Not exact matches
«A significant body of research has resulted in a shift from thinking of placebos as just «dummy» treatments to recognizing that placebo effects encompass numerous aspects of the health care experience and are central to medicine and
patient care,» said the article's
coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo
Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
A review and meta - analysis by Fausto Petrelli, M.D., of the ASST Bergamo Ovest, Treviglio, Italy, and
coauthors included 66
studies and more than 1.4 million
patients with a median follow - up of 65 months.
The population - based
study by Rodolfo Savica, M.D., Ph.D., and
coauthors of the Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minn., included all the residents of Minnesota's Olmsted County and identified 461
patients with synucleinopathies and 452
patients without for comparison.
Dr. Bachhuber and
coauthors conclude: «To fully understand the effect of medical cannabis on the use of other drugs, prospective longitudinal
studies randomizing
patients to cannabis versus other treatments are urgently needed.»
«We are evaluating
patient and disease factors that affect the value of FDG PET / CT for systemic staging of locally advanced breast cancer,» said
study coauthor Molly Parsons.
The hospital's new surgical
patient safety program, which aligned with NSQIP best practices, quickly resulted in «a dramatic reduction» of SSIs, said Rael Klein, MD, FRCP, a
study coauthor and an anesthesiologist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
In a second
study, Melissa M. Parker, M.S., of Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, Calif., and
coauthors examined whether glycemic control improves for Latino
patients with limited - English proficiency with diabetes who switch from English - only to Spanish - speaking primary care physicians.
In one
study, Alicia Fernández, M.D., of San Francisco General Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco, and
coauthors examined the association of
patient race / ethnicity, preferred language and physician -
patient language concordance with adherence to newly prescribed diabetes medications among Latino and white
patients.
In the
study by Lisa E. Ishii, M.D., M.S.H., of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and her
coauthors, 473 casual observers completed a survey that included images of 13 unique
patients before and after surgery, although survey participants were unaware of
patients» surgery status.
«I am pleased to see that the data could provide useful information which helps
patients with CP and their parents make good decisions,» comments Dr. Paul Sponseller, a
coauthor of the
study.
«Short bowel syndrome is a devastating illness requiring
patients to be fed intravenously,» says gastroenterologist Peter Ngo, MD, a
coauthor on the
study.
«There has been tremendous growth in R&D infrastructure in China in recent years, much of it financed from government sources,» says Rezaie, who is a
coauthor of a 2008
study titled «Chinese Health Biotech and the Billion -
Patient Market.»
In their
study, Dr Cuadros and
coauthors sought to determine whether hard exudates in clinic photographs are an accurate indicator of clinically significant macular edema in
patients with diabetes.
«In the future, we could even imagine treating
patients with a drug cocktail that acts on the brain or spinal cord, rejuvenating cells in the brain in real time,»
study coauthor Yadong Huang of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease said in the statement.
If those stop working,
patients can still go on to have a total joint replacement, which is also a very effective form of therapy, says
study coauthor Brian Feagan, MD, a professor of medicine and the director of the clinical trials unit at the Robarts Research Institute at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.