Sentences with phrase «of palliative medicine»

Medical - legal partnerships have been shown to save patients health care costs and recover cash benefits (Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved and Journal of Palliative Medicine).

Integrative oncology can combine the best of palliative medicine with therapies that help to restore or protect vital functions.

«A National Study of Live Discharges from Hospice,» by Joan M. Teno et al., Journal of Palliative Medicine, August 7, 2014.

Following an international search, local expert Professor Jennifer Philip has been appointed to the prestigious position of Chair of Palliative Medicine.

Susan C. Miller, professor (research) of health services, policy and practice in the Brown University School of Public Health and lead author of the study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, worked with colleagues to survey nursing directors at more than 1,900 nursing homes around the country between July 2009 and June 2010 to assess their knowledge of palliative care and their facility's implementation of key palliative care practices.

Gidwani is the lead author of the study, which will be published online May 27 in the Journal of Palliative Medicine.

The study will be published online June 9 in the Journal of Palliative Medicine to coincide with the date that California's End of Life Option Act takes effect.

The list of contributors» only a few of them can be mentioned here» reads like a Who's Who of palliative medicine and medical philosophy.

Not exact matches

Speaking concretely, it would yield less relief of suffering, less patient autonomy, corruption of the practice of medicine, and a decline in the quality of palliative care.

Didn't God give us science and medicine and give doctors the gift of treating, healing and even palliative care when there are no other options?

Brian S Carter, MD, FAAP Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Division of Neonatology, Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics; Faculty, Children's Mercy Bioethics Center Brian S Carter, MD, FAAP is a member of the following medical societies: Alpha Omega Alpha, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Pediatric Society, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Society for Pediatric Research, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

The CHOP - Penn Medicine team has previously shown that this novel lymphatic system imaging and intervention can cure patients with plastic bronchitis and chylothorax, two other devastating side effect of single - ventricle palliative surgery.

«If given to all approximately 1.5 million nursing home residents, a one percent drop in hospitalizations would translate to thousands fewer being hospitalized,» said Stefan Gravenstein, MD, MPH, lead author of the study, Director of the Center for Geriatrics and Palliative Care at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and on faculty at both the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and adjunct at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University.

Palliative care is a «fairly new medical specialty that has proven to substantially improve patient outcomes when it's delivered alongside routine treatments,» says Sean Morrison, M.D., director of the National Palliative Care Research Center and a professor at Mount Sinai's School of Medicine.

People living with serious illness who receive palliative care have better quality of life and fewer symptoms than those who don't receive palliative care, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

In September, a national panel appointed by the Institute of Medicine published a report on end - of - life care that recommends health care providers receive more training in palliative medicine to both save money on unnecessary procedures and to improve patient satisMedicine published a report on end - of - life care that recommends health care providers receive more training in palliative medicine to both save money on unnecessary procedures and to improve patient satismedicine to both save money on unnecessary procedures and to improve patient satisfaction.

Cherny, an oncologist and palliative medicine specialist who is chair of humanistic medicine at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, Jerusalem, Israel, added: «The designation also indicates that the centre is not only providing a clinical service but that it has programmes developed both to push the boundaries of knowledge through research and to teach the essential skills required for the provision of palliative care to cancer patients.»

The findings emphasize the value of implementing palliative medicine soon after a cancer diagnosis rather than waiting until later in the disease's progression.

«Until now, physicians have taken a «wait and see» approach to antiviral therapies following transplantation,» says Toor, a hematologist - oncologist in the Bone Marrow Transplant Program and member of the Developmental Therapeutics research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center as well as professor in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care at the VCU School of Medicine.

The Institute of Medicine report Dying in America has drawn attention to the difficulties of promoting palliative care, including Medicare's hospice program, the largest palliative care intervention in the United States, which covers all comfortoriented care related to terminal illnesses from medications to home care to hospitalizations.

«We already know that coordinated, patient - centered palliative care improves care quality, enhances survival, and reduces costs for persons with cancer,» said R. Sean Morrison, MD, Director of the National Palliative Care Research Center and Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and lead author of palliative care improves care quality, enhances survival, and reduces costs for persons with cancer,» said R. Sean Morrison, MD, Director of the National Palliative Care Research Center and Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and lead author of Palliative Care Research Center and Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and lead author of Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and lead author of the study.

MD Anderson research team members included Yan Jiang, Yong Pan, Patrea Rhea, and Lin Tan, all of Palliative, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine; Mihai Gagea, D.V.M., Ph.D., Veterinary Medicine & Surgery; and Susan Fischer, Epigenetics & Molecular Carcinogenesis.

The research did uncover some positive findings, said VJ Periyakoil, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford and director of the Stanford Palliative Care Education and Training Program, who was not involved with the study.

Palliative care is a team - based specialty (incorporating medicine, nursing, social work and chaplaincy) focused on improving quality of life for people with serious illnesses by adding a layer of support for patients, their families, and health care providers.

A systematic review of studies from 2011 - 2016 led by Katherine Courtright, MD, MS, an instructor of Medicine in the division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care and the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center at Penn, found that among more than 795,000 Americans who were part of 150 different studies, 63 percent had not completed any advance directive.

Patients with incurable cancer and numerous other serious health conditions who consulted with a palliative care team within two days of hospitalization had significant savings in hospital costs, according to a new study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

«The fact that we found greater cost savings for cancer patients with more comorbidities than for those with fewer comorbidities raises the question of whether similar results would be observed in patients with other serious illnesses and multimorbidity,» said Professor Peter May of Trinity College Dublin and a former visiting research fellow in the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and co-author of the study.

«The current study investigated the impact of dietary sugar on mammary gland tumor development in multiple mouse models, along with mechanisms that may be involved,» said co-author Lorenzo Cohen, Ph.D., professor of Palliative, Rehabilitation, and Integrative Medicine.

Amid the many checks and balances described in detail, Dr. Li concludes: «Just as advocacy from outside mainstream medicine brought palliative care «from the margins to the centre», so has it brought MAiD into the mainstream of medicine.

It is now clear that MAiD education must be included in undergraduate medical education curricula in Canada, and in the training for a variety of specialties including general medicine, family medicine, oncology, neurology, respirology, palliative care, pharmacy, psychiatry, social work, spiritual care, and bioethics.»

White already was working with collaborators Kevin Roggin, MD, associate professor of surgery, and William Dale, MD, professor and chief of geriatrics and palliative medicine, to use the genetics of pancreatic cancer to guide clinical practice.

MD Anderson Cancer Center Integrative Medicine Program Department of Palliative, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 462 Houston, Texas, 77030, USA

Affiliations Department of Neurology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey - New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care and Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Rab Razzak, M.B.B.S., M.D., an assistant professor of medicine and director of Outpatient Palliative Medicine, has received an Educational Program Award for the Osler Wellness Program from the School of Medicine's Institute for Excellence in Edmedicine and director of Outpatient Palliative Medicine, has received an Educational Program Award for the Osler Wellness Program from the School of Medicine's Institute for Excellence in EdMedicine, has received an Educational Program Award for the Osler Wellness Program from the School of Medicine's Institute for Excellence in EdMedicine's Institute for Excellence in Education.

Many patients do not tell their doctors how much pain they are in, so «doctors generally should approach patients in pain with the assumption that underreporting is a real likelihood,» says Russell Portenoy, MD, chairman of the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City.

More research is needed to understand the association, said Dr. Amy Kelley, an associate professor in the Brookdale department of geriatrics and palliative medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New Yomedicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New YoMedicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.

«Previous research has established that yoga effectively reduces sleep disturbances for cancer patients but have not included active control groups or long - term follow - up,» explains lead study author Lorenzo Cohen, Ph.D., professor of Palliative, Rehabilitation, and Integrative Medicine and director of the Integrative Medicine Program.

Conventional medicine's main types of treatment for lymphoma include: • Surgery • Radiation therapy • Chemotherapy • Palliative therapy • Biological therapy • Stem cell transplants • High - dose bone marrow treatment • Steroids

So we have like the big picture perspective, so people don't forget what the root causal things that can't be ignored are, and then we'll also talk about you know, palliative things we can do on top of just the — the functional medicine principal stuff to get even better results.

Zach Bush, MD, is one of the few triple board - certified physicians in the country - with expertise in internal medicine, endocrinology and metabolism, and hospice / palliative care.

Conventional medicine's main types of treatment for head and neck cancers include: • Surgery • Radiation therapy • Chemotherapy • Targeted therapy • Palliative therapy

We are using food, most of us, as palliative medicine for what hurts.

They didn't want to take the same medicine that they prescribe to their patients for the rest of their life and dealing with the potential side effects, and knowing it was only accomplishing palliative care.

Zach Bush MD is one of the few triple board - certified physicians in the country, with expertise in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Hospice / Palliative care.

Bush is triple board - certified in internal medicine, endocrinology and metabolism, as well as hospice and palliative care, giving him an unusually broad range of expertise.

But avoiding the hospital isn't always feasible and may not be best for all patients, says Eduardo Bruera, M.D., chair of palliative care and rehabilitation medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston.

«We found that sucrose intake in mice comparable to levels of Western diets led to increased tumor growth and metastasis, when compared to a non-sugar starch diet,» said Peiying Yang, Ph.D., assistant professor of Palliative, Rehabilitation, and Integrative Medicine.

«The current study investigated the impact of dietary sugar on mammary gland tumor development in multiple mouse models, along with mechanisms that may be involved,» said co-author Lorenzo Cohen, Ph.D., professor of Palliative, Rehabilitation, and Integrative Medicine.

Forgiveness is good for your health An article published in the Journal of Behavioral Medicine illustrated the health benefit of forgiveness: «Forgiveness might play a palliative role in coping with gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, and stress - related disorders.»

Nothing can replace the necessary medicine that is medical protocol, but we can do a lot more in the area of palliative care and giving the person autonomy in their own life decisions.