Sentences with phrase «higher survival rates in»

As part of the San Diego Animal Welfare Coalition, the El Cajon Animal Shelter serves the needs of the cities of La Mesa and El Cajon, which boasts one of the highest survival rates in the nation for a government - run animal shelter.
Parvo has a significantly higher survival rate in older dogs and when it is caught early.
So far, the efforts on behalf of the fishers are paying off with a high survival rate in new habitats and healthy offspring.

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For example, several research teams have criticised medical dramas showing heart resuscitation techniques for conveying misinformation about their effectiveness, such as far higher survival rates from a heart attack, or more younger people experiencing attacks than in real life.
More disturbing than the incidence of cardiac arrest in fairly healthy people, however, are the variations in survival rates, which can swing from as low as 3 % in some US counties to as high as 20 % in others, The New York Times reports.
It marries the experience of serial entrepreneurs in their 50s — whose companies have the highest survival rate of any age group, according to Carmen Cotei and Joseph Farhat, finance professors at the University of Hartford and Central Connecticut State University respectively — with the enthusiasm of neophytes.
In the Great Recession and the previous recession, employee stock ownership firms had smaller employment cutbacks and higher survival rates than similar firms.
Because babies with the gene that allowed them to digest non-human milk had higher rates of survival over thousands of years in that harsh environment.
Researchers from Aston Medical School in Birmingham looked at more than 900,000 patients with high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes and found marriage led to higher survival rates.
There's such a high rate of confidence in the likelihood of survival of mother and child that it's common for women to have baby showers at some point in the third trimester of pregnancy instead of waiting for the infant to be born.
We have developed, thanks to those large brains, to a situation where survival rates are incredibly high in the developed world, but it is still the case that human infants remain woefully underdeveloped when they arrive.
High - dose vitamin A supplementation programs improve child survival in settings where under - 5 mortality and vitamin A deficiency rates are hHigh - dose vitamin A supplementation programs improve child survival in settings where under - 5 mortality and vitamin A deficiency rates are highhigh.
Infectious disease rates are high in many less developed parts of the world, with high infant and child mortality rates — but industrialization, medicine, and money are not the end - all answers to optimal child survival.
In passing he points out that they cross breed and threaten their own survival as a separate species, and «avoiding controversy (as is my way), I will only mention that the mallard seems to have the highest rate of homosexuality of any bird.»
A study in the journal American Surgeon finds that trauma victims who were inebriated at the time of their injury have higher survival rates than their sober counterparts.
Bats in Europe, where the fungus that causes white - nose syndrome likely originated, also have high survival rates.
The researchers confirmed these findings in a mammary carcinoma mouse model — treatment with dasatinib just a few days after administering two high doses of chemotherapy prevented tumor growth and increased survival rates.
In the northern edges of the plant's geographic range — central Oregon — survival and growth rates from one year to the next were higher than in the south, but plants didn't flower every yeaIn the northern edges of the plant's geographic range — central Oregon — survival and growth rates from one year to the next were higher than in the south, but plants didn't flower every yeain the south, but plants didn't flower every year.
In the five - year study period, plant survival and growth rates were low in the southern edges of the plant's geographic range — in California near the Mexican border — but flowering rates were higIn the five - year study period, plant survival and growth rates were low in the southern edges of the plant's geographic range — in California near the Mexican border — but flowering rates were higin the southern edges of the plant's geographic range — in California near the Mexican border — but flowering rates were higin California near the Mexican border — but flowering rates were high.
These advances, combined with enhanced protective gear, helped produce the highest U.S. combat survival rates in history: Today less than 10 percent of combat casualties die from their wounds, compared with 19 percent in World War II and 16 percent in Vietnam.
In absolute terms, the overall survival rate at five years was 11 % higher in the ipilimumab arm (65 %) than in the placebo arm (54 %In absolute terms, the overall survival rate at five years was 11 % higher in the ipilimumab arm (65 %) than in the placebo arm (54 %in the ipilimumab arm (65 %) than in the placebo arm (54 %in the placebo arm (54 %).
When the researchers fully replaced fish oil with the microalgae, they found significantly higher weight gain and better food conversion compared to a control diet containing fish oil, and no significant change in survival and growth rates among all diets.
«These declining catch rates align with our survival rate estimates of green turtles exposed to the Nicaragua turtle fishery and population modelling, which suggested the fishery was not sustainable at high take levels reported in the 1990s,» said Dr. Cathi Campbell.
The researchers found that the 5 - year survival rate of patients in the lowest BMI category was around 76 % compared with almost 93 % for those in the highest BMI category.
When analyzing the subgroups of men by differing extent of comorbidity, researchers found that among men whose comorbidity included prior heart attack, treatment with RT and ADT shortened survival due to higher rates of fatal heart attacks, while prolonging survival in men with no or minimal comorbidity.
Patients who had surgery in sunny months — May to August — had a roughly 30 percent higher overall survival rate or time to cancer recurrence than did those getting surgery in the winter.
«Cardiac arrest survival rates are unacceptably low,» said Robert Graham, chair of the study committee and director of the national program office for Aligning Forces for Quality at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. «Although breakthroughs in understanding and treating cardiac arrest are promising, the ability to deliver timely interventions and high - quality care is inconsistent.
Survival rates were high in both locations, and more young hawks began breeding on the resort property, probably because more territories were available due to the birds» low numbers.
Hospitalized heart failure patients in all age groups within the study and with all levels of ejection fraction had significantly lower rates of survival after five years and a higher risk of re-hospitalization than people in the United States without heart failure.
In the total patient population, the 5 - year overall survival rate was 95 %, although it was significantly higher in non-cirrhotic (97 %) than cirrhotic patients (92 %In the total patient population, the 5 - year overall survival rate was 95 %, although it was significantly higher in non-cirrhotic (97 %) than cirrhotic patients (92 %in non-cirrhotic (97 %) than cirrhotic patients (92 %).
A rapid voluntary reduction in fertility rates in the poor countries, brought about by more access to family planning, higher child survival and education for girls, could stabilize the population at around eight billion by 2050.
«Greater diversity of bacteria in the gut microbiome is associated with both a higher response rate to treatment and longer progression - free survival,» said study leader Jennifer Wargo, M.D., associate professor of Surgical Oncology at MD Anderson.
Ongoing disagreement among scientists over how to sustain high survival rates for salmon once the ocean warms up again placed the National Marine Fisheries Service in a cross fire last year.
In populations exposed to a warning event, survival rates upon a second exposure two hours after the warning are higher than in populations not previously exposeIn populations exposed to a warning event, survival rates upon a second exposure two hours after the warning are higher than in populations not previously exposein populations not previously exposed.
In the end, the researchers found that the young herring in the mesocosms exposed to elevated CO2 levels had a survival rate that was nearly 20 per cent higher than the herring in the control mesocosmIn the end, the researchers found that the young herring in the mesocosms exposed to elevated CO2 levels had a survival rate that was nearly 20 per cent higher than the herring in the control mesocosmin the mesocosms exposed to elevated CO2 levels had a survival rate that was nearly 20 per cent higher than the herring in the control mesocosmin the control mesocosms.
The study found no real effect of winter weather in recent years on adult survival, however cold and wet autumns were associated with a higher death rate.
Given the high rates of fracture, particularly in the elderly, and the impact in terms of pain, immobility and potentially reduced survival, our findings provide real support for health prevention strategies.»
«Fish farming: High survival rate for post-smolt in closed facilties.»
Although immunotherapy treatments that emerged in the last few years have vastly improved survival rates over previous chemotherapy treatments, metastatic MCC still has a high potential to be fatal, he says, making early detection especially vital.
At five - years post-treatment, patients in the HFX arm had the highest overall survival rates at 37.1 percent (HR 0.81, 95 percent CI), compared to 33.7 percent for the AFX - C arm, 29.3 percent for the SFX arm, 29.0 percent for the AFX - S arm.
For long - lived species such as humans, chimpanzees, whales and some birds, longer survival is associated with higher reproductive rates and a loss in fertility only at an extremely old age.
Conversely, manakins» survival rates were higher during wet years associated with La Niña events in these young forests where increased moisture and sun exposure likely led to an abundance of fruit resources.
In the mice, the neuron - like cells did not grow as quickly as the original cancer cells, and analyses of the tumour tissue from patients show that those with a high level of the estrogen receptor have a better survival rate that those with a low.
Currently, PBSCs are the major stem cell source, owing to faster engraftment and ease of collection despite a higher rate of graft - vs - host disease and lower survival rates in patients with nonmalignant disorders.
With the advancement of surgical and radiation therapy strategies for stage 1 non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), more patients are being treated, resulting in higher survival rates, according to a study published online today in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
These mice had significantly higher rates of survival and less fluid in their lungs than mice not given the drug.
For a majority of patients diagnosed with aggressive, high - grade tumors with metastases, the five - year survival rate is about 16 percent, though chemotherapy has been associated with an improvement in survival, and new targeted agents are being tested.
CPX - 351 resulted in longer overall survival (9.56 versus 5.95 months; P = 0.005) and higher rates of complete response (47.7 % versus 33.3 %; P = 0.016).
Higher metabolic and survival costs induced by predation risk were only partially offset by changes in consumption rates and assimilation efficiencies and the magnitude of non-consumptive effects varied as a function of temperature.
«This analysis shows that MRD - directed therapy clearly contributed to the unprecedented high rates of long - term survival that patients in this study achieved,» said first and corresponding author Ching - Hon Pui, M.D., chair of the St.Jude Department of Oncology.
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