Sentences with phrase «give doctors and patients»

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«This gives doctors and patients more options than medication alone.»

How Doctors Think reveals a profound new view of twenty - first - century medical practice, giving doctors and patients the vital information they need to make better judgments together.

SCOTUSblog: «Amid much critical commentary about the way federal drug regulators are doing their job, a Supreme Court majority on Wednesday provided a ringing endorsement of lawsuits in state courts to fill in for lapses at the national level — in particular, lawsuits that claim drugmakers have not given doctors and patients enough warning about side - effects.»

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The Internet has made a significant impact on healthcare by giving patients access to their medical records and letting doctors and hospitals use that information to do a better job.

Instead of giving a cancer patient a cocktail of 15 drugs as is done now, doctors could print 15 tumours from a biopsy and determine which one is most effective before issuing a prescription to the patient.

Doctors were forced to choose which patients received the smaller supply of Leucovorin and which would be given a less effective but more costly treatment.

To help circumvent the shortage, the FDA enacted new provisions in 2012 that require drug makers to give the agency earlier notice about potential shortages in order to alert patients and doctors so they can seek alternative treatments.

Mobile apps, like UpToDate and Isabel, are also making it possible to decrease the amount of time it takes a doctor to give a patient a sound diagnosis.

BOSTON A Massachusetts doctor was convicted on Monday of obstructing an investigation into kickbacks paid by the drugmaker Warner Chilcott and of wrongly giving one of its sales representatives access to her patients» information.

The suit contended that the companies did so by inflating the published average wholesale price of the drug, giving free samples to doctors knowing they would charge patients and insurers for them, and giving incentives to doctors so that they would prescribe Lupron instead of less costly alternatives.

A Massachusetts doctor was convicted on Monday of obstructing an investigation into kickbacks paid by the drugmaker Warner Chilcott and of wrongly giving one of its sales representatives access to her patients» information.

The presentation was concluded, the microphone was passed, and the young doctor asked, «Given these harmful effects, should I advise my patients to desist from such activity?»

Patients threatened malpractice suits against doctors who did not prescribe pain medications liberally, and gave them bad marks on the «patient satisfaction» surveys that, in some insurance programs, determine doctor compensation.

One is to allow the patient time for possible recovery to come about, and the other is the use of induced hypothermia to reduce the brain's use of oxygen, thus giving doctors more time to treat the patient before further damage occurs due to any lack of oxygen.

As for your other two friends, it's not unheard of that a doctor gives a patient months to live and they end up living for months / years later.

In medical care, for example, it is being found that prescribed treatment given by a doctor is often not acted upon by patients because the doctor's diagnosis conflicts with the patient's self - diagnosis which is frequently influenced by media sources including talk shows and even soap - operas.

Follow the medication instructions that your doctor and your child's doctor gives you, try to keep up with cleaning all the things that your breasts and your baby's mouth touch, and most of all, be patient.

Doctor's don't give a scheisse about patients and certainly not women.

Doctor: Gives a long explanation of why this is not necessarily true, starting with the point that the MWs are not affiliated with the hospital and so when you do transfer, they have to treat you like a patient off the street.

It sucks that they don't work for everyone and I guarantee you that every nurse and doctor who was working with your friend had a lot of sympathy for her because it is absolutely no fun to see your patient in pain and to not be able to give her what she wanted.

Yes, this is just one state and not OB specific but, I was floored by these numbers given all the negative press you hear about doctors that dismiss patient concerns and have terrible bedside manner.

On Tuesday, the doctor is expected to testify that Silver gave him $ 500,000 in state grants and other benefits in exchange for his patient referrals, which helped earned Silver a cool $ 3 million over the years.

«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.

Patient choice and control are at the heart of what we believe in and the NHS has been slow in giving patients real clout, despite the fact that many people with chronic conditions know as much about their health as their doctors do.

This means that it would not be unlawful for a doctor to end a patient's life, on condition that an order is sought from the courts, that a judge is satisfied that the patient's medical condition involves «unbearable suffering», that the patient has given a «a voluntary, clear, settled and informed wish to end his own life», and that there are no other means of relieving the patient's suffering.

«And if we don't give doctors and nurses the power to make decisions for their patients, then quality of care will suffAnd if we don't give doctors and nurses the power to make decisions for their patients, then quality of care will suffand nurses the power to make decisions for their patients, then quality of care will suffer.

«Given the magnitude of Bonomo's fraud and the potential harm it could cause to the insured doctors and their patients, one would think these facts might trigger a grand jury investigation into mail and wire fraud as well as perjury,» the Skeloses» attorneys wrote.

Given that religion and spirituality are highly personal matters entwined with feelings about death, it's not surprising that doctors and nurses would avoid talking about these issues with patients.

Watson looks at records from a patient, like doctors» notes and lab test results, and gives opinions about what treatment to pursue.

Pacemaker makers, such as Biotronik (Berlin, Germany) and Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis, Minn.), recently gained approval for implanted pacemakers and defibrillators that give periodic reports to doctors about a patient's condition.

«Given the current healthcare landscape of unknown costs and insurance, as doctors we needed to evolve and provide patients with an option that doesn't involve lengthy time in a hospital bed.

Little coverage is given to such grim statistics by governments or pharmaceutical companies, so patients and their doctors are not primed to be as vigilant as they should be, and adverse drug reactions (ADRs) remain seriously under - recognised and under - reported.

Only by knowing how many patients have to be treated to achieve a given benefit — and how many will be harmed — can doctors determine whether they are doing their patients any good, Newman says.

Doctors also give PPIs to hospital patients who have serious injuries to prevent gastrointestinal bleeding and stress ulcers.

When patients sign up for clinical trials to test an experimental drug, procedure or device, they give their informed consent after doctors counsel them about the risks and uncertainty associated with a not - yet - approved intervention.

After waking, the patient recovered faster than anyone predicted — in 4 months instead of 6 — and gave his doctors a fist bump on the way out.

In more than two decades as a doctor, I've diagnosed more than 1,000 patients with pancreatic cancer, and giving this kind of news is never easy.

Learning more about the genes and biological processes may guide the development of weight - loss therapies, and help doctors tailor the health advice they give to patients.

Back in the clinic, doctors are confronted with the issue of resources again, with many of them feeling that the chronic underfunding of the National Health Service gives them less and less time to spend with patients.

Given the general mindset in favour of surgical intervention, says Treasure, it will be hard for patients, doctors and healthcare staff on the trial to accept the uncertainty around operating in these circumstances.

Paired with a mentor who aimed to give him a broad look at the intersection of health services research and medicine, Neiman worked on a paper about total knee replacement, a project surveying part of the FDA's drug approval process, and another study about shared decision - making between patients and doctors.

Steve: You — in the cystic fibrosis section of the book — you profile a doctor who is explaining to one of his patients that the difference between feeling good 99.5 and 99.95 percent of the time on any given day, works out to completely different outcomes over the course of a year.

By classifying mental disorders and giving them names, DSM not only influences how doctors diagnose and treat their patients.

Half the patients had the point - of - care test, in which case a swab was analysed on the device and the results given to their treating doctor, while the other half received standard care.

«Test methods for traditionally driven cars are something like having a doctor take a patient's blood pressure or heart rate, while testing for automated vehicles is more like giving someone an IQ test,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with Peng.

The use of all antibiotics and steroids (which can be harmful to individuals who actually have TB), as well as the total number of medicines given, decreased sharply when the pharmacy staff decided to refer the patient to a doctor, which was far more commonly done when the patient presented with a lab test confirming TB, thus making the diagnosis apparent to the pharmacist.

«If doctors were able to quickly single out the specific bacteria that a patient has, then often only one antibiotic would be needed and a much more targeted treatment could be given right away,» Etchebarne said.

«The results of our study suggest that doctors evaluating patients with encephalitis should search for autoimmune causes in addition to infectious causes, given both have a similar frequency,» says Eoin Flanagan, M.B., B.Ch., senior author of the population - based study and an autoimmune neurology specialist at Mayo Clinic.

In the future, doctors may be able to use this type of information to match the best treatment to the patients most likely to benefit and avoid giving treatment that is less likely to be effective.»