Sentences with phrase «of particular patients»

«We need a range of models to learn about the connections among genes, molecules, cells, synapses and circuits in normal and abnormal cognition and behavior, and to help us understand the risks of particular patients,» says the Broad Institute's Steven Hyman.
«While care must be taken in extrapolating preclinical findings to the care of particular patients, we believe that these and other data do support a more comprehensive and perhaps holistic approach to caring for patients with diabetes and / or obesity,» he adds.
«For now, a tailored application of available data to the constellation of comorbidities and healthcare priorities of a particular patient remains the best approach for individualized hypertension management among older adults with CKD.»
Macchiarini's entire claim to scientific fame is based on data from the surgery of this particular patient.
``... can not accept that matters such as error of judgment on the part of a health professional or negligent co-ordination among health professionals in the treatment of a particular patient are sufficient of themselves to call a Contracting State to account from the standpoint of its positive obligations under Article 2 of the Convention to protect life.»

Not exact matches

A small pilot study of schizophrenia patients found that a particular video game where the user has to land a rocket helped the patients control verbal hallucinations.
And in a demonstration of just how brazen this particular attack is, TDO actually contacted the cell numbers of various company executives demanding money and threatened to start contacting patients» families and donors, too.
As a PhD candidate at Weill Cornell Medical School, Piraye Beim spent much of her time trying to figure out why a particular cancer drug was lifesaving for some patients but useless — or worse — for most.
Besides randomized controlled clinical trials, there are a number of ways researchers can study how a particular cancer treatment is playing out in the real world: there are retrospective studies, observational studies, and even prospective research done using patient registries.
In particular, the company noted only 8 percent of its patients reported no - shows with Uber, compared to 25 - 50 percent of no - shows in the industry at large, traditionally run by taxis and livery services.
Further, the Departments did not have a mandate to require plans and issuers to use different databases for the purposes of implementing the Patient Protections statutory requirements from what they may currently use, and the Departments decline to mandate the use of one particular database in the limited context of this rulemaking.
From brain scans, Schwartz found that certain regions in the brain of OCD patients (the caudate nucleus in particular) exhibited abnormal patterns of activity.
Now if she could grow that patient into something particular that might be interesting and address some small corner of misery instead of being just bewildered.
The disease experience, as opposed to the experience of disease, allows us to view patients not as people who are ill or infirm but instead as people undergoing a particular unpleasant experience.
Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School and other scientists tested the effect of having three Christian groups pray for particular patients, starting the night before surgery and continuing for two weeks.
Both of these types of organizations, among others, tend to have diverse populations, it would be nothing short of doctrinaire to impose a particular religious dogma on the medical care of everyone who is a patient, a student or an employee.
«Use of the LCP is likely to have negative effects on elderly patients, in particular, who are not on the LCP and to undermine the doctor - patient relationship.
Of particular interest is the revelationthat almost half of the doctors who responded «agreed that patients in the PVS should be considered deaOf particular interest is the revelationthat almost half of the doctors who responded «agreed that patients in the PVS should be considered deaof the doctors who responded «agreed that patients in the PVS should be considered dead.
If an individual doctor believes it is in the best interest of the patient's health to perform a particular method of abortion, then this judgment must be defended.
My five - year - old patients in particular, wheezing after family fights, obviously need the more sophisticated grasp of orgasm which Dr. Perls apparently provided to his clients.
Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School tested the effect of having three Christian groups pray for particular patients, starting the night before surgery and continuing for two weeks.
But the psychologist knows that he will not arrive at the understanding of an individual situation, and consequently can not help his patient recover, except insofar as he can succeed in disclosing a structure behind the particular set of symptoms, that is, to the extent where he will recognize the main outlines of the history of the psyche in the peculiarities of an individual history.
When the practice of sex - change surgery first emerged back in the early 1970s, I would often remind its advocating psychiatrists that with other patients, alcoholics in particular, they would quote the Serenity Prayer, «God, give me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage....
The overall c - section rate of a hospital has nothing to do with the probability that a particular patient at that hospital will get a c - section.
The care provider's job is to present the pros and cons of a particular procedure to a patient; it is THE PATIENT»S job to choose which risks she is or is not willing to patient; it is THE PATIENT»S job to choose which risks she is or is not willing to PATIENT»S job to choose which risks she is or is not willing to assume.
... [D] isclosure by the [provider] to the patient of adequate clear information about the patient's diagnosis; the alternatives available to treat the patient's problem, including surgical and nonsurgical management; the benefits and risks of each alternative, including nonintervention... and a frank explanation of those factors about which the medical profession, and the individual [provider] in particular, are uncertain and can not provide guarantees...
There is a particular focus on traditional foods as eaten all over the world by people for thousands of years, as studied by Dr. Weston A. Price in the 1930s during his research in traveling all over the world to determine the cause of degenerative illness in his patients.
And both the midwife and the patient are receptive to the obstetrical perspective of that particular situation.
The relationship between doctors, patients and society as a whole is termed a «fiduciary» relationship, which implies a particular duty to avoid conflicts of interest.
This article discusses these effects and makes recommendations for gynecologic and obstetric care of patients with epilepsy, with particular focus on pregnancy.
Each of these studies should help each kind of provider improve their ability to assess risk and offer patients the best options for their particular situation.
Scientists of Pasteur's time including Claude Bernard, Rudolf Virchow, Rudolf Steiner and Max Pettenkofer held the conviction that the decisive and determining factor in infectious diseases was not the microbe itself but rather the particular condition of the patient's host terrain that favored the growth of a particular microbe.
Discuss carefully with patients what treatments are available, and in particular the risks and side effects of each when getting consent.
The plan is intended to combat the violent attitude of patients under the influence of drugs and alcohol in particular.
In particular, he talked about the idea of patients taking care into their own hands:
CDI's platform is especially helpful in constructing panels for biomarker discovery, because researchers can begin by using patient samples or banked samples to compare immune profiles of cohorts that show particular symptoms (or no symptoms in the case of control samples).
Future research should focus on how relationships between religious or spiritual involvement and health change over time, and whether support services designed to enhance particular aspects of religion and spirituality in interested patients might help improve their well - being.
New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory tests.
New research on epilepsy patients suggests that stimulating a particular stretch of the brain's white matter — tissue that transfers nerve signals around the brain — improves performance on memory...
In particular, the study, published Jan. 6 in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, revealed differences in the white matter of patients» brains and in the cerebellum, an area of the brain not previously linked with the disorder.
But the vests had to provide physicians with more than just the ability to inflate a small section to see if that caused pain or discomfort in a particular area of the patient's body.
Lightly stimulating a particular region of the parietal cortex made patients want to wiggle their finger, while other regions made them want to roll their tongue or move a limb.
Recent advances in the understanding of cancer have led to more personalized therapies, such as drugs that target particular proteins and tests that analyze gene expression patterns in tumors to predict a patient's response to therapy.
«Each area of the brain is different with distinct cell types and connectivity, so if we can confirm that one area of circuitry is more involved in a particular symptom than another, we may eventually be able to treat a depression patient more efficiently than treating everyone the same way.»
«Patients come in asking for a particular antibiotic because it made them feel better in the past or they saw it promoted on TV,» says Jim King, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
As a result, the authors suggest that healthcare providers — in particular family medicine practitioners — need to be more aware of the various CAM therapies and take a more active role in guiding patients through their options to more safely and effectively coordinate their care.
While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.
«Some patients have lesions to certain areas of this part of the brain, so hopefully we can assess them to see what particular aspects of approach avoidance behaviour may or may not be impacted,» he adds.
Conversely, when looking at images of thin bodies, the patients showed positively evaluated emotions, whereas healthy subjects had no particular reaction.
Start with a clear understanding of your goals for a given mentoring relationship, such as gaining more experience working with patients or learning a particular technique.
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