Sentences with phrase «growing number of patients»

BACKGROUND: Since a growing number of patients are likely to return to work (RTW) after cancer diagnosis and treatment, there is an increasing recognition of the work situation, and the physical as well as psychosocial functioning among those survivors who returned to work.

In addition to a low amount of doctors, Kansas has a growing number of patients.

Over time she encountered a growing number of patients with cancer who were incredibly responsive to naturopathic care.

For the growing number of patients eliminating gluten on their own, diagnostic testing might seem like a step backward.

In the past decade, I've seen a growing number of patients who for years have limited sugary foods and swapped out refined carbohydrates for whole grain products, sweet potatoes, and fresh fruit.

«State licensure of certified counselors will help ensure that the healthcare system has a qualified workforce to provide genetic and genomic services for the growing number of patients and families who need them.»

The research began to take shape after Bairam and Andreana, who have previously studied implant failure, noticed that a growing number of their patients reported use of antidepressant medication.

While the labels of asthma and COPD are valuable for patients who display stereotypical symptoms, there are a growing number of patients who do not fit this category, including patients with adult - onset asthma, smoking asthmatics, or patients with the so - called asthma - COPD overlap syndrome.

Burgh is one of a growing number of patients who have been dosing themselves with a simple laboratory chemical that has never before been used to treat cancer in people.

A new study has found that GPs are feeling they have become the «new clergy» with a growing number of patients looking to them to «heal their souls».

The Prion Registry is built on the Broad Data Sciences Platform's Data Donation Platform, which provides the backbone for a growing number of patient - driven research projects, including the Angiosarcoma Project, the Rare Genomes Project, and the Global A-T Family Data Platform.

This is probably because of the growing numbers of patients having IVF treatment and thus a growing awareness of its psychological challenges.

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However, analysts say patient numbers can be a murky metric because medical marijuana patients may register with more than one licensed producer and as the overall number of patients grows.

The number of patients at the clinic grew 40 percent in a year and people now wait several weeks for an appointment, Rashid said.

A lot of that growth came from increasing EpiPen prescriptions as the product became more mainstream: In the first seven years Mylan owned EpiPen, the number of patients using it grew 67 %, according to Bloomberg.

While the number of patients and customers may be vast and growing, finding the help to treat them may be the biggest hurdle to overcome when starting a new home health care business.

This decline has continued in subsequent years, despite the rise in the number of mental patients admitted each year and the country's growing population.

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

Many of the physical therapy and rehabilitation programs to be offered at the new fitness center already are offered at the hospital, but the number of patients is growing and the hospital is running out of space, Iftiniuk said.

But the registered organizations charged with growing and selling medical marijuana say they were expecting the trickle of customers to start, rather than a flood, and that they are now seeing an increasing number of patients.

He refused to accept personal accountability for the whole of the NHS, despite calls from patients» organisations and a growing number of MPs for him to resign.

The new version prohibits sharing the drug between patients, and caps the number of licenses for registered organizations to grow and dispense medical marijuana at 20, though the commissioner could expand that number after the first two years of the program, if necessary.

STOP SIGNS Brainlike structures grown from autistic patients» stem cells (right) produced greater numbers of brain cells that make other brain cells less active (green and red) compared with structures grown from the cells of a non-autistic family member (left).

The number of breast cancer patients undergoing immediate breast reconstruction operations after mastectomy has grown steadily over the past 15 years, most notably among women who were once considered too high - risk for reconstruction procedures according to new research findings published in the October 2014 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

During the active disease stage of JIA, these cells expand, grow in number, re-circulate through inflamed areas of patients» body, and migrate to the connective tissue of patients» joints.

London and Schenker argue that while the Internet offers patients valuable data and tools — including hospital quality ratings and professional treatment guidelines — that may help them when facing decisions about where to seek care or whether to undergo a medical procedure, reliable and unbiased information may be hard to identify among the growing number of medical care advertisements online.

In our day and age, when growing numbers of women of reproductive age are diagnosed with thyroid cancer and when fertility problems are rampant, these findings should serve as an additional consideration for physicians contemplating radioactive iodine for their patients,» said senior author Karen Tordjman, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University.

Rather than surrendering to despair and impersonal medical treatments, growing numbers of cancer patients are empowering themselves with information and control over their therapies.

Diabetes is suspected to raise the risk of many cancers, and the number of diabetic patients who also have cancer is growing.

«While the number of uninsured Americans is going down across the nation thanks to the Affordable Care Act, the number of uninsured or underinsured patients seeking care at community health centers continues to grow,» says Feygele Jacobs, president and CEO of the RCHN Community Health Foundation.

The number of patients currently available may turn out to be too small to draw conclusions, he says, but a more definitive answer could emerge as the databases grow.

A growing number of hypertension patients use mobile - health technologies to track and manage their conditions, the authors write in the Journal of the American Society of Hypertension.

In 2014, California joined a growing number of states that allow pharmacists to initiate and monitor a patient's drug therapy, rather than simply fulfill a prescription.

Between 5 % and 10 % of CF patients become infected, and that number is growing.

Novel stem - cell technology developed at Swinburne will be used to grow the massive number of stem cells required for a new hand - held 3 - D printer that will enable surgeons to create patient - specific bone and cartilage.

NCI's efforts to develop new laboratory models of human cancer includes vastly increasing the number of human cancer cell lines (grown as two - dimensional and three - dimensional cultures) and patient - derived tumor xenografts.

The work helps thousands of patients every year at Simmons Cancer Center clinics, including a growing number of people receiving the latest in cancer care through clinical trials.

Many patients» cancers stop growing for a number of years, allowing them to go off treatment completely for a period of time.

The findings have implications for the design of cancer vaccines and what are called adoptive T cell therapies; when T cells are collected from a patient and grown in the laboratory, increasing in number before they are given back to the patient to help the immune system fight disease.

Because of the increased number of patients, growing reliance on multiple medications and the shift toward more expensive new medicines, the annual cost of diabetes drugs nearly doubled in only six years, rising from $ 6.7 billion in 2001 to $ 12.5 billion in 2007 according to a study in the Oct. 27, 2008, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

We therefore need doctors who are fully equipped to take care of these patients, the number of whom is growing steadily both in Sweden and globally.

This collaboration and cooperation among a growing number of ORIEN centers means patients may not need to travel far from home to participate,» said Michael Caligiuri, M.D., director of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and CEO of the James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute.

«The number of patients needing organ transplants has skyrocketed in recent years while the number of donated organs grew only slightly.

The biggest reality check of all, however, is that the number of cancers immunotherapy has been proven effective for is still relatively small (though growing)-- and it doesn't work on every patient.

patient willing to take an active role in their own healthcare and develop a higher level of self - empowerment there is a growing number of physicians who have educated themselves in regards to nutritional biochemistry, therapeutic diets and have experience using them in the clinic

A growing number of studies also suggest that HHV - 6 may play a role in a subset of patients with chronic conditions.

The growing number of studies examining the effects of carbohydrate restriction should provide data for organizations that advocate for patients with CVD and diabetes as they update recommendations for optimal diets.

However, a growing number of health care practitioners are turning to the ancient practice as a way to help their patients feel better.

In her own integrative medical clinics in New York City and Los Angeles — the latter of which just opened this month — Dr. Berzin says that the number of patients she's seeing with autoimmune issues is growing at an alarming rate.

Spencer Lieb, senior epidemiologist at the Bureau of HIV / AIDS at the Florida Department of Health, states «the number of HIV and AIDS patients in the over-50 crowd nationwide had grown in recent years.»