Sentences with phrase «in additional patients»

Black said the researchers will aim to replicate these findings in additional patients and determine if and how the brain regions they identified may contribute to Tourette's syndrome, with a goal of developing more effective therapies.

The researchers are now reporting updated data for additional patients in the two trials who met the phase II eligibility criteria as well as updated safety data in additional patients.

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This increase in abnormal test results can have negative consequences for medicine in the form of extra testing, additional patient visits to clinics / hospitals, and added doctor services, all of which result in additional costs and burdens to patients or to the healthcare system and are potentially harmful.

«If we bring forward innovative drugs that make a difference in the lives of patients, they'll continue to get attractive pricing,» he says, noting Biogen's work on potential breakthrough Alzheimer's and (additional) multiple sclerosis meds.

They cut down additional time spent in the waiting room by offering the endless pile of paperwork online for patients to fill out in advance.

The Xarelto partnership is seeking additional approved uses, with trials underway in patients with acute coronary syndrome, and for reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with heart failure or peripheral artery disease.

In addition, many health providers are seeing patients with anxiety, fearful of the coming hurricane season and the additional challenges it might bring.

The results of another clinical trial published in the journal found that high - dose vitamins and minerals did not protect heart attack patients 50 and older from experiencing additional cardiovascular events, though the research was marred by a high dropout rate.

So what: Interventional cardiologists are increasingly relying on Abiomed's medical devices to boost patient blood circulation before, during, and after catheterization lab procedures, and in 2015, the FDA approval of its devices in additional high - risk heart procedures sent revenue zipping 47 % higher to $ 76 million last quarter.

Evidence shows additional goji berry benefits include treating female infertility in patients with premature ovarian failure and the inability to ovulate normally.

After the patient has returned home from the hospital, the next stage of treatment is consolidation, in which patients receive several additional rounds of chemotherapy to build upon the effects of induction.

Reading too much into a rookie season from a player in a new country is patently unfair, so it's wise to see if he can calm down and be more patient at the plate with a little additional experience.

Additional research will be necessary, they said, «to prove that shorter time frames are safe for the graft, menisci, articular cartilage, and in the patient in general.»

As a healthcare provider, it is important that you have an understanding about the additional stress the holidays bring about in your patients, particularly those women that have recently lost a pregnancy, those that are trying to conceive, and those that are pregnant after a loss.

A prospective study of the progress of labor in 220 nulliparous women and 99 multiparous women who spontaneously entered labor evaluated the benefit of prolonging oxytocin augmentation for an additional 4 hours (for a total of 8 hours) in patients who were dilated at least 3 cm and had unsatisfactory progress (either protraction or arrest) after an initial 4 - hour augmentation period (21).

«We are producing medicine to meet the needs of our current patients and are in the process of rolling out two new products and additional ratios as our analytics lab is coming fully on - line and our grow is reaching optimum maturity,» she added.

Additional safeguards include requiring multiple witnesses attesting the patient is acting on their own and at least two doctors in overseeing the process as well, who would be protected against both civil and criminal liability, along with any professional penalties for participating.

Taking antibiotics when they are not needed creates additional health risks as it increases the chance a patient will experience an adverse drug reaction, and also leads to the development of antibiotic - resistant bacteria which affects everyone in the community.

In a statement Friday morning, Stefanik said the money would come from the Patient and State Stability Fund, with supplemental funding in order to receive additional resources for new mothers, those struggling with addiction or mental health problemIn a statement Friday morning, Stefanik said the money would come from the Patient and State Stability Fund, with supplemental funding in order to receive additional resources for new mothers, those struggling with addiction or mental health problemin order to receive additional resources for new mothers, those struggling with addiction or mental health problems.

Additional data from this study, also presented at The International Liver CongressTM today in Barcelona, Spain, show that 97 % of patients with the same HCV genotype, but without scarred livers, achieved SVR12 after eight weeks on the same treatment without ribavirin (RBV).

The project included public training programs in defibrillators and compression - only CPR at schools, hospitals and major events such as the N.C. State Fair, plus additional instruction for EMS and other emergency workers on optimal care for patients in cardiac arrest.

«Considering the marked prevalence of both prostate cancer and depression, additional efforts are needed to better understand and ameliorate the decreased survival following prostate cancer diagnosis in the depressed male patient.

«Moving forward, we'll need to conduct additional studies of many more patients to show that getting functional scans in the first hours or days after a stroke could provide valuable information for predicting outcome and tracking recovery.»

The researchers were able to validate the test in an additional group of 80 patients at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

Although nanobacteria may not cause kidney stone disease, Coe notes additional circumstantial evidence: At least four teams have reported tiny spherical deposits in the calcified plaques that often appear in the kidneys of patients who suffer from kidney stones.

«While many patients with Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis present with isolated psychiatric symptoms, most of these patients subsequently develop, in a matter of days, additional neurological symptoms which help to make the diagnosis of the disease.

In fact, the study finds, over 5,700 additional patients ended up having such procedures — called coronary angiography — during the shortage, exposed them to more risk and radiation.

A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.

Following additional scrutiny after Vioxx's withdrawal, and the addition of cardiovascular experts to the trial's data safety monitoring board, the DSMB concluded that patients taking a high dose of Celebrex had a 3.4-fold increase in the risk of heart attacks or strokes compared to those on placebo; those on a moderate dose had a 2.5-fold increase in risk.

But they're additional tools in the analgesic toolbox that we use when we're treating patients.»

Van Horne has been able to advance the trial so quickly in part because it did not require additional FDA approval, since it piggybacks on an approved procedure and uses a patient's own nerve tissue.

In 22 percent of cases, the additional clinical information found in the EHR was rated as «possibly» having a clinically significant impact on the interpretation of the head CT. «This study exemplifies the power of EHR's and their potential impact on patient care and positive outcomeIn 22 percent of cases, the additional clinical information found in the EHR was rated as «possibly» having a clinically significant impact on the interpretation of the head CT. «This study exemplifies the power of EHR's and their potential impact on patient care and positive outcomein the EHR was rated as «possibly» having a clinically significant impact on the interpretation of the head CT. «This study exemplifies the power of EHR's and their potential impact on patient care and positive outcomes.

Additional studies will follow to validate the value of stem cell - based regenerative solutions in addressing abnormal cardiac motion in heart failure, ultimately leading to improved patient care.

«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 obtaineIn 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 obtainein a tremendous increase in health expenditure, while no actual health benefits are being obtainein health expenditure, while no actual health benefits are being obtained.

The average 90 - day spending on patients in the study is almost $ 27,500; for every additional increase in spending of roughly $ 8,500, the researchers found a reduction in mortality risk of about 2 percentage points.

Another paper in the same edition of the NEJM reports two additional studies of sofosbuvir - containing therapy, one evaluating a 12 week regimen of peginterferon, ribavirin and sofosbuvir in patients with genotypes 1, 4, 5 and 6 who have never been treated before; the other reporting results of a trial comparing 24 weeks of peginterferon and ribavin with 12 weeks of sofosbuvir and ribavirin in treatment naïve patients with genotypes 2 and 3.

The report suggests that patients may benefit from additional assurances from clinical staff regarding; success rates in halting disease progression with anti-VEGF therapy, how it can reduce the risk of becoming blind in the future, and the low likelihood of serious problems occurring following the injections.

Authors say the study underscores the need for additional training in nutrition for cardiologists and other physicians, as well as more opportunities to educate patients.

Additional drug development, keeping younger patients in mind, is also needed.

Frieden said he «would unfortunately not be surprised if we did see additional cases in the healthcare workers who also provided care to the index patient.»

An additional problem is that, in the trial, the LDR - PB patients experienced more urinary side effects that those who received DE-EBRT.

«Due to our prior successes in treating these patients with sorafenib and lenvatinib, patients are doing better, but they still ultimately progress, and we need additional agents with different mechanisms of action,» Brose said.

He noted that before physicians and scientists begin offering SSC transplantation in patients, additional research will be needed, including whether other types of leukemia cells will also be eliminated in the cell - propagation process.

The lifetime analysis suggested that first - line biologic treatment would result in 0.15 additional lifetime QALYs, but this gain would cost an incremental $ 77,290, leading to an incremental cost - effectiveness ratio of $ 521,520 per QALY per patient, a figure far above what is considered acceptable to the U.S. health care system.

«Patients could use this device in a way that's very similar to how diabetics use glucose - monitoring devices, but this will be even simpler because this is a visual - based test that doesn't require an additional electrical device to analyze the results.»

Additional experiments using a combination of maraviroc and a drug that blocks the VEGF protein suggest that the treatment duo could be an effective way to prevent metastatic disease in human breast cancer patients, according to the researchers.

Vemurafenib joins other multi-targeted kinase inhibitors (MKIs)(sorafenib, lenvatinib) shown to be effective in this patient population; in spite of responses to these drugs, the responses are temporary and additional treatment options are needed.

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.

In a related editorial comment, Paolo Boffetta, M.D., M.P.H., associate director for population sciences at The Tisch Cancer Institute and chief of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control of the at Mount Sinai in New York, addressed whether the increased risk of cancer in this group of heart failure patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general publiIn a related editorial comment, Paolo Boffetta, M.D., M.P.H., associate director for population sciences at The Tisch Cancer Institute and chief of the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control of the at Mount Sinai in New York, addressed whether the increased risk of cancer in this group of heart failure patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general publiin New York, addressed whether the increased risk of cancer in this group of heart failure patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general publiin this group of heart failure patients warranted additional screening beyond what was recommended for the general public.

For example, after taking account of other potentially influential factors, each opioid prescription refill was associated with a 44 % increase in misuse and each additional week of opioid use was associated with a 20 % increase in opioid misuse among these patients.