Sentences with phrase «in deaths of patients»

The mortality rates of these patients climbed at roughly the same rate, on average, with a steeper rise in deaths of patients admitted to the ICU for overdose after 2012.

DUNKIRK - The Post-Journal is reporting that the ambulance driver who was operating an ambulance when it veered off the road and crashed — resulting in the death of a patient — has not received any criminal charges related to the incident, though the... [Read more...]

Terminal illness is a disease that can not be cured or adequately treated and that is reasonably expected to result in the death of the patient within a short period.

Flu - like symptoms progress and ultimately result in the death of the patient.

$ 6.3 Million Jury Verdict in the Death of a Patient Who Died After a Physician Chose Not To Refer the Patient to a Cardiologist

It is very sad that Dr Ubani was able to come to the UK as a Locum GP as his actions resulted in the death of a patient who desperately needed medical attention.

Medical - when a physician makes an incorrect diagnosis or failed to render appropriate management that resulted in the death of the patient under his care.

They typically include a botched surgery or the misdiagnosis of an illness, which resulted in the death of a patient.

These typically include the misdiagnosis of an illness of a patient or a botched surgery, resulting in the death of the patient.

It typically includes the misdiagnosis of an illness or a botched surgery (among others) that results in the death of a patient.

Though Turkewitz is a personal injury attorney who specializes in plaintiffs» side malpractice cases, his interview really humanizes Flea, showing the personal and professional toll of making a mistake that results in the death of a patient.

Not exact matches

Because it makes up more than 13 % of all new cancers and nearly 27 % of all cancer deaths in the U.S. Just 17.7 % of diagnosed patients are still alive five years out from their diagnosis.

Kite Pharma, one of the companies chasing a new generation of cancer drugs called chimeric antigen receptor T - cell (CAR - T) therapies, announced a patient death in a clinical trial of its experimental KTE - C19.

«At this time, we do not know the root cause or incidence rate of patient death, nor have we been able to definitively attribute the deaths to the devices or the insertion procedures for these devices,» said the FDA in a notice.

Speaking of checkpoint inhibitor drugs... Merck's star cancer immunotherapy treatment Keytruda is facing some troubling clinical trial incidents which have now compelled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt three studies of the drug in multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer, after a number of patient deaths.

More from Modern Medicine: 6 amazing medical advancements to expect in 2018 Third - leading cause of death in US most doctors don't want you to know New treatment aims to prevent hair loss in cancer patients

«Among both groups, patients taking Entresto had a 20 % or greater reduction in cardiovascular death or heart failure hospitalization compared to those taking enalapril,» Novartis said in a statement, citing conclusions based on analysis of data from the PARADIGM - HF study.

In a late - stage trial, Darzalex combined with Velcade and chemotherapy slashed patients» risk of worsening disease or death by a stunning 61 % compared with the results for Velcade and chemotherapy alone.

That's particularly significant since people with diabetes have a significantly higher risk of developing cardiovascular conditions — and Lilly's drug was shown to cut the cardiovascular - related deaths in diabetes patients by a staggering 38 % in clinical trials.

Herper homes in on a relatively new class of super-powerful (and super expensive) cholesterol - busting drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors (which were just shown to reduce death from any cause, and particularly heart - related conditions), and how patients with staggeringly high cholesterol who would benefit from the treatments had to wrangle with insurance companies that refused to cover them over their high prices.

Praluent, given by injection, dramatically lowers bad LDL cholesterol and reduces the risk of heart attacks and death in high - risk heart patients.

Those drugs in combination reduce patients «risk of death or their cancer progressing by 42 percent versus chemotherapy, still beating Wall Street «s estimates.

'' [It] minimizes the need for a full fledge [d] investigation to determine if some of these deaths could have been prevented, or whether the island's medical facilities were negligent in terms of providing treatment to their most vulnerable patients,» writes Yordán, who is from Puerto Rico.

For the second time in 5 months, Juno Therapeutics has put a clinical hold on a Phase II trial of JCAR015 in adult patients with relapsed or refractory B - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia due to patient deaths.

Zytiga's approval was based on trials showing a 38 % reduction in the risk of death in this subset of patients, an improvement that's clearly influencing doctor's use of the drug.

In early September, Alnylam stopped giving doses of its fitusiran drug for a rare bleeding disorder to patients enrolled in clinical studies after the death of a patienIn early September, Alnylam stopped giving doses of its fitusiran drug for a rare bleeding disorder to patients enrolled in clinical studies after the death of a patienin clinical studies after the death of a patient.

Under New York law, patients may legally refuse treatment and authorize the withdrawal of life - support systems, including nutrition, even in those instances where such steps would undoubtedly hasten death.

And just in case you miss the point, he then recounts the gruesome details attending the death of an AIDS patient.

An end - of - life protocol pushed by the UK's National Institute For Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) may have resulted in patients being sedated and dehydrated to death before their time, a major story reports today in the Daily Telegraph.

The abandoning ethic of assisted suicide is demonstrated by studies showing depression in many patients requesting hastened death.

Say for example a patient in a remote location must undergo surgery without anesthesia, but with (for the sake of argument) the assurance that he will prevent his own death by undergoing great pains and also assuming that (for the sake of argument) he values his own life over and above any pain he may experience in this life.

Readers of SHS may recall the terrible San Luis Obispo case of a transplant surgeon named Hootan Roozrokh who is charged felonious wrongdoing in trying to kill a profoundly disabled patient so his organs could be procured under a «heart death» protocol.

In the notable case on assisted suicide in Oregon (Gonzales v. Oregon, 2006), Nino invoked the moral logic of the Hippocratic oath: that there was a rightful purpose in the medical art and the use of drugs; that the purpose was to secure the health of the patient, not to speed him to his deatIn the notable case on assisted suicide in Oregon (Gonzales v. Oregon, 2006), Nino invoked the moral logic of the Hippocratic oath: that there was a rightful purpose in the medical art and the use of drugs; that the purpose was to secure the health of the patient, not to speed him to his deatin Oregon (Gonzales v. Oregon, 2006), Nino invoked the moral logic of the Hippocratic oath: that there was a rightful purpose in the medical art and the use of drugs; that the purpose was to secure the health of the patient, not to speed him to his deatin the medical art and the use of drugs; that the purpose was to secure the health of the patient, not to speed him to his death.

But Scalia surely knew that Janet Reno, the Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, had taken quite the opposite view — that nothing in the reigning statutes barred the State of Oregon from permitting drugs to be used by doctors for the purpose of procuring death for their patients.

In Japan, for example, if a patient has expressed a written wish to be an organ donor then organs can be taken on medical diagnosis of brain death.

Proud Haman was put to death, while her humble and patient uncle Mordecai, receives the position of being second in command over the entire empire.

In the practice of critical care medicine, we sometimes end up caring for patients who have suffered severe illness or injury and are deteriorating toward brain death.

In an earlier book, Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients, and the Dutch Cure (1996), Hendin described how the actual witnessing of the effects of legalized euthanasia, far more than any theoretical consideration, persuaded him of its pernicious impact.

In England recently, «do not resuscitate» orders were routinely and illegally placed in thousands of patient files without their consent, resulting in untold premature deathIn England recently, «do not resuscitate» orders were routinely and illegally placed in thousands of patient files without their consent, resulting in untold premature deathin thousands of patient files without their consent, resulting in untold premature deathin untold premature deaths.

as for proving Jesus is alive, no worries, He will be back in the flesh as soon as all the prophecies of these days of distress are fulfilled, so stay alive until He arrives... however, should Death claim you before hand, you will know the truth anyway... and every aethist comes to know if God exists by the time of their funeral... unfortunately, they can't tell their friends the truth they have found then.So God is patient, for He knows the days of a man are short.

He gave serious offense by treating patients, not in immediate danger of death, on the holy day.

«I have discovered that the practice here in Westphalia is to compile lists of such patients who are to be removed elsewhere as «unproductive citizens,» and after a period of time put to death.

A disturbing article published in JAMA Internal Medicine propounded a «worse than death» category to measure patient suffering in the context of making treatment decisions for hospitalized patients.

He directs it chiefly at medical specialists who look upon disease and death as enemies to be conquered and who carry attempts to overcome them to the point of giving the patient false hopes of recovery, disregarding his suffering in futile efforts to score a medical triumph.

Patients displayed considerable heterogeneity in their ratings of health states relative to death... but significant percentages of patients rated each evaluated state of serious functional debility as equal to or worse thaPatients displayed considerable heterogeneity in their ratings of health states relative to death... but significant percentages of patients rated each evaluated state of serious functional debility as equal to or worse thapatients rated each evaluated state of serious functional debility as equal to or worse than death.

Gosnell was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 death of patient Karnamaya Mongar and convicted of numerous lesser charges, including multiple counts of violating Pennsylvania's informed consent law and twenty - one counts of abortion of unborn babies over twenty - four weeks gestation.

Now we are to approve of killing the conscious and protesting, for in the United States, doctors starved and dehydrated stroke patient Marjorie Nighbert to death despite her pleading «I'm hungry,» «I'm thirsty,» «Please feed me,» and «I want food.»

Besides George Delury, who killed his wife, we may mention Timothy E. Quill, who prescribed lethal pills for his patient, and Andrew Solomon, who participated in the death of his mother.

From being studied to death, the Liturgy soon came to take on the contours of T. S. Eliot's famous «patient etherized on a table,» and appalled observers (and worshipers) had to witness after the Second Vatican Council the destruction of Catholic piety in the name of «renewal.»

But in the chronic case, where the patient is not in imminent danger of death, the omission of assisted N&H is a lethal omission, for by that omission we set in motion a chain of events known to be death - dealing.