Sentences with phrase «number of their patients reported»

The research began to take shape after Bairam and Andreana, who have previously studied implant failure, noticed that a growing number of their patients reported use of antidepressant medication.

While the research to date linking mood and digital device addiction is still emerging, countless numbers of my patients report anxiety, stress and even depression caused by spending too much time scrolling social media feeds.

Approximately 70,000 surgical inguinal hernia repairs are performed in England each year, and the number of patients reporting complications is increasing.

The number of patients reporting suicide attempts or deliberate self - harm declined from 14.2 % at baseline to 6.4 % at 6 months in the quality improvement group and from 11.6 % to 9.5 % in the usual care group.

Not exact matches

Although the two most severely amnesic patients showed no benefit, the others tripled the number of words they could remember - from 14 percent to 49 percent, placing them almost within the range of healthy people with no neurological damage,» reports Robson.

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).

In her own article in the Atlantic, Rosin reports a similar number for one (expensive, rare) method of sex selection only (with no source offered)-- but of course the vast majority of fertility clinic patients are not using sex selection techniques.

Despite a nationwide drop in abortions, Planned Parenthood's rates remain steady as it gains market share; meanwhile, the number of patients seen annually has dropped from 3 million to 2.4 million since 2008, due to fewer women coming in for other services, according to the NRLC report, which is based on numbers from Planned Parenthood, the affiliated Guttmacher Institute, and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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

This report clearly explains the way our current system steers patients to treatments that too often result in multiple pregnancy; and it suggests a number of ways to make needed changes.»

He cites to studies that have low numbers of patients, don't report platelet concentrations and lack control groups.

The reason the range is so large is because 1) the numbers of patients are small, and 2) homebirth midwives can not be relied upon to report their outcomes accurately.

In response to reports that women may be using this unapproved drug, to increase milk production (lactation), the WHO and FDA are warning breastfeeding women of safety concerns as «there have been several published reports and case studies of cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden death in patients receiving an intravenous form of domperidone that has been withdrawn from the market in a number of countries.»

The report also says that an insufficient number of patients receive critical care after surgery and that too often junior staff members are left in charge of post-surgical complications.

The Commission's report describes the current legal status of assisted dying as «inadequate and incoherent» and recommends that assisted dying be legalised for terminally ill adults alongside a number of important safeguards to protect vulnerable people, and the condition that «the patient must take the final action that will end their own life».

Between 2015 and 2016, Connecticut hospitals reported nearly double the number of sexual assault or abuse incidents involving patients.

The study, was reported Feb 13 to the 5th International Conference on Innovative Approaches in Head and Neck Oncology (ICHNO) will reduce significantly the number of HNSCC patients who currently undergo selective neck dissection (SND), a procedure which involves removing a group of lymph nodes from the neck in order to try to eradicate those which may have been reached by the cancer.

On January 1 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began requiring that all acute care facilities report the number of intensive care unit patients who develop bloodstream infections.

To diagnose depression, psychiatrists typically tally up the number of depression symptoms that patients report in questionnaires.

The challenge, of course, is to somehow meld a bewildering array of data sets: all sorts of historic and current medical records about each person and all sorts of scientific reports on a number of drugs, drug tests, potential side effects and outcomes for other patients.

The majority of the patients reported using sunscreen, a number significantly higher than the general public.

A small number of federal researchers deemed essential by their agencies would still report to work, such as those involved in caring for patients at NIH's clinical research center, sustaining animal colonies in research laboratories, or handling weather data seen vital to public safety.

The CDC's national surveillance program is based on weekly reports from 3,000 health clinics that count the number of patients with a fever and a cough or a sore throat.

Unfortunately, a number of patients died from the infections instead of their cancer; just how many is hard to say since medical studies in the 1800s were not methodical and often consisted of case reports.

Within the first two weeks of infusion, a detectable number of CART - EGFRvIII cells trafficked to the tumors, with signs of activation in the four patients who had «early surgery,» the researchers reported.

The existence of cancer stem cells has already been reported in a number of human cancers, explains Professor Jacobsen, but previous findings have remained controversial since the lab tests used to establish the identity of cancer stem cells have been shown to be unreliable and, in any case, do not reflect the «real situation» in an intact tumour in a patient.

The new report uses survey data to estimate the number of CHC patients who would gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and a key part of the law — the adult Medicaid expansion.

Its report says some staff seem more concerned with «efficiency» and processing the maximum number of patients than with taking precautions to prevent cross-infection.

Earlier this year, scientists at University of California, Los Angeles, and Advanced Cell Technology of Marlborough, Massachusetts, reported in The Lancet about the safe and successful use of RPE cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, rather than iPS cells, to treat a different type of AMD in a limited number of human patients.

Among them: inconsistencies in the number or type of patients («Women present in early reports seem to have become men by later reports,» the authors write); statistically insignificant differences reported as significant; and contradictory information in figures and written results.

A number of new technologies for monitoring drug compliance are being tested, but most of them rely to some degree on self - reporting; for example, patients may be given a phone number to call when they've taken their medicine.

UNC - Chapel Hill researcher Jessica Y. Islam, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported findings Wednesday at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting that the total number of HIV - positive cancer patients in the United States is projected to decrease through 2030.

UNC researcher Jessica Y. Islam, in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reported findings today at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting that the total number of HIV - positive cancer patients in the United States is projected to decrease through 2030.

A number of policy questions arise from such applications, such as when it is appropriate for researchers to share research results with participants, and how laboratories navigate regulations governing the reporting of research results to patients and their healthcare providers.

We applied the average risk of death for continued smoking estimated from studies included in this review that reported survival curves to estimate the number of patients surviving after five years.16 17 We estimated five year survival in quitters at diagnosis by applying the death rate of continuing smokers multiplied by the reciprocal of the multivariate hazard ratio for all cause mortality presented in this review.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

Even worse, diabetes has been reported in surprisingly high numbers of patients taking statins — the very condition which propels millions of Americans toward circulatory problems, heart attacks and strokes!

The CDC reported a total number of at least 43 patients in 19 states between June 2010 and August 2015.

have been most extensively studied in a liaison psychiatric setting in patients with irritable bowel syndrome, where positive benefits have been reported for a number of organisms including Bifidobacterium infantis.

A number of studies show that the serum levels of antithyroid peroxidase antibodies (TPO - Ab) in patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis decline during levothyroxine treatment, but do not provide quantitative data or report the fraction of patients in whom test for TPO - Ab became negative («normalization percentage»).

A number of studies and anecdotal reports show that LDN is useful for the fibromyalgia patient.

Alcohol craving in rehabilitation: assessment of nutrition therapy «Patients who received nutrition therapy reported significantly fewer hypoglycemic symptoms, lower sugar intake, less alcohol craving as well as significantly greater nutrient intakes; a greater number abstained from alcohol.

A number of medicinal / culinary herbs have been reported to yield hypoglycemic effects in patients with diabetes.

All three of the patients described in the case report made one big mistake when it comes to sleep hygiene: In an attempt to get higher numbers on their sleep trackers, they were spending excessive time in bed.

One hospital profiled in a case report noted an increase in new - patient numbers of 30 to 40 a month, all of which were tracked directly to wellness plans.

A few months ago, (today is 09/01/13) a group of doctors in Virginia noticed that an unusually high number of their patients who had developed allergies to a variety of red meats - including pork - reported that itchy tick bites had occurred before they became sensitive to red meat.

With the entire world watching the recent Fukushima events and the rising of radiation levels, reported mutations and increasing numbers of cancer patients (Kudo himself died of cancer) his oeuvre can be regarded as a valid political statement of contemporary culture on a global scale.

A Consumer Reports investigation in California revealed that a large number of physicians were practicing medicine despite being on probation for violations concerning patient safety.

The number has been quoted in the Journal of Patient Safety, which reports that the number of people that die from what it calls preventable adverse errors (PAEs) represents a sixth of the national annual death count.

The increasing readiness of patients to seek legal re-dress and report surgeons to the GMC has had a massive impact on Indemnity Insurance premiums causing a number of my colleagues to abandon Private Medical Practice — especially in the sphere of Spinal Surgery.