 2013 issue
of the Journal
of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Dr. Dan Alford from Boston University School
of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) suggests that prescription opioid abuse can be minimized by
monitoring patients closely for harm by using urine drug testing (UDT), pill counts, and reviewing prescription drug
monitoring program data when available.
«These splicing signatures could potentially be used as
clinical biomarkers to detect blood stem cells that show signs
of early aging or leukemia, and to
monitor patient responses to treatment,» said Crews.
Markus Zeitlinger from the Department
of Clinical Pharmacology and Werner Dolak from the Department
of Medicine III studied sixty healthy volunteers over a period
of fourteen days,
monitoring the drug - related reaction in the intestinal tract by means
of capsule endoscopy imaging.
According to Mª Elena Castejón, associate lecturer at the Nursing Department and main researcher
of the project, the goal is to verify that intubation can be performed in a moving ambulance if strictly necessary to
monitor the
clinical course
of a patient in critical condition.
The way e-cigarettes are available on the market — for use by anyone and for any purpose — creates a disconnect between the provision
of e-cigarettes for cessation as part
of a
monitored clinical trial and the availability
of e-cigarettes for use by the general population.»
A new review published by a joint scientific working group
of the International Federation
of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) and the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) finds that current evidence continues to support the potential for bone turnover markers (BTMs) to provide clinically useful information for
monitoring osteoporosis treatment.
Julian Tang, a
clinical virologist at the United Kingdom's University Hospitals
of Leicester NHS Trust, notes that the humidity and temperature data used in the study come from outdoor weather
monitoring stations, whereas it's believed most flu transmission occurs indoors.
This approach, however, differs from liquid biopsies, including commercial tests, which only profile a relatively small portion
of the genome in patients already diagnosed with cancer for the purpose
of helping
monitor the disease or detect actionable alterations that can be matched to available drugs or
clinical trials.
Dr Chris Parker, Chair
of the NCRI's Prostate Cancer
Clinical Studies Group, said: «There's a need to develop better tests to identify and
monitor men with aggressive prostate cancer.