Sentences with phrase «more medical based»

Some programs are more office and clerical based while others are more medical based.

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Additionally, based on your strength, balance and other medical factors, you might find that yoga tools like a block, strap, towel or roll make poses more comfortable and manageable.
Recently, Toronto - based health care startup Figure 1 reached an important milestone: more than 500,000 medical professionals are now using its app, up from 150,000 users a year ago.
Health systems are beginning to hire lawyers to assist patients with various legal concerns free of charge as medical care moves toward value - based models that aim to offer more holistic care, according to Kaiser Health News.
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.
Perth - based regenerative medicine company Avita Medical says it will be able to focus more on its core ReCell technology after completing the sale of its respiratory business for $ 2.47 million.
«It took me more time to set up a wireless printer than it took me to set up my Formlabs printer,» says Alex Berry, who founded a UK - based medical device company, Sutrue, that manufacturers automated surgical suturing devices.
GE notes that radiologists» error rate in x-ray based diagnoses can range from 35 % to 50 %; the hope is that the eight machine deep learning algorithms being deployed as part of the partnership can help bring that figure down significantly by more accurately analyzing the medical data.
As Amino CEO David Vivero told me back then, the firm's platform is «based on insurance claims data from both public and private players,» allowing for a more accurate depiction of how much medical care costs.
Compassion, a notable, United States - based Christian charity, has been in India for more than 40 years and serves more than 145,000 Indian children by feeding, tutoring and providing medical care to those in the most need.
Roman roulette played according to the calendar - based «rhythm method» used to be the only game in town, but medical advances have brought new, more - reliable methods for those seeking to plan pregnancy without the usual barriers, pills, and rings.
Lawyers for Kentucky's Department of Insurance are encouraging a judge to hold Medi - Share, a cost - sharing ministry that helps pay medical bills for Christians who don't smoke or abuse alcohol (among other qualifications), in contempt for continuing to operate in the state more than a year after a circuit court judge ordered the Florida - based group to stop until it meets Kentucky insurance regulations.
encourages physicians, other health professionals, medical and other health related organizations, and government and other policymakers to become more well informed about drug dependencies, and to base their policies and activities on the recognition that drug dependencies are, in fact, diseases.
Dustin discusses the medical studies which show that a plant - based diet can prevent and reverse illness more effectively than pills.
Even if a state's concussion safety law does cover community - based, private sports programs, very few states have enacted laws that cover all aspects of youth sports safety, such as requiring more broad - based safety training for coaches in first - aid, CPR, and the use of an AED, and the development and implementation of an Emergency Action Plan (EAP) to be triggered in case of medical emergencies, such as a cardiac event (e.g. sudden cardiac arrest), asthma attack, allergic reaction to a bee sting, or heat stroke, and environmental emergencies (lighting, tornado, or an excessively high heat index).
These bottles also feature a medical - grade, silicone nipple designed to more closely simulate breastfeeding because of variations in the nipple's thickness and a wide base measuring more than 2 inches in diameter... MORE The nipple also adjusts as your baby sucks, just like a human breast does as a baby nurses, which helps to promote proper oral development and healthy temore closely simulate breastfeeding because of variations in the nipple's thickness and a wide base measuring more than 2 inches in diameter... MORE The nipple also adjusts as your baby sucks, just like a human breast does as a baby nurses, which helps to promote proper oral development and healthy temore than 2 inches in diameter... MORE The nipple also adjusts as your baby sucks, just like a human breast does as a baby nurses, which helps to promote proper oral development and healthy teMORE The nipple also adjusts as your baby sucks, just like a human breast does as a baby nurses, which helps to promote proper oral development and healthy teeth.
Obstetric care takes more of a medicalised approach to childbirth and its popularity is based on the cultural assumption that birth is dangerous unless closely medically managed, and that women do not have the capacity or inclination to birth without medical intervention.
Their mission is to get the evidence from national guidelines and medical literature into the hands of parents, professionals, and providers — to make VBAC accessible to more people based on actual facts, quality information, and current research, rather than conventional wisdom based on myths and misperceptions.
Based on those numbers, one may think, «Well, if we are investing so much more in our births and medical system, the outcome for mother and baby must be favorable.»
The group also asks its members to support the inclusion into the House bill of The Healthy School Meals Act (which would require more plant - based meal options in accordance with recommendations made by the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association) and to provide comments to the House supporting changes to the Farm Bill (in 2012) to increase federal support for local, organic diversified agriculture.
The legal reasoning for this is twofold, based on a woman's right to privacy in her medical decisions, and in the fact that the mother is more directly affected by pregnancy.
This is why we created MANA Stats - to create valid data based on medical records to give us a more accurate picture.
The Arlington Heights - based Northwest Community Healthcare, which owns the wooded property, has for more than a year struggled to build a medical complex on the site, which residents have opposed.
I want medical professionals in the United States to consider the possibility that there may be vaccination schedules that are healthier for our nation's children, schedules that are more soundly rooted in evidence - based science, than our current CDC schedule.
Infant health was measured by: whether an infant stayed in an intensive care unit for more than 3 days or whether an infant had special needs or medical problems based on a pediatrician evaluation [28].
According to press releases sent out by the department: «more than 50 % of decisions on entitlement are made on the basis of the claim form alone, without any additional corroborating medical evidence.»
Dr Mike Knapton, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, calls for palliative care to be provided on a more equal basis.
The DWP literature — and minsters in interview — argued that «more than 50 per cent of decisions for Disability Living Allowance were made simply on the basis of a claim form alone, without any additional medical evidence.»
Staten Island Sen. Diane Savino is pushing New York to open more dispensaries for medical marijuana and reach out to doctors to prescribed medically based cannabis in order to boost demand.
A Lagos - based medical expert, Dr Dapo Soyinka, on Sunday called on government at all levels to pay more attention to healthcare services to reduce brain drain and medical tourism.
Warren Buffett's company Berkshire Hathaway is in the process of buying PRI's biggest competitor, Latham - based Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Co., which will likely give that firm more financial strength.
Blue Highway, a spinoff of Skaneateles - based medical device maker Welch Allyn Inc., is located at Syracuse University but needs more laboratory space, said Le Moyne Provost Linda LeMura.
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.
A UT Arlington assistant engineering professor has developed a computational model that can more accurately predict when an epileptic seizure will occur next based on the patient's personalized medical information.
The meeting — hosted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) here, and sponsored by HHMI; ASAPbio, a group that promotes the use of life sciences preprints; and the London - based Wellcome Trust — drew more than 100 participants interested in catalyzing efforts to improve the vetting of manuscripts and exploring ways to open up what many called an excessively opaque and slow system of peer review.
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.
During medical training, if you make a decision that's not based on the latest research published in medical journals, more senior doctors are openly critical, so you learn to follow the journals very closely.
The research by Hart and Acs examines companies in a much broader range of science - and technology - based industries that are important to the American economy (and to the employment prospects of scientifically and technically trained people), including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, optical equipment, industrial and agricultural chemicals, guidance and navigation systems, aeronautics and space, testing instruments, and much more.
If more medical applications are discovered for these, yeast - based production could rapidly generate them.
«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).
In tests on 8 patients based on collaborations with NYU and Cornell University medical centers, the CSHL testing method yielded assessments of tumors that more closely matched the verdict of post-surgical pathological analysis (which reveal actual pathology) than the corresponding pre-surgical predictive biopsies, according to first author Joan Alexander, Ph.D..
Rheumatic diseases are more severe in Native Americans — affecting more joints and the symptoms progressing more rapidly than in Caucasians — but the reasoning for this is poorly understood because most of the medical information is based on Caucasians.
Based on a systematic review of medical studies, the committee's recommendations for acutely hospitalized adults on mechanical ventilation for more than 24 hours are:
«The hope is that in the not - so - distant future a miRNA - based blood test can be used in conjunction with imaging features and other factors to aid the medical team in accurately predicting disease severity of IPMNs and other pancreatic cysts at the time of diagnosis or follow - up so that more informed personalized medical management decisions can be made,» explained Permuth - Wey.
Co-author Lizzy Pope, Associate Professor and Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics at the University of Vermont explains: «a medical doctor would be more influenced by this style of messaging because they have the knowledge base to process the message and feel a duty to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
«With continued adoption of SBRT in community cancer centers, it is our hope that more patients will receive curative SBRT and the number of patients left untreated based on age or medical comorbidity will continue to fall.»
My interests were diverse: I really enjoyed the writing aspect of my job; I craved a chance to learn about a broader range of medical and biological topics; I wanted more social interaction in my job, but I also needed «quiet time»; I wanted to continue organizing workshops and conferences, which I had been doing on a volunteer basis; I liked to focus on the details; and I constantly needed to learn something new.
Screening patients for diabetes based solely on their age and weight — a recommendation from a leading medical expert group — could miss more than half of high - risk patients, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study...
«Allowing health plans the flexibility to voluntarily cover more services outside the deductible would enhance consumer choice,» says Fendrick, a professor in the U-M Medical School and School of Public Health who heads the Center for Value - Based Insurance Design (V - BID).
The MGH Research Institute conducts the largest hospital - based research program in the nation, with an annual research budget of more than $ 800 million and major research centers in HIV / AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, computational and integrative biology, cutaneous biology, human genetics, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, regenerative medicine, reproductive biology, systems biology, photomedicine and transplantation biology.
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