Sentences with phrase «large numbers of patients from»

In a pilot study, these investigators examined the safety and feasibility of the protocol in a large number of patients from different institutions, and identified predictors of the clinical response to the treatment.

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• Moving large numbers of patients away from expensive hospitals to lower - cost settings of care.

Fat cells cultured from the body mass index of a morbidly obese patient cause multiple myeloma cells to anchor to a much greater extent than normal cells and produce a significantly larger number of blood vessels to sustain the cancer cells.

The MGH team has assembled a large number of DNA samples from HD patients who contributed them for research to the Massachusetts HD Center Without Walls and through collaboration with the Huntington Study Group.

Still, WHO experts concluded that this is the best approach because it is theoretically feasible to recruit large numbers of Ebola survivors, collect blood from them, screen it for disease and use it to potentially help patients.

Because of the large number of patients with A / H1N1 and the limited number of beds, I was given medicine and released from the hospital.

Dr Jeremy McRae, first author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said: «Each of these disorders is incredibly rare, so the large number of patients in this study was crucial to diagnosis.

The assay was implemented in five countries and tested using a large number of clinical samples from travelers and patients living in areas with a high level of exposure to Zika virus and other flaviviruses.

In an editorial accompanying the published article in Circulation, experts from the Technische Universität and the Munich Heart Alliance, Gjin Ndrepepa and Adnan Kastrati, affirmed that, if confirmed by a subsequent analysis of large numbers of patients, the results of METOCARD - CNIC trial are likely to lead to a change in clinical practice: «In this regard, a pharmaco - protective strategy able to reduce infarct size by 20 percent when used in conjunction with primary PCI nurtures great hope in clinical benefit.»

«When we compared the gene signature activity of glioblastoma cells from around 60 patients we found that a large number of patients could be divided into subgroups that showed a correlation between gene activity, tumor cell characteristics and cell of origin similar to the one we had seen in the mouse study.

The panel also pointed out that financial penalties levied against hospitals may have the unintended consequence of transferring money away from hospitals that treat large numbers of disadvantaged patients.

While there have been attempts to estimate real - time death risks during epidemics, such statistical models require data from large numbers of patients in the order of thousands and therefore could not be applied to the 2015 MERS epidemic in the Republic of Korea with small patient numbers.

The Krainer team, in collaboration with a team at Isis Pharmaceuticals, surveyed a large number of antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) and found that some of these ASOs are able to correct the mRNA splicing defect in cultured cells from SMA patients.

In an attempt to bring patient - specific induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSCs) technology closer to the clinic, researchers have created iPSCs from patient - derived chondrocytes, using an non-integrative reprogramming method, and used these to then create large numbers of cartilage producing cells.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

Was in charge of the patient files which were quite large in number as the department handled neurology patients from all over the state