Sentences with phrase «of medical calls»

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In December, American Well partnered with Concentra, which has more than 300 medical centers in 40 states, to provide some of those on - call physicians.

Medical marijuana dispensaries, online seed sellers, head shops selling drug paraphernalia, sellers of hydroponic equipment and so - called vapour lounges where customers are welcome to smoke their own weed make up a budding industry, not just in big cities but in suburbs and small towns too.

And Crispr - Cas9 isn't even the only type of Crispr out there: On April 12, researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center announced they had successfully paired the gene - editing tool with a different kind of enzyme, called Cpf1, to correct mutations associated with the devastating muscle - wasting disorder Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Google's removal policy now includes a category called «confidential, personal medical records of private people.»

Its medical benefit ratio, or ratio of claims paid out to revenues brought in, for the so - called «retail» Medicare Advantage business was 87.4 percent.

OTTAWA — The number of Canadian firms applying for lucrative medical marijuana licences has topped 1,000, as a so - called «greenrush» continues to overwhelm Health Canada.

OTTAWA — The number of Canadian firms applying for lucrative medical marijuana licences has topped 1,000, as a so - called «greenrush»

They partnered with a company called Latitude, which builds unmanned aircrafts, to carry out the test flight and demonstrate the promise of drones for the delivery of medical care and supplies to those in rural communities or during emergency situations.

A campaign by the Guardian has called on the Gates foundation and the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest medical research charity, to divest their large endowments of fossil fuels.

My first two weeks in Sierra Leone, I had to call a military medical evacuation that cost over $ 80,000 to take care of a volunteer who was very ill.

Last month, the professional group updated its stance, saying it had growing concerns over what it calls a «lack of clinical oversight» in the use of medical marijuana if pharmacies don't play a «front - line role» in providing access to the drug.

Officials at Kathmandu Medical College, the closest hospital to Nepal's only international airport, said they were treating 16 survivors of the Q400 crash, whose earlier versions were called Dash 8.

«If you're calling the billing department of your medical provider and your insurance company, it's unlikely it will go to collections.»

New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

Novartis's global head of drug development and chief medical officer, Vas Narasimhan, has a piece up on Fortune exploring the strides that have been made in the fight against malaria, including the development of an experimental Novartis treatment called KAF156.

«When a medical situation happens in the air, the flight attendants are not allowed to call time of death, so we have to continue doing everything we can to keep someone alive, even if they are already gone,» a JetBlue flight attendant told Business Insider.

«It's wildly expensive but, to be very frank, I think they've priced it what I'll call responsibly,» said Dr. Steve Miller, chief medical officer of pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts, which is partnering with Spark on distribution and specialty pharmacy services for Luxturna.

Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

«I would immediately call and ask for an itemized detailed statement,» said Candice Butcher, vice president of the Medical Billing Advocates of America.

Sites that ask for a lot of details about your symptoms and medical history and that use video or voice calls rather than simple messaging are likely to yield better results, Powell said.

JOHNSON & JOHNSON PARTNERS TO SPEED ALZHEIMER»S DRUG DEVELOPMENT The drug development arm of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) has teamed up with an medical research facility called the Sanford - Burnham Institute in the hopes that the partnership will shorten the path to getting new Alzheimer's treatments FDA approval.

Add to that excellent health care backed by first - rate technology — medical tourism is a fast - growing industry here — and temperate weather throughout the year, and it's easy to see why tens of thousands of expats call this 18th - century colonial town home.

He said the medical literature calls it «non-beneficial» care, which is maybe a nicer way of saying the same thing.

FitBit and Apple Watch are great for the casual health enthusiast to keep track of his vitals, but the potential for so - called «medical - grade wearables,» devices designed to aid in the prevention or treatment of a specific disease is just starting to be realized.

Dr. Andrzej Jakubowiak from the University of Chicago Medical Center said during a conference call that although the results were disappointing, they were predictable to some extent.

Three years ago, Sterling Lanier, a serial entrepreneur then running a successful market research firm, got a phone call from a medical researcher he knew at the University of California, San Francisco.

«Physio - Control's focused strategy and their culture will fit well within the EMS business of our Medical division, further leveraging our existing call pattern.»

Using an app created by a company called Medical Realities, viewers from around the globe, each presumably with an iron constitution, witnessed a surgeon at the Royal London NHS Hospital delve into the bowels of a 70 - year - old cancer patient.

That's a big deal because Alnylam's drug is based on an extremely early - stage kind of medical technology called RNAi, or RNA interference, which uses basic biological building blocks to tackle problematic genetic discrepancies.

He did it, like many others in his cohort, because of what's being called the «Green Rush» — a move out west to take part in one of the most exciting, risky, and (perhaps) profitable enterprises today: the medical marijuana trade.

It can be everything from an über - helpful call - center rep to an oncology adviser, recommending cancer treatments on the basis of a patient's genetic profile and thousands of clinical trials and medical journal articles it has analyzed.

Anthem Blue Cross announced that it's launching a new platform to unite multiple kinds of digital health data — including electronic medical records, insurance claims info, and even health and wellness app stats — into an overarching product called Engage.

All along, corporate messaging had been consistent: In annual reports, earnings calls, and press releases, Bristol touted diabetes as one of its most important medical focuses and a linchpin of the company's future.

Like many businesses, Bowman & Partners has shifted much of its workload to the cloud, and when principal Paul Bowman began chasing a contract with a major healthcare firm, he proposed a cloud - based dashboard to gather information straight from the company's call centers, offering insights into medical activity and patient trends from across the country.

For example, Lyft is partnering with a company called One Medical Group, a provider of technology - enabled primary care.

But when I was in medical school, I got called to the dean's office one day — and I had bought one of those Motorola brick phones — and I would go out of surgery, and I would call the office and check what's going on.

Researchers called out tax refunds as a key contributor: 16 percent of families with a large medical payment had received a tax refund within the three months prior.

Her comments came shortly after the Senate Committee on Aging asked Mylan to provide information on the reasoning behind what it called the «drastic» price increase of EpiPen, and the American Medical Association «urge [d]» Mylan to «rein in these exorbitant costs.»

A crucial Senate health committee has scheduled hearings for September to review a bipartisan framework that would guarantee insurers payments (called «cost - sharing subsidies») that help reduce low - income Americans» out - of - pocket medical expenditures, carry on the universal coverage mandate, and incorporate GOP proposals to make more bare - bones plans available as well as repeal certain ACA taxes.

However, the last time that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees walked out for a one - day strike in November 2013, UC San Diego Medical Center and Thornton Hospital, now called Jacob's Medical Center, moved 171 medical procedures, including 100 elective surgeries, to different days as a reported 840 employees picketed near both faciMedical Center and Thornton Hospital, now called Jacob's Medical Center, moved 171 medical procedures, including 100 elective surgeries, to different days as a reported 840 employees picketed near both faciMedical Center, moved 171 medical procedures, including 100 elective surgeries, to different days as a reported 840 employees picketed near both facimedical procedures, including 100 elective surgeries, to different days as a reported 840 employees picketed near both facilities.

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Vice helped create short documentaries on private military contractors for Activision's Call of Duty, and another on Monkey Island, a refuge for apes used in medical research, to help promote the movie Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Mr. Trump even tweeted on Monday that «Food, water and medical are top priorities — and doing well,» which doesn't jive with the experience of Governor Rosselló, who this week called for more search - and - rescue assistance and record levels of humanitarian relief.

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«This stems from our long - held belief that pharmacies can, and should, play an important role in the safe and secure distribution of medical cannabis in Canada,» Neufeld added on a conference call with analysts.

[109] Public hospitals established during this time (called Bimaristan hospitals), are considered «the first hospitals» in the modern sense of the word, [110][111] and issued the first medical diplomas to license doctors of medicine.

Certain doctors, notoriously the anesthesiologist Russell Portenoy of the Beth Israel Medical Center, called for more aggressive pain treatment.

The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Howard Hughes Medical Insti.tute (HHMI) published a joint report, ti.tled Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians in which they call for increased emphasis on evolution as one of the basic sciences students learn before they come to medical Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Howard Hughes Medical Insti.tute (HHMI) published a joint report, ti.tled Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians in which they call for increased emphasis on evolution as one of the basic sciences students learn before they come to medical Medical Insti.tute (HHMI) published a joint report, ti.tled Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians in which they call for increased emphasis on evolution as one of the basic sciences students learn before they come to medical medical school.

It is good procedure for the minister to phone the hospital in advance of a call to ascertain whether the medical staff feels that the person should have visitors at a certain stage in his recovery.

These, Charlie's, and many other similar cases I could recite, involving profoundly ill people of all ages, are examples of what is known in the bioethics trade as «futile care» or «medical futility» — or, as I call it, futile - care theory.