Sentences with phrase «longer than our medicine»

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We must, therefore, retain a little more confidence in American medicine than this book alone is likely to produce in us, but, so long as we keep that in mind, White Coat, Black Hat should force us to ask some hard questions about how best to structure the practice of medicine.

However, I believe that a healthy diet will help me live a longer life than medicine alone.

«Our study shows that young knees are more prone to re-injury than the adult population when compared to other research in this area - and is the first study to examine the incidence and risk factors for further ACL injury in a solely juvenile population over the long term,» said lead author Justin Roe of North Sydney Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Centre.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) recommend that brest milk should not stay out at room temperature for longer than 6 to 8 hours.

Over-the-counter cold and cough medicines should no longer be given to children younger than 4, according to a new warning from the makers of these children's medications.

According to a recent article, in a poll of more than 26,000 mothers, 1 in 5 women admitted that they give their children medicine such as Dramamine or Benadryl to help them endure a long plane trip or drive.

«Our research suggests that in mice, males may be more vulnerable to the effects of maternal inflammation than females, and the impact may be life long,» says study leader Irina Burd, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of gynecology / obstetrics and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Integrated Research Center for Fetal Medicine.

«We have no evidence that [acupuncture] is anything more than theatrical placebo,» says Harriet Hall, a retired family physician and U.S. Air Force flight surgeon who has studied, and long been a critic of, alternative medicine.

«This regenerative technology, termed AAV gene transfer, provided long - lasting benefit to the entire musculature of affected dogs that would have otherwise perished, extending a healthy lifespan for more than 4 years,» said Dr. Martin Childers, senior author of the Muscle & Nerve study and a UW Medicine researcher in Seattle.

Chemists have long been in demand in industry, but the life sciences have until fairly recently been more aligned with medicine than with industry — and the medical profession doesn't have much in common with industry.

More than one - third of respondents now predict that it will take 10 - 20 years for personalized medicine, based on genetic information, to become commonplace, and more than 25 percent even longer than that.

Because the anti-retroviral drug maraviroc has already been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and has been shown safe for long term, oral use, it could be tested in clinical trials sooner rather than later, says Aleksander Popel, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and member of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

«Other people knew that Canadians live two to two and a half years longer than Americans,» says Steffie Woolhandler, an author on the paper and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, citing a phenomenon that many attribute to differences in lifestyle between the two countries.

The study, published in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, reaffirms numerous small - scale studies in the United States, Western Europe and Japan, but it does so using data compiled across six middle - income nations and involving more than 30,000 subjects for a long - term project that began in 2007.

Although that day is still a long way off, it's much closer than it used to be, thanks to this year's first steps toward personalized medicine, says Kathy Hudson, director of Johns Hopkins University's Genetics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. «For a long time, all the action in genomics was in the lab,» she says.

«Gestational weight gain greater than the IOM recommendations has long - term implications for weight - related health,» said Elizabeth Widen, PhD, RD, postdoctoral fellow at the New York Obesity Research Center in the Department of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, and Institute of Human Nutrition.

In some instances, at age 18, the effect of long - term exposure to higher air pollution was larger than the effect of gaining 5 percent body weight, meaning air pollution is definitely a risk factor for diabetes, said Tanya Alderete, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research scholar at the Keck School of Medicine.

«The elderly living in long - term care facilities have higher influenza exposure risks, lower immune defenses and a much greater likelihood of flu - related death than the general population,» said lead author David A. Nace, M.D., M.P.H., director of long - term care and flu programs in Pitt's Division of Geriatric Medicine and chief medical officer for UPMC Senior Communities.

The work, published online today in Psychological Medicine, took longer to come to light than many expected.

People with cystic fibrosis are living longer than ever before, but their lifespan is almost 10 years longer in Canada than in the United States, according to research published March 14 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

And the unsupported assumption that antidepressants are more effective than cognitive - behavior therapy for the long - term treatment of depression can dissuade individuals from seeking the most beneficial interventions for their illness [see «The Best Medicine?»

In 2003, Nir Barzilai and Gil Atzmon, who study aging at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, discovered that people with a certain polymorphism of the cholesterol - influencing gene CETP lived longer than those without it (ScienceNOW, October 2003).

Women with Stage III ovarian cancer given a combination of intravenous and intraperitoneal chemotherapy following surgical debulking of tumor had a median survival nearly 16 months longer than women who received IV chemotherapy alone, according to a study published conducted by the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG), a National Cancer Institute - supported research network, in the January 5, 2006 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

«I believe Dr. Landers makes some excellent, thought provoking recommendations,» said Alfred Tallia, MD, MD, MPH, professor and chair of Family Medicine and Community Health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, «The Home Visit Service at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical Group has experienced an explosive increase in demand for services, and Dr. Landers» recommendations would go a long way to helping us better serve patients in the home, which is where patients prefer to be, and where costs can be significantly less than in other settings.»

Within the same hospital, some doctors are three times more likely to prescribe an opioid than other doctors, and patients treated by high - prescribing doctors are more likely to become long - term opioid users, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

That's why, traditionally, drug trials go something like this: Take a group of people who are sick, give some of them an experimental medicine, and wait to see if it makes them get better, live longer, or decline more slowly than people who didn't get the drug.

Co-authors of the study, «Sirolimus (SRL) Blunts Mitogen Response at Trough (C0) Levels More Than Cyclosporin (CSA) or Tacrolimus (TAC): A Safeguard for Our Many Long Term Noncompliant Kidney Transplant Patients (KTPs)» include UC San Diego School of Medicine physicians Nitin Khosla M.D., and Rodolfo Batarse, M.D., assistant professor of mMedicine physicians Nitin Khosla M.D., and Rodolfo Batarse, M.D., assistant professor of medicinemedicine.

By enabling researchers to test these ideas through statistical analysis, computer modeling and simulation — which are faster and more cost - effective than experimental testing — the institute will accelerate the development of biomedical knowledge and, in the long run, transform the practice of medicine.

«It took our team of researchers and collaborators more than 15 years of diligent effort to unravel the genetic cause of FOP that had been shrouded in mystery for so long,» says Fred Kaplan, MD, the Isaac & Rose Nassau Professor of Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine, of the 2006 discovery of the mutation that causes FOP.

Food is the most powerful medicine and what we eat on a daily basis is so much more important to long term health than our genetics.

A 2011 Diabetic Medicine study found that a six month long vegetarian diet was more effective at blasting belly fat in diabetic volunteers than a calorie equivalent non-vegetarian diet.

An herb long used in traditional Indian Ayurvedic medicine, boswellia may be more effective than drugs like ibuprofen for reducing inflammation.

Holistic healing has been around for so much longer than western medicine, so what if we step back and look back at older methods?

So as long as you have, you know, that four pace envision that addresses some of the symptoms without the side effects, you know of some of the drugs, which may have more side effects than what you're treating, and then working on the functional medicine plan, I think we're in a really good place.

«Deep, expansive breathing — with exhales that last longer than inhales — helps oxygenate our blood and lungs and purifies the blood stream by eliminating toxins and carbon dioxide,» say Dilip Sarkar, M.D., a retired vascular surgeon who serves as chairman of the School of Integrative Medicine at Taksha University in Hampton, Virginia, and is a leading expert in Yoga Therapy.

We've long known that yoga is mind - body «medicine», affecting individuals holistically rather than changing discrete elements of their anatomy, physiology, or mind.

They are also driven by the more mundane desire to feel good, to stay healthy and well - functioning as long as possible, and to be proactive about their health rather than relying on the after - the - fact crisis intervention of mainstream medicine.

For example, the pituitary is known to significantly concentrate toxic metals; brain, kidney, liver, lung, thyroid, and thymus tissue tested far higher levels than blood; and the adverse effects may only be revealed by long - term morbidity and mortality studies, such as the one published in Archives of Internal Medicine.

Prevention is the best strategy, and in the long run it will cost you less than the painkillers currently taking up space in your medicine cabinet.

I feel more relaxed than I have in a long time, it's almost like Juicing is Nature's own «pain medicine».

Recent research found that multiple 60 - minute massages per week were more effective than fewer or shorter sessions for people with chronic neck pain, according to a study published in the Annals of Family Medicine; another compared the short - and long - term effects of structural massage (think therapeutic, deep - tissue treatments), relaxation massage (your general spa variety), and usual care (like meds, ice, and heat) for chronic low - back - pain sufferers.

A study in Sports Medicine showed that individuals who listened to music during their workouts worked out longer than those without music.

Long time readers of this blog know that I believe the relationship between these two disorders is much more complicated than regular doctors and medicine would have us believe.

Studies such as those conducted by scientists at Laval University, East Tennessee State University, Baylor College of Medicine, and the University of New South Wales have all found that shorter sessions of high - intensity cardio result in greater fat loss over time than longer, low - intensity cardio sessions.

Conventional medicine has relied far too long on treating symptoms rather than addressing the root cause of illness and focusing on prevention.

A 2008 study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine followed more than 1,000 asthmatic children through their teen years and found that by the age of 18, 27 % of the boys no longer had asthma, compared to just 14 % of the girls.

The teacher shortage provides an opportunity for the United States to take a long - term approach, as was done in medicine more than half a century ago, to mitigating current shortages while establishing a comprehensive and systematic set of strategies to build a strong teaching profession.

In order to become a medical doctor, potential practitioners must take a five - day test that takes more than 40 hours to complete.14 In order to become a licensed certified public accountant, test - takers must complete a 14 - hour exam comprised of multiple - choice questions, essays, and simulations that replicate workplace situations.15 By contrast, the Praxis Subject Assessments range from one to four hours long.16 Furthermore, medicine and law have professional associations that set uniform entrance requirements, ensuring high - standards for newcomers to the profession.

Universities have long term fixed liabilities, such as tenure track contracts and the salary of tenured faculty may grow at a rate faster than general inflation or tuition fees, especially in specialized areas such as business, law, medicine and engineering.

Furthermore, the «Queen» patent royalties may continue longer than one might initially anticipate; a chart prepared for investors in the March 8 presentation shows royalties continuing for up to 30 months after patent expiration because royalty payments must be made on medicines produced during the patent lifetime, not just sold during this period.