Sentences with phrase «complex medical studies»

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Studies show that simple cosmetic breast augmentation surgery meets this goal, but more complex breast surgery involving implants for other medical reasons may not.

After residency, Dr. Chandra spent 5 years studying with, and working with, Dr. William Lee Cowden, MD a leading expert in the treatment of chronic Lyme disease and other complex medical conditions.

A study of DXplain, published in 2010, found that when residents at the Mayo Clinic used it with diagnostically complex cases, the program dramatically decreased medical costs because it led to shorter, more effective hospital stays.

Liu, who was an investigator at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC during the research, decided to study tissues removed from eight patients with either focal cortical dysplasia or tuberous sclerosis complex to see if she and her co-authors could discern what might be going awry at the molecular level.

Dr Rachael Panizzo, Programme Manager for Mental Health and Addiction at the Medical Research Council, added: «This large study provides further evidence of the complex genetics underlying schizophrenia.

«This study convincingly shows that mild trauma has a role in increasing the risk of dementia and sheds light on the more complex relationship between medical and psychiatric diseases with TBI in the development of the future risk of dementias.

Thurner studies all sorts of complex systems at the Medical University of Vienna, so when one of his doctoral students just happened to create one of the most popular free browser - based games in Europe, Thurner suggested using the game, called Pardus, to study the spontaneous organization of people in a closed society.

«While many people think of the ED as simply a place to go when you have a car accident or some type of major trauma, it is increasingly the case that the emergency department is caring for complex medical patients,» said lead author Renee Y. Hsia, MD, professor of emergency medicine at UCSF and director of health policy studies in the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine.

This reductionist approach to medical science dictated that complex systems can be understood only by first reducing them into the study of their smallest, individual, analyzable parts.

In the pilot study, recently published in the journal World Journal of Urology, this method has now been applied successfully at the Department of Urology at the Medical University of Vienna for the first time to the surgical treatment of complex renal tumors.

It provides a general high - throughput approach to identify genes that enhance the fitness of microbes over time as they grow in complex living organisms,» says Georg Gerber, one of the lead authors on the study, and Assistant Professor at Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School.

As the first people with HIV grow old, a new study from St. Michael's Hospital questions whether the health care system and other government policies are prepared to meet their complex medical and social needs.

Zeggini then did a 1 - year postdoc at Manchester's Centre for Integrated Genomic Medical Research, where she honed her skills in statistics and started developing computer - based strategies to analyse data from complex, multigene studies.

«This is one of the very first studies of human iPSC models for type 2 diabetes, and it points out the power of this technology to look at the nature of diabetes, which is complex and may be different in different individuals,» says C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Joslin's Chief Academic Officer and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Liu, who was an investigator at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington during the research, decided to study tissues removed from eight patients with either focal cortical dysplasia or tuberous sclerosis complex to see if she and her co-authors could discern what might be going awry at the molecular level.

SPOKANE, Wash. — Molecular biologist Weihang Chai, an associate professor of medical sciences, has received a five - year $ 1.45 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the potential role of the CST protein complex in preserving genome stability.

Involving tangled interactions of biological, psychological and social factors, such complex disorders have long been considered forlorn «outsiders» in the realm of scientific and medical study.

«Dancing is a complex activity,» says study lead author Joe Verghese, MD, chief of geriatrics at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.

In our primary niche (medical education), medical students often must endure academic torture by studying complex medical science concepts through the traditional medium of organized study, including attending boring classes, reading dense textbooks, and practicing thousands of arduous vignettes.

For example, imagine providing the latest medical imaging technology to first - year medical students and asking those students to interpret complex images of anatomical systems prior to studying human anatomy.

The class action litigation involved numerous complex legal, factual, and scientific issues, including disputed scientific literature and medical studies regarding the benefits of glucosamine and chondroitin.

2 For an extensive list of studies demonstrating the competence of juries, see, e.g., Testimony of Neil Vidmar, Russell M. Robinson, II Professor of Law, Duke Law School before The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, «Hearing on Medical Liability: New Ideas for Making the System Work Better for Patients,» June 22, 2006 at 10 («The overwhelming number of the judges gave the civil jury high marks for competence, diligence, and seriousness, even in complex cases... Systematic studies of jury responses to experts lead to the conclusion that jurors do not automatically defer to experts and that jurors have a basic understanding of the evidence in malpractice and other cases.

Future studies should follow guidance on the development and evaluation of complex interventions (such as the Medical Research Council's guidance).76 The results of all phases of intervention development also need to be published alongside trial results, as current studies alone do not allow us to fully understand why interventions have not produced expected effects.

Jonathan Schaffir, a doctor at Ohio State University Medical Center who has studied the link between hormonal contraception and sexual desire but who wasn't involved in this study, suggested that trying to tease out the effect of hormonal birth control on something as complex as mate choice can be misleading.

These conditions were selected for study because all are managed with complex medical regimens, require regular monitoring, medication, or dietary intervention, are relatively common in the pediatric age group, and because empirical data and clinical observations indicate that effective family adaptation is critical to successful management of these conditions.