Sentences with phrase «lead physician for»

Guy Young, MD, director of the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program and lead physician for study efforts at Children's Hospital Los Angeles explains further, «While the standard medications allow us to «bypass» the need for Factor VIII, they don't do the job as efficiently or as well for these patients.

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According to findings by the International Federation of Health Plans, the US leads in total average hospital and physician costs for a delivery without complications.

Providing patients and physicians with an accurate way to track and report seizures could lead to advancements in how care is provided for those who suffer from conditions, such as epilepsy — 3.4 million people in the US suffer from the condition, according to a CDC estimate.

The White House is considering a number of candidates to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs after White House physician Ronny Jackson withdrew his nomination for the post.

Joshua has also led more than 50 due diligence projects for financial and corporate sponsors, including a radiation oncology provider, a hospitalist physician practice management company, a workers» compensation specialty benefits manager, a small pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), a population health management service provider, a large integrated medical group / independent practice association (IPA), a regional payer, a health insurance brokerage, an occupational health / worksite clinic provider, a skilled nursing facility (SNF) and specialty benefits managers in the workers» comp and commercial spaces.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The White House is considering a number of candidates to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs after White House physician Ronny Jackson withdrew his nomination for the post.

He also serves as the lead team physician for the Houston SaberCats, the city's first professional rugby team.

My experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.

Founded in 1990, the Colorado Breastfeeding Coalition, COBFC is a volunteer organization comprised of physicians, nurses, public health officials, dietitians, lactation consultants, counselors, and members of the business community who have led the way for Colorado children to be breastfeeding at the highest rates in the nation.

With a team of physicians and scientists focused on the latest chemical and biological science, Thinkbaby and Thinksport continue to lead in the usage of safe materials for consumer products.

Considering induction of labor and intrapartum interventions, our results are in line with previous studies showing that midwife - led care for low - risk women reduces the risk of some interventions when compared to obstetrician - or physician - led care [1,4,8,9].

Dr. Murray Clarke is a doctor of naturopathic medicine with licenses and doctorates in homeopathic medicine and Chinese medicine (including acupuncture and herbology) and is a leading homeopathic physician for children in the Los Angeles area.

Who provides care: lay health workers for caring for people with hypertension, lay health workers to deliver care for mothers and children or infectious diseases, lay health workers to deliver community - based neonatal care packages, midlevel health professionals for abortion care, social support to pregnant women at risk, midwife - led care for childbearing women, non-specialist providers in mental health and neurology, and physician - nurse substitution.

By contrast, medical - led models of care are where an obstetrician or family physician is primarily responsible for care.

This contrasts with medical - led models of care where an obstetrician or family physician is primarily responsible for care.

As a team physician and the parent of a high school football player, I stand behind Heads Up Football as a leading intervention for safer play.»

Few physicians believe that sleeping on stomach could be good for babies with severe gastroesophageal reflux or certain upper - airway malformations like Pierre Robin Syndrome, which lead to acute airway obstruction episodes.

This knowledge gap prompted the authors of the Children's Hospital Boston study, including lead author and MomsTeam concussion expert, Dr. William P. Meehan, III, as well as sports concussion neuropsychologist and MomsTeam expert, Rosemarie Scolaro Moser, to call for increased concussion education of such physicians.

White House physician Read Adm. Ronny Jackson, who withdrew his nomination to lead Veterans Affairs, will not return as Trump's personal doctor, and will be replaced by Sean Conley, a Navy officer who has filled in for Jackson over the past month.

Therefore, I won't recapitulate the «hit - the - ground - running» calls on the President; rather, I'm persuaded to rightly situate the plots that led to the hurried arrival of President Buhari back home ahead of the «appropriate» time for discharge based on his physicians» approval.

Whether leading a clinical study, mentoring the next generation of physician - scientists, or cheering for Ohio State's football team, Jackson approaches all of her pursuits with passion.

In the U.S., chronic low back pain is the leading cause of lost productivity and the second most common cause for physician visits.

Given the risk of depression was highest in the period right after the first time a patient presented to a physician for acne concerns, it shows just how impactful our skin can be towards our overall mental health» said lead author Dr. Isabelle Vallerand, of the University of Calgary, in Canada.

«The fact that chemical intolerance is so prevalent, yet unrecognized, is important for primary care physicians,» says physician David Katerndahl, Miller's colleague and lead author on the study.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

The earliest mention of cancer - fighting infections dates to a citation from 1550 B.C. and is attributed to Egyptian physician Imhotep, who called for treating the wound with cloth coated in a poultice that would almost certainly lead to infection, and then cutting into the tumor.

A team led by Ken Zaret, PhD, director of the Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the Joseph Leidy Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, and Gloria Petersen, PhD, from the Mayo Clinic, identified a pair of biomarkers that physicians could soon use to discover the disease earlier.

Dr. Catalona, who was the first physician in the U.S. to run the phi test, added, «However, the problem is that higher levels of PSA can also be caused by a benign enlargement or inflammation of the prostate, leading to many false ‐ positives for cancer and ultimately unnecessarily invasive biopsies and an increased potential for patient harm.»

This series will feature contributions from current M.D. / Ph.D. students, who will tell how they got where they are and what getting there was like, and from physician - scientist graduates in the midst of highly successful careers, who will share their thoughts on their professional lives, describe the paths that led to their careers, and offer advice derived from years of accumulated experience about preparing for and managing an M.D. / Ph.D. career.

There are currently no medical guidelines specifically for the management of chronic kidney disease in rheumatoid arthritis, says Dr. Matteson, adding that he hopes the research will make physicians more alert to the risk of kidney disease in rheumatoid arthritis and lead to guidelines.

A team led by David Melzer, an epidemiologist and physician at the Peninsula Medical School, in Exeter, U.K. examined data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a representative sample of the general population.

Dr. David Fredricks, a physician - scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and senior author of the study, said the results could lead to a better understanding of how biological conditions may promote infection by the virus that causes AIDS, and perhaps offer targets for future prevention research.

Led by Sudha Ram, a UA professor of management information systems and computer science, and Dr. Yolande Pengetnze, a physician scientist at the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation in Dallas, the researchers looked specifically at the chronic condition of asthma and how asthma - related tweets, analyzed alongside other data, can help predict asthma - related emergency room visits.

The results likely also will lead to debate and further research on whether physicians should test for metal sensitivity in patients preparing for surgery to get these types of implants.

Wintemute, who has conducted gun research for three decades, in March leveled similar criticism at a study led by Eric Fleegler, an emergency physician at Boston Children's Hospital in Massachusetts, which found that states with stricter gun laws had lower numbers of firearm fatalities.

Led by environmental health physician David O. Carpenter of the University at Albany (SUNY), scientists examined more than 700 farmed and wild salmon from North America, South America, and Europe, looking for 14 organochlorines thought to cause cancer and birth defects.

«Given the risks involved with alcohol use, strengthening effective alcohol policies could help prevent homicides,» said Timothy Naimi, MD, the study's lead author who is a physician in general internal medicine at BMC and researcher at BMC's Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine.

«Some hospitals and physicians have routinely used body cooling for all patients who experience cardiac arrest because they believed it might lead to better outcomes,» says lead author Frank Moler, M.D., the study principal investigator and pediatric critical care physician at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

«This is a new application for an old pain medication that offers hope for reducing the development of acute pain in the first few days after surgery, as well as chronic postoperative pain and the need for opioid medications following discharge from the hospital,» said Glenn S. Murphy, M.D., lead study author and physician anesthesiologist at NorthShore University Health System in Evanston, Illinois.

«The high degree of involvement in the lives of an opioid user among attendees is consistent with reported motivations to have a kit in the house for a greater sense of security and improved confidence to handle an overdose,» explained lead author Sarah Bagley, MD, from the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at BUSM and BMC and a physician in General Internal Medicine at BMC.

Dr Richard Booton, Consultant Respiratory Physician at the North West Lung Centre and senior lecturer at the University's Institute of Inflammation and Repair who led the study, said: «We wanted to see if there were any differences between patients aged less than 70 years old and those older than 70, in terms of both the safety of the technique and how useful it was for diagnosis.

In 1998 a team led by physician David M. Eisenberg of Harvard Medical School determined that use of herbs for physical and mental problems had risen 380 percent between 1990 and 1997.

Professor Bradding, who is a Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Leicester and Consultant Respiratory Physician at Leicester's Hospitals, said: «The most exciting thing about finding these biological variations underpinning the differences between mild asthma and moderate and severe asthma is that the statistical methods if further developed could lead to the development of new, targeted treatments for subtypes of asthma, thus allowing the right asthma treatments to be matched to different patients.

Though the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and national research organizations have recommended universal HIV screening, lead author Michael Lyons, MD, says there is still disagreement among physicians on how to implement screening in the nation's already busy emergency departments.

«This study confirms that the emergency department provides a promising opportunity for opioid overdose harm reduction measures through overdose education and naloxone rescue kit distribution,» explained lead author Kristin Dwyer, MD, emergency physician at BMC.

«On an individual level, this study shows that people are not just searching for routine symptoms but symptoms that can be life - threatening,» said Conor Senecal, MD, resident physician at Mayo Clinic and the study's lead author.

In the first analysis of the National Survey of ACOs, the research team from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice found that the majority of ACOs identified as physician led, with another third jointly led by physicians and hospitals.

Once tests and exams come back indicating cancer, says David S. Parda, MD, FACP, past president of the Pennsylvania Society of Oncology & Hematology, it's time for the patient and her physician - led health care team to come up with a plan to fight it.

Opioids carry a risk for addiction and abuse, which has drawn the attention of law enforcement and led to investigations and prosecutions that some physicians and patients say has inhibited access to effective pain relief.

For the Saarbrücken research team led by cardiologist and sports medicine physician Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scharhag and Dr. Philipp Bohm, the hypothesis that endurance exercise leads to the pathological enlargement of the right ventricle was not immediately obvious.