Sentences with phrase «even after a patient»

So far, Inovio has made the most progress with a so - called therapeutic vaccine — one that helps defeat a disease even after a patient has been diagnosed — for human papilloma virus, or HPV.

Sirolimus (trade name, Rapamune ®) has a relatively long half - life, meaning it stays in the body even after a patient stops taking it.

«These findings suggest that once the brain is better able to perform cognitive tasks, it will continue to strengthen those processes even after patients stop using the treatment.»

Refractory sprue or refractory celiac disease refers to an unresponsive case of celiac disease where the villi of a patient with celiac disease do not recover even after the patient stays on a gluten - free diet.

Not exact matches

Patient advocates, generic drug makers, and even some biotech investors promptly rebuked Allergan after the arrangement was announced Friday, arguing that the IP gymnastics will only worsen biopharma's miserable reputation on drug pricing issues.

That's because plans increasingly carry high deductibles, which require patients to pay for their drug costs themselves until they hit a certain limit, as well as to pay a percentage of the list price even after their deductible is met.

But it had by then become possible to sustain heart and lung activity (with a respirator) for days or even weeks after a patient had irreversibly lost all brain function.

After all the futile treatments and the succession of helpless doctors, when grief has come even before the death, you sit there with a little cracked ice for the patient's parched mouth and throat, and think... At last I can do this one little thing right.

Only after sentience is acquired can we even begin to compare fetuses to other beings who are not moral agents but who are moral patients: the comatose, nonhuman animals, etc..

But even if we were to grant that every single divorce in this country is necessary, it would still be important to study the experience of children — just as we study the experience of heart patients after surgery.

Fervency in devotion; frequency in prayer; aspiring after the love of God continually, striving to get above the world and the body; loving silence and solitude, as far as one's condition will permit; humble and affable to all; patient in suffering affronts and contradictions; glad of occasions of doing good even to enemies; doing the will of God and promoting His honour to the utmost of one's power; resolving never to offend him willingly, for any temporal pleasure, profit, or loss.30

But mainly I wanted to say, after having read all the comments (it's a compulsive thing, I can't help it), I just wanted to say that, Holly, based on what I've seen here, you're either an incredibly patient, kind, and even - keeled individual, or you're a robot.

Be patient cooking, though: If you crank up the heat after tempering, you can still wreck things, even with the inclusion of flour or cornstarch helping to stabilize.

Let's all be patient with the Boss and even the Gunners as we unfairly criticized them after the West Ham lost.

Even after that the fans were patient when we started rebuilding the team which started by acquiring Ozil but in 2015 when we acquired only Chec we failed to get defensive midfield and a good striker fans started getting uncomfortable.

If I had been angry about what happened to the patient, I was even angrier after learning of the deception.

My OB saw me as a private patient FOR FREE because he's a family friend, and if I had opted for a natural labour which had gone swimmingly he wouldn't even have needed to attend because the midwives would have looked after me.

According to What to Expect, more hospitals are allowing skin - to - skin contact right after surgery, and some hospitals are even starting to let patients breastfeed right in the operating room.

«Patients and their families should expect the physical symptoms that they experience after a head injury to get better over the next few weeks, but that emotional symptoms may come on later, even as the physical symptoms subside,» said lead researcher Dr. Matthew Eisenberg.

Unfortunately, even after careful sifting and exclusion of higher - risk patients, there is no way to predict some of the most serious and dangerous complications of the birth process.

Try to be patient and realize there will be many setbacks even after your schedule is set.

Canada's heart surgery patients wait more than 10 weeks after seeing the doctor, and two months for CABG even after cardiologist appointments.

Even after Silver informed Taub in 2007 that a third round of grant funding wouldn't be coming because, as Taub recalled, Silver said, «I can't do this anymore,» the doctor said he continued to refer patients to Silver, albeit fewer, because he hoped the speaker would be «incentivized» to help with funding in the future.

Brendan Barber, secretary general of the TUC, said the «revelations of the mounting cost of paying for GPs to sit on committees rather than look after their patients, even before the bill becomes law, provide even more reasons why parliament should vote it down».

Garner said a patient who was pregnant with triplets was asked to leave the hospital even after the judge's order was announced.

Other patients had tumors that shrank but didn't disappear, or that remained stable while on — and even after — treatment.

For example, would the p11 - boosting therapy — which incorporates into recipients» genetic code — continue to function even if a patient's depression has subsided after treatment?

Emergency patients over the age of 74 have significantly different and more complex health and social needs than their younger counterparts, even after controlling for illness severity, which has important implications about aging populations and emergency departments of the future.

After all, if the point of mindfulness is to stand back dispassionately from all our ideas and impulses, couldn't an OCD patient use mindfulness to step back even from mortal fears and compulsions?

In addition, even after hospitals achieved a volume of 100 or so cases, there continued to be improvement in patient outcomes with higher procedure volume,» said John D. Carroll, M.D., professor of medicine and director of interventional cardiology at the University of Colorado Hospital and lead author of the study.

For prostate cancer patients who have rising levels of PSA (a cancer indicator) even after radical prostatectomy, early treatment makes a difference.

Importantly, in patients whose liver disease improved, there was also an improvement in kidney function even after several adjustments by potential confounding factors such as diabetes, hypertension, concurrent medications and weight loss by itself.

For unknown reasons, these fragile structures not only disconnect shortly after injury but can continue to disconnect even for decades later in some patients.

Even in the short term, say the team, the scheme - where pharmacists are paid # 24.60 each time they look after a patient as part of NMS has saved the NHS # 75.4 m.

Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients, and even speeds healing after surgery.

Even more importantly, we've been able to demonstrate that blocks help patients feel better and return to their normal levels of mental and physical functionality sooner after surgery.»

Yet a year after issuing its guidance, the ACMG produced an addendum: patients should have the opportunity to opt out of having information about even that short list of analyzed genes.

In focus groups, he found that many patients still weren't entirely clear on the implications of certain financial arrangements after hours of discussion, and he worries that even simple statements might not be understood or taken into account properly when patients are deciding whether or not to participate in a clinical trial.

Additionally, a substantial proportion of surgical patients experience chronic postoperative pain many months or even years after their original surgery.

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The patients who had been prescribed opioids before surgery spent an average of an extra half a day in the hospital after their operations, the researchers found — even after they adjusted for a wide range of co-existing factors such as medical conditions and demographic characteristics.

The risk of higher potassium levels is minimized after patients have transitioned to peritoneal dialysis, but doctors often don't resume the medication even though it can usually be re-started safely.»

The series, called The Experiments, suggested that Macchiarini had exaggerated the success of his operations in published papers and that one patient at Kuban State Medical University in Krasnodar, Russia, died after she received his artificial trachea, even though she could have lived a long life.

Scars — in particular keloid scars that result from overgrowth of skin tissue after injuries or surgeries — are unsightly and can even lead to disfigurement and psychological problems of affected patients.

However, the team found that the Zika virus is more thermally stable than the dengue virus, and is also structurally stable even when incubated at 40 degrees Celsius, mimicking the body temperature of extremely feverish patients after virus infection.

But my younger patients, even after being diagnosed with a melanoma, ask me, «Can I still go tanning?»

«Consuming alcohol after surgery could put patients at risk for potentially serious problems, even if they consume only moderate amounts of alcohol.»

The patients also showed stabilization and even improvement in measures of insulin production after 12 weeks, suggesting that the therapy might arrest beta cell destruction, the authors say.

«Consuming alcohol after surgery the way one did before the operation could put patients at risk for potentially serious consequences, even when they drink only moderate amounts of alcohol.»

«Low dose beta - blockers as effective as high dose after a heart attack: Surprisingly, heart attack patients live as long — or even longer — on one - fourth the suggested dose.»