Sentences with phrase «now about the patients»

We talk to these guys all the time now about the patients, which is really amazing.

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That means patients who were paying EpiPen's full $ 608 list price (for a package of two) can now get the epinephrine injection device, which is used to treat a potentially fatal allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis, for about half as much.

It does not mean energy stocks can not go down more and there is a fair chance that oil may still go down further, however, I feel good about nibbling now to build up positions and add even more positions later if the energy stocks were to go down further, getting Santa Claus gifts even before arrival of Christmas to patient investors and we will be rewarded for that for long time to come.

This act has now become the law of the land and requires that patients on admission to a hospital or other institutions in receipt of federal health care funds be questioned about Advance Directives» which are a Living Will, Health Care Agent, Durable Power of Attorney» so that if unable to express an opinion, the patient's wishes concerning life - sustaining technologies will have been made known.

The programs taught me about (1) admitting I was beat, (2) coming to believe in something greater than myself (eventually a higher power)(many evolutions and concepts of HP, all of these at one time or another: nature, the 12 steps, creator, Love, spiritual principles)(Step 3) applying my low self worth and gigantic Ego to these spiritual principles (4) write down my liabilities and assets (5) share them with another and my higher power (6 & 7) ask for the liabilites to be removed and be patient with the process (8) Make a list of all that were harmed by me (9) make amends to such folks except whn to do so would injure them or myself (10) take a daily inventory of my day, checking for snafus, mean temperment, arrogance etc (11) meditation and prayer to communicate to my higher power and quiet reflection to listen for the Truth (12) after having a spiritual awakening as a result of working these steps, help others if they wish for help because now I am in the position to assist.

I am now hooked and have already told many patients and co-workers about your company.

I think everything goes with time, Arsene error has passed by, we need to be patient till the board realize that Wenger is no longer good, and the time when he will be sucked is when now we will resume talking about arsenal football.

We secured a space for the milk bank, an old school, about 2.5 years ago and have been storing and dispensing milk that comes from our sister milk bank in Ohio to NICU's and even to some out - patients in New England for about 2 years now.

Now patients get more information about the risks associated with c - sections and more detailed consent forms to fill out.

«For far too long now, the Patients Association has been receiving calls on our helpline from people wanting to talk about the dreadful, neglectful, demeaning, painful and sometimes downright cruel treatment their elderly relatives had experienced at the hands of NHS nurses.»

Antonio Damasio, a neurologist and neuroscientist now at the University of Southern California, began thinking seriously about emotions after meeting a patient named Elliot.

It's estimated that about half of U.S. cancer patients undergo some sort of radiation treatment, and the push now is to look for ways to decrease the treatment's toxicity while boosting its effectiveness.

At a per - patient cost of about $ 10,000 a month, «this is a textbook example of what we now call «financial toxicity»,» Ratain said, referring to the economic burden placed on patients by the high cost of care.

For now, they wrote, researchers and clinicians will continue to share any new data about nusinersen use in SMA patients to inform future decisions, including how broadly treatment should be pursued.

The registry now includes hundreds of patients who have learned about the registry through the Internet, social media or referrals by their physicians.

«We now know more about long - term survival after our interventions, which is important to patients.

Porter and June are now participating in a new trial, funded by the National Cancer Institute, that will administer about a dozen patients a fifty - fifty mixture of cells from the Penn and Sloan - Kettering groups.

«Overall, survival for patients with recurrent rhabdomyosarcoma is just 17 percent, and until now nothing was known about how tumors evolve in response to therapy,» said corresponding author Michael Dyer, Ph.D., a member of the St. Jude Department of Developmental Neurobiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

Right now the AZT sold by Burroughs Wellcome costs about $ 150 per patient per month.

«X-rays are now used to examine people suspected of being osteoporotic, but the tests cost about $ 300 apiece and expose patients to radiation.

A new generation of researchers who think about how best to measure variables such as patient preferences and quality - of - life issues is coming of age now, McDonald adds.

Now a Danish / Norwegian research team from the University of Southern Denmark and the University of Oslo / Oslo University Hospital has managed to retrieve hitherto unknown details about what is happening in the body of a celiac patient who eats gluten.

In 2009, the now defunct National Patient Safety Agency raised the alarm about the use of cement and associated patient harm during hemiarthroplasty and issued guidance to the NHS on how to minimise thePatient Safety Agency raised the alarm about the use of cement and associated patient harm during hemiarthroplasty and issued guidance to the NHS on how to minimise thepatient harm during hemiarthroplasty and issued guidance to the NHS on how to minimise the risks.

Until now, little was known in preclinical models about the mechanisms that allow breast cancer cells to leave the latent state and even less is known in patients,» explains Roger Gomis, head of the Growth Control and Cancer Metastasis Lab.

Until now, scientists haven't understood why about a third of patients who undergo anesthesia and surgery experience some kind of cognitive impairment — such as memory loss — at hospital discharge.

Medical technology makers are now hoping to scale this model down to the personal level by connecting wireless sensors placed on (or even under) a patient's skin to create «medical body area networks» (MBANs) that provide doctors with real - time info about their patients.

«Now you can think about collecting a patient's cells and studying how those cells respond to different therapies.

«We now know much more about metabolic reprogramming of cancerous tissues in human patients, particularly that the activation of pyruvate carboxylase is important to lung cancer cell growth and survival,» said Fan, UK professor of toxicology and faculty member of the Markey Cancer Center and CESB at the University of Kentucky.

For now, some experts advise doctors to notify patients of the low death rate from prostate cancer, explain the risks of treatment, and allow them to make an informed decision about testing.

Previously, understanding a patient's condition relied on analysis of symptoms and signs, such as lung function measurements and airway hyper - responsiveness, but now clinicians can access information about a range of other underlying complex biological traits, including cellular and molecular traits.

The program now admits about 150 patients per year at the NIH Clinical Center, but plans to accommodate 50 per year at each of the seven sites by the summer of 2017.

Now, it's about setting up a flexible system to respond to new outbreaks, identifying patients quickly, and tracing their contacts to prevent more infections.

Drew was incensed that he would not have even known about this option if Nicole had not gone online, but by now he understood that the fight for survival begins and ends with the patient.

«People who take codeine every now and then should have nothing to worry about, but heavy and ongoing codeine use could be detrimental for those patients who have chronic pain and headache,» Professor Rolan says.

Cancer researchers who have spent the last 7 years compiling a catalog of mutations in patients» tumors are now talking about what they should do next.

Patients can now feel safe about substituting generics (of their antiepileptic drug) without concerns of interactions or undesired effects.»

Now a new study from the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania found that shifting use of anti-PD-1 drugs to before surgery may provide clues about which patients will benefit and which may be at increased risk for recurrence.

So for now most clinicians proceed with their best guesses about when a patient has used carfentanil versus other opioids.

Right now, in any American hospital, about half of the patients have a prescription for an acid - reducing drug to reduce heartburn or prevent bleeding in their stomach and gut.

Several performance reporting systems now report publicly on aspects of quality such as surgical outcomes, 8 adherence to evidence - based quality measures, 9,10 and patients» assessments of care, 11 but few public reports about the quality of health care organizations have also assessed the equity of care provided by those organizations.

We've seen long - term survivals in about a quarter of melanoma patients, but I think it's within our easy reach of doubling that or better just in the next few years with the tools that we now have.

Right now, about one in five hospital patients has a catheter collecting their urine — and putting them at risk of a painful and potentially dangerous urinary tract infection, or UTI.

«It is understandable that individuals should feel uneasy about the use of fetal cells, however, it is important to balance that with the potential benefit to patients, and the fact that use of fetal cells is now minimal and highly regulated.

«This pioneering research gives us valuable insight into intimate social relationships, providing data clinicians may now draw upon to open better informed conversations with patients about sexuality and health.»

What's important now is that the global community comes together to focus research efforts on the many unanswered questions about the virus, and to share this information rapidly so that the knowledge gained can benefit patients as quickly as possible.»

Together, the cancers account for about 30 percent of the estimated 15,780 cases of pediatric cancers diagnosed annually in the U.S. Five - year survival for pediatric patients with these cancers is now 90 percent or better, according to the American Cancer Society.

«We now have about 50 patients,» said Weichselbaum, «and several of them remain disease - free, one of them three years after treatment.»

In this segment, Dr. House and Dr. Barrett talk about why the brain «fools us» into thinking our functional vision and movement is normal in the presence of neurological disease, and what this means for professional caregivers, families, and our medical culture and society, since patient self - reporting is now a major source of information about public health needs and treatment efficacy.

The opportunity now is that we've entered into an era of molecular understanding of improved physics and optics, we have an opportunity to think about newer, better ways to detect the disease, to figure out which patients are getting worse or are at risk of getting worse, to catch patients before they've lost vision and give them treatments.

The first study of the social and ethical issues associated with a provocative approach to treatment for ulcerative colitis has found that the majority of potential patients are eager for what is now called «fecal microbiota transplantation» to become available, although many have concerns about donor selection, screening, and methods of delivery.