Sentences with phrase «how medical cases»

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A case in Nova Scotia provides insight into how the use of medical cannabis is sometimes still perceived as an unconventional treatment despite having been legal in Canada for almost two decades.

Attendees will learn through case studies how a PBM can engage all care stakeholders collaboratively - prescribers at the point of care (PoC), pharmacists at the point of sale (PoS), patients, and payers» clinical / pharmacy staff to reduce overall pharmacy costs and avoidable drug — impacted medical costs while improving compliance and patients» quality of life.

Attendees will learn through case studies how a PBM can engage all care stakeholders collaboratively — prescribers at the point of care (PoC), pharmacists at the point of sale (PoS), patients, and payers» clinical / pharmacy staff to reduce overall pharmacy costs and avoidable drug - impacted medical costs while improving compliance and patients» quality of life.

Companies with fewer than 50 employees are not likely to be subject to federal laws that govern how employers handle leave for family and medical reasons, bereavement, military leave, jury duty, court cases and voting.

I wonder to how many women and babies this idiot has denied or delayed medical treatment and in how many cases that delay contributed to the death.

If we could pool all of these statistics and get a break down of precisely how things went wrong, we'd be even better able to make a case for, «These are the specific things that go wrong in home birth, their rates, the chance that immediate medical intervention would have saved the baby» (and so on).

In most cases, the school nurse (s) assumed this role within the school, but with national statistics showing that 47 % of schools have less than the recommended nurse - to - student ratio (National Association of School Nurses (NASN) 2008 Survey; Youth Sports Safety Alliance (YSSA) stats) and school nurses not being required in NYS, it is unclear how many schools may completely lack in - house medical or healthcare personnel to be at the hub of this process.

Dr. Ronald L. Ruecker, president of the Illinois State Medical Society, wrote in reference to midwife Yvonne Cryns» case, «This case was not about allowing parents to choose how to bring their children into the world» («Safety must be first consideration in childbirth,» Voice of the people, June 15).

Pensacola, Fla. — Dr. Ronald L. Ruecker, president of the Illinois State Medical Society, wrote in reference to midwife Yvonne Cryns» case, «This case was not about allowing parents to choose how to bring their children into the world» («Safety must be first consideration in childbirth,» Voice of the people, June 15).

No matter how you turn it, an epidural is - in most cases - an unnescessary medical intervention.

I understand that docs like to see and measure how much a baby is eating, but I wish that formula was seen as a medical intervention, in which case all involved would have to understand the risks.

After failing to use his surrogates to block Dr. Zanetor Rawlings, daughter of NDC founder, from leading the constituency, Nii Armah Ashitey, after losing to Dr. Zanetor, officially showed how battle ready he was when he filed a case in court, challenging the selection of the medical trained daughter of former President Rawlings.

How is it that a farmer who was rich enough to pay for the renovation of the residence of the President needed the tax payer's money to seek medical treatment or was it a case of one good turn deserves another?

Even the imaging tests that doctors use to make the case for back surgery, including MRI, X-rays, and CT scans, are not very good at pinpointing the cause of pain, comments Jerome Groopman, chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and author of How Doctors Think.

«To answer more fundamental questions in diseases, I had to have more background in medical science and had to have more insight into how the human body works,» says Chen, who currently is a research fellow at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute — and has been admitted to the medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Smaller missions, such as to Kenya (1988) to attend an inquest into the death of a man who had been tortured and document how the court applied the medical evidence, and to the Sudan (1990) to investigate the jailing of physicians and scientists, provided experiences for AAAS to contribute directly to individual human rights cases as well as learn lessons on the political and cultural complexities of human rights work.

«A lot of dispensary owners and medical cannabis proponents make a big case about how therapeutically beneficial CBD is,» says Vandrey, «but our testing indicates that a lot of what's available in the edible cannabis market may have very little CBD.»

«The model allowed us to ask what would have been the right drug in each case, how could we have known from the tumor's genetics, and what difference it made,» says Jennifer R. Diamond, MD, CU Cancer Center investigator and medical oncologist at the University of Colorado Hospital.

Because 80 percent of sepsis cases originate outside of the hospital, Geeting said it is important that everyone knows how to recognize the warning signs and when to seek immediate medical attention.

In Better (Metropolitan Books, $ 24), Gawande, for his part, gives us case studies of high - performing medical innovators — from military surgeons in Iraq who have devised ways to improve the survival of the severely injured to the designers of hand - washing campaigns to reduce hospital - borne infections in the United States — and roots through the methods of these «positive deviants» to reveal how they do things, well, better than the rest of us.

Of the many oddities in the case of Japanese researcher Hisashi Moriguchi, who admitted over the weekend to lying about a startling stem cell experiment, is how for years he managed to claim an affiliation with Harvard Medical School in Boston that did not exist.

Unfortunately, a number of patients died from the infections instead of their cancer; just how many is hard to say since medical studies in the 1800s were not methodical and often consisted of case reports.

Any difference in the mouth microbiomes of people with HIV and those without the virus could give scientists clues about how a healthy population of oral microbes might help keep Candida in check, says medical mycologist Mahmoud Ghannoum of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Critically, in January 2011, BMJ, the British Medical Journal, reported the investigation with a three - week package of disclosures and editorials, including three major reports by Deer: How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed, How the vaccine crisis was meant to make money and The Lancet's two days to bury bad news.

«We had a good idea of what the prevalence of vulvodynia was but this data gives us a better understanding of how often new cases develop and the potential risk factors that may be involved,» says lead author Barbara D. Reed, M.D., M.S.P.H., professor of family medicine at the U-M Medical School.

Shows you how your fungal strains and levels compare to Dr. Ghannoum's clinical research data on gut fungal strains at Case Western Reserve University's Center for Medical Mycology.

Journal of Medical Case Reports 4, no. 1 (2010): 111; Blaser, M. J. Missing microbes: How the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues.

In the case of orthopedic surgeon Dr. Fettke, his offence against the Australian medical establishment was to teach his patients how to use the low carb high fat (LCHF) diet to reverse their type 2 diabetes and avoid the amputation of their feet and legs.

As medical professionals conduct experiments and do more in - depth studies on how infrared saunas help you lose weight, the case for using sauna treatments to help with weight loss will strengthen lessening confusion for you.

It also shows how ginger's case could make a great impact in the medical world and on the treatment of certain diseases.

We can either embrace the medical model that is there to «help» us at every opportunity - in the case of childbearing, from IVF all the way to an elective Caesarean because we've become increasingly disconnected from our bodies - or we can empower ourselves by understanding how our body functions holistically.

In many instances, although the scientific medical community still prevaricates, some of the ancient medical cultures did have something real; something which in many cases is only now being proven through the latest advances in modern medical science and our better understanding of diet and how our bodies work.

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For example, in his post about evidence based medicine, he describes how doctors also resist the use of evidence, but fails to note the costs of these actions — in this case, the thousands of deaths and unnecessary medical complications caused by over-reliance on intuition.

In collaboration with Case Western University, Microsoft used HoloLens to develop a training program that will revolutionize the way medical students can understand the anatomy of a body and see how parts relate to each other.

Being so busy designing their next gen products, it seems that the engineers haven't caught up yet with the dozens of medical studies showing beyond doubt how we're affected by our blue screen and their LED backlights... a google for «sleep blue light» will clarify the case.

Travel medical insurance has a list of limits for individual cases (i.e. how much it would pay for nursing services, for instance).

Not only with reimbursing for some of the medical expenses but also for following up in my case and asking how my boy was doing.

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In some cases, diagnosis may rely on monitoring how a cat responds to a trial of medical therapy or of dietary modification.

Investigate pet insurance and how it might help keep your budget on track in the case of serious medical problems.

But when you're focused on that general knowledge of a broad range of animals and how to care for their medical needs, you're not getting that education that is based specifically on the nutritional needs of animals and in this case the nutritional needs of cats and dogs, specifically is what we're talking about.

Case Study at The Animal Clinic of St. Petersburg When I was a student (not nearly as many years ago as Dr. Burroughs), we were given example patient stories to study in order to learn various medical conditions and how to manage them.

Each day, I am humbled by how each patient has a distinctive character, unique personality and, in many cases, an idiosyncratic response to medical conditions.

Once underlying medical problems are ruled out or treated, and the pet still exhibits problems, it's time to give the owners behavioral advice, including how to effectively manage the problem and prevent reoccurrence, how to modify and improve behavior with rewards - based methods, and, in some cases, using products or medication when the problem is abnormal or excessive, Landsberg said.

Just a word of warning... make sure you check out your annual travel insurance and give them a call to regards any hospital stays, tests or specialist visits as this can affect your cover if you get sick abroad, they can access your health records and you won't be covered if it was deemed a pre-existing condition in many cases (you need to think about how Brexit is going to affect your medical costs while in Europe going forward)... it's better to be safe than sorry!

Arranged in display cases like specimens in a science laboratory or medical museum, the artist hopes that these fantastical, yet lifelike, body parts will change the way the viewer considers the significance of plant life, and how we value certain life forms over others.

Our Philadelphia medical negligence attorneys will carefully review all aspects of the case to determine if and how hospital negligence contributed to your injury.

In handling medical malpractice cases involving surgical errors, the attorneys at our law firm thoroughly investigate what happened to determine if and how negligence contributed to the damage.

In May 2015, Attorney Matt White published expert analysis on this topic in Medical Law Perspectives to educate other lawyers about how to handle chemotherapy overdose cases.