Since 1998, the Washington State Medical Use of Marijuana Act has provided an affirmative defense against criminal prosecution of physicians for prescribing medical marijuana and
of qualified patients for their medical use of marijuana.
Owners
of all qualified patients involved in veterinary clinical trials must sign a consent form before the study begins.
Company officials at Vireo, one of the five that were selected to grow and dispense medical marijuana come 2016, expect the program will be a small one in the beginning, given the pool
of qualifying patients is relatively small.
Not exact matches
The government
of Ontario, Canada is on the verge
of requiring doctors either to euthanize or to refer all legally
qualified patients.
In the Far West, a mental health center has established a panel
of fifty
qualified community professionals who accept
patients for individual and group psychotherapy after screening and evaluation at the mental health center The center pays a small fee to the panel members and retains responsibility for the
patient's total treatment program.
Facilities that are recognized for their integration
of best practices have an advantage in recruitment and retention
of qualified health - care professionals and in cultivating satisfaction and lifelong loyalty in their
patient population.
As
qualified GPs they are likely to have thousands
of women
patients who, at some stage, are breastfeeding mothers, yet the breastfeeding content
of the curriculum is minimal.
PTSD is now among a dozen conditions that would
qualify a
patient for medically based cannabis, part
of a program first approved in 2014.
And for now, that means the number
of patients singing up to be
qualified in the program is falling below initial estimates.
Health minister Dr Dan Poulter, a
qualified doctor, commented: «Today's mandate to Health Education England, backed by a # 5 billion budget, will help our many dedicated frontline staff to further improve their ability to care for
patients as well as enabling our NHS to train the next generation
of doctors, nurses and healthcare assistants.»
The implementation procedures for the new law mean that marijuana may not be available for
qualifying patients any sooner than the end
of 2015.
The MedLaw Cancer Partnership
of Western New York will provide free legal advice to
qualified patients.
The state Department
of Health on Wednesday unveiled an online registration system for
patients seeking to
qualify for the state's medical marijuana program.
New York's medical marijuana program started at the beginning
of this year, and the tightly regulated program has only a handful
of serious illnesses for
patients that
qualify for a cannabis - based prescription.
Gottfried did add a few
of Savino's amendments in order to make the bill more palatable to opponents, including eliminating glaucoma as a condition that would
qualify a
patient for prescription
of the drug, and requiring that medical marijuana be a last resort treatment.
To
qualify,
patients must be an acceptable surgical risk and be defined as either severely obese with a BMI
of 40 or greater or have a BMI
of 35 or greater with at least one related condition: diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, obesity - related cardiomyopathy or heart muscle disease or severe joint disease.
A separate downside is that
patients who have unapproved and unproven stem cell interventions decrease their chances
of qualifying for FDA - cleared and IRB - approved clinical trials that comply with federal regulations.
Use
of mechanical thrombectomy on
qualifying stroke
patients could result in major savings to the healthcare economy in the United Kingdom (U.K.) and other western countries with a similar healthcare structure, according to a new study presented at the Society
of NeuroInterventional Surgery 12th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
«Only about 70 percent
of patients respond to medication, and only about 10 percent
qualify for surgery, which has a high and lasting success rate,» says Chou, who is an associate professor in the U-M Medical School's departments
of Neurology and Neurosurgery.
«However, uninsured
patients certainly face the full brunt
of raw charges, especially if they don't
qualify for charity care discounts,» Hsia said.
Shah and Shpall's team enrolled symptomatic
patients who
qualified as candidates for high - dose chemotherapy drugs like melphalan, and transplantation
of the
patient's own stem cells.
Unfortunately, relatively few studies
qualified for inclusion, and the investigations differed in the dosages used, strains
of kava, duration
of treatment and severity
of the
patients» anxiety.
Additionally,
patients had to be judged «mentally reliable» — able to follow instructions and keep appointments — in order to
qualify for the clinical trials, so their emotional scores might not represent the full spectrum
of psychological states among cancer
patients.
Shin and his colleagues estimate that the ACA would have helped 5.2 million out
of a total
of 7.5 million uninsured community health center
patients to gain health coverage either by buying affordable policies or
qualifying for Medicaid under the expansion programs.
«Although evidence - based and
qualified guidelines have been recently released from Europe and North America, the unique features
of Asian hypertensive
patients raise concerns on the real clinical applicability
of these guidelines to Asian populations,» write the authors.
Equipped with some
of the best technologies for neuroimaging and intervention, it provides quality clinical services for
patients and certified advanced training for the region?s newly
qualified neurosurgeons.
In the current study, the researchers report the success
of the BASILICA procedure in seven gravely ill
patients who
qualified for compassionate use
of the technique — then untested in humans — because no other care options were available.
«By creating a personalized
Patient - on - a-Chip, we can really begin to understand how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect an individual's health,» said Geraldine A. Hamilton, PhD, president and chief scientific officer of Emulate, Inc. «The goal of Emulate working with Cedars - Sinai is to advance and qualify the system for new clinical applications and ultimately democratize the technology so that it can have a broad impact on patient healthcare.
Patient - on - a-Chip, we can really begin to understand how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect an individual's health,» said Geraldine A. Hamilton, PhD, president and chief scientific officer
of Emulate, Inc. «The goal
of Emulate working with Cedars - Sinai is to advance and
qualify the system for new clinical applications and ultimately democratize the technology so that it can have a broad impact on
patient healthcare.
patient healthcare.»
All
patients / survivors with a diagnosis
of lung cancer, mesothelioma or other thoracic cancers and caregivers,
qualify for the free membership.
Within the subset
of 23
patients that were in the higher dose cohorts and would
qualify for the Toca 5 trial,
patients had a median survival
of 14.4 months and 43.5 % (10/23)
of patients had clinical benefit (5 complete responses and 5 stable disease
patients).
Contact our highly -
qualified team at one
of our regional labs in the United States, Germany, or Japan for additional information on sample testing requirements and to obtain the latest information, so you can make better informed therapy decisions for your
patients.
This approval was granted based on the results
of a phase II study
of 63
qualifying patients receiving 560 - mg ibrutinib once daily.
All
patients / survivors with a diagnosis
of lung cancer, mesothelioma or other thoracic cancers, and all caregivers who provide care and services to those affected by these diseases,
qualify for the free membership.
At the American Society
of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2017 Annual Meeting, we presented monotherapy data
of nine
patients who received G100 with radiation (no pembrolizumab) that showed 100 % DCR rate, with 44 %
of the
patients achieved a partial response (PR) based on WHO criteria, which requires at least a 50 % tumor reduction to
qualify as a PR.
«State licensure
of certified counselors will help ensure that the healthcare system has a
qualified workforce to provide genetic and genomic services for the growing number
of patients and families who need them.»
In the meantime, he says, the company is helping eligible
patients who have commercial insurance with their out -
of - pocket costs and will also provide referrals to those who may
qualify for various
patient - assistance programs.
Soon after
qualifying, Dr. Lipman became aware
of the limitations
of his medical training: taught to focus on the disease rather than the
patient, he found himself treating symptoms rather than the root causes
of illness.
He estimates that between 50 % and 60 %
of his fibromyalgia
patients experience a 50 % reduction in pain (a common benchmark used to assess pain treatments),
qualifying them for an implant.
The use
of the Vivos technologies by any
patient must always occur under the direction and supervision
of a
qualified, trained, and licensed dentist, physician or other
qualified health provider, working in close collaboration with
qualified medical personnel.
At Parsley Health we believe in utilizing a team
of certified and incredibly
qualified health coaches to assist our
patients in determining what is wrong with them and helping them to meet their health goals.
The dosage
of HGH given via injection to
qualified patients will depend upon the person's body chemistry and their body composition.
You can also refer your
patients to our website, where they can find a listing
of qualified instructors.
While some cases clearly
qualify for the diagnosis
of heavy metal toxicity from the viewpoint
of history, occupation, signs and symptoms, and lab data, integrative physicians should consider treatment for
patients when, in their professional judgment, the level
of heavy metal found utilizing any
of the tests discussed reveals a greater level
of toxic metal (s) than is in the best interest
of their
patient.
You've got
patients reading all kinds
of bias information on the internet & essentially risking their own lives, when they have
qualified doctors who could be helping these
patients test the treatments more safely & then use any beneficial treatments to help other
patients, but it seems most doctors are more afraid
of risking their own careers than actually helping
patients, so they just prescribe the «Standard
of Care» treatments, which we all know has a very low survival rate.
Her passion for natural medicine and desire to have direct contact with
patients led Vera to
qualify in Naturopathy and Herbal Medicine at The College
of Naturopathic Medicine in London, and today she successfully combines her two passions as the Marion Gluck Clinic's naturopath as well as carrying out essential breast cancer research at the Institute
of Cancer Research at The Royal Marsden Hospital.
Some IC
patients do have low levels
of bacteria in their urine that don't normally
qualify as a urinary tract infection and others may have atypical bacteria, such as ureaplasm.
The U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services» Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) ruled that: «all
patient diets, including therapeutic diets, must be ordered by a practitioner responsible for the care
of the
patient, or by a
qualified dietitian or
qualified nutrition professional as authorized by the medical staff and in accordance with State law.»
If the quality and quantities
of the plant or herb used to produce the supplement were too low,
patients weren't taking a «therapeutic dose»
of a quality herb that could have actually helped them (one more reason why people should work with a
qualified natural health professional who can guide them).
They say they are struck by the number
of patients / clients who say they were injured doing CrossFit; they worry that with so many CrossFit facilities opening, there can't be enough
qualified trainers to teach these kinds
of intense workouts; they argue that some
of these exercises are being misused under CrossFit's emphasis on doing as many reps as possible and / or racing the clock; they wonder whether all these people flocking to CrossFit understand that it's not like going to Starbucks, that this is not a franchise but rather a disparate group
of 10,000 gyms.
At first Nathan thought that the good doctor was teasing him; Molnár had emphasized the element
of playfulness in his unique brand
of surgery, and chatting with an unconscious
patient would certainly
qualify as Molnáresque.