Sentences with phrase «clinical use of our methods»

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«We chose to use Axiom Foods» Oryzatein ® ingredient,» said CEO of Growing Naturals, David Janow, «because it is the only 90 % brown rice protein isolate that is made with a proprietary enzyme fractioning method and was shown in a clinical trial for the first time to equal animal - based whey protein in building and maintaining muscle.»

When I chronicled our first grueling night of sleep training two weeks ago, mothers who had successfully used the method developed by Weissbluth, a sleep expert and professor of clinical pediatrics at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, wrote and offered their support.

[204] These methods are intended to reduce practices detrimental to breastfeeding such as early mixed feeding, use of pacifiers, and separation of mother and child in the clinical setting.The BFHI has especially targeted hospitals and birthing centers in the developing world, as these facilities are most at risk to the detrimental effects of reduced breastfeeding rates.

Fourth, although depression was assessed using a validated interview method, a true diagnosis of depression requires a clinical encounter.

He is an expert in the use of systems - based methods to improve patient outcomes, a leading researcher in use of large scale clinical laboratories and electronic health records to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of care, and a nationally recognized thought leader in the very methods needed to transition to the future of lower - cost, more patient - centered, health care for the 21st century.

The computational methods validated and optimized in the study have been integrated into a commercial MPI image reconstruction package, and are currently in clinical use in dozens of hospitals both in Finland and all over the world.

Given the limitations of the PSA blood test and the standard 12 - core ultrasound biopsies for detecting prostate cancer, researchers evaluated the initial 105 men eligible for the clinical trial using a new targeted prostate fusion biopsy method.

«Many of these methods are already being studied in clinical trials, but the path from clinical trials to routine clinical use is seldom easy,» Mankoff said.

«Not only do we believe that high - quality, randomized clinical trials are necessary to determine the safety of the Lariat device for off - label procedures, but our analysis raises broader issues with the FDA 510 (k) clearance protocol for medical devices,» said study senior author Jay Giri, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the Cardiovascular Medicine Division at Penn. «We believe there needs to be a method for reassessing the safety of a device that has been cleared for one use but is being frequently used for a different purpose in real - world practice.»

As a result, clinical psychologists have developed ways to test for suicidal intentions that circumvent self - report issues; for example, by using implicit methods that may reveal intentions of which the patients themselves are unaware.

In a series of side - by - side comparisons, Mooney's team demonstrated that APC - mimetic scaffolds performed better than methods involving commercially available expansion beads (Dynabeads), which are currently used in clinical adoptive cell transfer approaches.

«On a normal clinical MRI scan, you typically see the structural images of the brain, and for a mild brain injury like a concussion, we aren't able to see the underlying changes we were able to see using these advanced methods.»

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.

The study, published in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, outlines the benefits of using MRI scans over the existing method of positron emission tomography (PET).

«There are certain genetic variants that we know are risk factors for allergy, but genotyping is not widely used in clinical practice, so this research offers healthcare professionals an alternative method of identifying at - risk children.»

The researchers then tested their scoring method using data on 688 AML patients in three different clinical trials, In each of these groups, patients with low scores (methylation patterns similar to normal HSCs) had approximately twice the median survival time of patients with high scores.

This method is already used by these researchers for clinical purposes, with stroke survivors, and it opens many new doors for the study of language perception.

«In this study, a new «source analysis» method was used for the first time to measure functional networks in the infant brain: with the help of a computer model, the measured EEG signals were interpreted as activity in the infant cortex, which enabled the evaluation of the functional networking of neurons in a very versatile manner on the cortical level,» says Sampsa Vanhatalo, a professor in clinical neurophysiology and the head of the study.

Dr. Oren Tessler, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, is part of a team of plastic and reconstructive surgeons who report a high success rate using a method to screen and select patients for a specific surgical migraine treatment technique.

The brain health index predicted more strongly cognitive deficits commonly seen in stroke and SVD than current, validated clinical scoring methods and other computer programmes used for assessing features of brain deterioration.

«We are excited to be able to apply our research methods to explain the conundrum of mixed clinical trial results of Truvada prevention, and how men and women should best use HIV prevention therapy,» Kashuba said.

In a 1988 paper summarizing his findings, Fiebig concluded that xenograft mice were wonderful models for broadly testing new drugs against human tumors, but they «can not be used as a clinical routine method» for predicting patient treatment.1 The idea of using xenograft mice as personal avatars for cancer patients was discarded.

The first eight projects target clinical areas such as bone defects, salivary glands, and skin wounds using a variety of regenerative methods, such as stem cells, biomaterial scaffolding, and harnessing regenerative signal secretion.

Someone who knows a thing or two about the importance of data collection is Michael Andreeff, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Leukemia, who was a pioneer in the develop of flow cytometry, a method for counting and sorting cells that is commonly used in today's clinical trials.

The researchers now plan to tweak the nanoparticles for direct use in human patients, working to evaluate the safety of the method prior to potential clinical trials.

For discovery purposes, Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) variant prioritization coupled with clinical and bioinformatics expertise is currently the primary method used to identify novel disease - causing variants, however, causation is often difficult to establish due to the number of plausible variants.

Based on positive results produced from a number of scientific clinical trials, coronary artery disease therapy using adult stem cells is a promising new method of treatment for coronary artery disease patients.

Carter uses methods from cognitive neuroscience including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and conducts basic research into the neural mechanisms of cognitive control as well as clinical and translational research in schizophrenia and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

But John Branda, associate director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, and his colleagues published research in August about a test intended to detect Borrelia infection earlier than would any of the methods now commonly used for the diagnosis of Lyme disease.

Molecular imaging methods that visualize the structure and function of the living body are widely used in clinical and biomedical research settings.

Because the drug's mode of action was known and patients» response to treatment could be precisely monitored, Michor and colleagues used modeling methods and data from patients in a large clinical trial to identify a group of copiously self - renewing stem cells, which persist within the tumor, resist the drug, and sustain the cancer.

Imaging methods that visualize the structure and function of the living body are widely used in clinical and biomedical research settings.

His lab has pioneered the generation of clinical grade induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells using non-viral reprogramming methods such as direct delivery of reprogrammed proteins and novel episomal methods, and has recently identified novel mechanisms underlying metabolic reprogramming during human induced pluripotency.

Methods: Using data from two separate clinical - pathologic cohort studies of aging and AD, the Religious Orders Study (ROS) and the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP), we compared odds of AD dementia proximate to death among participants... with and without a history of cancer.

From a clinical science perspective, the authors demonstrate how «big data» can be appropriately used — with the aid of advanced statistical methods — to answer important clinical questions when a randomized study is infeasible.

Our team designed a mixed - methods approach, utilizing quantitative surveys and qualitative methods, to examine preferences and motivations of physicians and patients enrolled, evaluate the flow and utilization of genomic information within the clinical interactions, and assess understanding, behavior, medical consequences and healthcare costs associated with the use of WGS in these models of medical practice.

Methods: Using data from two separate clinical - pathologic cohort studies of aging and AD, the Religious Orders Study (ROS) and the Rush Memory and Aging Project (MAP), we compared odds of AD dementia proximate to death among participants

The BabySeq Project: Genomic Sequencing for Childhood Risk and Newborn Illness (U19 HD077671) is a first - of - its - kind randomized clinical trial designed to examine how best to use genomics in clinical pediatric medicine by creating and safely testing methods for integrating sequencing into the care of newborns.

In our study population of CFS and healthy persons from the US, we did not find any evidence of infection with XMRV using PCR and serologic methods performed independently in three laboratories blinded to the clinical status of the study participants.

Specific Clinical / Research Interest: Experimental neuropathology, neurodegenerative disorders, brain aging; Functional anatomy of the cerebral cortex, comparative neuroanatomy; Computer - assisted morphometry, stereology, microscopy; Magnetic resonance microscopy, functional brain imaging Current Students: Tuyen Nguyen (PhD) Postdoctoral Fellows: Camilla Butti, PhD, Timothy Rumbell PhD, Merina Varghese PhD Research Personnel: Bridget Wicinski, Daniel Dickstein Summary of Research Studies: Our research is directed towards the study of selective neuronal vulnerability in dementing illnesses using classical neuropathological as well as modern quantitative immunohistochemical methods.

This initiative will significantly accelerate the use of genomics in clinical medicine by creating and safely testing novel methods for integrating information from WGS into physicians» care of patients.

Using state - of - the - art proteomics and associated computational methods, the Speicher laboratory is investigating protein changes associated with ovarian cancer, melanoma, cardiac injury resulting from breast cancer therapies, ectopic pregnancy, red cell diseases, and other clinical disorders.

Two brain imaging methods were used for measuring blood flow changes and the brain region crosstalk, with symptoms of depression reported by completing clinical questionnaires.

Eric revealed with forensic detail the methods he uses in his clinical practice to diagnose and successfully treat this most difficult of conditions.

Most recently, Dr. Cheng has created K3 Combat Movement Systems, which draws on concepts from his different fields of research and experience to create a holistic means of developing, optimizing, and restoring the body to achieve top performance under stress using clinical, aesthetic, conditioning, and combative training methods.

Ruth has over 30 years clinical experience working with IC patients — listening, testing, and treating this debilitating condition — using the latest methods of diagnosis and treatment.

One study found that people felt about 4o percent less pain, and were able to stand pain for about 45 percent longer, when they used reflexology as a method of pain relief, reports the Journal of Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice.

Until we know more about the validity of in vitro methods, it is not recommended that they be used in clinical or epidemiologic research applications or for food labeling purposes because of the potential for large over - or underestimates of true GI values.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

This required focusing on specific areas of leadership practice separately (e.g., methods of clinical supervision, school - improvement planning, classroom walk - throughs, uses of student performance data), or within comprehensive guidelines or frameworks for leadership practice.240 In one of the higher - performing urban districts in our sample, district officials organized a three - year principaldevelopment program based on Marzano «s balanced leadership program.