Sentences with phrase «in blinded patient»

The Oxford team has also been trialling an electronic retina successfully in blind patients, but the genetic approach may have advantages in being simpler to administer.

Not exact matches

In the advancing portion of this cycle, Ben Bernanke's blind, stubborn recklessness made patient adherence to a value - conscious, historically - informed investment discipline itself indistinguishable from blind, stubborn recklessness.

In collaboration with Indiana University and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), Intercept is supporting a blinded Phase 2 trial treating 60 patients with alcoholic hepatitis (NCT02039219 on clinicaltrials.gov).

Genesis 1:1... «in the beginning, God...» John 3:16... «For God so loved... «I'm Blind, but now I see...» your personal experience confirms nothing... the patients on the psych unit of my hospital are filled with some amazing claims... just as the Muslim, the Jew, the Buddhist, the Rastafarian make claims of their experience...

[9] Using a different, continuous weighted scoring system — which admittedly was, like Byrd's scoring, «an unvalidated measure of CCU outcomes» — Harris et al. concluded that «supplementary, remote, blinded, intercessory prayer produced a measurable improvement in the medical outcomes of critically ill patients», and suggested that «prayer be an effective adjunct to standard medical care.»

«A 1999 follow - up by William S Harris et al. attempted to replicate Byrd's findings under stricter experimental conditions, noting that the original research was not completely blinded and was limited to only «prayer - receptive» individuals (57 of the 450 patients invited to participate in the study refused to give consent «for personal reasons or religious convictions»).

In 1998 Fred Sicher et al. performed a small scale double - blind randomized study of 40 patients with advanced AIDS.

A randomized, blinded study of the impact of intercessory prayer on spiritual well - being in patients with cancer.

It was a double - blind controlled trial in two outpatient dermatology clinics with adult Atopic dermatitis patients who were diagnosed by history, pattern, evolution, and skin lesions.

In this randomized, double - blind clinical trial, virgin coconut oil was the clear winner: «among pediatric patients with mild to moderate AD, topical application of virgin coconut oil for eight weeks was superior to that of mineral oil based on clinical (SCORAD) and instrumental (TEWL, skin capacitance) assessments.»

Methods: This randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled, prospective follow - up study involved 90 coeliac disease patients in remission randomized to consume glucose syrups, maltodextrins or placebo for 24 weeks.

He contributes to other large - scale clinical trials including SAVE (evaluating whether treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea with continuous positive airways pressure can reduce the incidence of serious CV events in patients with established CVD), and CREDENCE, a randomised, double - blind, placebo - controlled trial assessing whether canagliflozin can slow the progression of diabetic nephropathy in patients with type 2 diabetes.

The double - blind study (meaning neither the researchers nor the patients know if they are receiving the coconut oil or placebo) at the Byrd Alzheimer's Institute, located in Tampa, Florida, will be eight months long and will enroll about 65 people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

i am optimistic by nature and even tho theres been some woeful displays in recent seasons i always go back and watch the next game even tho i id become dissapointed and disillusioned with our decline, but its not just about blind faith and hope... the manager hasnt givin us much to get excited bout in a while and i think fans have been more than patient..

He points to research by a Stanford University researcher, Allan K. Mishra, who has studied PRP for years, whose in his most recent published research includes a large multicenter study [8] involving a host of well - respected orthopedic surgeons around the country who followed 230 patients in a double - blind randomized control study [the gold standard for medical research].

Long - term treatment with probiotics in primary care patients with irritable bowel syndrome — a randomised, double - blind, placebo controlled trial.

Many kids each year are strangled by mini blinds and emergency rooms see hundreds of young patients a month that are burned by hot water in their home.

The disabled child rate is payable if: · disability living allowance, personal independence payment or Armed Forces Independence Payment (AFIP) is payable for the child or is normally payable but has ceased because they are a patient in hospital; or · they are certified as severely sight impaired or blind by a consultant ophthalmologist, or has ceased to be registered or certified blind within 28 weeks immediately preceding the date of claim The severely disabled child rate is payable if: · the highest rate care component of disability living allowance or the enhanced daily living component of personal independence payment or any component of armed forces independence payment is payable for them or would be payable but for suspension or abatement due to hospitalisation 3.

«In effort to treat rare blinding disease, researchers turn stem cells into blood vessels: Patients around the world contribute skin samples to test potential new therapy.»

In a blinded test, researchers don't know whether they are giving patients the drug being tested or fake medicine.

And while neurologists toil in their world of double - blind experiments, practitioners and patients search for more immediate remedies.

Co-author Subrata Sen, Ph.D., also a professor of Molecular Translational Pathology, notes, «These findings are a significant advance considering that there's nothing else available now to detect early stage pancreatic cancer that has gone through blinded validations in multiple patient cohorts.»

The TOPCAT trial is the first randomized, double - blind trial to assess the effect of spironolactone on clinical outcomes in these patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction.

For one thing, they point out, acupuncture studies are extremely difficult to double - blind — a methodological approach in which neither the researchers nor patients know who is receiving the treatment under investigation and who is receiving the placebo or sham.

They would test patients by exposing them to odors in a «blinded» situation, where they did not know what they were being exposed to, or they were told harmful odors were present when there were no odors at all.

Only a clinical trial that combines azacitidine with the blinded addition of either vitamin C or a placebo will give the true answer as to whether or not vitamin C increases the efficacy of azacitidine in patients.

Yesterday, at the annual American College of Rheumatology meeting in Atlanta, Ga., researchers announced the results of a double - blind, randomized trial in more than 600 patients: tasocitinib eased pain and inflammation in 65.7 percent of those who received the highest dose of the drug, whereas only 26.7 percent of those who received a placebo reported relief.

The race is on not only to prove that patients are getting better — by comparing patients treated with stem cells with untreated patients in a blinded trial — but also to pinpoint the effects.

A total of 2,129 patients with mild dementia due to Alzheimer's disease participated in the double - blind, placebo - controlled, phase 3 multicenter trial.

- At first, I was rather anxious about how well the algorithm will do in the blind study, especially because I felt that the patient group was particularly challenging.

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.

Now a group of physicians have designed the fecal treatment's first double - blind trial, in which neither patient nor researcher knows whether a placebo or a healthy microbiome is being delivered to the ailing gut.

The study randomized 20 patients with major depressive disorder to ketamine (a single 50 mg dose) or saline in a double - blind, crossover study.

CT - P13 has previously demonstrated pharmacokinetic (PK) equivalence to INX in the PLANETAS trial, a randomised double - blind, parallel group study of 250 patients with AS, and was recently approved by the European Medicines Agency.

Motivated by their previous finding of the presence of P - glycoprotein overexpression in the nasal lining of patients with CRS with nasal polyps, the study authors conducted a randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled clinical trial studying the use of low - dose Verapamil in 18 patients with CRS with nasal polyps.

RELAX - AHF was a randomised, double blind controlled trial that evaluated the effects of a 48 - hour infusion of the intravenous drug, serelaxin, on clinical outcomes in 1 161 patients admitted to hospital for acute heart failure.

This led to the use of the double - blind design, in which neither the investigator nor the patient knew the nature of the tested therapy (it could be either real or fake).

The researchers are now running a larger, double - blind, randomized clinical trial of the drug in 152 patients, planning to evaluate its effectiveness next October.

«TOPCAT is the first randomized, double - blind trial to assess the effect of a treatment - spironolactone - on clinical outcomes in this patient demographic.»

The second cohort of 140 patients with human leukocyte antigen - matched unrelated donor transplants completed enrollment in November 2017, with data expected from this randomized double - blind arm of the study in the next six months.

A new gene therapy treatment has restored some sight in a handful of blind patients suffering from Leber's congenital amaurosis, a syndrome in which, because of a broken or missing gene called RPE65, retinal photoreceptor cells malfunction and eventually die.

The resveratrol clinical trial was a randomized, phase II, placebo - controlled, double blind study in patients with mild to moderate dementia due to Alzheimer's disease.

Samantha de Silva, the lead author of the study said: «There are many blind patients in our clinics and the ability to give them some sight back with a relatively simple genetic procedure is very exciting.

Mikovits and colleagues subsequently participated in a multilab study that resulted in a September Science Express paper describing how none of the teams could reliably find XMRV in blinded samples from CFS patients.

Some studies suggested that patients responded well, but they didn't have the controlled, randomized, and blinded design that allows researchers to be sure, says Simon Mardel, a medical officer working on SARS at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva.

According to Dement, doctors are not only apparently blind to their own need for sleep, they also fail to recognise sleep disorders in their patients.

It is important for all patients (and family members of patients) with macular degeneration to know that although the disease can injure the central vision of both eyes severely enough to render one «legally blind,» it is extremely uncommon to cause complete blindness in even a single eye.

The research, which appears online Aug. 1 in the journal Annals of Neurology, is the first study from a double - blind controlled randomized trial of an exon - skipping agent to provide conclusive proof based on the standard six - minute walk test used to measure muscle function in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), the most common form of muscular dystrophy in children.

The study's first phase, documented in JAMA Ophthalmology, Mar. 2013 showed that patients with blind areas to the side of where they typically look tend to miss pedestrians coming from that side.

Central visual field loss, a scotoma or blind area in central vision, is found most commonly in patients with age - related macular degeneration (AMD).