Sentences with phrase «discovered by patients»

The number of medical malpractice lawsuits against any doctor is on record and can be discovered by patients or prospective patients.

The Legislature passed a scaled - back version of Lavern's Law that would start the window to bring medical malpractice cases involving cancer when an error is discovered by the patient, not when the mistake occurred, as under current law.

The Legislature on Wednesday passed a scaled - back version of Lavern's Law that would start the window to bring medical malpractice cases involving cancer when an error is discovered by the patient, not when the mistake occurred, as under current law.

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Despite this, our report presents an optimistic road ahead for R&D and business leaders and explores the emerging technologies that have the potential to dramatically transform the productivity and efficiency by which drugs are discovered, developed, and brought to patients.

Hopefully by filing suit and making my allegations public, I will help to ensure that Catholic Charities will finally fix the systemic problems I discovered and provide the type of medical treatment that would warrant the level of trust its patients place in it.»

Yet young people will not normally discover this without the sustained and patient insistence by adults that they expend effort in significant work.

I discovered that mental health practitioners do wonder why religious delusions / hallucinations are so prominent in patients with serious mental health diagnoses, especially schizophrenia — why do the delusions / hallucinations experienced by these persons have a religious theme?

(«If one would prefer not to make use of a doubter, one might choose a similar figure, an ironist, for example, whose sharp sight has discovered fundamentally the ludicrousness of existence, who by a secret understanding with the forces of life ascertains what the patient wishes.

But as many «culturist» critics of science note, this belief is belied by the fact that apologists for science tend to defend their position by passionate appeals to the universality and immutability of the «laws of nature» that science progressively and objectively discovers: laws that it would be absurd to view as socially constructed.3 Such an objection, however, fails to take note of the fact that, as Whitehead puts it, «Nature is patient of interpretation in terms of Laws which happen to interest us» (AI 136).

One discovers God and His will by patient, quiet focusing of attention in this direction.

Under legislation passed by the Senate and the Assembly on Wednesday, patients who are misdiagnosed would have two and a half years from the date they discover the error to file suit.

A pharmaceutical hit compound, like those discovered by Vogel and her co-authors, is a compound that is a promising candidate for chemical modification so it can eventually be delivered to patients as a therapeutic drug.

Researchers administering inhaled transgenic alpha - 1 antitrypsin from sheep bred by PPL discovered that some patients suffered pulmonary symptoms that caused them to leave the trial — a possible immune reaction to residual proteins from the animal that remained after purification of the drug.

For a long time, scientists presumed that emotional factors caused Persistent Developmental Stuttering (PDS), but a team of researchers, led by Anne Foundas of Tulane University, has discovered interesting patterns that suggest otherwise in the brains of PDS patients.

By immersing themselves in the patient experience, the team discovered the inadequacy of better reminders as a solution to the problem.

They discovered the possible role of HAP by examining tissue samples from patients using X-ray diffraction and fluorescent staining chemicals.

Summers and the research team, led by Dr. Mike Jensen at the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children's Research Institute, are opening PLAT - 04 after discovering that of the patients who relapsed in the PLAT - 02 trial, approximately 40 percent of them relapsed with a leukemia that evolved to circumvent the CAR T cells that were reprogrammed to detect and destroy cancer.

Now Ahern has discovered that some drugs used to put patients to sleep may also increase postoperative pain from the procedure itself by boosting the activity of a protein called TRPA1 on the surface of pain - sensing nerve cells.

Research led by the University of Birmingham has discovered that patients who suffer from both Type 2 diabetes and obstructive sleep apnea are at greater risk of developing a condition that leads to blindness within an average period of less than four years.

By examining patient tissue samples and information about whether each person had had a recurrence, the scientists discovered that high FAK activity was linked to the disease returning, either as DCIS or invasive breast cancer.

A team led by Øystein Fluge and Olav Mella at the Haukeland University Hospital in Bergen, Norway, discovered by chance that rituximab might help people with CFS after seeing symptoms ease in a patient who had both lymphoma and CFS (PLoS One, DOI: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0026358).

Or the positioning of the electrodes might have been partially to blame: In a separate study, which began after the BROADEN trial, Mayberg and colleagues discovered that they could improve response rates — by as much as 80 % in 24 patients — by fine - tuning the electrodes» position.

Of the 1,850 or so patients that have been afflicted by the disease since it was first discovered, over 1,200 have died.

Scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make adult sensory neurons from human patients simply by having them roll up their sleeve and providing a blood sample.

A patient hacker can take control of a journal's website if a publisher isn't careful — as our correspondent discovered by doing so himself

«This could help revolutionize cardiology research by improving the ability to efficiently discover, design, develop and deliver new therapies for the treatment of heart disease, and by providing more efficient screening tools to identify and prevent cardiac side effects, ultimately leading to safer and more effective treatments for patients suffering from heart disease.»

«GECCO aims to continue to discover additional colorectal cancer - related variants by investigating how genetic variants are modified by other environmental and lifestyle risk factors, including biomarkers as well as how they influence patient treatment response and survival,» Peters said, emphasizing how much further research is required to uncover the specific mechanisms by which genes modulate the intake of certain foods on colorectal cancer risk.

«We used mice with conditions that mimic those often found in transplant patients — hyperlipidemia is common in patients before transplantation but can also be caused by drugs to prevent organ rejection — and discovered that it accelerates organ rejection.

Their team discovered by accident that rituximab might work against CFS after seeing symptoms ease in a patient who had both lymphoma and CFS.

The researchers also discovered that c9RAN proteins produced by the abnormal RNA can be measured in the spinal fluid of ALS patients.

It was discovered in the mid 1880s by a German pediatrician named Theodore Escherich who was trying to figure out why [it] was that all, so many, I should say, of his patient's babies were dying.

But by sequencing the entire genomes of seven prostate tumors and comparing them with genomes from the patients» normal cells, the researchers discovered an unexpected phenomenon.

When they compared the timing and provision of hospice care between patients treated by the VA and those who received care paid for by Medicare, they discovered differences that could not be explained by cancer types.

Dr O'Brien added: «We have discovered that the immune system of patients with advanced liver disease can be boosted for at least 24 hours by infusing albumin into a vein which reduces PGE2's effects.

A team of University of South Carolina scientists led by assistant research professor Carolyn Banister and associate professor Phillip Buckhaults has discovered a new subtype of cervical cancer that affects 8 percent of patients.

They then discovered that patients with celiac disease had unusually low levels of lnc13 in their intestines, suggesting that reduced levels of this RNA may contribute to the inflammation seen in celiac disease by turning off the normal regulatory pathway.

This gene was discovered by Professor Stein, Professor emeritus Peter Schlag (MDC and Charité) and Professor Walter Birchmeier (MDC) in 2009 in tissue samples of colon cancer patients.

By studying these malignant cells in greater detail, they discovered that the virus, when inserting its DNA into the genome of the patient's cells, targets genes that are important in cell proliferation.

Courtesy of Intermountain Medical Center Patients with hepatitis C who suffer from advanced stages of liver disease have renewed hope, thanks to findings by researchers who have discovered that a new drug significantly reduces their risk of deat...

This will fast - track new immune - modulating therapies for cancer patients by discovering and developing small molecule product candidates against immuno - oncology targets.

The single - letter variant (or SNP) was discovered by analyzing the genomes of a total of more than 16,000 patients and healthy subjects from Iceland, Austria, Germany and the United States.

«By studying cells in vitro we discovered new information and pathologies that were true in actual patients,» Rubin says.

The team plans to accomplish this goal by expanding whole genome or exome sequencing for patients, using patient - derived cells to discover new disease mechanisms, and personalized drug library screening.

Competitors have been tasked with discovering the unknown genetic basis of the disorders faced by three pediatric patients and, in the process, create best practices for interpreting and presenting genomic sequence results to patients and their families and physicians in meaningful ways that can help guide healthcare decisions.

Beginning in 2005, Dr. De Vivo and the network will conduct clinical trials in SMA patients with drugs that are currently under study as well as any compounds newly discovered by Dr. Stockwell, Dr. Monani and others.

By scouring the DNA of thousands of patients, researchers have discovered four rare gene mutations that not only lower the levels of triglycerides but also significantly reduce a person & rsquo; s risk of coronary heart disease

In 2010, scientists at Suleyman Demirel University in Turkey discovered that by combining Vitamins C and E with exercise reduced stress in fibromyalgia patients better than exercise alone.

Discouraged by our broken health care system and curious why some patients do everything «right» but still wind up sick, Lissa set out to discover why some patients experience miraculous cures from seemingly incurable illnesses, while others remain sick even when they receive the best medical care.

Spurred on by his patients» struggles with sugar addiction, he was determined to discover how addictive and harmful sugar can be and ways to overcome that addiction.

Several years ago I discovered that many, if not most psoriasis patients, actually have an underlying and undetected yeast infection or suffer from SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth), and that many of these patients improved significantly, and many to the point of eradicating their psoriasis by following my Psoriasis Diet.