Sentences with phrase «death than patients»

Sales plummeted to $ 1.2 billion in 2009, two years after a study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) that linked Avandia to a 43 percent increased risk of heart attack and a 64 percent higher risk of cardiovascular death than patients treated with other methods.

By 2009, sales had dropped to $ 1.2 billion following a damning study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 2007, which linked Avandia to a 43 percent increased risk of heart attack and a 64 percent higher risk of cardiovascular death than patients treated with other methods.

In the era of personalized cancer therapy, patients with TNBC remain at considerably higher risk of relapse and death than patients with other breast cancer subtypes, due to the aggressive nature of TNBC and the lack of newer targeted therapies for the disease.

Not exact matches

Because it makes up more than 13 % of all new cancers and nearly 27 % of all cancer deaths in the U.S. Just 17.7 % of diagnosed patients are still alive five years out from their diagnosis.

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACAD) faded 24 percent Monday after CNN exposed the deaths of more than 700 Nuplazid patients since the drug's June 2016 launch.

His research concluded that only those with a high risk of death actually benefited from heart transplants, more than 80 \ % of donor hearts going to patients who were likely to live for longer without a transplant.

According to Professor Patrick Pullicino, far too often elderly patients who could live longer are placed on the LCP which has now become, he says, an «assisted death pathway» rather than a «care pathway».

In an earlier book, Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients, and the Dutch Cure (1996), Hendin described how the actual witnessing of the effects of legalized euthanasia, far more than any theoretical consideration, persuaded him of its pernicious impact.

A disturbing article published in JAMA Internal Medicine propounded a «worse than death» category to measure patient suffering in the context of making treatment decisions for hospitalized patients.

Should the «worse than death» meme ever be accepted by society, or adopted into the standard - of - care guidelines established by healthcare technocrats, or implemented under Obamacare cost / benefit insurance coverage guidelines, then expanding access to assisted suicide to — and even rationing the healthcare of — such patients is an imminent possibility.

From «States Worse Than Death in Hospitalized Patients»:

The authors asked hospitalized patients to rate conditions — which they were not then experiencing — on a sliding scale, ranging from «worse than death, neither better nor worse than death, a little better than death, somewhat better than death, or much better than death.»

Patients displayed considerable heterogeneity in their ratings of health states relative to death... but significant percentages of patients rated each evaluated state of serious functional debility as equal to or worse thaPatients displayed considerable heterogeneity in their ratings of health states relative to death... but significant percentages of patients rated each evaluated state of serious functional debility as equal to or worse thapatients rated each evaluated state of serious functional debility as equal to or worse than death.

The essay «God as Monica's Breast» is worth the price of the volume, and the «Consenting to Die» essay, which discusses suicide and death as something to do» rather than just wait for, breaks into a fictional discussion between a doctor and a cancer patient.

The fact that doctors are free to prescribe lethally for people with illnesses outside their areas of medical specialization — and to do so secure in the knowledge that they are legally less accountable than if they were treating the same patient — demonstrates the folly of legalizing doctor - prescribed death.

If properly trained midwives exclude higher risk patients in advance, then why is their death rate acceptable only in a study that has much stricter criteria for inclusion than real life?

Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight - year period, John Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the United States.

So even when homebirth midwives stick to low risk patients, homebirth has a death rate 320 % higher than comparable risk hospital birth.

> So even when homebirth midwives stick to loss risk patients, homebirth has a death rate 320 % higher than comparable risk hospital birth.

Armor spokeswoman Teresa Estefan said the company had treated more than 200,000 patients at Nassau's jail, and «sadly, there are deaths which are not preventable as is the case in some of the most prestigious hospitals.»

Similarly, Balboni wrote, the cancer patients who relied on private, unspoken religious beliefs to manage their illness were «nearly three times more likely to receive intensive life - prolonging care near death and less likely to enter hospice during the final weeks of life» than those without a pronounced religious sense.

«Our research indicates that insertion of cervical pessary at around 22 weeks in both randomly selected women pregnant with twins and in patients with a short cervix of less than 25 millimeters does not reduce the rate of spontaneous early preterm birth, perinatal death, adverse neonatal outcome, or need for neonatal therapy.»

Over a median follow - up of nearly eight years, patients who were current smokers had a 40 % increased risk of cancer relapse, as well as more than 2 - times increased risks of cancer spread and cancer - related death, compared with patients who were never smokers.

In addition, some patient groups and members of Congress have recently asked why AIDS receives disproportionately far more than diseases with higher death rates, such as heart disease and Alzheimer's.

Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue Patients undergoing surgery for a hip fracture were older and had more medical conditions than patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue patients who underwent an elective total hip replacement, factors that may contribute to the higher risk of in - hospital death and major postoperative complications experienced by hip fracture surgery patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue patients, according to a study in the September 15 issue of JAMA.

«The increased death rate is cause for concern, because the prognosis for this tumour is bleak, with less than five percent of pancreatic cancer patients surviving for five years after diagnosis.

Each year in the U.S., nearly 46,000 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and more than 39,000 patients die, making it the fourth leading cause of cancer death.

Patients with 2 or 3 of the predictors had a sudden cardiac death risk that was 145 times greater than patients with normal levels on all 3 mPatients with 2 or 3 of the predictors had a sudden cardiac death risk that was 145 times greater than patients with normal levels on all 3 mpatients with normal levels on all 3 measures.

More unexpected, researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison uncovered a link between sleep apnea and cancer mortality: Cancer deaths among patients with severe apnea were five times higher than among those without.

However, in the largest study of its kind so far, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average population.

During the following season (2013 - 2014), when H1N1 viruses dominated and the standard - dose vaccine had better effectiveness than the previous season, the high - dose vaccine was not significantly better at preventing deaths among the Medicare patients studied.

The primary endpoint of death and non-fatal heart attack at 30 days was no different between the two groups (7 percent in the aspirin group and 7.1 percent in the placebo group); however, major bleeding was significantly higher in aspirin - treated patients than in the placebo group (4.6 percent vs. 3.7 percent).

For each 1 degree C increase in the body temperature of a stroke patient, the risk of death or severe disability more than doubles.

Furthermore, this frailty test was shown to be a more reliable predictor of death and serious complications than patient age.

«And yet more than six of every 10 black trauma patients are served each year in high - mortality hospitals, which increases their risk of death.

In a study presented at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in New Orleans, researchers will report that patients delivered at home by midwives had a roughly four times higher risk of neonatal deaths than babies delivered in the hospital by midwives.

Maintaining or achieving blood pressure control in patients with arthritis and concomitant hypertension (treated or untreated) could avoid more than 70,000 deaths from stroke and 60,000 deaths from coronary heart disease each year, 2 making it important to investigate the effects of various NSAIDs on blood pressure.

«Our study is the first to focus on weight change around RA diagnosis and risk of death, rather than weight change in patients who had RA for many years, as in previous studies,» said Dr. Sparks.

Although some research has suggested that the use of the anticoagulant warfarin for atrial fibrillation among patients with chronic kidney disease would increase the risk of death or stroke, a study that included more than 24,000 patients found a lower l - year risk of the combined outcomes of death, heart attack or stroke without a higher risk of bleeding, according to a study in the March 5 issue of JAMA.

Newer drug - coated stents that keep arteries open have similar long - term rates of death compared with traditional bypass surgery for patients with more than one diseased coronary artery.

Serious consequences, such as a reaction that threatened a patient's life or caused a disability, were 2.6 times more frequent in 2005 than in 1998, while deaths increased by 2.7 times, from 5519 in 1998 to 15,107 in 2005, say researchers who examined data collected by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The second question is more difficult to answer than it might seem because the low prevalence of cancer and diabetes in Laron patients is counterbalanced by an abnormally high risk of death from other causes, especially accidents, alcohol, and convulsive disorders.

Patients will however be more concerned to avoid death and major complications, such as heart attack or stroke, than re-operations.

«To put the risks in perspective, if 100 patients had a partial knee rather than a total knee replacement there would be one fewer death and three more re-operations in the first four years after surgery.»

Death rates were 3.7 times higher in women who had a heart attack (8.8 per 1,000 person - years) and 1.8 times higher in women who had ischemic stroke (4.4 per 1,000 person - years) than the comparison patients (2.4 per 1,000 person - years), the authors report.

Data revealed today at The International Liver Congress ™ 2015 show that the long - term use of entecavir (ETV) or tenofovir (TDF) results in excellent 5 - year survival for Caucasian patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), with more than 95 % of patients surviving at 5 years and a significant proportion of deaths coming from liver - unrelated causes.

The fungal infection cryptococcal meningitis is responsible for more than 180,000 deaths per year worldwide, mainly in HIV - infected patients.

That's more than 5 times the risk of death seen in the patients who had no additional non-fatal cardiovascular event while in the study.

Over the past decade, death rates for black patients were approximately 40 % higher than white patients.

Also, septic patients with evidence of cytomegalovirus in plasma, a component of blood, had significantly higher 90 - day death rates than septic patients who tested negative for the virus, although it is not clear whether the cytomegalovirus contributed to the additional deaths.