Sentences with phrase «of qualifying patients»

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.

Owners of all qualified patients involved in veterinary clinical trials must sign a consent form before the study begins.

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.

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.