Sentences with phrase «helping older patients»

The portable MELISA weighs just one pound, dramatically helping older patients suffering chronic conditions and those across the world.

«What we found was that geriatric interventions helped older patients take better care of themselves and be more independent.»

«This information compels us to do more to help our older patients get back to normal life,» Min says.

The Missouri Mature Driver project consists of five components: the Drivewell Toolkit, which includes materials to support community educational programs, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Law Enforcement Module, a workshop physicians and health care professionals can use to help older patients become more aware of their driving limitations, and the Roadwise Review, a computer program that also aids Missouri mature drivers identify possible health matters that could impact their driving.

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The Headache & Pain Program at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston helps patients as young as two years old to overcome their headache pain and enjoy life once again.

I breastfed my three boys, all up to 2 yrs old They are rarely ill, our doctor wonders whether we are still patients, don't understand when people talk about ear infections, gastric problems, wind, colic, reflux and amongst many 100's more things that breastfeeding helps to ommit.

«An unacceptably high number of older patients are denied basic help - with eating, drinking, or going to the toilet - and aren't treated with the dignity or respect we would all want for our elderly relatives.

The budget also allocates $ 100,000 for the Statewide Action Council Patients» Rights Hotline, $ 86,000 for the Foundation for Senior Citizens Home Sharing and Respite Program and $ 250,000 for the Older Adult Technology Center, which helps seniors better understand today's technology to remain in contact with younger loved ones, such as grandchildren.

While the research is key to planning for future long - duration spaceflights, such as journeys to Mars or deep space, it also can help understand blood vessel function in older patients or patients with heart failure.

«Blood analyses may predict risk of delirium in older surgical patients: Markers may help identify patients who would benefit from preventive measures against delirium.»

Shantanu Nundy recognized the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis when his 31 - year - old patient suffering from crippling hand pain checked into Mary's Center in Washington, D.C. Instead of immediately starting treatment, though, Nundy decided first to double - check his diagnosis using a smartphone app that helps with difficult medical cases by soliciting advice from doctors worldwide.

His studies with older adults explore why pop songs grab hold of our memories — and whether music could help dementia patients reconnect with lost knowledge.

To care for such patients, his team has seen families that try to have a second child — sometimes nicknamed a «savior sibling» — in the hopes that the second child's bone marrow can be employed to help the older sibling.

Testosterone replacement therapy is commonly used in older men to normalize the hormone level and help patients feel better, have more energy and increase muscle mass.

In an effort to identify a biological marker to help guide intervention, a new study in Biological Psychiatry reports that postoperative delirium is associated with signs of inflammation — specifically elevations in the inflammatory marker C - reactive protein (CRP)-- in patients 70 years of age or older.

The distinction between these two pathways may help to explain the difference between outcomes for younger and older patients — PA in younger patients is more likely to be caused by K: B fusion and 5 - year survival is generally high; PA in older patients is more likely to be caused by BRAF point mutations and 5 - year survival is generally lower.

Such a test could, for example, aid the search for antiaging drugs and help doctors plan treatments for older patients.

Converting old hospitals into «beautiful healing environments,» rather than just having square, cold rooms with bare walls, will also help relieve patients» stress and accelerate healing.

Helping to protect newborns and older patients against more severe effects of jaundice is the hope of University of Guelph researchers, who have shown how a liver enzyme protects cells from damage caused by the condition.

Optometrists can help to prevent falls by avoiding over-aggressive vision correction in older patients at risk, according to the review by David B. Elliott, PhD, 2013 recipient of the prestigious Glenn A. Fry Lecture Award.

The results may help to inform ongoing efforts to improve the outcome of older minority patients by improving care transitions from hospitals to outpatient settings.

We help patients, family members, loved ones, and other physicians understand the benefits, risks, and limitations of treating cancer in older adults.

MassGenomics writes about researchers in Canada who decided to try to help an 80 - year - old patient with a rare type of tumor -LSB-...]

Those guidelines and new educational activities will help partners at Aurora Health Care System (Wis.), Emory University / Grady Memorial Hospital (Ga.), Magee Women's Hospital (Pa.), Mount Sinai (N.Y.), UC San Diego Health (Calif.), Northwestern (Ill.), St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center (N.J.), University of Chicago (Ill.), and University of North Carolina (N.C.) to promote a variety of proven techniques for improving care for older patients — from coordinating expertise among various professionals to ensuring that older people can transition from the hospital to outpatient settings (like homes or community - based settings) whenever and wherever safely possible.

Old, who also heads the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) New York Branch and has served for many years as director of LICR's worldwide scientific programs, says that, eventually, vaccines will treat a wide variety of cancer types, recruiting the immune system to stop the progression of patients» tumors and helping to fully stabilizing the disease.

It's an age - old treatment, and I've noticed it helps my patients who see me for bloating issues.

On a sunny weekday afternoon, Mehmet C. Oz, MD, the renowned 49 - year - old heart surgeon (vice-chairman and professor of surgery at Columbia University and director of the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York — Presbyterian Hospital), co-author of five best - selling books in the You series, YOU: The Owners Manual, YOU: The Smart Patient, YOU: On a Diet, You: Staying Young, and You: Being Beautiful — and newly minted host of his own nationally syndicated daytime talk - show, The Dr. Oz Show — drove out to the Carrolls home in Ridgewood, New Jersey, to help the family turn things around.

Nevertheless, Kevin Ault, MD, an ob - gyn at Emory University School of Medicine, in Atlanta, who helped conduct the new study, says he would recommend Gardasil for older patients who run the risk of being exposed to an HPV infection.

In my last blog: How to Boost Your Fountain of Youth Hormone in 5 Simple Steps, I shared five natural strategies that helped my 42 - year - old patient nearly double her levels of growth hormone (GH), a super-crucial hormone that — among its numerous roles — keeps you lean, energized, and feeling sexy.

If I'm gonna help patients get better, I got ta understand the latest and the greatest and the newest and even the oldest and — and if more doctors took time to take that on and take their jobs more seriously, I think a lot of doctors just get into this, you know, this regular routine of just cranking patients through a mill and not really seeing patients, not really hearing patients, just kinda of — just kind of going through the motions with patients.

it has a lot of benefits and I've just started as a cancer nutrition therapist so I would like this book to offer my patients a lot of ideas and recipes to help them to understand right foods to be on ketosis because I know that overall in older patients is dificult to understand and follow.

That's bad news for acne patients, because collagen helps your old acne to fade away.

«We do certainly get 60 - year - old patients who want to look 40, and this will help us when we discuss expectations.»

«Batkid Begins» June 26 This feel - good documentary tells the story of a five - year - old leukemia patient who inspired people from all over the world to help him live out his dream of being Batman for a day.

That helps explain why she becomes so moved by the death during childbirth of a 14 year - old patient (Sarah - Jeanne Labrosse) who had staggered into the hospital alone and already in labor.

DO N'T SAY A WORD (Grade: C --RRB-: In this highly improbable and by - the - numbers thriller, Michael Douglas plays a New York psychiatrist whose 8 - year - old daughter is snatched on Thanksgiving Day by a trio of ex-cons with the demand that he help them get information from the psyche of an institutionalized mental patient (Brittany Murphy).

From left, Registered Vet Tech Tammy Hawkes removes a foam pad as radiation therapist Colleen Walsh comes to help Registered Vet Tech anesthetist Beth Piojda as she carefully lifts canine patient Buddy, an 11 year old Wheaten Terrier after his radiation treatment Thursday, March 3, 2016 at the NC State Veterinary Hospital.

When she is not helping our critical patients, she looks forward to spending time with her 2 year - old son and going to the park with her 2 dogs.

It also helps evaluate the prognosis for treatments in older patients and helps assist us with evaluating congenital defects.

As a former water polo player, she has always been interested in how physiotherapy could help her patients, especially the older, arthritic ones.

Our doctors take special interest in caring for geriatric patients, helping them to live as long as possible, addressing concerns specific to older patients.

Beyond the physical exam, lab work on older kitties can help veterinarians pinpoint a patient's age.

Anesthesia: We utilize the safest available medications to help avoid any anesthetic complications, especially with regard to our older or high - risk patients.

«I recommend the Big Barker to our patients that have dogs with arthritis, hip dysplasia, or any issue that causes joint pain or affects mobility because I believe it reduces pain and helps get them back to their old self.»

But if it does come down to getting older, you can help your dog with medications and supplements as well as simply being more patient with him and helping him when he gets confused or lost.

My goal is to help my patients grow old gracefully, be free of pain, and have a good quality of life.

Registered Vet Tech Tammy Hawkes (left) removes a foam pad as radiation therapist Colleen Walsh (center) comes to help Registered Vet Tech anesthetist Beth Piojda as she carefully lifts canine patient Buddy, an 11 - year - old Wheaten terrier, at the NC State Veterinary Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina, March 3, 2016.

In older patients, meniscus surgery might entail a complete knee replacement, but in some patients younger than 50 years old, a meniscal transplant of healthy meniscal tissue may be of help.

It's the whole package... Rehab [for example] can definitely help a lot of older patients.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Decreased patient flow issues by implementing a system that worked in relation to the appointments system • Suggested introduction of a first information report for patients, the implementation of which resulted in streamlining of patients» records • Replaced the old patient records system with a new one which was75 % more efficient • Implemented an online patient registration system which helped in managing inflow of people at the hospital