Sentences with phrase «health of the patient while»

Herbal remedies are considered to be a supportive treatment vs. a cure in that they help to improve the overall health of the patient while prescription medications focus on the specific area being treated.

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And while the global scope of the attack galvanized intense media coverage, the reality is that health care has grown increasingly susceptible to this specific kind of malware, which demands digital payment in exchange for sensitive personal and financial patient data.

CVS operates a chain of pharmacies and retail clinics that could be used by Aetna to provide care directly to patients, while the merged company could be better able to offer employers one - stop shopping for health insurance for their workers.

Its tailored, world - class services that reduce overall pharmacy costs, reduce avoidable drug impacted medical costs, and optimize specialty drug spend while improving patient quality of life are for all plan sponsors — health plans, accountable care organizations (ACOs), exchanges, state Medicaid programs, and employer groups.

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.

But sleep apnea patients are also more likely to suffer dangerous health problems, and they are at greater risk of dying while they sleep.

While a nurse at Clarian Health, Dr. Lane received a number of awards due to the high number of patients who wrote in and praised her bedside care and expertise in their birthing and breastfeeding experience.

While some doctors may pressure their patients to do it, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists now agree that natural tears may be better for the health of the mother than an episiotomy.

Prosecutors hope Taub, one of their star witnesses, will prove to the jury that Silver pushed him to refer mesothelioma patients to Weitz & Luxenberg, the firm where Silver was of counsel and from where he collected portions of settlements while allegedly funneling state health care funds to Taub's research center at Columbia University.

But a key part of the reforms, the NHS care records scheme aimed at providing access to patients» medical records across the health service, is running two years late, while the take - up of the choose and book system is slower than predicted.

The bill will go into effect immediately once signed, but registrant identification and licenses for the five companies that will be permitted to grow and distribute medical marijuana won't be issued for roughly 18 months while the Department of Health develops regulations, trains and certifies doctors and registers patients.

While health officials did not provide specific details on the course of Spencer's illness, Ebola patients experience gastrointestinal symptoms such as severe diarrhea and vomiting, in addition to bleeding.

The inter-professional model of care will result in enhanced patient satisfaction, and improved health outcomes while increasing dental student awareness of urban health issues.»

«Health care in America must work better and become more affordable, relieving taxpayers of the financial burdens under this failed policy, and give patients more choices, while still continuing to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions and allowing children to stay on their parent's policy.

Vaccine Still Plentiful — County Lowers Cost of Flu Shot With ample quantities of vaccine still available, the Oneida County Health Department is lowering the cost of a flu shot for all uninsured patients while supplies last, Patrice Bogan, Director of Clinic Services announced today.

ALBANY, Jan. 31 — Gov. Eliot Spitzer proposed to radically restructure aid to New York's sprawling health care industry in his first budget Wednesday, saying that the system props up failing hospitals and too often overlooks patients» needs, while consuming roughly a third of the state's budget.

More positively, it is welcome that, responding to the suspension of data - sharing, Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth noted yesterday «Theresa May has ignored warnings that the regulations on ID checks at hospitals are also damaging patient care» and added that «The Government must now suspend these regulations while a full review is carried out.»

The same health care economics that generate revenues and hefty reimbursements for prostate cancer centers while siphoning millions from Medicare has essentially created subsidies that put a lifesaving technology within reach of the smallest patients.

Given the ever - increasing costs of medical care, many health care institutions are seeking ways to keep costs down while maximizing patient care.

As the United States grapples with what many believe is a crisis of spiraling health care costs, this study, while focused on one hospital and 100 patients, shows that when health care consumers are given pricing information, they will take costs into account.

«Every health - care professional is likely to hear this call at some point while flying, but for most of us, treating patients on a plane is a completely unfamiliar scenario,» said Dr. Alun Ackery, an emergency physician at St. Michael's Hospital and senior author of the recommendations.

Going forward, the development of a reliable diagnostic kit is much needed to enable hospital, clinic, and public health workers to confirm that patients seeking care are either infected or free of the virus; and while an effective vaccine is being tested, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should screen existing antiviral medicines to determine if any can protect people from contracting the virus, Song said.

The goal of the workshop was to set forth the principles, policies, and security - related technologies necessary for the development of mHealth devices and apps to improve patient health, while at the same time protecting user privacy.

«In upcoming decades, an increasing proportion of breast cancer patients will be elderly and, therefore, the additional costs of treating over-diagnosed tumors could result in a tremendous increase in health expenditure, while no actual health benefits are being obtained.

The study — «Mental health nurses» emotions, exposure to patient aggression, attitudes to and use of coercive measures: Cross sectional questionnaire survey» — also revealed that, while individual nurses exposed to this behaviour were more approving of coercive interventions, this did not translate into an increased use of restraint or seclusion.

But critics worry that such trials too often exploit desperate patients, offering them false hope of restored health while doing little or nothing to advance scientific research.

While EHRs let students to check their diagnostic impressions by monitoring patient outcomes, the practice raises ethical questions about the appropriate use of protected health information.

«While many people think of the ED as simply a place to go when you have a car accident or some type of major trauma, it is increasingly the case that the emergency department is caring for complex medical patients,» said lead author Renee Y. Hsia, MD, professor of emergency medicine at UCSF and director of health policy studies in the UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine.

Local Zairean, Belgian and French doctors and health officials were the first to see and assess patients in Yambuku, while the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, received the first Ebola specimens and recovered what they called «a Marburg - like virus.»

Problems might include a lack of follow - up care and a tendency for patients to delay seeing local providers while they wait for outside help to return, undermining the local health care system.

«While these observational data can not prove that treating patients based on the results of CTA testing will automatically result in better health outcomes, they do provide new information enabling a more informed choice of testing for patients with stable chest pain, especially for predicting future cardiovascular risk.»

«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 health consultant with the Greater Glasgow Health Health Board.

«While we can't guarantee that the partners of patients will not develop oral HPV infections or cancers, we can reassure them that our study found they had no increased prevalence of oral infections, which suggests their risk of HPV - related oral cancer remains low,» says Gypsyamber D'Souza, Ph.D., M.P.H., associate professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

A top priority, she recommends, is that all health care programs funded by the federal government be required to provide coverage of care — including sex reassignment surgery — while transgender patients make the physical transition to the sex matching their gender identity.

Hypertension is the most important treatable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and while it is especially common in the elderly and in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), these are the least studied groups in randomized controlled trials examining the health effects of lowering blood pressure.

Several sites in the Neonatal Research Network, based at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), stopped recruiting new patients to six other ongoing trials while they reviewed documents.

While cautioning that the quantity of evidence was less - than - optimal and that the studies were qualitatively limited by the methods used to measure sodium intake, the small number of patients with health outcomes of interest in some of the studies, and other methodological constraints, the committee concluded that:

«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 Foundhealth centers continues to grow,» says Feygele Jacobs, president and CEO of the RCHN Community Health FoundHealth Foundation.

While caregiver assistance can be beneficial to patients, such care may have negative consequences for caregivers, including poor health - related quality of life, emotional distress, caregiver burden, and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

In terms of health economic cost, while the FLS versus standard care increased assessment and treatment costs, the cost of fractures was reduced by approximately 300 EUR per patient.

«While evidence shows that joint replacement surgery improves pain, function, and quality of life for the osteoarthritis patient, the impact of cardiovascular health has not been confirmed,» explains lead study author Yuqing Zhang, D.Sc., Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Their analysis is designed to help surgeons minimize the tissue removed while operating on cancer patients by providing highly accurate, real - time information about the health of the excised tissue.

While most initiatives are focused on sequencing patient genomes, Ken Mandl, Isaac Kohane, and Joshua Mandel of Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School argue that an individual's genetic information could be put to even better use if it was linked to app - fueled, electronic health record systems.

Patients who are unrealistically optimistic about their personal health risks are more likely to take preventive action when confronted with news that is worse than expected, while unrealistic pessimists are less likely to change their behavior after receiving feedback that is better than expected, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich..

A research team led by Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the University of California, Davis, reveals that childhood gunshot injuries, while uncommon, are more severe, require more major surgery, have greater mortality and higher per - patient costs than any other mechanism for childhood injury — particularly among adolescent males.

While electronic health records (EHRs) have improved the safety and quality of patient health information, the shift from paper to digital interfaces has introduced a new set of barriers that may contribute to patient harm.

The researchers found that, compared to when on the GMP diet, PKU patients had higher amounts of calcium and magnesium in their urine while on the amino acid - based diet, which indicated that their bones were leaching elements critical for bone health.

A paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined the effects of the experimental Ebola vaccine VSVΔG - ZEBOV, given to a health - care worker who experienced a needle stick while treating patients in Sierra Leone.

«City Health Works» model is proving that we can cut costs for payers, providers, and patients, while improving the experience and quality of care,» says Tracy Perrizo of the Helmsley Charitable Trust.