Sentences with phrase «from affecting a patient»

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«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.

One of the biggest challenges is to free data from the silos in which it too often remains, an issue that affects both patient care and medical research.

A reporter from the Health Service Journal said the attack had affected X-ray imaging systems, pathology test results, phone systems and patient administration systems.

Like the sugary treats fastened to the witch's cottage, the saccharine assurances from the ER staff that this doctor was keen to help OI patients had obscured his intentions: They had brought us to a eugenicist who wished to push any of my future OI - affected offspring into the oven.

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.

One study reviewed of 137 factors affecting women's satisfaction with childbirth, and 4 stood out: personal expectations, the amount of support from caregivers, the quality of the caregiver - patient relationship and involvement in decision making.

«Also, in patients with small or short nipples who get large implants, the nipple projection can be affected and there may not be enough tension on the breast, preventing the baby from being able to properly latch on.»

The lesson from Mid Staffs was that, without safe staffing levels, you affect patient safety.

But in the days following, Cuomo held another press conference with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announcing that travelers from the affected countries who had contact with Ebola patients would face an automatic quarantine at area airports, something de Blasio disagreed with because it might create panic.

The Royal College of Radiologists has warned today in the Evening Standard that withdrawing from Euratom would restrict the import of cancer scan treatment, affecting 10,000 UK patients.

Researchers said further studies are also planned that use other methods to analyze the relationship between volume and outcomes, follow patients after discharge from the hospital, and assess how patient outcomes are affected as hospitals gain more experience with TAVR and the technology is refined over time.

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.

The affected mitochondria could no longer provide the synapses with enough energy, which ultimately prevented the synapses from functioning — providing the first direct link between cellular injury caused by amyloid protein and the characteristic breakdown of neuronal communication that occurs in Alzheimer's patients.

Dr. Hayes says it is not clear what causes SCAD in most cases, but researchers know this from previous studies: • SCAD affects women more often than men; up to 80 percent of patients with SCAD are women.

Further analysis including in tissues from more patients with other forms of epilepsy also showed that CLOCK RNA and protein were often significantly lacking in both in excitatory and inhibitory neurons in affected brain regions.

First the patient should be bled in the arm, or leeches may be applied to the inflamed parts; afterwards take a handful of green rue, bruise it, and put it to the part affected; or take marshmallows a handful, camomile a handful, make a decoction in a pint of water, pour the liquor from the herbs, add two drams of the tincture of opium, bathe the part; afterwards apply the herbs as a poultice, or make a poultice of oatmeal and vinegar with a little sweet oil in it.

The researchers isolated bacteria from the tumors of pancreatic cancer patients and tested how they affect the sensitivity of pancreatic cancer cells to gemcitabine, a chemotherapy drug.

Researchers from the University of Sheffield discovered a significant association between a patient's vitamin D levels and the severity of their IBS symptoms, particularly the extent to which IBS affects their quality of life.

Side effects from the surgery, including urinary incontinence and impotence, can affect the quality of life of the patient.

«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 only discovered this process in the late 1990s, but they've already begun dozens of clinical trials to gauge whether infusing patients with these small RNAs works against a range of diseases, from lung infections to liver cancer to age - related macular degeneration, a sight - stealing condition that mainly affects people over the age of 50.

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.

«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.

This study shows that the mesenchymal subtype is the most aggressive subtype, that it has the poorest prognosis among affected patients, and that cancer stem cells isolated from the mesenchymal subtype have significantly higher levels of the enzyme ALDH1A3 compared with the proneural subtype.

The two groups took skin cells from patients and transformed them into the type of brain cells that are affected by Alzheimer's.

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.

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.

«Thus, patients in areas with longer waiting times will benefit from this increase without adversely affecting the waiting times in the source areas.

Patients affected by this genetic condition suffer from wasting of skeletal muscles as well as arrhythmia and other cardiac dysfunctions.

Belgian researchers have identified a new strategy for treating an inherited form of dementia after attempting to turn stem cells derived from patients into the neurons most affected by the disease.

«Use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology» — which involves taking skin cells from patients and reprogramming them into embryonic - like stem cells capable of turning into other specific cell types relevant for studying a particular disease — «makes it possible to model dementias that affect people later in life,» says senior study author Catherine Verfaillie of KU Leuven.

Dr. Rüdiger writes, «As surgeons, we need more data in order to advise a patient about what one can and can not expect from an intervention and how it will affect them for the rest of their lives.»

Monitoring immune cell activity — including phenotyping immune cell subsets, tracking cell proliferation, and measuring cytokine production — can provide insights into the overall status of immune function in patients, particularly those undergoing immunosuppression after transplants, enduring cancer treatment, or suffering from autoimmune disease or other pathologies that affect the immune system.

It affects the large intestine and patients suffer from abdominal pain and altered bowel habits like diarrhea and constipation, which are often accompanied by chronic anxiety or depression.

«While Clostridium novyi has not been isolated from all the patients in Glasgow, we think it is very likely to be the main cause of the illness in most of the people affected in this outbreak,» says Laurence Gruer, a public health consultant with the Greater Glasgow Health Board.

Researchers at MIT have now shown that they can use a new type of measurement to predict how drugs will affect cancer cells taken from multiple - myeloma patients.

New findings from large - scale studies of more than 3.6 million people who underwent screening for cardiovascular disease reveals that a person's age and gender affects the prevalence of certain types of peripheral vascular diseases (PVD), and that diabetes is a major risk factor for developing these diseases, even in patients without heart disease.

«Anemia negatively affects recovery from traumatic brain injuries: Finding lays foundation for new treatment protocols for anemic patients.»

The repository also contained information about patient lifestyles, including smoking and drinking habits, and a DNA sample from each patient — allowing the team to investigate whether patient lifestyle and genetic factors could affect the failure rate of composite fillings.

Samples of tumours from bowel cancer patients given different doses of resveratrol showed that even lower doses can get into cancer cells and potentially affect processes involved in tumour growth.

Other factors that also affect admission and attendances at emergency departments are: how easy it is for patients to access GP surgeries and primary care providers; the distance the patients live away from the emergency department; and the number of confusing options patients had for accessing emergency care.

«If we understand sunburn better, we can understand pain better because what plagues my patients day in and day out is what temporarily affects otherwise healthy people who suffer from sunburn.»

Progeria affects one in every four million to eight million births; there are about 50 cases currently recognized worldwide with 10 to 12 in the U.S. Common symptoms include fragile bones, hair loss, limited growth, stiff joints and wrinkling of the skin by as young as age two; about 90 percent of progeria patients die by age 13 from fatal heart attacks or strokes, according to the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

«The original study only focused on how blood sugar control affected complications in the hospital, so we were interested in following those same patients over time to see if blood sugar control had any impact after discharge from the hospital.»

The researchers found that over 25 percent of index patients with normal results from commercial testing of BRCA1 and BRCA2, but with families severely affected by breast cancer, could be resolved by sequencing all genes known to be involved in breast cancer.

Both animals die from a severe gut disease that affects some CF patients.

Previous in vitro studies conducted by researchers in other countries showed that this molecule was able to reduce the multiplication and increase the mortality of cells from melanoma, the most aggressive type of skin cancer, as well as breast cancer and neuroblastoma, a tumor that typically affects patients aged 15 or younger.

Although this human Gut Chip recreated the villus epithelium of normal intestine and enabled new insights into how flow and cyclic peristalsis affects intestinal differentiation and function, it could not be used to study processes that relied on normal intestinal cells from individual donors, which, for example, is crucial for studying patient - specific responses for personalized medicine.