Sentences with phrase «months after the patients»

Because Yamamoto exclusively targeted therapy to between three and six months after the patient's injury, however, most likely at least some of these patients would have recovered spontaneously, even without intervention.

The gambling urges began, on average, about nine months after patients began taking either Requip or Mirapex, which target motivation, emotion, and reward receptors in the brain.

Furthermore, six months after these patients were treated for H. pylori, their PCA antibodies reversed, and they no longer met the diagnostic criteria for autoimmune gastritis.

Not exact matches

He published over 150 books after turning 75 and continued to see patients until just a few months before his death.

He also points to the «outcomes - based» pricing model that the company will be instituting alongside the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-- Novartis will only receive reimbursements for Kymriah if patients respond to it after the first month of treatment.

One is an agreement with Harvard Pilgrim, a nonprofit health plan covering 1.2 million people, to pay rebates if a patient's vision doesn't meet certain thresholds in 30 to 90 days, and then 30 months after treatment, under a model known as outcomes - based pricing.

Physical therapy aimed at rebuilding neural pathways can often improve a patient's level of functioning in the months and years after a spinal cord injury.

In clinical trials the treatment — which involves extracting individual patients» immune T - cells, modifying them to seek out tell - tale biological markers associated with blood cancers like aggressive lymphoma, and then pumping those modified killer cells back into the body — has shown major promise, in some cases eliminating all signs of the cancer in patients six months after treatment.

As ZDNet puts it, «after assessing the patients three months post-operation, the researchers concluded that robotic surgery was just as effective as the human version.»

In a trial of 63 patients treated with Kymriah, 83 % were in remission after three months, and 64 % were still in remission after a year.

The median return 24 months after a peak is -1 %, meaning that most of the losses seen in the six - month and 12 - month periods are recovered for patient investors.

But there are future changes; in the next 18 months we'll be asking patients how they feel after treatments.»

Patients can expect to live 12 to 15 months after diagnosis.

After arranging the fee, one hundred thousand florins each for himself and the king, he asks whether the patient thinks he can lie quietly first on one side then the other and finally on his back, seven months in each position.

He cites a study which showed that patients with ADHD and celiac disease experienced significant improvement after following a gluten free diet for six months.

His struggles intensified the summer after he graduated, and instead of enrolling at A&M in the fall of» 04, Gattis entered a 30 - day in - patient rehab program in Canton, Texas, followed by three months of therapy at an outpatient facility.

His most miraculous patient might have been Adrian Peterson, the Minnesota Vikings running back who was just then, as Marcus was hurt for the second time, in the middle of his 2012 MVP season in which he rushed for 2,097 yards barely eight months after blowing out two ligaments in his knee.

After the surgery, patients have to take several months off of sporting activity to allow the new car - tilage to form.

Every clinician who routinely treat athletes with post-concussion syndrome (i.e. patients whose symptoms after suffering a sports - related concussion persist for months or years), with whom I spoke for this article expressed variations of the same concern: that their patients, hearing media reports about athletes suffering symptoms associated with CTE (such as depression), were losing hope of a full recovery, to the point of considering suicide.

But be patient with your baby as they figure things out — after the first couple of months, your routine will pay off, and your schedule will start to feel slightly more normal.

Dr. Weiss says that «current return to sports is safe for many patients after 6 months, if they work hard with their strengthening program, but that [an earlier] return to sports has not been shown to be safe, as of now.»

And the pediatric dentist should know that the unnoticed re-growth happened a month or two after their follow - up, maybe they should note that frenulectomy patients should have another follow up as well.

After almost three months of medication and talk therapy, I'm feeling better than I can remember; I'm patient, loving, and grateful for my son, and am able to see pregnant women and babies without crying.

I tell my patients to wait a miniumim of 6 months after they complete breast feeding before they undergo breast surgery.

In my San Francisco area practice we ask patients to wait for 3 - 6 months after they have stopped breast feeding before performing breast augmentation.

Canada's heart surgery patients wait more than 10 weeks after seeing the doctor, and two months for CABG even after cardiologist appointments.

Earlier this month health secretary Andrew Lansley received a hostile welcome from the Royal College of Nursing's annual conference, after he told nurses it was their responsibility to inform him if their patients were receiving substandard levels of care.

NYU Langone Medical Center opened its doors to surgical patients yesterday — almost two months after Sandy overflowed the banks of the East River and forced the evacuation of hundreds of patients.

Skelos» opposition comes after the Daily News reported Monday that Dolan (below right), New York's archbishop, plans to vehemently oppose legislation trying to make New York the fifth state to legalize assisted suicide for terminally ill patients given no more than six months to live.

The arrests come just months after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested for an alleged kickback scheme involving real estate deals and asbestos cancer patients.

In the six months after the exercise, patients who trained this way saw a 50 percent reduction in their rate of falls compared with patients who'd only walked on a treadmill.

After a recovery period of approximately two months — during which the woman's chest skin heals, blood supply replenishes, and the expanders are gradually inflated to stretch the skin — the patient returns for an outpatient surgical procedure to replace the tissue expanders with permanent breast implants.

I'll give real life examples of nocebo, from the man who almost put himself in a coma after «overdosing» on placebo anti-depressants, to the patient mis - diagnosed with liver cancer who died tumour - free within the three months he was told he had left to live.

This treatment produced the desired outcome: after three months, the patient's chronic diarrhea had stopped completely.

After their release patients are supervised for 18 months.

There's good news from UMass Medical School for overweight people with painfully arthritic hips and knees: A new study finds that obese patients who underwent knee or hip replacement surgery reported virtually the same pain relief and improved function as normal - weight joint replacement patients six months after surgery.

Scores of pioneering doctors died after months or years of treating patients.

The good news is that among patients who are not completely paralyzed, 80 percent stand by 12 months and 50 percent walk out of the hospital by 12 months, with improvements continuing for two years after injury.

Six months after treatments ended, patients were evaluated for the severity and extent of their pain and other problems that people with fibromyalgia often experience.

After two months, all patients had dropped at least 22 pounds, and Laferrère began measuring the amount of incretin and insulin in their blood.

Six months after the cardiac arrest, half of the patients had died, and the survivors were followed up with cognitive screening tests.

«Many patients continue using opioids months after joint replacement.»

Researchers found that the one - month duration HRT, was associated with a significant improvement in recurrence compared to the two - month duration CRT and therefore would be reasonable to consider in men with intermediate risk prostate cancer and who do not have risk factors that could predispose the patient to bladder side effects several years after the treatment is complete.

Patients were followed up at one, three, and six months after surgery to assess rates of and risk factors for long - term opioid use.

Of this group, 53 percent of knee - replacement patients and 35 percent of hip replacement patients were still taking opioids at six months after surgery.

And more than two thirds of those patients are still receiving high doses of opioids from a month to three months after they overdose.

Five months after the implementation of new opioid prescription guidelines at a University of Michigan hospital, roughly 7,000 fewer pills went home with patients — a drop that might reduce the risk of accessible pills leading to substance abuse.

Among patients who had hit their heads and had normal CT scans, most were slightly worse at 1 - 2 weeks after the injury, and subsequently recovered about one month after the injury.

In the five months after the guidelines went into effect, 200 patients had the gallbladder surgery.

«That is why we have followed the composition of the intestinal microbiota of patients using modern DNA sequencing methods over a period of up to three months after treatment.»