Sentences with phrase «medical school tests»

Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School tested the effect of having three Christian groups pray for particular patients, starting the night before surgery and continuing for two weeks.

Using a strain of malaria that primarily infects rodents, Derbyshire and Jon Clardy of Harvard Medical School tested 1,358 compounds for their ability to keep parasites in the liver in check, both in test tubes and in mice.

A study from the Harvard Medical School tested meditation newbies after they participated in mindfulness meditation for eight weeks.

Not exact matches

When it comes to blood tests, which is what Cuban referred to specifically, Dr. Aaron E. Carroll explains at The Incidental Economist that at the Indiana University School of Medicine, he teaches «residents and medical students never, ever to order blood tests unless they are looking for a specific problem.»

While it was once true that most testing of potential new drugs took place in medical schools and teaching hospitals, that is no longer the case, and in Elliott's view the change has given rise to serious problems and abuses.

Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School and other scientists tested the effect of having three Christian groups pray for particular patients, starting the night before surgery and continuing for two weeks.

«How to Help an Alcoholic, A Brief Medical Summarization with Practical Suggestions and Tests» (Columbus, Ohio: School and College Service, 1951).

DR. WALTER ZIMDAHL, SYRACUSE «They called me «the opportunist,»» recalls Walter Zimdahl, who made his way through medical school, after three seasons as a Syracuse fullback, by washing dishes, sweeping out the gym, helping in the county morgue and scouring test tubes.

This knowledge will help get your child back in school faster and avoid unnecessary medical tests.

Researchers at Tufts Medical School noticed that cancer cells being grown in the lab multiplied more quickly in polyester test tubes than in glass.

Their tests are recognised in over 130 countries, from schools and government departments to medical and licensing agencies.

Medical school starts with the dissection of a human body, a grisly task that tests whether you're for real.

The experience inspired young Dr. Ostrer's decision to specialize in medical genetics; he went on to become the director of the Human Genetics Program at the New York University School of Medicine, where he championed DNA testing for Jews» genetic disorders.

According to researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) while the merits of screening tests and screening intervals warrant further discussion, they firmly believe that increasing the number of women who participate in cancer screenings and ensuring that women are not lost to follow - up with lengthened screening intervals is more important than the choice of test to decrease rates of cervical cancer.

«We tend to think of lab tests as being the ultimate truth,» says Ramy Arnaout, an assistant professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School.

«New tests are at hand that offer more accurate, less ambiguous test results that can yield actionable results in a timely fashion,» said Steven Schutzer, a physician - scientist at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and senior author.

Jonathan Miller, MD, a neurosurgeon, Director of Functional and Restorative Medicine at UH Case Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and colleagues, tested a potential alternative method, called the «Electric WADA,» with patients who received deep brain implants.

Dr. Cripe and his colleagues at The Ohio State University, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center tested how well the oncolytic viral therapy — a cancer - killing form of the herpes simplex virus, called oHSV — infected and killed tumor cells in mice with and without a healthy immune system.

In the not - too - distant future, «we'll be able to identify those most at risk based on their genetics, do imaging tests to determine the onset and then institute therapies that nip it in the bud,» says Rudolph Tanzi, a neurologist at Harvard Medical School.

«We don't know enough yet to translate test results into routine patient care,» says medical school dean Bernadine Healy of The Ohio State University, former director of the National Institutes of Health.

This means many heart patients could end up getting less - precise stress tests, or more invasive, riskier and more costly heart imaging instead, according to University of Michigan Medical School research recently published in JAMA Cardiology.

It is important to recognize that such knowledge is probabilistic and must be properly understood not only by individuals being tested, but also by family members, employers, schools, insurers, and legal and medical institutions.

Importantly, these cells are readily detectable in patients» bloodstream, allowing for any clinical tests to be minimally invasive and pain - free for patients,» said Professor Salvatore Albani, Director, SingHealth Translational Immunology and Inflammation Centre (STIIC), Professor, Duke - NUS Medical School and Senior Clinician Scientist, KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH), who is the principal investigator of the study.

Under the direction of Paul Vespa, a UCLA professor of neurology and neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the researchers plan to test the procedure on several more people beginning this fall at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

The second team is lead by Bob Williamson at St Mary's Hospital Medical School and Duncan Geddes at the Royal Brompton Hospital, both in London, who want to test an experimental gene therapy for cystic fibrosis.

«While tumor profiling holds the promise of improved therapeutics through personalized medicine, it is important that both clinicians and patients discuss the possibilities of incidental findings prior to ordering the testing, as the findings can have serious implications for both the patient and their family members,» said Melinda Yushak, M.D., M.P.H., first author on the study and a medical oncology fellow in Yale School of Medicine.

«We hope that the results from this study will enable investigators to test the relevance of the maresin pathway in human disease,» said Charles N. Serhan, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. «Moreover, we hope to better understand resolution biology and its potential pharmacology so that we can enhance our ability to control unwanted inflammation and improve the quality of life.»

Everyday memory evaluation does not replace the traditional neuropsychological tests, but adds valuable information regarding memory complaints and guide rehabilitation,» says author Kette Valente, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in the Laboratory of Clinical Neurophysiology at the University of São Paulo Medical School.

Researchers tested their new model by turning butterflies in the wrong direction, as shown in this video, and predicting how they might reorient themselves.Reppert Lab, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Neurobiology

To test this idea, Wim Vanduffel of the Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues scanned the brains...

«Previous studies have shown inconsistent findings between sleep - disordered breathing and cognition, which may be due to the different tests used,» said lead study author Dayna A. Johnson, PhD, MPH, MS, MSW, instructor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

The commonly used HPV vaccine Gardasil had not been tested in seriously immune - suppressed women with HIV, said Dr. Erna Milunka Kojic, associate professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and The Miriam Hospital.

In the meantime, scientists at institutions such as Harvard Medical School and Thomas Jefferson University are testing the lamps» efficacy.

But at this point, it is unclear if one test is better — and more likely, several will be used to assess the disease's progression, according to Peter Snyder, professor of neurology at Brown University's Alpert Medical School.

The team from the Technical University of Munich (Gemany), the Harvard T.H. Chang School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and Texas A&M University (all USA) tested a broad palette of different β - lactones for antimycobacterial activity and hit a bullseye: Compound «EZ120» inhibits the biosynthesis of the mycomembrane and kills off the bacteria.

«Although data clearly indicate better immune responses and vaccine efficacy against both genital warts and cervical dysplasia when vaccination occurs before age 14, this study suggests that HPV vaccination may be effective in reducing abnormal Pap test results even after sexual debut,» explained co-author Rebecca Perkins, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine and a gynecologist at Boston Medical Center.

A team led by Linda Buck of Harvard Medical School in Boston was able to test this proposition with mouse olfactory nerve cells.

The new inoculation series requires an injection of human or horse immunoglobulin, which is in short supply in developing countries, but the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Boston is currently testing a strategy in India that uses monoclonal antibodies that could one day be easily manufactured in China.

Scientists at the University of Exeter Medical School found that one in 60 people over the age of 60 who had invisible blood in their urine (identified by their GP testing their urine) transpired to have bladder cancer.

In a Clinical Crossroads article featured in the March 6, 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Dr. Dan Alford from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) suggests that prescription opioid abuse can be minimized by monitoring patients closely for harm by using urine drug testing (UDT), pill counts, and reviewing prescription drug monitoring program data when available.

In 2007 neuroscientist Fabrizio Benedetti of the University of Turin Medical School in Italy and his colleagues reported simulating a sports competition in which four teams of 10 young males competed with one another in a test of pain endurance.

Richard Platt of Harvard Medical School, leader of the ongoing Mini-Sentinel pilot program (a testing ground and warm - up for the larger Sentinel Initiative), hopes that hd - PS will accurately sniff out health concerns, or else put them to rest.

Other therapies need to be tested for the treatment of patients at risk for lymph node metastasis,» says Padera, who is an assistant professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical School.

«PROMISE establishes CTA as a viable alternative to stress testing for the evaluation of patients with suspected coronary disease,» said Udo Hoffmann, M.D., principal investigator of the PROMISE Imaging Core and Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Director of Cardiovascular Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital «With the addition of high - risk plaque assessment and CT fractional flow reserve technology on the horizon, we may have yet to see the full potential of CTA.»

The study's lead author, Harvard Medical School's Nicolas Rohner, tested the idea on the Mexican tetra, a river - dwelling fish.

«This is one of the most useful resources ever created for medical testing for genetic disorders,» says Heidi Rehm, a clinical lab director at Harvard Medical School who is not a member of the consmedical testing for genetic disorders,» says Heidi Rehm, a clinical lab director at Harvard Medical School who is not a member of the consMedical School who is not a member of the consortium.

In a related Comment published today in The Lancet, Jonathan Barasch, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and pathology and cell biology at CUMC, and colleagues Drs. Joseph Bonventre (Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital) and Richard Zager (University of Washington Medicine) explain that the blood test, which measures serum creatinine — a waste product that is removed by the kidneys and excreted in urine — only offers a snapshot of the kidney's function at a given moment, which can vary depending on individual factors such as body size and muscle mass.

However, until recently, practical difficulties prevented this therapy from being tested, says medical biologist Jill Helms of the Stanford School of Medicine in California.

That made Skog and neurologist Xandra Breakefield, also of Harvard Medical School, wonder whether they could develop some sort of test for this genetic material.

«Genetic counseling and testing are not well - matched to medical need,» said Allison Kurian, associate professor of medicine and of health research and policy at Stanford University School of Medicine.