Sentences with phrase «clinical researchers find»

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Just this month, as part of the first large - scale clinical trial of its kind, researchers working in rural India found that newborns who were given a synbiotic were at a substantially lower risk of developing sepsis, a potentially fatal condition characterized by severe infection.

The researchers found that Theranos was likely to be more accurate in testing for white blood cells, but wrote that «additional precision was unlikely to alter clinical decisions.»

While the researchers hope to use these findings in a clinical setting, they also seem to offer ready - made advice for those suffering from everyday levels of shyness.

In a 2007 review of the scientific literature on the subject, published in Clinical Psychology Review, researchers found that parenting, on average, explained only about 4 percent of the variation in anxiety issues among children,» notes the WSJ article.

I'm not alone in having a hard time hearing what my gut has to say when I'm already anxious, something a new study published in Clinical Psychological Science supports: researchers from the University of Basel and the Berlin Psychological University found that anxiety may impair your ability to listen to your intuition.

MEDIAL EARLYSIGN SHOWS AI AND EHR DATA CAN BE USED FOR EARLY DETECTION: Researchers from Medial EarlySign, a provider of machine - learning solutions, found that the combination of machine learning technology and electronic health record (EHR) data can be more effective than current clinical tools in identifying the risk of kidney damage in diabetics.

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

Additionally, researchers also found that prescribing preventive antidepressants for this group of women did not affect the risk for developing postpartum depression, and also that a better predictor of postpartum depression were clinical interviews with the women about work activities, insomnia and suicidality.

Researchers at the NYU Langone Concussion Center reviewed studies that involved athletes who sustained a concussion during sporting activities and found the vision test, known as the King - Devick test, was 86 percent sensitive in detecting whether a concussion had occurred, as confirmed by clinical diagnosis.

And researchers generally shied away from clinical research on any patented genes — a 2003 survey found that 53 percent of genetics labs decided not to develop a new genetic test because of a patent or license.

To succeed as a clinician - researcher, a physician - scientist uses his or her mastery of both clinical practice and basic science research in parallel, often drawing on both skill sets to find advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of human disease.

Regardless of the geographic setting, the goals and challenges of translational research are the same, says Liu: Getting funding and infrastructure support from the government, training young investigators, creating a multidisciplinary community of researchers who can effectively communicate with each other, and finding ways to systematically implement translational research results into clinical practice.

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) found that rates of high - dose opioid dispensing across Canada increased from 781 units per 1,000 people in 2006 to 961 units per 1,000 people in 2011.

At the 2015 AACC Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo, researchers will present findings that a first - of - its - kind smartphone test for chlamydia can detect the disease with high accuracy, which could reduce the prevalence of this sexually transmitted disease (STD) by making chlamydia screening easier and cheaper.

These and other findings from a new study conducted by researchers at Montefiore Health System and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, offer the first clinical recommendations for making diagnostic decisions about headaches in pregnant women.

In a head - to - head clinical trial comparing standard chemotherapy with the immunotherapy drug nivolumab, researchers found that people with squamous - non-small cell lung cancer who received nivolumab lived, on average, 3.2 months longer than those receiving chemotherapy.

In general, the researchers found liraglutide 3 mg to have a safety profile that was similar to that found in previous clinical trials of the drug in individuals with Type 2 diabetes treated with lower doses.

Researchers found that AcK1 closely resembles ShK, a peptide from a sea anemone, which has been shown to suppress autoimmune diseases and is currently in clinical trials for the treatment of multiple sclerosis.

In a study published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Saint Louis University researchers have found a link between acute pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas) and pancreatic cancer, a finding which may eventually lead to some pancreatic cancers being detected earlier.

In a new study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, researchers have now found a new principle for how epigenetic changes can occur.

Schlom, of the National Cancer Institute, says the next challenge for researchers is to find ways to combine different immunotherapy drugs into single treatments and measure their efficacy in clinical trials.

Even as he leads a national clinical trial testing a combination of paclitaxel chemotherapy with an experimental agent known as efatutazone, Dr. Smallridge is working with Dr. Copland and researcher Laura Marlow to find an HDAC inhibitor that might offer additional benefit.

Now, Thomas Jefferson University researchers have found that a different blood - sugar marker is able to predict patients — both diabetic and non-diabetic - with highest risk of complications more accurately, and detect changes in glucose control much faster, which could potentially change clinical practice.

«While randomized clinical trials are needed to test whether this is a causal relationship, these findings indicate doctors should consider using or re-starting ACEIs and ARBs as first - line blood pressure medications for patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis,» said Jenny I. Shen, MD, an LA BioMed researcher and corresponding author of the study.

A study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in January of 2015 led by a Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre researcher found that the likelihood of dying of other causes for a group of men with low - risk prostate cancer in the study was about nine times higher than the risk of dying from the prostate cancer.

A researcher accused of fraud last week for allegedly hiring actors to give false testimony at his own scientific misconduct hearing, William Fals - Stewart, a clinical psychologist formerly at the University of Buffalo, New York, was found dead in his home this morning, the Buffalo News reports.

He was relatively unknown in the NCI world, as a clinical researcher who was president - elect of the American Cancer Society (ACS), an advocacy organization founded by surgeons.

UC San Francisco researchers have found a way to knock down cancers caused by a tumor - driving protein called «myc,» paving the way for patients with myc - driven cancers to enroll in clinical trials for experimental treatments.

The lead researcher for the study, Professor Gita Mishra, Professor of Life Course Epidemiology and Director of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health at the University of Queensland, Australia, said: «If the findings from our study were incorporated into clinical guidelines for advising childless women from around the age of 35 years who had their first period aged 11 or younger, clinicians could gain valuable time to prepare these women for the possibility of premature or early menopause.

«Although she's a Ph.D. - trained scientist, she's always looking for the clinical relevance of her findings,» says Hal Dietz, a researcher at the Institute for Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.

In order to find out their secret, a team of researchers from Lund University and the Institute of Clinical Neuroscience in Mölndal, both in Sweden, went to Thailand and Burma to study the Moken tribe.

A 2007 clinical trial of a vaccine made by Merck was stopped when researchers found that, in fact, more people who received the active vaccine (49) than the placebo (33) had contracted HIV.

While researchers found that playing strategy games better engaged memory and cognitive control brain regions, making them better suited for improving memory tasks, they hypothesize that action games that stimulate the limbic area and elicit more emotional arousal might be beneficial for other clinical populations like patients with mood disorders.

In a preliminary finding (abstract 5568) presented Monday, June 6, at the 2016 American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago, researchers revealed they have found bacteria in the ovaries and in the fallopian tubes.

In a randomized clinical study involving adults age 56 to 71 that recently published in Neurobiology of Aging, researchers found that after cognitive training, participants» brains were more energy efficient, meaning their brain did not have to work as hard to perform a task.

Harvard University researchers reviewed the more than 550 pediatric clinical trials that were registered with the U.S. federal government over a three - year period between 2008 and 2011 and found that more than 40 percent were never finished or that they were completed but never published even five years later.

The researchers, who reported their findings in a recent issue of BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, suggest that the findings could pave the way for clinical testing of the compounds on human colon cancer, which is the second most common cancer in women and the third in men.

Yet clinical trials in children commonly go either uncompleted or unpublished, finds a comprehensive study conducted by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital.

While some research suggests that a diet high in omega - 3 fatty acids can protect brain health, a large clinical trial by researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that omega - 3 supplements did not slow cognitive decline in older persons.

In the findings, the researchers point to the use of intensive behavioral counseling in combination with pharmaceutical aids as a factor that may have contributed to an increase in smoking cessation rates during clinical trials.

A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine, based on a 6 - month clinical trial, finds that use of a CGM is cost - effective for adult patients with type 1 diabetes when compared to daily use of test strips.

Researchers, led by senior author Dr. Jie Shi, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at Peking University in China, report these new findings in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry.

Researchers also found significant differences in secondary clinical endpoints looking at time in the hospital, valve function and major complications, some favoring TAVR, some surgery.

Researchers used those and other clinical findings to calculate the cumulative burden by tracking the incidence and severity of cardiovascular disease.

When the researchers matched this data with clinical outcomes for more than 4,600 patient specimens in medical databases, they found these subtypes were associated with different levels of disease progression.

«Having the tools to probe the molecular mechanisms of the skin's response puts researchers within closer reach to fully understanding the issue and finding answers to this tough clinical problem,» said Dunbar, who conceived the research and remains one of only a few lipidology researchers working on this issue.

Researchers noted that while pregabalin works in the same way as gabapentin — both are often used interchangeably in clinical care — this review found gabapentin was not more effective than placebo.

The researchers» findings appear in the August edition of The Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI).

The researchers call for additional larger scale, multi-center clinical studies to further confirm the findings and determine the most effective and personalized treatment protocols.

The researchers note that their findings may not necessarily apply to humans, and that further clinical data are needed.