Sentences with phrase «number of patients at»

'' ** I AM CURRENTLY ACCEPTING ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER OF PATIENTS AT THIS TIME ** We all deserve a second chance.

The year 1956 was a major milestone, when, for the first time since state hospital records had been kept, there was a decline in the total number of patients at that year's end.

The number of patients at the clinic grew 40 percent in a year and people now wait several weeks for an appointment, Rashid said.

Composing a Top 10 Best List works too, for example the title to a post could read «Top 10 Mistakes Business Managers Make» or «Top 5 Ways to Increase the Number of Patients at Your Practice.»

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«Limiting the number of drugs in any HIV treatment regimen can help reduce toxicity for patients,» Dr. Debra Birnkrant, director of the division of antiviral products at the FDA said in a press release.

Many believed that a plutonium - powered heart could put patients at risk for a number of health problems, including leukemia.

«More than twice the number of patients [were] still living at the end of the study after receiving IMAB362 plus chemotherapy compared to chemotherapy alone,» according to Ganymed CEO Özlem Türeci, with patients showing the highest level of that protein biomarker responding best to the treatment.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

At the Topeka State Hospital alone, the number of resident patients in their 60s was reduced from about 600 to less than 50 in only 20 years.

Globally, over 220 million people suffer from food allergies and most countries report an increase in incidence.26 It is predicted that by 2050 the number of patients affected by allergic diseases in Australia will increase by 70 % to 7.7 million.27 By 2021, the markets for naturally healthy (US$ 291 billion), food intolerance (US$ 42 billion) and organic products (US$ 45 billion) are expected to have grown at up to 4.5 % compound annual growth rate (CAGR).28

I have seen an increasing number of patients specializing at a young age with a concurrent rise in injuries and burn - out.

With a ridiculous push by some to avoid c - section at all cost, and induction being almost as bad, I am continually surprised at the number of patients who decline this option... usually because of preconceived ideas that are inaccurate

While a nurse at Clarian Health, Dr. Lane received a number of awards due to the high number of patients who wrote in and praised her bedside care and expertise in their birthing and breastfeeding experience.

And I think, again, I see the model practice as one that gives the woman the greatest number of choices, a model practice where you actually have the time and the capacity on the patient's part to understand the risks and benefits of each of the subsequent choices to have a relatively smooth system, which can transfer from one model of birth to another without extensive delays and then — and so I think giving the mom the greatest number of choices and having midwives and physicians speaking to each other at the time of either the initial patient's choice for method of delivery or at the beginning of the labor process.

Or look at this way: an increase in the rate of homebirth from 0.5 % to 1 % would constitute a doubling of the number of patients for HB midwives (a 100 % increase), and a drop of 1 patient for every 190 for OBs (a 0.5 % decrease).

When deciding on the number of embryos to recommend for transfer, we carefully weigh all factors with the goal of offering each patient the highest chance of pregnancy with the lowest possible risk of a high - order multiple gestation (we have this discussion again at the time of embryo transfer).

Then they would have the time to really spend with their patients, address concerns, and take their time with «natural - ish cesareans» Reducing the overall number of women in the hospital giving birth (by having a system that supports low risk, healthy moms birthing their babies at home with trained professionals like CPM's and CNM's) would allow moms who birthed through surgery to stay in the hospital longer and receive the one - on - one medical care that they so very much deserve.

Many of the physical therapy and rehabilitation programs to be offered at the new fitness center already are offered at the hospital, but the number of patients is growing and the hospital is running out of space, Iftiniuk said.

I gave also observed a number of physicians at my institution that will do a c / s by 12 noon if the cervical ripening of their patient who's induction started at 12MN was not successful.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have condemned the record numbers of patients waiting more than 12 hours in A&E, putting patients at risk of harm.

Initially the purview of only doctors, the move is aimed at expanding the number of patients certified in the program, especially those who live in rural areas where there are fewer physicians.

The new version prohibits sharing the drug between patients, and caps the number of licenses for registered organizations to grow and dispense medical marijuana at 20, though the commissioner could expand that number after the first two years of the program, if necessary.

The amended legislation would cap the number of organizations providing marijuana to patients at 20, and eliminated a number of illnesses eligible for the program including lupus and diabetes.

Standing out for the high numbers of patients infected while at the hospital: Mt. Sinai and Metropolitan Hospitals in Manhattan, SUNY Downstate and Brookdale in Brooklyn, and Bronx - Lebanon and Montefiore - Einstein in the Bronx.

He announced diagnostic scans for all those at - risk of a number of diseases and pledged an NHS constitution which would enshrine both the «rights and responsibilities» of patients.

General News of Friday, 18 May 2018 Source: Graphic.com.gh A number of inmates at the mental hospital have been abandoned by their family members Two hundred and fifty mentally ill patients have been abandoned by their relations for many years at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital (APH).

Assemblyman Dick Gottfried, a Manhattan Democrat who chairs the chamber's health committee, told Capital that he would be amending a bill that the Assembly passed in May to restrict the smokable form of medicinal marijuana to patients over 21 and to cap the number of licensed producers at 20.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center used two relatively simple tactics to significantly reduce the number of unnecessary blood tests to assess symptoms of heart attack and chest pain and to achieve a large decrease in patient charges.

«For the anesthesiologist, a number of factors come into play, including patient comorbidities and preferences as well as other practice specific factors, such as the choice for anticoagulation, but regional anesthesia should, at the very least, be considered in every patient.»

An incentive program to reduce the number of unnecessary diagnostic laboratory tests performed in neurosurgical patients at UC San Francisco (UCSF) was highly successful.

«This study demonstrates the value of using the SEER database to analyze factors associated with surgery as a treatment for localized pancreatic cancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

«If we find that lymphoscintigrams using tilmanocept are at least as good as the conventional radiocolloid tracer in identification and visualization of sentinel nodes, we would like to see a randomised clinical trial involving large numbers of patients,» says Prof de Bree.

Patients with diabetes and suffering from acute kidney injury (AKI), proteinuria and uncontrolled blood sugar experience a sharp reduction in the number of years they have healthy renal function before being forced onto dialysis, according to researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine.

Guideline authors noted, however, that the evidence for the recommendations is weak, since many of the studies had relatively small numbers of patients with similar types of epilepsy and were conducted at only one institution, so the results may not be generalizable to everyone with epilepsy.

Vaccines are successful in preventing pandemic flu and reducing the number of patients hospitalised as a result of the illness, a study led by academics at The University of Nottingham has found.

The French case brings to at least four the number of patients «awakened» by a brain - based intervention, including Monti's at UCLA.

Russell Marx, director of Adolescent Eating Disorders Program at the University of California, San Diego, and chief science officer of the National Eating Disorders Association, expects to see big changes in diagnosis and treatment with the addition of binge eating disorder but less impact on anorexia diagnoses as the number of patients with ED - NOS is reduced.

«It is particularly good news for the large number of affected patients that if they are in good medical care and have survived breast cancer, they do not need to be more worried about deadly heart diseases than women at the same age without breast cancer.»

«Our results evaluated patients at an average of five years of follow up and most patients continued to be very satisfied and performed a high number of sporting activities, including those that required high use of their shoulders,» said study author Grant Garcia, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) in New York.

The number of patients waiting for a kidney at UCSF is 5,217, or 5.2 percent of the U.S. waitlist and 28 percent of the California waitlist.

In addition, the researchers looked at brain samples of deceased patients with MS and found increased numbers of GM - CSF - producing cells in comparison to normal brain samples.

Using this measure, the researchers saw that 37.6 percent of patients on the monthly regimen, and 40.8 percent on the quarterly regimen had at least a 50 percent reduction in the number of moderate headaches per month, compared to 18.1 percent in the placebo group.

As time lapses, many colonoscopy patients become less and less likely to recall when and where they last had the procedure performed; who the doctor was who performed it; whether polyps were found, and, if so, the number and size of those polyps, according to new study results presented at the 2015 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

«We need the frontline clinicians to be astute and notice if they are seeing patients with an unusual infection, or a number of similar infections from a specific location such as a child care center, nursing home or eating facility and then work closely with the state and local health authorities,» said Larry Pickering, MD, a co-author of the guidelines and adjunct professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.

The grids stay in place for up to two weeks, as the patient experiences a number of seizures, at which point the grids are removed.

«The number of patients receiving the treatment is quite low at present, but we are hoping this study will mean more prednisolone patients will receive the fracture - preventing treatment,» he continues.

While still controversial and performed at a small number of medical centers around the world, face transplantation has become an option for carefully selected patients with full or partial destruction of the facial tissues.

Sîrbulescu notes that it is possible to isolate high numbers of a patient's B cells through a standard blood pheresis procedure, allowing collection of enough cells for several treatments at a single session.

In our day and age, when growing numbers of women of reproductive age are diagnosed with thyroid cancer and when fertility problems are rampant, these findings should serve as an additional consideration for physicians contemplating radioactive iodine for their patients,» said senior author Karen Tordjman, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University.

Principal Investigator John Morris, MD, clinical co-leader of the Molecular Therapeutics and Diagnosis Program for the CCC, co-leader of the UC Cancer Institute's Comprehensive Lung Cancer Program, professor in the division of hematology oncology at the UC College of Medicine and UC Health medical oncologist, says a number of antitumor vaccines have shown promise for causing immune responses against tumor antigens to improve patient outcomes.