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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).

The company noted that «So far this year, the number of registered patients in Florida has increased 46 % to over 93,000 patients, and the number of recommending physicians has increased 44 % as the physician community continues to witness the benefits of medical cannabis first - hand.»

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

You will have to be patient, as it may take a number of months to switch over fully to home schooling.

«If reproduced over longer time periods and across the UK, as a whole, the additional numbers of patients presenting to [emergency care], with alcohol related problems could be very substantial.»

When Labour left office, A&E was performing well with 98 % of patients seen within 4 hours; but since the election, the number waiting over 4 hours has more than doubled, and ambulance queues have doubled too.

This month's referral to treatment times in Wales have shown a large increase in the number of patients waiting over 9 months to start a course of treatment.

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.

Advocates had countered that it was highly unlikely, given legal use of marijuana in other states, that the feds would tie up New York over offering expedited access to the drug to a limited number of patients.

«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.

The number of breast cancer patients undergoing immediate breast reconstruction operations after mastectomy has grown steadily over the past 15 years, most notably among women who were once considered too high - risk for reconstruction procedures according to new research findings published in the October 2014 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Among patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) fueled by ALK gene alterations who were being treated with crizotinib (Xalkori), a decrease in the number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) harboring increased copies of the ALK gene over the first two months of treatment was associated with increased progression - free survival.

Treatment of the mutant mice with lithium — the same drug used by psychiatrists for over half a century to treat patients with severe mood swings in bipolar disorder — normalizes the number of spines (right).

Rather than surrendering to despair and impersonal medical treatments, growing numbers of cancer patients are empowering themselves with information and control over their therapies.

«Over the past five years, an increasing number of patients with symptomatic chronic thromboembolic disease, without severe pulmonary hypertension, are being offered and choosing to undergo the surgery, said lead investigator Daniel Crouch, MD, a third - year pulmonary and critical care fellow at UCSD.

Another limitation is that the trial did not select patients who were at the highest risk for developing another arterial blockage, such as those over age 65, those who have had more than one heart attack or those known to have a large number of blood clots.

These hospitals had data on between 50 and 387 cases each, making a total of over 6,000 patients, which was around 80 % of the total number of women being studied.

By tuning the model to replicate population data, such as the number of people at risk for developing TB and the fraction of TB patients who have drug resistance, the model can predict changes in the TB disease burden — or number of cases — over many years.

«Being aware of the number of a patient's head injuries and the interrelation with depression and other psychological symptoms may help us better understand, and thus moderate, the risk of suicide over time,» Bryan says.

MDR - TB has been on the increase worldwide over the past decade, with the largest number of patients living in the European WHO region.

As long - term iPSC expansion can give rise to huge amounts of NK cells which are not HLA - restricted, they can serve as an allogenic treatment, this option may allow the treatment of large numbers of patients over a prolonged period of time of required.

Diagnosis before 3.5 months of age could reduce costs to $ 50,000 (USD) per child, as recurrent infections are prevented.xiv Estimates of transplant patient numbers are not available but over 4 million prescriptions for immunosuppressant drugs were dispensed in England during 2015 at a cost of # 220 milion.xv

The subtitle for my book is, Join The Movement To Solve Chronic Disease and Fall Back in Love With Medicine, because the other massive issue that we're facing... Chronic disease is a huge issue, but I don't know if you know this, but physician suicide is a massive thing in America, so much so that a million patients... If you multiply the numbers of doctors that commit suicide each year by their patient base, it's over a million people, and that's really scary, and there's a lot of suicide.

Over the years as practicing pharmacists, we have seen a gradual increase in the number of medications that patients are prescribed.

Over time she encountered a growing number of patients with cancer who were incredibly responsive to naturopathic care.

I constantly tell him he needs to be more patient and find inspiration in men who have built up their size naturally over a number of years.

Over the last decade, the number of patients using insulin rose 50 % as almost 1/3 of diabetic patients in the United States use some form of insulin overall.

In addition to the quality of the hospitals, the number of patients, the ability and eminence of the faculty, and the variety of instruction provided, medical training in Paris offered two further important advantages over medical training in the United States.

Altogether, just over 86 percent of patients were male, although the number of women seeking surgical remedies jumped by 20 percent between 2004 and 2012.

Several years ago, health - insurance giant Anthem even suffered a data breach attack that impacted over 80 million patient and employee records, potentially exposing vital information like names, birthdates, and even Social Security numbers.

By the end of 2016, the HUA Clinic surpassed the number of 16,000 dog and cat patients, preventing over 1 million births.

Over the past few decades, Oklahoma has passed a number of specific nursing home abuse laws, most recently in 2013; the laws were amended to allow for video surveillance in private rooms to help improve the safety of patients further.

The sheer number of patients who have been misdiagnosed at the hospitals controlled by the Pennine Acute NHS Trust over the last five years is a huge concern.

Although Actos has been available to diabetes users in the US for a number of years, it was just last year that the Food and Drug Administration put out a Drug Safety Communication giving notification that the medication's label had been revised to include a warning that use of the drug for over a year dramatically increases the chances that the patient might develop bladder cancer.

The number of new patients was increased over time to account for growth in the patient population.

Over the last 15 years the presence of MRSA in hospitals has increased causing a rise in resistant strains and an increase in the number of patients that have died or have been left permanently injured.

Was in charge of the patient files which were quite large in number as the department handled neurology patients from all over the state

• Successfully completed a study on the demographics (Iraqi civilian vs. contract workers vs. US soldiers) and epidemiology of over 500 patients with a number of different illnesses and conditions concerning length of stay, purpose of stay and type of treatment.

Over the years I have studied and trained in a number of modalities that can be integrated to help my patients achieve emotional, mental and physical balance.

These increases were particularly noteworthy in communities of color, with a 30 percent increase over 2008 in the number of African - American female STD testing patients and a 20 percent increase in the number of Latina STD testing patients.

A study of individual cognitive therapy for bipolar disorder showed positive outcomes at 1 - year follow - up, but the benefits were reduced over time, suggesting the need for booster sessions to sustain the gains.19 As with many forms of therapy, CBT has been found to be more successful in reducing relapse in the depressive pole compared with the manic pole.30 A large randomised trial of CBT showed no difference between CBT and treatment as usual, when all participants were included in the analyses.31 However, results of a post-hoc analysis suggested that CBT was effective for participants who reported fewer than 12 prior episodes of illness and were not acutely unwell when therapy began; numbers of episodes of mania rather than depression seemed to predict treatment response.32 Such data can help guide the clinical application of CBT for bipolar patients.

The mean number of treatment sessions / month / patient over 3 years in the personal, family, and supportive therapy groups were 2.4, 1.4, and 1.6, respectively.

Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders during childhood and adolescence, with a prevalence of 3 — 5 % in school - age children (6 — 12 years) and 10 — 19 % in adolescents (13 — 18 years); 1, 2 and the prevalence of anxiety disorders in this population tends to increase over time.3 Anxiety is the most common psychological symptom reported by children and adolescents; however, presentation varies with age as younger patients often report undifferentiated anxiety symptoms, for example, muscle tension, headache, stomachache or angry outbursts.4 According to the standard diagnostic systems, there are various types of anxiety disorders, for example, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), social phobias (SOP), social anxiety disorder (SAD), panic disorder (PD), overanxious disorder, separation anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD).5 Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents often occur with a number of comorbidities, such as autism spectrum disorders, 6 depressive disorders, 7 conduct disorder, 8 substance abuse9 or suicide - related behaviour.10 Youths with anxiety disorders experience serious impairment in social functioning (eg, poor school achievement; relational problems with family members and peers).11, 12 Childhood and adolescent anxiety disorders can persist despite treatment, 1 and they are associated with later adult psychopathology.13, 14