Sentences with phrase «experiments on patients»

Federal officials have approved the start of human embryonic stem cell treatment experiments on patients suffering a leading cause of vision loss.

When the late Robert Sperry was a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he experimented on patients with epilepsy, and noticed that breaking the link between brain hemispheres affected the ability to perform certain tasks.

A musician conducted a very small experiment on patients in a veterinary hospital, and her results showed harp music significantly reduced the heart rate of hospitalized patients.

I am glad that the healthcare system is not run this way, because it would be largely populated with unqualified wannabes with a pulse due to fail before they have learned much about their profession as they experiment on their patients like newbie lab workers let loose in an anything - goes lab testing rats for disease control... and quitting because most of the rats die before their careers die.

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In an experiment with doctors and nurses, a «doctor» was brought in on a patient who told the nurses, 25 of them, to administer a lethal dose of a certain drug.

4 -4-2 would surround Ozil with 5 fast players to run onto his through balls, why can Wenger not see this??? People appear to be forgetting the weakness's of the 4 -2-3-1 because of the terrible start while Wenger experiments on live patients again!

Back in 1946, Dr. Curtis Mendelson decided to run his own experiment on rabbits to determine if aspiration of food caused by general anesthesia had a causal relationship with the development of pneumonia, which he witnessed in one of his patients.

Unless NHS leaders and ministers can offer firm guarantees on these points, it is impossible to see how an experiment such as this could ever proceed without severely undermining patient care and the public's faith in the NHS.

Greyson ran his experiment on 50 patients, but not one of them reported having an NDE.

Based on these ex vivo experiments (in cells isolated from patients and then exposed to PD - L1 blocking agents outside of the body), they predict that when actual patients are given PD - L1 blocking agents, their viral load at the time will influence the «net» outcome, i.e., whether the blockage boosts or weakens the overall anti-HIV immune response.

In the name of the pseudoscience of eugenics, Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime exterminated millions of Jews, Gypsies, mental patients, and disabled people between 1933 and 1945, and carried out experiments on concentration - camp prisoners.

The Czech - born psychiatrist conducted dozens of government - sanctioned LSD experiments in the»50s,»60s, and early»70s on heroin addicts, alcoholics, and terminal cancer patients in his native Prague and later at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, a mental health facility in Catonsville, Maryland, where he was chief of psychiatric research.

Closer analysis by independent biostatisticians revealed, however, that the value was calculated on the basis of a single experiment in which half the patients were already known to have ovarian cancer — a highly selected group that is the medical equivalent of a stocked pond.

A century ago, Swiss psychologist Carl Jung used a crude galvanometer and electrodes attached to patients» hands to measure changes in electrical resistance on the skin of patients during various word - association experiments.

Although the Harvard criteria were based on zero patients and no experiments were conducted either with humans or animals, they soon became the standard for declaring people dead in several states, and in 1981, the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) was sanctioned by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

The people on whom these experiments were run were soldiers, prisoners, those considered to be mentally defective (both children and adults), hospital patients with terminal illnesses, and pregnant women — if the women were poor.

John Donoghue, a neuroscientist at Brown University who led the cursor - controlling experiment, and colleagues tested the idea on two patients with «locked - in» syndrome.

After five years of fieldwork, laboratory experiments, and analysis, they reported in February 2011 that of 99 Laron syndrome cases, only one case of cancer existed on record, and that patient had survived.

The experimental treatment also spared healthy cells, in these and in prior experiments, making the method potentially much less taxing on patients than commonly used chemotherapy.

Treating the potentially blinding haze of a scar on the cornea might be as straightforward as growing stem cells from a tiny biopsy of the patient's undamaged eye and then placing them on the injury site, according to mouse model experiments conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

The intervening years were filled with prolonged negotiations to convince the university that N of 1 experiments were primarily about improving patient care, not doing research on how drugs and other treatments worked.

Christiani would like to see an experiment that compares the survival of patients administered large doses of the vitamin during treatment and follow - up periods against the outcomes of people who rely on diet and conventional therapy alone.

Finally he ran an experiment on the only human patient he could ethically recruit: himself.

Further research based on autopsy specimens and animal experiments will be needed to clarify the relationship and determine if the patients with MRI hyperintensity in their brains have symptoms.

Experiments on cell cultures from patients with malignant melanoma confirmed the new results.

Yet an extraordinary «natural experiment» in a Kansas mental hospital early this century found that patients who were castrated (in the dubious hope of controlling their violent behaviour) lived far longer — on average to 69 years of age whereas intact males managed a mere 56.

He steadily regained his health and returned to seeing patients and working on leukemia experiments in mice.

At Kingasani Hospital, he is looking to cast an even wider net by sampling human patients for viruses (a process that has been approved by both the local and U.S. Institutional Review Board, which assesses any experiments on humans for both efficacy and ethics).

However, the existence of a long series of atrocious examples suggests that many physicians may engage in informal experiments on some of their patients without any informed consent.

Experiments on pancreas organoids — models that are essentially balls of cells sampled from the pancreas of healthy people and pancreatic cancer patients — showed that lowering antioxidant levels within cancerous pancreas cells, or cells on the way to becoming cancerous, kills them.

The researchers are also doing experiments on the antibody to see if they can boost its potency and lengthen the time the antibody lasts in the body, with an eye to reducing the eventual dosage that patients would need if this approach is successful.

We studied the effects of hypoxia on CSC activity, using in vitro mammosphere and holoclone assays as well as in vivo limiting dilution experiments, in 13 patient - derived samples and four cell lines.

Standley also experimented with the length of duration and the magnitude of MFR, and how they affect injuries, thus offering future suggestions for therapists on how to treat their patients.

Matt Hoffman, a family nurse practitioner and clinical assistant professor with the Texas A&M College of Nursing, has seen it a couple of times in younger patients keen on experimenting.

He did this by working on countless patients at the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, who he used to experiment with reflexology occidental works like iridology (iris - reading), endonasal reflexology (activation of pressure points near and around the nose), and auriculotherapy (ear acupuncture).

Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is a TV journalist investigating a hospital, shortly to receive a royal visit on the occasion of its five - hundredth anniversary, in which the patients are raw material for the experiments of transhumanist posthumanist Dr. Millar (Graham Crowden).

However, her caretakers are actually performing pseudo-scientific experiments that rely on brainwashing and occult practices to obtain their desired results in their patients.

Olson was involved in the infamous MKUltra program where the CIA conducted mind control experiments on unwitting patients using both LSD and torture.

When funding for their research goes down the tubes (so to speak), Hess and Arbogast decide that they will conduct the experiment on their own, using Alex as the patient.

They rely on patient judgment and revision rather than brash assertion, and in doing so represent a more promising continuation of the experiments that defined painting as the New York School understood it.

The Millennium / Famous experiment was released on June 10, 2010 with grand ensemble of 200 year work units, thanks to continuous and patient support by beta testers.