Sentences with phrase «doctors and patients diagnose»

While it's intriguing that data mining of this type could potentially help doctors and patients diagnose certain conditions earlier, it's also kind of creepy.

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At Inova, that kind of speed has been enabling doctors to quickly diagnose genetic diseases in newborns, and makes it easier for pharmacists to prescribe medications that match a patient's genetic makeup.

I understand that a false diagnosis and an inaccurate prescription may do more harm to the patient, but a doctor who does not love the patient or care about the patient and genuinely desire that they get well, will likely not accurately diagnose the sickness or prescribe a medicine.

When the Canadian Supreme Court conjured in its governing Charter the right to receive euthanasia for virtually any diagnosed condition that causes «irremediable suffering» — a term that includes «psychological pain,» disability, and suffering that is deemed irremediable because alleviating treatment is refused by the patient — I hoped Canadian doctors would revolt.

What were the rules after you had dragged out of the doctor the fact that only a few patients with metastatic adenocarcinoma diagnosed in its late stages, like Vee's, lived more than two years, and most were gone within a year?

Because it can't be diagnosed by X-ray, doctors diagnose it by asking questions and getting patients to do simple physical activities — my son had to touch his nose and then touch the doctor's hand over and over.

In addition, it is important for doctors and other mental health professionals to be trained to diagnose postpartum depression, anxiety, OCD and psychosis to insure the proper treatment and education of their patients and their families.

It was great that he took our taxpayer money and funneled it to a researcher at Columbia in return for the Doctor referring all diagnosed patients to Sheldon's law firm.

The training enables clinical scientists to help doctors diagnose a patient's disease and suggest treatment.

Clinical scientists do everything from applied research and hospital laboratory diagnostics to helping doctors diagnose a patient's disease.

Instead, the study authors attribute the risk to «detection bias,» where the group of patients likely to take erection medicines also happens to be more health conscious, more likely to see a doctor, and so more likely to get diagnosed with melanoma than other men of similar age.

Or perhaps the LSA simply detected the patients» recovery as reflected by their writing but not brought about by it — in that case, programs such as LIWC could aid doctors in diagnosing illness and gauging treatment progression.

An inexpensive blood test to diagnose schizophrenia could be made available within two years, offering a groundbreaking alternative to conventional methods that rely on conversations between patients and doctors.

The official list of mental disorders that doctors use to diagnose patients is found in ICD - 10 (International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision) and DSM - 5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition).

In more than two decades as a doctor, I've diagnosed more than 1,000 patients with pancreatic cancer, and giving this kind of news is never easy.

The other major focus of the plan is to strengthen health teams and boost resources needed to diagnose cases, treat patients and trace other people they may have infected, a plea echoed this week by leading doctors from Sierra Leone writing in medical journal The Lancet.

By classifying mental disorders and giving them names, DSM not only influences how doctors diagnose and treat their patients.

Seek a physician who has experience diagnosing dementia and who works with dementia patients — your primary care doctor, a geriatrician, geriatric psychologist or a neurologist, Miller says.

Doctors and researchers in Southampton have developed a novel way of using a swab test which can rapidly diagnose flu and other viral infections in patients with severe respiratory conditions — resulting in shorter courses of antibiotics and less time in hospital.

Palmer said the multi-site registry will help doctors who treat patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis better understand how to diagnose and manage the disease, while it will also help researchers uncover the basic causes and mechanisms of the disease.

Dr Martin Brunet, a GP from Surrey, says that «medicine depends on a fundamental, unspoken agreement between patients and doctors -LSB-...] the only factor influencing the decision to diagnose should be the best interests of patients.»

To map the gene, the deCODE scientists and collaborating doctors from the National University Hospital in Reykjavik identified 178 patients diagnosed with PsA from the nearly 1000 patients participating in the company's program in psoriasis.

Eye pressure measurements obtained from the sensor can significantly improve the way eye doctors are diagnosing and treating their patients.

A research team led by an award - winning genomicist at Western University has developed a new method for identifying mutations and prioritizing variants in breast and ovarian cancer genes, which will not only reduce the number of possible variants for doctors to investigate, but also increase the number of patients that are properly diagnosed.

(DAVID P. HALL / CORBIS) More and more doctors and clinics around the U.S. are adopting «expedited partner therapy» for patients diagnosed with gonorrhea or chlamydia.

Doctors diagnose pink eye based on a patient's medical history, eye exam, and other physical signs and symptoms.

When a medical condition is diagnosed, the next step for doctors and patients is usually pursuing treatment options — which could mean medication, surgery, or lifestyle changes, depending on the problem.

Celiac disease can be definitively diagnosed using a two - step process: Doctors test the patient's blood for the presence of intestine - attacking antibodies activated by gluten, and, if those tests come back positive, they order a biopsy (or series of biopsies) to look for intestinal damage, any evidence of which confirms the diagnosis.

The only way to know for sure if an illness is pneumonia is to take a chest X-ray, but doctors often diagnose it and prescribe antibiotics after examining patients and listening to their lungs with a stethoscope.

That's why doctors use physical findings and patient history to diagnose the condition.

Breast Cancer Book Introduction: What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer The introduction to What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer, about the challenges women face when they are diagnosed with breast cancer and a call to women to take charge of their health care and physicians to listen to their patients.

The problem here is that doctors and the medical system simply just test for so - called «anti-thyroid antibodies», and if they find the presence of these antibodies over a certain level, they diagnose the patient with Hashimoto's.

With that said, I admittedly cringe a little each time a patient shares with me in office, «I was diagnosed with a rash by my doctor», often followed by «x cream was prescribed» and they don't know why.

While I have the utmost respect for the profession of endocrinology and believe that every person who has been diagnosed with Hashimoto's should see an endocrinologist at least once for a full evaluation and a thyroid ultrasound, many patients with Hashimoto's end up disappointed with the care they receive from their endocrinologists and conventional doctors.

Dr Reifsnyder agreed that Epstein - Barr is the main cause of her hypothyroidism and chronic fatigue and told us how he has treated hundreds of patients for this throughout his career and that they always have active Epstein - Barr infections but that most doctors don't know how to test and diagnose an active chronic Epstein - Barr infection, even before he could test for the virus he said that he discovered patients with these symptoms would respond to antiviral treatment, and that Tiffany would have to take antivirals daily for the next 2 - 4 years but that he was sure this would eventually clear up all of her issues, however recovery would be a slow process as her HPA axis recovered and got «back into sync».

In some states, N.D.s can call themselves a doctor, diagnose and treat patients with natural substances, education, and lifestyle prescriptions.

Although the role of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) in irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is still not entirely clear, more and more doctors are diagnosing SIBO in their IBS patients, along with providing a prescription for a course of antibiotics.

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Essentially a Family Practice medical doctor whose primary focus is on patients with borreliosis or Masters» disease, Dr. Crist has diagnosed and treated over ten thousand borreliosis patients since 1988.

My doctor has told me to avoid all soy products, and I think many patients get this advice once they are diagnosed with that kind of cancer.

Though trained to diagnose using conventional methods, naturopathic doctors use primarily diet, lifestyle, exercise, herbs, nutrients, supplements, hands - on physical medicine therapies, and homeopathy to bring their patients to health.

This website and related resources are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent disease and do not create a doctor - patient relationship between you and Jennifer Weinberg.

The bot gathers medical info from patients, and passes it into doctors, so it makes it easy for doctors to diagnose and prescribe a right set of medicine.

Doctors diagnosing an illness use multiple assessments: the patient's medical history, lab tests, answers to questions about how the patient feels, and so on.

As a result of their residency training, doctors have many chances to observe and work with patients, hone their bedside manner, diagnose illness and disease, develop treatment plans, and provide direct medical care under the supervision of senior staff.

Digitally enhanced radio - graphic imaging, can be performed and interpreted in just a few minutes to assist the doctors in diagnosing illness or determining an abnormality in a patient.

Digital x-ray allows technicians and doctors to quickly take and examine x-rays to aid in diagnosing illnesses and injuries in patients.

Just as in human medicine, these risks are extremely low nowadays due to the combination of new and improved anesthetic medications, high - quality monitoring equipment, the use of pre-anesthetic blood testing to diagnose underlying health conditions that may put the patient at higher risk, and ongoing continuing education for doctors and staff.

A scheduled drop off appointment allows you to bring your pet at the time that is convenient for you, and allows us time to monitor and diagnose your pet in between scheduled surgeries or appointments - Usually this will be scheduled sometime in the morning so our doctors can examine the patient in between appointments or at the time purposely reserved for admitted patients.

If the doctor fails to diagnose heart disease and sends the patient home, then he or she will have committed medical malpractice.