Sentences with phrase «from small numbers of patients»

This method will be useful when the death risk of a novel infectious disease has to be quantified using data from small numbers of patients during the course of an outbreak, providing information on which age groups to minimize exposure in hospitals, nursing homes and daycare facilities.

It's won the endorsement from the small number of patients who've tried it — but that's not the market that the Frog team needs to convince.

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The Stanford team found, however, that mitochondrial DNA levels were significantly elevated in plasma samples from a small number of HD patients.

If a bacterial population can become antibiotic - resistant even when only a small number of individuals have the appropriate genetic mutations, doctors who collect and analyze small bacterial specimens from patients may underestimate just how resistant the infection is as a whole, Collins notes.

Critics have long argued that transplanting animal tissue into even a small number of immune - suppressed patients could allow obscure pathogens to jump from animals to humans.

Researchers have found that just five strains are overwhelmingly the culprits in more than 3000 samples of resistant S. aureus collected from patients around the world; the small number suggests that relatively few strains can easily develop resistance to antibiotics, allowing scientists to focus on these few and determine what makes them so virulent.

Cell transplantation as a treatment for diabetes is still essentially experimental, uses cells from cadavers, requires the use of powerful immunosuppressive drugs, and has been available to only a very small number of patients.

Using a new method, the scientists therefore isolated T cells specifically programmed to target the CMV virus from the blood of the donor and transferred small numbers of these cells to the patients.

The MIT researchers, along with their collaborators at MGH and other hospitals, were interested in taking advantage of the vast numbers of patient scans, which would allow them to learn much more than can be gleaned from smaller studies that produce higher - quality scans.

By combining two or more of these outcomes to create a single category, you can say it helped «A and B» even if it only helped A and not B. For example, although there was no statistically significant effect from tPA in the NINDS trial on the number of patients who died, there was a small decrease in disability for those who survived.

While there have been attempts to estimate real - time death risks during epidemics, such statistical models require data from large numbers of patients in the order of thousands and therefore could not be applied to the 2015 MERS epidemic in the Republic of Korea with small patient numbers.

«One should be careful to make to strong conclusions from such a small number of patients,» Raj points out, «but it seems that in approximately half of all cases, even elderly patients may benefit from surgery and recover to an independent life.

Researchers from UCL and Swansea have been investigating the results of autopsies from a small number of retired professional footballers with dementia in an effort to determine whether their brains showed distinct damage compared to other typical dementia patients.

And the good news is there are a number of treatment options available including camouflage using make - up and self tanning lotions; micro-tattooing may be useful for small stable areas of vitiligo such as face, lips and hands; light therapy; the transfer of a patient's own pigment cells from unaffected skin into the vitiligo - affected cells and laser treatments.