Sentences with phrase «for at least some patients»

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In fact, it's resonated for me for at least 28 years, going back to a bit of hubris I demonstrated as a medical student watching a distinguished Harvard surgeon perform surgery to remove a patient's gall bladder (back before laparoscopic surgery and keyhole incisions became the norm).

And the prospect of an Amazon - Whole Foods marriage could, at least in investors» minds, hasten that reality — or at least make it easier for Amazon to break into the pharmacy space with the advantage of brick - and - mortar locations which may be more palatable for patients picking up their prescriptions.

(It wasn't, at least for most patients in most situations.)

But a late - stage clinical trial called CheckMate - 026 for the drug failed to meet its primary goal of halting cancer progression in advanced, untreated patients whose tumors consisted of at least 5 % PD - L1.

The prototype, which Google says will take at least five years to reach consumers, is one of several medical devices being designed by companies to make glucose monitoring for diabetic patients more convenient and less invasive than the traditional finger pricks.

The FDA approved Kyprolis for patients who have already been treated with at least two other multiple myeloma drugs, and Onyx is conducting other trials to win broader marketing approval.

Yet those who'd hoped that Shake Shack could manage faster growth without relying so much on store openings will have to be patient for at least another quarter.

For at least five years, Bachmann and Associates has faced accusations it uses a controversial therapy that encourages gay and lesbian patients to change their sexual orientation.

So yes, I guess prayer changed things at least for some patients it made them worse lol... proven!!

New research published today by the Campaign for Better Hospital Food shows that at least 1 in every 4 hospital meals (26 %) served to patients in NHS hospitals are likely to be left uneaten and thrown in the bin, a figure higher than previously recognised.

After prodding him for the recipe for at least a dozen times, he told me to be patient and that the time would come.

Fans have been asked to be patient for a long time, and if the team isn't winning or at least entertaining, they choose other ways to spend hard - earned dollars, which inevitably leads to photos of empty seats on the internet, and flight - tracking private planes between Raleigh and Quebec City, and expert opinions that hockey doesn't work in the South.

That was one of the big reasons for our way day woes against the big Premier League teams last season but we have been seeing a much more patient and disciplined Arsenal this season, some of the time at least.

Something like «something that the patient notices or that requires the patient to sit down for at least 10 minutes if they were not otherwise sitting»?

Examining the long - term success of surgery for patients aged 18 years and younger, Australian researchers found that, although nearly seven out of ten of the athletes reported returning to their pre-injury level of activity following ACL reconstruction, 31 % sustained a further injury after at least 15 years.

Citing a 2010 study finding that patients who had at least two 2 rehabilitation visits for persistent dizziness after a concussion showed improvement in their DHI scores (2), the study said that on - field identification of dizziness could lead to earlier implementation of vestibular rehabiliation and other modalities to treat dizziness, which may expedite recovery from concussion.

A prospective study of the progress of labor in 220 nulliparous women and 99 multiparous women who spontaneously entered labor evaluated the benefit of prolonging oxytocin augmentation for an additional 4 hours (for a total of 8 hours) in patients who were dilated at least 3 cm and had unsatisfactory progress (either protraction or arrest) after an initial 4 - hour augmentation period (21).

Currently, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends (link is external) that physicians screen patients at least once for depression during the perinatal period (link is external)(22 weeks of pregnancy through 7 days after birth.)

However, you will need to travel to Pacific Fertility Center (PFC) at least two times: first, to meet with a PFC physician to become an established patient and to have an ultrasound for uterine evaluation, and again for the embryo transfer.

For at least the fifth consecutive legislative session, bills that would open the door to doctors prescribing lethal doses for terminally ill patients were dropped from consideration by the Public Health Committee in the Massachusetts LegislatuFor at least the fifth consecutive legislative session, bills that would open the door to doctors prescribing lethal doses for terminally ill patients were dropped from consideration by the Public Health Committee in the Massachusetts Legislatufor terminally ill patients were dropped from consideration by the Public Health Committee in the Massachusetts Legislature.

There is at least one approved device and scores of experimental treatments being tested that could improve the odds of longer - term survival for patients with the type of extremely aggressive brain cancer afflicting U.S. Sen. John McCain.

«With over eighty percent of New Yorkers saying that doctors over-prescribing opioids and allowing patients access to too many pain pills are at least somewhat responsible for the current level of opioid abuse, it is concerning, but not surprising, that among those that were prescribed, a quarter admit that they were given too many pills and nearly two - thirds didn't take the entire prescription.

Additional safeguards include requiring multiple witnesses attesting the patient is acting on their own and at least two doctors in overseeing the process as well, who would be protected against both civil and criminal liability, along with any professional penalties for participating.

Most recently, he noted, researchers reported in Science that sleep functions as a kind of «sewer system» for the brain, at least in mice, by flushing beta - amyloid, which is known to accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

U.S. doctors enrolled 42,418 patients from 623 offices and clinics, treated participants with one of four commonly prescribed drugs, and followed them for at least five years to see how well the medications controlled their blood pressure and reduced the risk of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular problems.

But the Joint Commission has acknowledged that individual alarm signals can be difficult to detect, and that this phenomenon is at least partially responsible for the patient safety problems associated with medical alarms.

«For the anesthesiologist, a number of factors come into play, including patient comorbidities and preferences as well as other practice specific factors, such as the choice for anticoagulation, but regional anesthesia should, at the very least, be considered in every patient.&raqFor the anesthesiologist, a number of factors come into play, including patient comorbidities and preferences as well as other practice specific factors, such as the choice for anticoagulation, but regional anesthesia should, at the very least, be considered in every patient.&raqfor anticoagulation, but regional anesthesia should, at the very least, be considered in every patient.»

For study purposes, researchers assumed that at least one - third of patients having bariatric surgery lost their excess weight prior to undergoing joint replacement.

Bechara and his team studied 69 stroke patients culled from a registry at the University of Iowa that was assembled to study the effect of brain damage on cognition, memory and motion; they selected subjects who, at the time of their strokes, had been smoking at least five cigarettes daily for more than two years.

The SUNBEAM study evaluated two doses (1 mg and 0.5 mg) of oral ozanimod in 1,346 patients with RMS in 20 countries treated for at least one year.

Even when Unger adjusted his model to account for the fact that not all patients may get the new treatment, and even when he lowered the effect of the new treatment to three, not five years, the model showed a benefit of at least 2 million years in nearly every simulation.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the drug on Nov. 20 for patients with myeloma who have received at least one previous therapy.

For example, the journal «plans to have joint peer review, with each article typically being reviewed by at least one academic and one patient.»

Researchers report that a new wirelessly controlled microchip, implanted under the skin, can safely and reliably give osteoporosis patients the daily dose of a drug that they need for at least 20 days in a row.

The drug offered a first sliver of hope for patients waiting for a cure, or at least something to slow down the disease's staggering march.

The best evidence for a neural mechanism for dj vu, which around 60 percent of people experience at least once, comes from studies of patients who experience it chronically.

Patients included had experienced symptoms of tennis elbow for more than 6 months, and attempted at least two non-surgical treatment approaches such as physical therapy, massage, acupuncture, or splinting / bracing, but had no symptom relief over that period.

For at least one patient in Florida, the device is having a life - changing impact.

«This new rehabilitative approach at least triggered an astonishing recovery of the motor skills in rats, which may become important for the treatment of stroke patients in the future,» says first author Anna - Sophia Wahl.

Patients participating had low back pain for at least three months and high levels of psychological distress, avoided everyday activities and were known as «fear avoidant.»

Fifty patients have enrolled in a study to answer that question; the results won't be available for at least a year.

The team will present on the first 10 patients in the trial, each of whom had been taking ibrutinib for at least six months but had not achieved a complete remission.

The study uses Medicare claims data for hospital admissions from 2002 to 2011, focusing on patients who were at least 66 years old, and tracking their one - year mortality statistics.

They found that of the patients on the waiting list who died or became too ill for a transplant, 84 percent were offered at least one liver.

Controversy is raging over the suggestion that many people may be at least partially aware during surgery; asks what exactly this means for patients and the anaesthetists monitoring them

In order for patients to be included in the treatment group they needed to be prescribed anti-osteoporotic therapy by a doctor and be at least 80 percent compliant with the prescribed therapy for at least six months.

While lying in a cylindrical chamber, patients breathe in 100 percent oxygen (normal air is about 21 percent oxygen) at 2 to 3 times regular atmospheric pressure, for at least an hour.

In addition, two - thirds of patients who benefited from the drug had no advance of the disease for at least 12 months.

In cohort two, which had patients that were heavily pretreated, six patients had a partial response, and six achieved stable disease for at least six months, for a combined disease control rate of 54.5 percent.

Researchers in US and Canada funded by the Cooperative Studies Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research compared the costs and benefits of etanercept - methotrexate first versus triple therapy first in 353 patients enrolled in the RACAT trial who continued to have uncontrolled symptoms of RA after at least 12 weeks of methotrexate therapy.