Sentences with phrase «longer than patients»

Not only that, but those who received Iberogast remained recurrence - free longer than patients who had received placebo.

In a clinical trial, lung cancer patients who used an app developed by an Israel - based company lived seven months longer than patients who only received standard care.

In the trial, patients who received Rydapt in combination with chemotherapy lived longer than patients who received chemotherapy alone, although a specific median survival rate could not be reliably estimated.

Researchers at Penn State found that melanoma patients who received immunotherapy while taking a specific type of beta blocker lived longer than patients who received immunotherapy alone.

A new population - based study has found that patients with glioblastoma who died in 2010, after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of bevacizumab, had lived significantly longer than patients who died of the disease in 2008, prior to the conditional approval of the drug for the treatment of the deadly brain cancer.

Most importantly, patients who were negative for PD - L1 expression survived around 11 months longer than patients who were positive for PD - L1 expression (median survival 4.79 vs 16.3 months).

But Yale researchers have identified a subset of those patients with a rare genetic mutation who are living significantly longer than patients without the mutation.

The trial doesn't have a control group, but that seem's much longer than patients who relapse after treatment with Jakafi.

Not exact matches

Because Hopewell is privately owned, it can be more patient than many of its publicly traded competitors in pursuing its objectives; as Kraatz puts it, «we prioritize repeat clients and long - term success over short - term, bottom - line victories.»

Researchers Debra Roter and Judith Hall have suggested that differences in patient communication and attentiveness may play a role: In one analysis, in fact, female physicians spent two minutes (10 %) longer with patients than male doctors did.

A California company called Dexcom connected a continuous glucose monitor (a device that had been around for more than a decade) wirelessly to a smartphone (or smart watch), allowing the user to read, plot, and share blood sugar levels with anyone, at five - minute intervals, all day long — and sending an alert when patients were at risk.

Giving customers (patients in this case) what they want in the moment rather than what will help them the most could destroy any long - term satisfaction.

While Tecentriq's results in Imvigor211 were consistent with its previous study, Roche said, patients getting chemotherapy in the latest trial survived longer than anticipated.

With valuations cheaper than they have been in over a decade, patient long - term investors may want to consider slowly building back benchmark buy - and - hold positions.

And I think patient, long - term shareholders should be more than happy with its progress to that end.

His research concluded that only those with a high risk of death actually benefited from heart transplants, more than 80 \ % of donor hearts going to patients who were likely to live for longer without a transplant.

The bill allows «mentally competent» patients with less than 6 months to live to get prescription drugs that would speed up the dying process, as long as two doctors agree the patient qualifies.

According to Professor Patrick Pullicino, far too often elderly patients who could live longer are placed on the LCP which has now become, he says, an «assisted death pathway» rather than a «care pathway».

Faith should not be a substitute for careful thought and patient inquiry, for in the long run nothing less than truth deserves man's final allegiance.

But he approves of it in the case of a physician who» knowingly facilitated» the suicide of a patient whom he had treated for a long time, knew well, and who had convinced him early on that she preferred to die rather than go through a long and losing battle with cancer.

With regard to Callahan's comparison of the lives of PVS patients with the lives of «fertilized eggs,» I would simply note that once an egg has been fertilized it is no longer an egg but a new living being, and in the case of the human species, a new human being — surely a being of incomparably greater value than an «egg.»

Surely, for a patient who can no longer assimilate food, N&H provides no benefit; similarly, some stomach cancer cases result in feeding the tumor instead of the patient; and there are those who are so fragile that almost any invasive insert causes more problems than it relieves.

The trick is learning to patient with this process, to forgive myself when it takes me longer than it should, and to leave myself plenty of time to write.

o African Caribbean patients who needed a kidney waited, on average, over one year longer than white patients.

Rather than the common policy of discharging such patients to nursing homes when family members insist on continued treatment or the insurance money runs out, Catholic institutions could develop sorely needed long «term rehabilitation facilities that could build on the encouraging work being done with such patients in England and Israel.

Invite pressure, be patient, kick long bowls and wait for opponent to make that critical mistake so Badji or another striker can punish opposing team than repeat until end of the game.

He has to be patient, not lose determination as a keeper's career is longer than most footballers.

SURGIDERM ® 24XP is cross-linked through a special process to make it less likely to degrade within your patient's skin, and therefore SURGIDERM ® 24XP is longer - lasting than other similar dermal fillers.

Take it slow, be patient, and remember that your baby will eventually transition to his or her own sleeping arrangement eventually, even if it takes a little longer than you'd expected.

It is still frustrating that a simple consult discussion VBAC some times takes longer than my high risk patients with multiple fetal anomalies or complex medical disease.

Tip # 3: Be patient... boys generally take longer to potty train than girls.

Some children will take much longer than others when it comes to the toilet, so make sure to stay patient with your child.

Physicians may be surprised to discover that their patients are actually nursing much longer than they believe.

Training for # 2 takes longer than training for # 1, so be patient.

Intense babies who are not very adaptable will take longer than other babies to calm down so you'll need to be patient while soothing your baby

Such trials should be conducted in varied populations and settings and include longer periods of restricted exposure to pacifiers than have been examined thus far.13 Until such studies can be completed, it is important that breastfeeding support and education be incorporated into prenatal obstetric and early pediatric patient encounters.

Officials at Long Island's only veterans hospital kept local members of Congress in the dark over problems that have closed the facility's operating rooms for more than two months, forcing scores of surgery patients to seek care in centers as far away as the Bronx and Manhattan.

It is expected to hit the target next week, when, barring an unforeseen event, patients will not have to wait longer than 18 weeks for referral.

That study showed how a similar model can be used to understand immune response in patients with pancreatic cancer who survive longer than others.

«First mathematical model that predicts immunotherapy success: Researchers also helped craft similar model to predict why some pancreatic cancer patients survive longer than others.»

One: It took a little longer to solve the two - body problem than I might have liked, but it ended up helping me tremendously down the line — so be patient.

The unpredictable elements of patient care can keep you in the hospital or clinic much longer than you expect.

«But some patients stayed on it for a longer period of time, which is more than what we expected and is promising.»

This recommendation is based on a separate study published in The Lancet, for which Garon was the senior author, showing longer survival than chemotherapy among patients with any positive staining for PD - L1.

They found that in the U.S., but not elsewhere, trials are becoming longer (from an average of four - weeks long in 1990 to 12 weeks in 2013) and larger (from an average of fewer than 50 patients in 1990 to an average of more than 700 patients in 2013).

Data from a British survey showed that kids aged 10 to 19 who had been taking antidepressants for fewer than nine days were four times more likely to display suicidal behavior than patients who had been taking the drugs for three months or longer.

Also, since MR involves no radiation and the scan allows a longer PET acquisition time, the patient's exposure is lower than with CT..

No major toxic effects were observed, and the patient «was able to survive a much longer period than expected with an improved quality of life, which is clearly attributable to the treatment with 3BP,» the scientists concluded.

Cancer researchers have long observed the value of treating patients with combinations of anti-cancer drugs that work better than single drug treatments.

«Moreover, our initial data suggest that subtypes of AML with a poor prognosis are likely to be sensitive to this new therapeutic approach,» she says, adding that less than 10 percent of patients with certain forms of AML achieve long - term survival.