Sentences with phrase «for affected patients»

We are caring for affected patients and preventing the spread of hepatitis A. «Part of being a nurse is understanding your patient's challenges when they leave... hep A has become one of those issues,» said Danisha Jenkins.

«We hope that the insights we gain from these studies will result in the discovery of new potential treatments for affected patients in the near future,» said Wilson.

The findings point to a potential new treatment strategy for affected patients, but the long - term benefits remain to be determined.

They include applying genetic and genomic information for medical and surgical management for medullary thyroid cancer for the affected patient as well as as yet unaffected family members.

Not exact matches

«Since last week's approval, we have heard both support from the community, and concerns about how the pricing and reimbursement details will affect individual patients and caregivers, such as how it effects coverage of other Duchenne products, such as EXONDYS 51,» wrote Aronin in a blog post for a Duchenne patient advocacy site.

Sanofi, a diabetes specialist which is now facing increased competition from rivals, has been on a mission to boost its treatment pipeline with new products for diseases that affect a wide swath of patients.

Although the State Department has generally emphasized similarities in the medical files of the 24 affected Americans, officials and documents consulted for this story indicated that the nature and seriousness of the patients» symptoms varied rather widely.

Juno asserted that the clinical hold on the ROCKET trial did not affect plans for its other CD19 - directed CAR T - cell product candidates, including JCAR017, for which the company has launched two clinical trials now recruiting patients.

Take some time this month or any month to bake something for someone that has been affected by cancer, or for someone that works in the medical field that makes a difference in the lives of cancer patients.

Globally, over 220 million people suffer from food allergies and most countries report an increase in incidence.26 It is predicted that by 2050 the number of patients affected by allergic diseases in Australia will increase by 70 % to 7.7 million.27 By 2021, the markets for naturally healthy (US$ 291 billion), food intolerance (US$ 42 billion) and organic products (US$ 45 billion) are expected to have grown at up to 4.5 % compound annual growth rate (CAGR).28

Gluten free and dairy free living, more specifically, a gluten - free, casein - free diet, has shown to benefit everything from celiac patients (like me) to those affected by learning disorders such as ADD, ADHD, and is gaining recognition as an alternative treatment for autism.

Whether they are a healthcare facility seeking to advance the patient experience, or a hotel wanting to create memorable arrivals and departures through service for their guests, the following testimonials and case studies spotlight how we affect positive change for our partners.

Weiss also said that knee arthroscopy for degenerative meniscal tears, which affect older patients with arthritis of the knee, has been shown to be no more effective than steroid shots.

For example, the fact that 27 transfer patients are listed as having a physician as their planned birth attendant is most likely due to errors in birth - certificate completion; data are currently lacking to inform the degree of misclassification related to this and others factors that affect the study outcomes.

In ∼ 10 % of affected infants with plagiocephaly, there will be a permanent deformity with a mild to severe cosmetic effect.5 Patients with moderate to severe asymmetry are often referred to a craniofacial center for consideration of treatment.

Tapping into two issues affecting the hospital experience of young parents: the quality of care for the mother and newborn, and patients» rights • By HANNAH KATSMAN When Gaia (last name withheld) was expecting her second baby, she hoped for a better hospital experience than she had with her first son, who was born prematurely.

Tapping into two issues affecting the hospital experience of young parents: the quality of care for the mother and newborn, and patients» rights • By HANNAH KATSMAN When... [Read more...]

Nana Akufo Addo and the NPP have also forgotten the negative signal affected prospective card bearers and patients who must have abandoned renewals or registering for the first time because of the false claims.

At 1 p.m., Rep. Kathleen Rice will hold a press availability after meeting with health care workers and patients to discuss the care they receive and how it would be affected by Medicaid cuts in the Republican health care bill, TownHouse Center for Rehabilitation & Nursing, 755 Hempstead Turnpike, Uniondale.

But especially with further studies in older age groups, mesopic vision testing could be an important means of testing or screening of various conditions — especially for patients with conditions known to affect night vision.

«If lithium's effect on the cerebellum is the key to its effectiveness as a mood stabilizer, then a more targeted treatment that causes the same change in the cerebellum without affecting other systems might be a better treatment for patients with bipolar disorder,» Wemmie says.

Also, we treat our patients in the intensive care unit, for example, by administering drugs that affect adrenergic receptors.

For patients with the herpes simplex - 1 virus (HSV - 1), there are just a handful of drugs available to treat the painful condition that can affect the eyes, mouth and genitals.

Prices for some generic drugs have increased in recent years, adversely affecting patients who rely on them.

The researchers and specialists from the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology at the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology of MedUni Vienna are now conducting a new research project to identify the whole spectrum of pathogens in ticks and to follow the diagnosis and treatment of affected patients.

«Pregnant patients should be screened for melanoma in a similar manner to non-pregnant patients and should be counseled that their prognosis is not adversely affected by pregnancy.

Research Fellow, Mette Andersen, who led the study, said, «This is the largest population - based study to examine whether levothyroxine treatment for patients with subclinical hypothyroidism can affect their mortality.

Yet in the United States, where 25 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized medical marijuana, there are no state - wide efforts to collect data on how patients are using cannabis or on whether they have been affected for good or ill, in part because marijuana is still illegal at the federal level.

«The type of inflammation seen in psoriasis is known to promote insulin resistance, and psoriasis and diabetes share similar genetic mutations suggesting a biological basis for the connection between the two conditions we found in our study,» said the study's senior author Joel M. Gelfand, MD MSCE, a professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Penn. «We know psoriasis is linked to higher rates of diabetes, but this is the first study to specifically examine how the severity of the disease affects a patient's risk.»

Because the study directly implicates a specific protein pathway in a specific part of a patient's brain, Liu said a strategy for further research could be to deliver a drug that compensates for the lack of CLOCK, or perhaps a protein it affects, directly in that location.

«Absenteeism among healthcare personnel can negatively affect a facility's ability to care for patients during busy viral respiratory illness seasons,» said Dr. Nyquist.

According to Raymond Tallis, head of geriatric medicine at the University of Manchester, who is recruiting patients for the project, the stimulation does not affect the underlying cause of the disability.

Pressure ulcers affect more than 2.5 million Americans annually and patients who have spinal cord injuries that impair movement are more vulnerable to developing them, said senior investigator Yoram Vodovotz, Ph.D., professor of surgery and director of the Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling at the Pitt School of Medicine.

Steve Kell, GP and co chair of the NHS Clinical Commissioners representative group, said: «CCGs are trying to develop a sense of joint responsibility for populations, so people in the hospital are thinking beyond their hospital walls to look at nursing home quality, and anything that affects our patients.

• Counselors reported that exposure to workplace violence led to an increased concern for personal safety (29 percent), affected their treatment of patients (15 percent) and impaired job performance (12 percent).

«It is particularly good news for the large number of affected patients that if they are in good medical care and have survived breast cancer, they do not need to be more worried about deadly heart diseases than women at the same age without breast cancer.»

«The key findings from this study show that patient sex can affect the risk for sustaining a fragility fracture related to osteoporosis,» said Dr. Zhang.

Researchers are far from a complete understanding of what causes schizophrenia and how it affects the brain, and some psychiatrists contend that treating a patient for a disease not yet manifest is a clear violation of a basic tenet of medicine: to do no harm.

This is important because the proportion in which the de novo mutation is present in a patient, as well as the type of cells in which it occurs, may not only determine the clinical outcome of a disease for the patient, but also affect the risk of the parents having another child with the same disease in future pregnancies.

«The consequences of a head injury have been called a hidden disability — although patients may seem to have outwardly made a good recovery, when we see them in clinic years later they can have persistent problems which affect their daily life, for example impairments in concentration and memory,» said Dr Gregory Scott, the lead author of the paper, from the Department of Medicine at Imperial.

Usually the patients affected survive for only a few months.

The findings allow for diagnosis of other patients affected with this disease and provides an opportunity for prenatal diagnosis.

According to María Izquierdo Pulido, member of the Biomedical Research Center Red - Fisiopatología de la Obsidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn) of the Instituto Salud Carlos III «this new research doesn't establish a cause - effect relation between dietary patterns and ADHD, but it can help determining specific dietary strategies to improve the quality of life for both the affected patients and their families.»

«These limitations may delay treatment for years and, thus, will disproportionately affect PWID and other low - income patients,» said Dr. Hagan.

Structural plasticity therefore plays a particularly important part during the (early) rehabilitation phase of patients affected by neurological diseases, which also lasts for weeks and months.

There aren't many things we do to patients in terms of treatment that affect the recovery for a group by 25 per cent.»

During disasters, individuals with chronic diseases or those at risk of developing health complications are often neglected for patients acutely affected by the disaster.

This analysis, done on separate samples from the same patient, revealed that many of the affected genes confer advantages to cancer cells by, for example, enhancing cell migration or resistance to chemotherapy.

For further research, it would be important to study how other, competing risk factors might affect survival, as elderly cancer patients with diabetes are usually diagnosed with other conditions as well.

By contrast, on average, patients with PD showed a twofold greater preference for their less affected arm, sometimes skewing their effort by as much as 70 percent toward the less affected arm.