Sentences with phrase «of aiding patients»

This is a prescription canine diet that achieves its goal of aiding patients with GI disorders only.

And just in case you miss the point, he then recounts the gruesome details attending the death of an AIDS patient.

I'm sorry but I find this offensive... It's like churches want to hijack the benefits science has brought to the healing of AIDS patients as a miracle of their god.

This is the continuation of a personal custom; when he was Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, he famously washed the feet of AIDS patients and drug addicts.

Current estimates are that only about five percent of AIDS patients can produce these potent antibodies to HIV, and only multiple years after infection.

So I hear you take care of AIDS patients, she said, sipping a refill.

P. marneffei, as it's known to epidemiologists, is a pathogen often found in the compromised immune systems of AIDS patients.

We kick of the list with dear old Matt, whose southern drawl and familiar roles on the big screen tug on heartstrings in this biographical drama based on the life of AIDS patient Ron Woodroof.

It's in San Francisco that we meet other fiery, passionate young people yearning to find some sense of community, including Roma Guy (Emily Skeggs as a youth and Mary - Louise Parker as an adult) who becomes a women's activist and is married to Diane (Fiona Dourif and Rachel Griffith), a nurse who stepped to the forefront to take care of AIDS patients when the epidemic hit.

This is analogous to blaming the death of an AIDS patient on pneumonia.

Not exact matches

Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known as the «pharma bro» — and infamous for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.

FITBIT DATA AIDS RESEARCHERS IN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Countless stories shared on World AIDS Day by survivors and patient family members describe Americans who, ignored by the political class and facing a dearth of treatment options, simply accepted HIV and AIDS as a death sentence just three decades ago.

This is reflected not only in the emergence of consumer - directed health insurance benefits, which are designed to give consumers more «skin in the game,» but also in an array of direct - to - consumer outreach efforts, many of which aid patients in navigating the health care system and managing their own health and wellness.

The inspiration for the social - media campaign came from the recent WHO HIV / AIDS recommendations that stated that «patients should be put on an antiretroviral therapy of three drugs immediately after diagnosis» and «everyone at risk of becoming infected should be offered protective doses of similar drugs.»

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 1987, Princess Diana made headlines when she removed her gloves to shake hands with HIV - positive patients, during one of her many public visits to people suffering from HIV and AIDS.

It gives financial aid to 35 percent of leukemia patients on its medicines.

Identifying resistance mechanisms and creating non-invasive tests to aid in the selection and monitoring of patients during clinical trials.

Shkreli, who was arrested Thursday morning on securities fraud charges, has effectively waved a red flag for months in front of federal prosecutors, keeping himself in the media glare with a hugely controversial price hike of a drug that benefits AIDS patients, pregnant women and cancer patients, attacking his critics, including presidential contender Hillary Clinton, and lighting up Twitter with outrageous statements.

An organization representing the directors of state AIDS programs has also been looking into the price increase, according to doctors and patient advocates.

Doux offers affordable dental care, Zeolr is into developing solutions to aid in better management of chronic diseases by patients

When your venture aims to do something no one has done before — in our case, develop and commercialize the first - ever in vitro diagnostic blood test to aid in the evaluation of patients with suspected TBI, also known as concussion — you want an attorney and a law firm that will take the time to understand your unique needs and clear legal roadblocks before you can even anticipate them.

With the aid of Infinit Healthcare, you can have more breathing room to concentrate on patient care.

In addition to hosting job fairs at the base, where 12,000 soldiers are stationed, Starbucks conducts regular plant tours for service members, maintains an Adopt a Unit program and supports the annual Fisher House Golf Tournament, which generates funds to aid families of patients receiving care at military and Veterans Administration medical centers.

The shipment contained more than 3 tons of urgently needed medical aid for patients with storm - related illnesses and injuries, as well as chronic disease medicine to replace medications lost in the storm.

The Ninth Circuit's case grew out of a complaint filed by four doctors and three terminally ill patients against a Washington State statute making it a crime to knowingly cause or aid an attempted suicide.

Gay men have horrific levels of HIV and AIDS infection (but the vast majority of HIV and AIDS patients worldwide are heterosexual).

Ruth Fox states: «Detoxification is aided enormously by tranquilizing drugs, so that these patients can now be successfully treated even in the open wards of a general hospital without causing any disruption of the normal routine of the hospital.»

equally important is the fact that in addition to family physicians, the clergymen of the community,... and the other guardians of mental health can consult with the center's professional staff to aid in serving individual patients about whom they share concern, as well as to add to their own knowledge of mental health and mental illness through formal and informal classes and meetings presented by the center's staff.

There are Christians and missionaries and ministries all over the world feeding the poor, caring for Aids patients, taking in orphans and the only story we see repeated over and over again are the most barbaric, backwards people of faith you can find...?

Yes, if we're really worried about «those gays», maybe we should start volunteering some time to deliver meals to AIDS patients, work in a shelter for LGBT youth or that sort of thing and show «those people» a healthy dose of the love of Jesus coming their way.

The whole quandary really reached a climax when I visited India, where I spent enough time with orphans, widows, and AIDS patients to realize that Americans have a skewed view of blessings.

In his book on AIDS, John Fortunato quotes an evangelical chaplain who began every initial conversation with gay AIDS patients with a harsh denunciation of the sin of homosexual practice (AIDS: The Spiritual Dilemma Harper & Row, 1987], pp. 103 - 104).

Keith Benjamin of the South African Council of Churches reports that in a group of 25 clergymen interviewed, not a single one had had to deal with a congregant who was an AIDS patient.

The patients were in category C - 3 with CD4 cell counts below 200 and each had at least one case of AIDS - defining illness.

In 1998 Fred Sicher et al. performed a small scale double - blind randomized study of 40 patients with advanced AIDS.

Either a woman is actually raped (South Africa has the highest rate of rape in the world; the rumor of the «virgin cure» has sent male AIDS patients on the hunt for younger and younger girls to rape), or she is pressured socially and economically.

A doctor of naturopathic medicine and a chiropractor, Dr. King found that his patients with high cholesterol who were not being aided by the drugs for that condition were helped by making bison their primary red meat source.

Historically, this hasmeant combating rare pituitary disease and treating patients with progressivelydebilitating conditions resulting from AIDS and some forms of cancer.

Also, there is no reporting of medical errors in the U.S., so we really don't have the data to draw conclusions, but the Institute of Medicine in 2000 reported that «at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 Americans die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors,» meaning that «deaths due to preventable adverse events in hospitalized patients exceed the deaths attributable to motor vehicle accidents (43,458), breast cancer (42,297) or AIDS (16,516).»

Yet some patients received no aid or personal attention regarding privacy, according the authors of the Dignity and Nutrition Inspection Programme report.

Borough President Gale Brewer, Councilwoman Margaret Chin and Community Board 3 Chair Gigi Li on Wednesday rallied at the site of the Rivington House — a nursing home for HIV / AIDS patients slated to become condos after the city scrapped a deed that would have protected its usage — demanding compensation for their neighborhood's lost community space as well as legislation to prevent such a loss from happening again.

Capalino represented VillageCare, the non-profit that ran the property as a home for AIDS patients and sold the 150,000 - square - foot building to for - profit nursing home operator The Allure Group in February of 2015.

The influence of Gresham's union was reaffirmed when Comptroller Scott Stringer's office, investigating the de Blasio administration's bungling of a Lower East Side land deal that appeared to allow a hospice for AIDS patients to be turned into luxury condos, released a trove of emails and text messages that showed how closely 1199 worked with City Hall to make sure the disastrous deal, also under state and federal investigation, came to fruition.

«Our gratitude goes to Chairman Gottfried, Assemblywoman Paulin, the other sponsors of the bill, and the members of the Assembly Health Committee for this historic, first - ever approval of the Medical Aid in Dying Act, which would allow terminally ill, mentally competent, adult patients to self - administer prescribed medicines if their suffering becomes unbearable,» David Leven, the executive director of End of Life Choices New York, said in a statement.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- People with AIDS and parents of children with severe epilepsy are pressuring Gov. Andrew Cuomo to sign legislation giving critically ill patients early access to medical marijuana before New York's new medical cannabis program begins.

«Not ensuring that a patient eats well enough to aid their recovery is a basic failing — the importance of which Age UK has highlighted repeatedly over the years.

introduce a compensation scheme for patients when things have gone wrong as a consequence of contracting avoidable healthcare infections, giving access to legal aid

The fact he is also a man of genuine and deep compassion - visiting a hospice to kiss and wash the feet of a dozen Aids patients in 2001, for example - is unlikely to sway them.