Sentences with phrase «medical studies based»

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British - based GlaxoSmithKline, for example, conducts more than 100 studies a year in Canada, with the participation of some 10,500 patients in more than 1,000 medical centres.

Dustin discusses the medical studies which show that a plant - based diet can prevent and reverse illness more effectively than pills.

From Harvard, a recent study by Dr. Elizabeth Hoge, a psychiatrist at the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, found that «a mindfulness - based stress reduction program helped quell anxiety symptoms in people with generalized anxiety disorder, a condition marked by hard - to - control worries, poor sleep, and irritability.»

My understanding of one of the evidence based benefits of a doula came from studies which looked at «a woman known to the labouring woman» but not involved in her medical care being present for the labour reduced Caesarean section.

A search of Pubmed [a data base containing all medical journal articles] for platelet rich plasma yields 6,811 articles, but less than 20 are clinical studies evaluating patient outcomes for orthopedic sports medicine conditions.

To provide athletic trainers, physicians, other medical professionals, parents and coaches with recommendations based on these latest studies, the National Athletic Trainers» Association (NATA) has developed a set of guidelines to prevent and manage sport - related concussion and improve decisions about whether an athlete should or should not return to play after experiencing head trauma.

Estimated rate of IP fetal deaths is 0.1 — 0.3 from the authoritative medical literature, based on studies in Canada and Europe.»

In the current hospital - based study design, VLBW infants were exposed to a similar NICU environment and had equal access to medical care, removing these potential sources of confounding.

Studies have demonstrated common themes in the experiences of PTSD due to childbirth as: (a) perceived lack of communication by medical staff; (b) fear of unsafe care; (c) lack of choice regarding routine medical procedures; (d) lack of continuity of care providers; and (f) care being based solely on delivery outcome (Beck, 2004a).

Award winning medical writer and birth activist Henci Goer gives clear, concise information based on the latest medical studies.

The ingredients in Belli products are selected based upon an extensive review of published medical studies.

Let's take a close look at the data behind the averages behind the charts in the books, for example, this study, one of the most complete baby sleep charts, published in the highly respected medical journal, Pediatrics, based on the average sleep times associated with 493 Swiss children tracked from birth (Iglowstein et al 2003).

Dr. McKee directs the Neuropathology Service for the New England Veterans Administration Medical Centers (VISN - 1) and the Brain Banks for the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Framingham Heart Study, and Centenarian Study, which are all based at the Bedford VAMC.

The organization has also assembled some 1,000 scientists, engineers and medical professionals at the ready to work on pro-bono basis to help non-profits and human rights organizations on issues as varied as studying the potential for oil development in Kenya by examining unique geological conditions and assessing the potential for detrimental effects on local water quality.

In a population - based Canadian study of children with epilepsy, each of whom had access to universal health care, those from poor families had the same medical course and remission rate as their wealthier counterparts, but they had a less favorable social outcome as adults.

Her work builds on research conducted in the United States at the Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where Dr Bright was based for 18 months during her combined studies.

«Based on our data, CABG is still the preferred option for multivessel disease,» said Seung - Jung Park, M.D., a cardiologist at Asan Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, and the study's lead author.

The study included 3 992 patients who had a cardiac arrest outside hospital in a large urban area and were treated by physician - based emergency medical services between 2002 and 2011.

In a clinical review published in the Feb. 10 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association, Moffitt physicians, Sondak and L. Frank Glass, M.D., described data from an Australian melanoma screening study that supports more extensive high - risk population - based screening programs.

From microprocessor - based medical devices and rehabilitative engineering to implantable devices and biomaterials, bioengineering is that branch of applied science that integrates physical, chemical, and mathematical sciences and engineering principles in the study of biology, medicine, behavior, and health.

Past studies based on questionnaires have shown a high risk of depression among medical interns, which researchers have attributed to the loss of sleep, high stress and demanding schedules.

A study published in the January issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings shows that most clinical practice guidelines for interventional procedures (e.g., bronchoscopy, angioplasty) are based on lower - quality medical evidence and fail to disclose authors» conflicts of interest.

In research that has implications for diabetes and other metabolic diseases, an international study based at UT Southwestern Medical Center found that the protein connexin 43 (Cx43) forms cell - to - cell communication channels on the surface of emerging beige fat cells that amplify the signals from those few nerve fibers.

They are based on a retrospective cohort study of 7,431,858 patients in the University HealthSystem Consortium database, which contains information from contributing academic medical centers in the United States and affiliated hospitals.

Callaghan notes that the current study, based on data from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention's National Ambulatory Care Medical Survey, couldn't detect which scans met guidelines and which didn't.

The study provides the first evidence in animals for a physiological basis of the need for sleep, says the study's leader, Tarja Porkka - Heiskanen, a visiting neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School.

The HIV prevention strategy whose impact was observed in the study is based on earlier findings by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and others demonstrating the protective effect of voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV - uninfected men and of HIV - suppressing antiretroviral therapy (ART) for halting sexual transmission of the virus to uninfected partners.

Using HUNT, a Norwegian population - based health cohort study based in a rural county with 130,000 residents, the Bristol Medical School team, with co-workers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, were able to see how mortality in the parents related to both their own BMI (the conventional approach) and to the BMI of their adult children.

Based on multiple epidemiological studies, the World Health Organization in 2007 and the American Medical Association in 2012 each issued statements warning that extended exposure to light at night increases the risk of certain cancers, probably via alterations to circadian rhythms and associated hormone levels.

The study, published in the open access medical journal PLOS Medicine, showed that corn - soy porridge should be replaced with a lipid - based nutrient supplement (LNS), a fortified peanut butter.

Willett's plan is based on the largest long - term dietary survey ever undertaken: the 121,700 - participant Nurses» Health Study, begun in 1976 by Harvard Medical School professor Frank Speizer, with dietary assessments supervised by Willett since 1980.

«Based on everything we know, there's no substitute for these exercise programs when it comes to delaying the aging process,» said study senior author Sreekumaran Nair, a medical doctor and diabetes researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

Thurner studies all sorts of complex systems at the Medical University of Vienna, so when one of his doctoral students just happened to create one of the most popular free browser - based games in Europe, Thurner suggested using the game, called Pardus, to study the spontaneous organization of people in a closed society.

Nynke van der Laan of University Medical Centre Utrecht will replicate a study published in Science in 2009 that provided the first explanation for the neural basis of successful self - control in humans.

The study began by taking the medical history of 11 children, all of whom had a disorder due to mycobacteria infections, as the basis.

The small study, based on a survey of 236 cardiologists and internal medicine physicians and trainees at a large tertiary academic medical center, found that although physicians rate nutrition to be as important as statins in terms of reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, only 13.5 percent agreed or strongly agreed that they were adequately trained to discuss nutrition with patients.

«We think of a healthy microbiome as being Lactobacillus dominant — that's what we are taught in medical school — but those studies are mostly based on white women in developed countries.

Tissue - based planning systems — using clinical guidelines to determine the optimal breast implant dimensions for individual patients — appear superior to approaches relying more on the patient's or surgeon's preference, according to the study by Drs. William P. Adams, Jr., of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and Daniel McKee of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont., Canada.

The study was carried out by the Vision Loss Expert Group, led by Professor Rupert Bourne of Anglia Ruskin University, and shows the prevalence and causes of vision loss in high income countries worldwide as well as other European nations in 2015, based on a systematic review of medical literature over the previous 25 years.

«Based on the results of this study, I think very elderly patients, particularly those with few or no comorbidities, should strongly consider the benefits of these procedures,» said lead study author Hiroyuki Yoshihara, MD, PhD, an orthopaedic surgeon at State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center and Nassau University Medical Center.

A new, team - based, primary care model is decreasing prescription opioid use among patients with chronic pain by 40 percent, according to a new study out of Boston Medical Center's Grayken Center for Addiction Medicine, which is published online ahead of print in JAMA Internal Medicine.

They affect the vast majority of humanity, and will now be possible to study what's going on, and build predictive, personal medical applications based on getting ahead of bad changes.»

If THI continues to show promise as a nutraceutical or food - based drug, medical scientists will head into pre-clinical studies of effectiveness and safety before advancing to human trials.

«Our study is the first to compare a novel, telemedicine - based obstructive sleep apnea management pathway with in - person care,» said lead author Dr. Barry G. Fields, assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and the Atlanta VA Medical Center.

Solve medical case studies based on actual patients, with a new case added every weekend.

One study was population based and had about 1000 participants, while another one had about 100 patients who sought medical advice for their breathlessness in the primary healthcare setting.

«After adjusting for other demographic and lifestyle factors, and chronic diseases, we found that those who consumed the highest fat intake were more likely to experience excessive daytime sleepiness,» says study author and University of Adelaide PhD student Yingting Cao, who is also based at SAHMRI (South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute).

Study coauthor Zheng - Yi Chen of Harvard Medical School and coworkers injected the CRISPR - based tool into the inner ears of infant mice with the hearing loss mutation.

Noting that the timing of KD outbreaks in Japan coincides with certain wind patterns from Asia, climate scientist Xavier Rodó, PhD, and colleagues at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and the Catalan Institute of Climate Sciences, both in Barcelona, used computer models to simulate air currents and airborne particle transport for all days since 1977 with high numbers of KD cases in Japan, based on data compiled by Yoshikazu Nakamura, MD, and colleagues at Jichi Medical University in Japan.

«Currently, most victims of elder abuse and neglect pass through our emergency departments with a life - threatening condition unidentified,» said the latter paper's lead study author, Tony Rosen, MD, MPH, of Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, N.Y. «A multi-disciplinary, team - based approach supported by additional research and funding has the potential to improve the identification of elder abuse and improve the health and safety of our most vulnerable patients.»