Sentences with phrase «of patients for»

Dr Reifsnyder agreed that Epstein - Barr is the main cause of her hypothyroidism and chronic fatigue and told us how he has treated hundreds of patients for this throughout his career and that they always have active Epstein - Barr infections but that most doctors don't know how to test and diagnose an active chronic Epstein - Barr infection, even before he could test for the virus he said that he discovered patients with these symptoms would respond to antiviral treatment, and that Tiffany would have to take antivirals daily for the next 2 - 4 years but that he was sure this would eventually clear up all of her issues, however recovery would be a slow process as her HPA axis recovered and got «back into sync».

While Dr. Guldvog has followed many of his patients for at least 18 months and reports that most of them remain symptom - free, I don't know any people that have had their thyroids removed due to Hashimoto's.

I personally have prescribed this to hundreds of patients for all of the reasons discussed in this article and have found profound therapeutic benefit in all capacities.

I use on handful of patients for pain issues, for sleep issues, uh — for anxiety, just from immune balance.

Here are three common conditions and the diet I recommend to many of my patients for each:

In my functional medicine clinic, I test all of my patients for gluten sensitivity, and about 95 % of them have some issue with gluten.

Finally, analysis of tumors from clinical trials and cell line models will allow discovery of mechanisms of sensitivity and resistance to AR and PI3K inhibitors, as well as biomarkers that can be used in the development of new treatment regimens and selection of patients for future trials.

However, advanced imaging can be an invaluable tool to assist clinicians in the evaluation of patients for possible aortitis with high specificity, and sensitivity [4].

Despite the expansion of genetic profiling, there remains a large percentage of patients for whom no biomarkers of drug efficacy are detected or who become refractory to their targeted therapy or chemotherapy regimen.

Penn Medicine has been measuring the satisfaction of our patients for many, many years to ensure that we provide the best care for our patients and continue to improve every day.

These are preliminary results, the authors caution, following a small number of patients for a short time.

Among a smaller cohort of patients for whom serum sRAGE levels were available, there were lower levels seen in those taking short - acting CCBs compared with any other type of antihypertensive medication (P =.032).

Opioids are commonly prescribed to millions of patients for chronic pain.

We studied thousands of patients for ten years who were taking dietary supplements and placebos.»

There is a large group of patients for whom some of these imaging tests may be unnecessary,» Banerjee says.

Screening of patients for conditions that may have been present prior to hospitalization, such as high blood pressure, and tailoring post-discharge medications to account for individual patients» increased susceptibility to new complications.

Patients with advanced NSCLC with the EGFR mutation, with or without the T790M resistance mutation, were enrolled in the phase I / II clinical trial in centres in Europe, Australia and the USA; enrolment of patients for the phase I part of the study began in March 2012, and for the phase II part in August 2013.

To find out how many other people had come into contact with TB without becoming ill, the researchers screened friends and relatives of three of the patients for the presence of TB bacteria, using a standard skin test for antibodies.

Streamlining the regulatory process for developing genetic and other treatments for rare diseases, recognizing the time - consuming difficulty of acquiring a critical mass of patients for clinical trials for disorders affecting very few people.

The minority of patients for whom a switch might be problematic are those on narrow - margin therapeutic index drugs, such as anticoagulants and antihypertension meds for which there is a fine line between a dosage that is beneficial and one that is toxic.

The researchers determined that seroconversion in at least 70 percent of patients for each HPV type would define success.

The guideline identifies four major groups of patients for whom cholesterol - lowering HMG - CoA reductase inhibitors, or statins, have the greatest chance of preventing stroke and heart attacks.

«I have been practicing pediatric gastroenterology and taking care of patients for 20 years,» Dr. Mousa said.

An early predictor of dengue hemorrhagic fever / dengue shock syndrome would allow appropriate triaging of patients for management and treatment.

«Many people who experience headaches during sexual activity are too embarrassed to tell their physicians, and doctors often don't ask,» said Dr. Jose Biller, who has treated dozens of patients for headaches associated with sexual activity (HAS).

An investigation by New York's attorney general found that the Brooklyn Hospital Center improperly billed dozens of patients for the cost of forensic rape exams.

Or look at this way: an increase in the rate of homebirth from 0.5 % to 1 % would constitute a doubling of the number of patients for HB midwives (a 100 % increase), and a drop of 1 patient for every 190 for OBs (a 0.5 % decrease).

If a small tumor can release enough DNA into the plasma of a patient for us to detect it, maybe a seven - pound baby could do the same.»

«Findings from the current report by Foa et al should allay therapist concerns about any potential harmful effects of exposure and the need for extensive preparation of the patient for exposure.

Final decision on inclusion will be made by physician, concerning suitability of patient for surgery.

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He spent a lot of time trying to design a widget or app that would reduce confusion for patients.

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While the new mid-stage study results from DNDi were impressive (they showed cure rates of 96 % to 97 % even for the sickest patients and those with liver scarring), more late - stage trials will be necessary before the drug is available on a large scale in the developing world.

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that Valeant Pharmaceuticals» infamous price hikes for a pair of heart drugs called nitroprusside and isoproterenol — whose prices were increased by 310 % and 720 %, respectively — had significant downstream effects on patient care.

That means peace of mind for diabetes patients, who no longer have to constantly prick their fingers to measure blood sugar and manually adjust insulin doses, and hope for recovering opioid addicts, who might face a relapse if they don't adhere to a strict treatment protocol.

The project's launch featured a prominent ALS patient and research advocate: Pat Quinn, co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, an initially - derided social media stunt that went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for ALS research and may have spurred important new discoveries about the disease's genetic roots.

One research project, for example, focuses on using robots to recognize the facial reactions of Parkinson's Disease patients who have lost the ability to convey emotion to others because of reduced muscle activity.

But this deal would put Tweed on top, responsible for about a quarter of the registered patients in Canada.

In one case, a personal care provider in Vermont submitted bogus claims for 456 hours of service to an elderly man and then secretly split the payments with the patient's wife in return for access to her husband's prescription pain killers.

• Pager, a New York - based mobile - first patient engagement and care navigation platform for large health plans and health systems, raised funding of an undisclosed amount.

May 1 - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi will cut the net price of their expensive cholesterol drug for Express Scripts customers in exchange for greater patient access, with some savings to be shared with consumers, the companies said on Tuesday.

Composing a Top 10 Best List works too, for example the title to a post could read «Top 10 Mistakes Business Managers Make» or «Top 5 Ways to Increase the Number of Patients at Your Practice.»

For instance, it can help providers with remote patient monitoring, and give physicians a fuller picture of a patient's lifestyle and behaviors.

Instead of pursuing a way to optimize ads, for example, he and his team are creating software that improves the way oncologists monitor their patients» health, and creates new channels of sharing data with researchers.

A series of preliminary Mayo Clinic studies conducted in 2010 showed promise for the potential use of a chemical component of green tea (epigallocatechin gallate) in reducing the number of cancer cells in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

In the asthma study, we found increased odds among asthma patients of asthma hospitalizations, emergency department visits and a medication used for mild asthma attacks with higher unconventional natural gas development activity, compared to those with lower activity.

The technology could potentially make it faster, cheaper, and simpler for healthcare providers to accurately predict a patient's cardiovascular risk, which could save millions of lives and billions of dollars.

Its cruelties include robbing patients of activities we often take for granted, like walking, eating, talking, and even breathing.

• AccessOne, which is backed by Capital One Bank and Frontier Capital, agreed to acquire HealthFirst Financial, an Oregon, Ohio - based provider of patient financing programs for healthcare organizations.

Shareholders remain patient for now, but with every quarter that passes without any glimmers of hope, that patience grows thin and the company's valuation keeps dropping.