Sentences with phrase «less medication for»

«Patients who had the gastric bypass procedure had superior ability to sustain changes both in weight and blood sugar, and they did so requiring less medication for their diabetes, their blood pressure and their lipids,» says Goldfine.

Not exact matches

Driving more than half the growth in drug spending in 2015 were sales of new branded medications that have been available for less than two years.

Regular medications including original name brands and generics can be found at modern pharmacy chains like U-Care for less than 10 % of the prices charged in the States.

In less than a month I have I have had my physican tell me that he is not renewing my medication as my A1C's are 6.2 AND he intends to use me as a poster child for what diet change / walking can do for your Diabetes.

Mulu knew the birr she hoped to earn, worth less than $ 1 USD, would be enough to pay for her medication and feed her children just for that day.

Can the baby's exposure be reduced (for example by taking the medication at a time when your baby is less likely to drink)?

If we can get some relievers into their lives, we may end up with less stressed out teens on medications for mental disorders.

Yes, doing so without pain medication can be less expensive, and might make the experience more memorable for some, but if there's one thing I know, it's that there are zero guarantees when it comes to childbirth.

Postpartum Psychosis: ~ occurs in less than 1 % of moms ~ onset may occur one day after delivery, many occur by 3 months, the rest by 1 year postpartum ~ symptoms include agitation, bursts of anger, racing thoughts, rapid speech, panic, irrational thoughts, insomnia, hallucinations, inability to care for self and baby, thoughts of suicide / infanticide, paranoia ~ treatment can include medication, hospitalization, ECT, and psychotherapy

And just in case you need some convincing, research (like this and this and this) has shown that women supported by a doula are: * more likely to have a spontaneous vaginal birth * less likely to ask for pain medication * less likely to have a cesarean birth * more likely to report a positive birth experience * more likely to have a decrease length of labor

That makes medications less profitable than, say, insulin or Viagra, which patients use for years.

If a mother has been breastfeeding for a year, for example, she produces smaller quantities of milk, which in turn means less medication can be transferred to her breast milk.

With a C - section for example, we also have separation of mom and baby after birth, the separation often results in a baby that's less stable than one who is skin to skin with the mom and the blood sugar may drop, then we have formula being introduced to bring it back up, or we have a baby who isn't nursing well because of medication that was given during delivery, and again, we have a baby who is being supplemented, and this is a concern, because we know from numerous studies that early supplementation with formula is associated with early weaning.

All too often when prescription medication sits in people's medicine cabinets it can be misused by children or for a lesser pain than was prescribed.

The upfront cost for medication - assisted treatment, Wille added, is «far less» than incarcerations, hospitalizations and death.

A cost - analysis of post-traumatic stress disorder treatments shows that letting patients choose their course of treatment — either psychotherapy or medication — is less expensive than assigning a treatment and provides a higher quality of life for patients.

Non-Hispanic blacks are almost twice as likely as non-Hispanic whites to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, but they're significantly less likely to receive medication for treatment, according to researchers.

Respondents in this year's survey pointed to five main causes of the field's less than favorable reputation: drug and product recalls such as the withdrawal of Avandia; safety issues such as the discovery of problems with raw material from China used in medical products; scandals, including evidence that pharmaceutical companies have failed to release data from trials whose results cast doubts on their drugs» safety and efficacy; lawsuits brought against companies that failed to warn patients of problems with their products; and ethical issues such as kickbacks for physicians promoting specific medications.

Use of melatonin and other herbal remedies may be perceived as safer, but less is known about their potential side effects and they are not subject to the FDA's approval process for medications, says Malani.

Given how long it is likely to take for new medications against epilepsy to be tested and approved, some experts argue that more patients with relentless epilepsy could benefit from recent advances in surgical techniques and various methods for stimulating neurons in ways that make them behave less erratically.

«Thanks to the new anti-HIV medications, the rate of transmission has been lowered from 26 percent to less than 1 percent during the past few decades, and that has been a miracle of life for the children involved.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

For decades, transplant experts have observed that liver transplant recipients often need less anti-rejection medication, known as immunosuppressive drugs, than recipients of other solid organs.

Patients prescribed opioid medications for pain management of a medical condition often develop dependence, and many go from crushing and injecting pills to injecting heroin as a less expensive way to deal with their disease, said senior study author Efren J. Flores, M.D., emergency radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

For example, researchers found that respondents who participated in Medicaid or the Woman, Infants, and Children (WIC) food and nutrition service were less likely to report both food insecurity and cost - related medication underuse.

Patients who ask for specialist referrals, laboratory tests or certain medications and don't get them tend to be less satisfied with their doctors than those whose requests are fulfilled, new research from UC Davis Health shows.

For example, the percentage of 8th graders who think that occasional use of synthetic marijuana or over-the-counter cough and cold medications is less than it was last year and in prior years.

By spending less than $ 5 per person on essential health care services such as contraception, medication for serious illnesses and nutritional supplements, millions of maternal and child lives could be saved every year, according to a new analysis led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Results of the study, which earlier this year won first prize in the inaugural «PAN Challenge» for research on improving access to critical medications for Americans with chronic and rare diseases, showed that patients in the latter, high - cost group were significantly less likely (45.3 percent vs. 66.9 percent) to have a Part D claim for a TKI prescription within six months of their CML diagnosis, compared to the subsidized, low cost - sharing group.

Based on an analysis of Medicaid claims for nearly 150,000 children diagnosed with ADHD in South Carolina between 2003 and 2013, researchers including Princeton University postdoctoral associate Anna Chorniy found treatment with ADHD medication made children less likely to suffer consequences of risky behaviors such as sexually transmitted diseases, substance abuse during their teen years and injuries.

Patients using less common drugs and non-prescription medications could be more at risk for harmful interactions because health care providers may be less familiar with their safety profile.

In fact, single institution studies found that with appropriate patient education, not only did patients consume less medication, but requests for refills did not increase.

By spending less than $ 5 per person on essential health care services such as contraception, medication for serious illnesses and nutritional supplements, millions of maternal and child lives could be saved every year, according to a new analysis led by Robert Black, PhD, a professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

In medical cost - effectiveness analysis, a commonly accepted standard is to say that a new device, medication or program that generates one year of extra life for a healthy person at less than $ 100,000 is a good value.

December 12, 2011 — Recurrent wheezing in children at risk for developing asthma can be controlled using far less medication by giving higher doses of an inhaled corticosteroid only as needed instead of lower doses every day, a study found.

The reason is they believe aging is the single biggest risk factor for diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's and Type 2 diabetes — conditions that were less of a concern before public health improvements such as clean water, vaccines and medication helped us live longer.

«Some patients with less prominent, milder forms of depression may request and receive antidepressants, despite evidence that these medications have little or no therapeutic benefit for mild depression,» Olfson said.

• Guideline - recommended medications are underused in women, compared to men, and women are referred less often for cardiac rehabilitation.

In a National Institutes of Health study of 1,480 people with type 2 diabetes, 24 % of those who used insulin, 65 % who used oral medications for diabetes, and 80 % who controlled their blood sugar with diet and exercise said they tested their blood sugar less than once a month.

They are more prone to smoke, less likely to pay attention to diet and exercise, and more likely to neglect their prescribed medications — all serious risk factors for heart disease.

The study showed that those patients with views of the trees had significantly shorter hospital stays, fewer post-surgical complaints, less need for potent analgesic medications (aspirin instead of narcotics), and a lower amount of negative comments placed in their charts by nurses.

A 2008 study that followed a group of adolescent women with ADHD for five years found that the participants who had been treated with stimulants were nearly 75 % less likely to develop a substance - use disorder than those who were not, while other research has shown that the use of ADHD medication in young men reduces the risk of later substance - use disorders by 85 %.

Chronic Pain: A study at the West Virginia University School of Medicine found that, after practicing yoga for three months, people reported 70 % less lower - back pain, and 88 % of them reduced or stopped taking pain medication.

Foods as medicine are great for people that already are on medications as they are less likely to have negative interactions than herbs and other natural supplements.

I have tried to convince family members that a trip to the McDougall program would ultimately cost less than the numerous doctor visits and medications they currently pay for even with insurance.

Combined with stressful and sedentary lifestyles, and particularly when complicated by cholesterol - lowering medication, this amounts to nothing less than a blueprint for creating Alzheimer's disease and other forms of neurological degeneration.

For individuals on medications, some of these may need to be avoided as they can increase breakdown of certain medications, making them less effective.

Hibiscus tea is much less costly than the vast supply of medications on the market, and marks a great starting point for treating high blood pressure naturally.

Improve and Stabilize Mood with Nutrition Proper nutrition tends to create more consistent moods, with less ups and downs during the day, and emotional instability which can cause us to reach for our «self - medications.»

When I hear the amino acids are not effective for sleep and depression these factors come to mind: it's not a low serotonin or low GABA issue; the products are inferior or have additives; too much or too little was used; it's another root cause (like high cortisol, gluten, SIBO, heavy metals, Lyme etc); low thyroid (makes aminos less effective); medication side - effects (benzos, SSRIS and even fluroquinolones)