Sentences with phrase «of death of patients»

In Calvelli and Ciglio v Italy, where the applicant complained that the state had failed to prosecute a doctor whose negligence allegedly caused the death of his baby, the Court held that the state's positive obligation under Article 2 to protect life required regulations in place to safeguard patients» lives and to provide an independent judicial system which can determine the cause of death of patients in the care of the medical profession.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is primarily the cause of death of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

(In Arabic with subtitles) Ocean of Pearls (PG - 13 for brief profanity and mature themes) Cross-cultural drama, about an ambitious Sikh surgeon (Omid Abtahi) who takes of his turban and shaves off his beard for the sake of his career at an American hospital only to come to question abandoning his traditions in the wake of the death of a patient.

Not exact matches

«This short book has so many layers of meaning and so many interesting juxtapositions,» Gates writes, including «life and death, patient and doctor, son and father, work and family, faith and reason.»

Because it makes up more than 13 % of all new cancers and nearly 27 % of all cancer deaths in the U.S. Just 17.7 % of diagnosed patients are still alive five years out from their diagnosis.

The Ebola infection rate and death toll have been particularly high among health workers, who are exposed to hundreds of highly infectious patients who can pass the virus on through body fluids such as blood and excrement.

Kite Pharma, one of the companies chasing a new generation of cancer drugs called chimeric antigen receptor T - cell (CAR - T) therapies, announced a patient death in a clinical trial of its experimental KTE - C19.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating patient deaths following an obesity - fighting procedure which involves the use of balloons that fill up inside the stomach and remain for about six months.

«At this time, we do not know the root cause or incidence rate of patient death, nor have we been able to definitively attribute the deaths to the devices or the insertion procedures for these devices,» said the FDA in a notice.

Johnson & Johnson's cancer treatment Zytiga significantly cut the death risk for newly - diagnosed, advanced prostate cancer patients by 38 %, according to data unveiled at the ongoing American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting this weekend.

Speaking of checkpoint inhibitor drugs... Merck's star cancer immunotherapy treatment Keytruda is facing some troubling clinical trial incidents which have now compelled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt three studies of the drug in multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer, after a number of patient deaths.

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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.

«Among both groups, patients taking Entresto had a 20 % or greater reduction in cardiovascular death or heart failure hospitalization compared to those taking enalapril,» Novartis said in a statement, citing conclusions based on analysis of data from the PARADIGM - HF study.

In a late - stage trial, Darzalex combined with Velcade and chemotherapy slashed patients» risk of worsening disease or death by a stunning 61 % compared with the results for Velcade and chemotherapy alone.

That's particularly significant since people with diabetes have a significantly higher risk of developing cardiovascular conditions — and Lilly's drug was shown to cut the cardiovascular - related deaths in diabetes patients by a staggering 38 % in clinical trials.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Alnylam Pharmaceuticals the green light to relaunch clinical trials of its treatment for the bleeding disorder hemophilia after pausing the studies after a patient death.

Herper homes in on a relatively new class of super-powerful (and super expensive) cholesterol - busting drugs called PCSK9 inhibitors (which were just shown to reduce death from any cause, and particularly heart - related conditions), and how patients with staggeringly high cholesterol who would benefit from the treatments had to wrangle with insurance companies that refused to cover them over their high prices.

Praluent, given by injection, dramatically lowers bad LDL cholesterol and reduces the risk of heart attacks and death in high - risk heart patients.

Those drugs in combination reduce patients «risk of death or their cancer progressing by 42 percent versus chemotherapy, still beating Wall Street «s estimates.

'' [It] minimizes the need for a full fledge [d] investigation to determine if some of these deaths could have been prevented, or whether the island's medical facilities were negligent in terms of providing treatment to their most vulnerable patients,» writes Yordán, who is from Puerto Rico.

But when it was reported that some of their anesthesia machines were linked to the deaths of a few patients, he lost everything.

Juno Therapeutics will resume its Phase II ROCKET clinical trial of its acute lymphoblastic leukemia candidate JCAR015 following the FDA's lifting of a partial clinical hold imposed last week following the deaths of three patients.

For the second time in 5 months, Juno Therapeutics has put a clinical hold on a Phase II trial of JCAR015 in adult patients with relapsed or refractory B - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia due to patient deaths.

Juno Therapeutics is seeking to change the protocol for the Phase II ROCKET clinical trial of its acute lymphoblastic leukemia candidate JCAR015, which the FDA has placed on clinical hold following the deaths of three patients, two of them last week.

Juno blames the use of fludarabine for the cerebral edema deaths of the three patients, all under age 25.

Zytiga's approval was based on trials showing a 38 % reduction in the risk of death in this subset of patients, an improvement that's clearly influencing doctor's use of the drug.

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACAD) faded 24 percent Monday after CNN exposed the deaths of more than 700 Nuplazid patients since the drug's June 2016 launch.

Surgery during this time, the late 1800s, was a dangerous affair with 50 % of surgery patients dying and 80 % of these deaths attributable to post-surgery infections.

In early September, Alnylam stopped giving doses of its fitusiran drug for a rare bleeding disorder to patients enrolled in clinical studies after the death of a patient.

Under New York law, patients may legally refuse treatment and authorize the withdrawal of life - support systems, including nutrition, even in those instances where such steps would undoubtedly hasten death.

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

An end - of - life protocol pushed by the UK's National Institute For Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) may have resulted in patients being sedated and dehydrated to death before their time, a major story reports today in the Daily Telegraph.

The abandoning ethic of assisted suicide is demonstrated by studies showing depression in many patients requesting hastened death.

Say for example a patient in a remote location must undergo surgery without anesthesia, but with (for the sake of argument) the assurance that he will prevent his own death by undergoing great pains and also assuming that (for the sake of argument) he values his own life over and above any pain he may experience in this life.

Readers of SHS may recall the terrible San Luis Obispo case of a transplant surgeon named Hootan Roozrokh who is charged felonious wrongdoing in trying to kill a profoundly disabled patient so his organs could be procured under a «heart death» protocol.

In the notable case on assisted suicide in Oregon (Gonzales v. Oregon, 2006), Nino invoked the moral logic of the Hippocratic oath: that there was a rightful purpose in the medical art and the use of drugs; that the purpose was to secure the health of the patient, not to speed him to his death.

But Scalia surely knew that Janet Reno, the Attorney General in the Clinton Administration, had taken quite the opposite view — that nothing in the reigning statutes barred the State of Oregon from permitting drugs to be used by doctors for the purpose of procuring death for their patients.

In Japan, for example, if a patient has expressed a written wish to be an organ donor then organs can be taken on medical diagnosis of brain death.

The hospice movement understands that the death of a patient affects not only the patient, but the patient's family and friends, and even society at large.

His research concluded that only those with a high risk of death actually benefited from heart transplants, more than 80 \ % of donor hearts going to patients who were likely to live for longer without a transplant.

Proud Haman was put to death, while her humble and patient uncle Mordecai, receives the position of being second in command over the entire empire.

Its critics say that it is a way of hastening patients» deaths: and the evidence really does seem to be that this is often the case.

In the practice of critical care medicine, we sometimes end up caring for patients who have suffered severe illness or injury and are deteriorating toward brain death.

Riding the publicity wave of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who suffered much and became the human face of the death - with - dignity movement, they have redefined compassion as respect for a patient's autonomous determination of the time, location, and method of death.

Instead of aiming to ease and extend the person's life, they begin to think about identifying the moment that the patient has passed the legal threshold of death.

In an earlier book, Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients, and the Dutch Cure (1996), Hendin described how the actual witnessing of the effects of legalized euthanasia, far more than any theoretical consideration, persuaded him of its pernicious impact.

In England recently, «do not resuscitate» orders were routinely and illegally placed in thousands of patient files without their consent, resulting in untold premature deaths.

as for proving Jesus is alive, no worries, He will be back in the flesh as soon as all the prophecies of these days of distress are fulfilled, so stay alive until He arrives... however, should Death claim you before hand, you will know the truth anyway... and every aethist comes to know if God exists by the time of their funeral... unfortunately, they can't tell their friends the truth they have found then.So God is patient, for He knows the days of a man are short.

He gave serious offense by treating patients, not in immediate danger of death, on the holy day.