Sentences with phrase «fifth of patients»

Merrill Herman, MD, an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City, says that about one - fifth of his patients who take atypical antipsychotics gain weight.

One - fifth of the patients declared themselves cured, with no pain or disability whatsoever.

Still, only about one - fifth of patients actually get appropriate care, the study authors said.

A recent study showed approximately one - fifth of patients with cancer experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) several months after diagnosis, and many of these patients continued to live with PTSD years later.

One - fifth of patients wanted to discuss end - of - life issues with a healthcare professional, but it occurred in just 15 % of cases.

«However, our study showed that in the real world over a third of the patients with STEMI undergoing transradial PCI who receive heparin and about a fifth of patients who receive bivalirudin also receive GPIIb / IIIa inhibitors.»

The other four - fifths of patients might benefit later, during relapse.

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Sequence Bio plans to decode the DNA of 100,000 people — about a fifth of Newfoundland and Labrador's population — and the provincial government is partnering with the company to help recruit consenting patients and provide access to their health records.

Around four - fifths of prostate cancer patients have tumors with lots of PSMA for the therapy to bind to.

The healing of the paralytic, the fifth healing miracle, is especially familiar because of the extraordinary measures taken to get the patient into the presence of Jesus, who was in a house, speaking to the crowd that had gathered there.

Spread another fifth of the frosting on top (be patient here - I find this to be the most frustrating part.

Patient - controlled epidural analgesia is currently only available in one - fifth of hospitals in the UK due to the expensive costs of the equipment needed.

Fifth, the accuracy of vital statistics data has well - known limitations, especially in regard to patient conditions before pregnancy; the coding of these conditions is less sensitive than that for procedures.23 - 26

They plan to make several return trips to see if they can improve the health care system, which is losing money, doctors and patients in a vicious cycle that threatens to undermine one - fifth of the economy.

However, currently half of RA patients delay seeing their GP by 12 weeks and a fifth delay for a year or more.

Published today, the fifth edition of «Consultant physicians working with patients», the RCP's blueprint for the duties, responsibilities and practice of consultant physicians, will be invaluable for commissioners, planners, clinicians and NHS Trusts when commissioning and planning local health services.

At 9 a.m., Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. and other officials from the NY Hispanic Clergy Organization hold their fifth prayer rally for the 64 - year - old nursing home patient and rape victim of Nanic Aidasani, who is scheduled to appear in court, Bronx Criminal Court, 265 East 161st St., the Bronx.

As early as the fifth centuryB.C., Egyptian surgeons used a needle to push their patients «cataract - covered lenses away from their pupils, affording them somedegree of sight.

Of all patients referred, four - fifths (79 %) went on to have dental treatment without the need for sedation and 6 % had their dental treatment under sedation.

About half of the patients had previously undergone breast augmentation, while one - fifth had undergone genital surgery.

New research from a University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital (UH Rainbow) study found that children ages 1 to 3 years accounted for one - fifth of all emergency department (ED) visits caused by complications from asthma, representing the highest proportion of visits among asthma patients under age 21.

The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM - 5) requires symptoms lasting at least 6 months, occurring almost always or always in sexual encounters, and causing clinically significant distress in order to diagnose a patient with sexual dysfunction.

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).

«When studying magnetic resonance images of the brains of patients suffering from CRPS, we noticed that the choroid plexus was nearly one - fifth larger in patients than in healthy control subjects,» says Postdoctoral Researcher Guangyu Zhou from Aalto University Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering (NBE), who analysed the images.

«Levels of patient - reported fatigue are expected to increase by around the fourth or fifth week of a typical treatment course, but that did not happen in the yoga group,» Vapiwala said.

The prevalence varies across the region with higher rates seen in the south and the east, making HCV a critical area of attention for hepatologists as one fifth of HCV - infected patients are at risk of developing cirrhosis or liver cancer (2).

While high - risk Medicaid patients represent a small percentage of Partners» total patient population, their complex needs consume a full fifth of total healthcare spending.

3) The infusion time of MTX was reduced from 24 h to 3 h as a higher drug penetration has been achieved by a shorter infusion time.9 4) Importantly, given the cited literature, the treatment was age - adjusted with patients aged over 65 years having cyclophosphamide of the second and fifth and ifosfamide of the fourth chemotherapy cycle replaced by the less toxic agent temozolomide (TZM).

Removal of a fifth course of chemotherapy containing cytarabine resulted in worse overall survival and disease - free survival in pediatric patients with low - risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to the results (abstract 10515) of a pooled analysis of two Children's Oncology Group (COG) trials presented at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held June 2 — 6 in Chicago.

Among patients with favorable cytogenetic and molecular features, the point estimates for disease - free survival and overall survival were approximately 1, indicating no benefit of a fifth course of chemotherapy, Getz said.

The pooled analysis included 921 patients from the studies (21 % received the fifth course of treatment).

«Overall there appears to be a benefit of a fifth course of cytarabine in low - risk patients with AML,» said Kelly D. Getz, PhD, of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who presented the results.

President Donald Trump's proposal to cut the National Institutes of Health 2018 budget by more than a fifth could severely hamper the ability to deliver life - saving treatments to patients, according to a report by Washington University researchers.

First, it could be used to research the reasons that about a fifth of AML patients do not respond to first - line chemotherapy at all.

Cancer - associated thrombosis (blood clot formation) occurs in approximately one - fifth of all cancer patients and remains the second leading cause of death in hospitalized and ambulatory cases.

According to a report by Segal et al of 1590 patients, the incidence of achlorhydria was 19 % in the fifth decade of life and 69 % in the eighth decade of life.

Aaron's fifth graders played the role of medical school students trying to diagnose a patient with a mysterious ailment.

I know without a shadow of a doubt, now that the shoe is on the other foot and I am the teacher, that without the gentle love of Ms. Woods and Mrs. Furlong, both of my kids» third - grade teacher; the patient understanding of Mrs. Keane, their fourth - grade teacher; and the stern nurturing of Ms. Bergeron, both my kids» fifth - grade teacher (just to name a few), we would have struggled a lot more than we did to overcome the obstacles that are inherent in single - parent households.

Michael Palmer, M.D., is the author of A Heartbeat Away, The Last Surgeon, The Second Opinion, The First Patient, The Fifth Vial, The Society, Fatal, The Patient, Miracle Cure, Critical Judgment, Silent Treatment, Natural Causes, Extreme Measures, Flashback, Side Effects, and The Sisterhood.

Fifth Avenue Veterinary Clinic is proud to be a team - centered practice, where all staff members participate to the fullest extent of their skills and knowledge in the care of our patients and clients.

Fifth Avenue Veterinary Clinic is designed to ensure that patients with contagious diseases can be hospitalized separately from the rest of our patients.

The CJEU however once again declined to accept Teva's proposition by observing that as per the objectives pursued by the Orphan Drug Regulation to incentivize the research on therapies for rare life - threatening conditions, there was as such no provision (besides that under Article 8 (2) which provides for the reduction of orphan exclusivity to six years if at the end of the fifth year it is established that the criteria pertaining to the rarity of a medical condition or the size of the patient population are no longer applicable) to truncate the orphan exclusivity term of a drug product as a result of the fact that another drug product has already received approval and benefited from exclusivity for those same indications.