Sentences with phrase «colleagues studied patients»
For several decades, beginning in the 1960s, neuroscientist Roger Sperry of the California Institute of Technology, psychologist Michael S. Gazzaniga of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and their colleagues studied patients who underwent surgery to sever the corpus callosum (the large band of neural fibers connecting the two hemispheres) in an effort to halt intractable epilepsy.
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The study, by Yusuke Tsugawa and colleagues at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and other institutions, examined the record of a large random sample of Medicare patients, 65 years or older, who were hospitalized from January 2011 to December 2014.
Some comes from another of his collaborations, with Glenna Batson, a WSSU physical therapy colleague who is studying dance as a rehabilitation therapy for patients with Parkinson's disease.
Brennan D. Eadie, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and colleagues conducted a study that included patients who had received intravitreous bevacizumab injections for exudative age - related macular degeneration.
Lu and colleagues are planning additional studies that could inform treatment plans for burn patients.
Thus, the strengths of Gupta and colleagues» study lie in the fact that these were the same patients, no run - in period existed to exclude patients intolerant to therapy, and few patients had previously taken any statins.
Tear samples from patients with diabetes show elevated levels of substance P, which are related to early damage to the corneal nerves, which may contribute to the development of corneal ulcers and poor wound healing in patients with diabetes, according to the pilot study by Maria Markoulli, PhD, MOptom, FAAO, and colleagues of University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Kessler Foundation scientists collaborated with colleagues in Spain to study memory and learning in patients with Parkinson Disease (PD).
Ramsey and colleagues studied 77 stroke patients with neglect and 31 adults of the same age who had not experienced strokes.
In this study, Nath and his colleagues compared serum samples from patients with Nodding syndrome and healthy controls who all lived in the same village in Uganda.
According to a July 2012 study of 400 primary care patients (published by Miller and her colleagues in the popular family practice journal Annals of Family Medicine), 22 percent of individuals with chronic health issues suffer from some degree of chemical intolerance.
For the past eight years, he and his colleagues have been studying epilepsy patients who have had electrodes implanted in a region of their brains called the medial temporal lobe, as part of a study to identify the source of their seizures.
Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, Dr. Ho and his colleagues studied cases of psoriasis and depression in a pool of 12,382 adult patients.
Some of the best support for this contention came in 2012, when researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and their colleagues published a meta - analysis of 29 studies involving nearly 18,000 patients, which found that traditional acupuncture produced a somewhat greater reduction in pain than placebo or sham acupuncture.
In another study, Andrew J. Muir, M.D., of the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., and colleagues evaluated the effectiveness of treatment with daclatasvir, asunaprevir, and beclabuvir in patients who were treatment - naive and treatment - experienced with chronic HCV genotype 1 infection and cirrhosis.
Recent studies by Sood and colleagues at USC Schaeffer Center, the USC Price School of Public Policy and the USC School of Pharmacy have found that most consumers on high - deductible plans are not comparing prices to find the best deals on services or on prescription drugs, even though the research indicates that some patients could potentially save hundreds or thousands of dollars per year.
To study the role of sweet taste receptors, Cohen and lead study author Robert J. Lee, PhD, a post doctoral researcher in his lab, partnered with colleagues from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Monell Chemical Senses Center to analyze cultures and tissue samples from the upper respiratory tract of patients who were undergoing sinonasal surgery for a variety of conditions.
But as Swedo and colleagues studied data from the drug trials for their Sydenham patients and controls without the disease, they found something else.
In their original study, Bennett and her colleagues treated each of the 12 patients in one eye; six improved so much they no longer met the criteria for legal blindness.
For example, Tamara Gurvits, Roger Pitman, and their colleagues at the Manchester VA Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have studied combat PTSD patients and reported that one side of the hippocampus was about 25 percent smaller than expected.
Martin's colleague Catherine Suter of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney is studying whether melanoma patients have epimutations in genes associated with the cancer.
In the current study, Zhang and her colleagues, including Esther John, Ph.D., senior cancer epidemiologist at the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, analyzed data on 6,235 American and Canadian breast cancer patients from the Breast Cancer Family Registry, a National Cancer Institute - funded program that has collected clinical and questionnaire data on enrolled participants and their families since 1995.
Seeking to quantify and validate the concerns of their colleagues, the study's authors looked at the link between opioids administered in the emergency room and patient satisfaction scores more rigorously.
For their Lancet study, Anderson and his colleagues (from the U.S. and Southeast Asia) studied the infections of 3,202 malaria patients on the western border of Thailand over the course of a decade.
In the new study, scientists from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and their colleagues sequenced the complete genomes of ST258 K. pneumoniae strains collected from two patients in New Jersey hospitals.
Patients with temporal - type migraine derive similar and significant improvement from techniques that relieve pressure on (decompression) or remove a portion of (neurectomy) the nerve responsible for triggering their headaches, reports the study by ASPS Member Surgeon Bahman Guyuron, MD, Emeritus professor of plastic surgery at Case School of Medicine, Cleveland, and colleagues.
Another study, conducted by Barbara Weber and her colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania, screened 263 breast cancer patients for BRCA1 mutations and asked them about their family history of breast and ovarian cancers.
She and her colleagues will be publishing other studies in the future where patients» mental health is assessed over a period longer than four weeks.
Chirieac and colleagues hope to extend their study of ALK - positive mesotheliomas in a global patient population.
In the new work, Luisa Pereira of the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health - University of Porto (i3S), Anavaj Sakuntabhai of Institut Pasteur - Paris and colleagues studied the genetics of 411 patients admitted with dengue virus infection to three hospitals in Thailand between 2000 and 2003.
In a new study, Dmitry Tumin, PhD, of Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, and his colleagues looked to see whether recent expansions of Medicaid eligibility increased Medicaid enrollment and insurance coverage in these patients.
Marc Hartert and colleagues have studied how patients do after a lung transplant, and their review appears in the current edition of the Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.
In the new study, to test whether the same observation was true in humans, Dr. Rostami and colleagues tested blood samples of patients with MS who had not yet received therapy, and those currently being treated with INF - β, a commonly used therapy.
The paper is one of a series of studies by Doyle and his colleagues which use the random assignment of patients to hospitals, due to ambulance - dispatch practices, in order to evaluate hospital effectiveness.
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Biochemist Richard Thompson, PhD, along with his colleague from University College, London, Imre Lengyel, PhD, and a multidisciplinary international team studied retinal samples from a group of elderly patients, some of whom had AMD.
In one study that examined data from over 38 million inpatients in North America, Devereaux and his colleagues determined that patients treated at investor - owned, private for - profit hospitals had a significantly higher risk of dying.
Dr. Grant and colleagues also performed a separate analysis of data from eight studies — including 838 patients — assessing nausea and vomiting as the main outcome of interest.
To conduct their study, Kaur, Baiocchi and their colleagues used tumor tissue from patients, cell lines and an animal model.
«Our colleagues at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands work with patients who have FSHD2 and have been studying the genetic changes in these families,» Chan said.
For the study, Gabriella Hobbs, MD, and Nancy Keating, MD, MPH, of Harvard Medical School, and their colleagues surveyed 5284 patients with a new diagnosis of lung or colon cancer, and asked participants how they involved their families in decisions about their care.
Boyle and colleagues used data from a case - control study conducted between 2000 and 2004 in British Columbia (BC), which recruited 820 NHL patients (59 percent men) of various ages from the B.C. Cancer Registry and 848 randomly selected controls matched for age, gender, and residential location, from the Client Registry of the British Columbia Ministry of Health.
For the study, Dr. Lakhani and his colleague, Baskaran Sundaram, M.D., obtained 1,007 X-rays of patients with and without active TB.
«Our study is the first in the UK to demonstrate that those who regularly attend Rounds see significant benefits; their symptoms of anxiety and depression are reduced, they are better able to cope with the issues they face and have more empathy towards patients and colleagues, which undeniably has a positive impact on those in their care.
White and colleagues will work with other collaborators at the Cancer Institute to develop early - phase patient clinical trials based on the findings from this study in the near future.
In an Arthritis Care & Research study, Susan Goodman, MD, of the Hospital for Special Surgery and Weill Cornell Medical School, and her colleagues investigated the potential impact of weight on the likelihood that patients would achieve remission in the early years after an RA diagnosis.
«This study demonstrates that CRFA is an effective long - term therapeutic option for managing pain, and improving physical function and quality of life, for patients suffering from painful knee osteoarthritis when compared with intra-articular steroid injection,» according to the clinical trial report by Leonardo Kapural, MD, PhD, of the Center for Clinical Research, Winston - Salem, N.C., and colleagues.
Controlled studies, reviewed by Duke University psychologist Thomas R. Lynch and his colleagues in 2007, indicate that DBT somewhat reduces the suicidal and self - destructive behaviors of patients.
A new study from Quoc - Dien Trinh, MD and colleagues at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) examined cancer patients in eight different Asian American subgroups and found their cancer - specific mortality (CSM) was substantially lower than that of non-Hispanic white patients.
In a previous study, Freeman and colleagues demonstrated that orthostatic hypotension is linked to reversible cognitive impairment in patients with a rare neurological disorder called autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy.