Sentences with phrase «of study patients»

The National Institute of Health, a government agency (not funded by pharmaceutical grants) conducted a clinical trial to see if desiccated thyroid therapy is advantageous to T4 alone (8) The authors of the study concluded: «DTE (Desiccated Thyroid Extract) therapy did not result in a significant improvement in quality of life; however, DTE caused modest weight loss and nearly half (48.6 %) of the study patients expressed preference for DTE over l - T4 (Levothyroxine).

The authors also showed that children who tested positive for high - risk sepsis but survived the infection (21 percent of study patients) had greater degrees of organ failure and longer stays in the intensive care unit.

Moreover, the demography of the Ashkenazi population, the largest isolated population in the U.S., enables large - scale recruitment of study patients and hence more genetic discoveries than in other well - known isolated populations like the Amish and Hutterites locally, or the Icelanders overseas.

All of the study patients received biological valves, developed from animal or donated human tissue.

Meanwhile, nine of those study patients continued to lose weight, eventually reaching 15 percent weight loss.

The team found that patients with more varied types of bacteria in their digestive tract had longer median progression - free survival, defined at the time point where half of studied patients have their disease progress.

The analysis showed that, during the two years prior to surgery, around 22 percent of the studied patients had at least one emergency department (ED) visit or hospitalization in each one - year period.

Cook and colleagues were able to confine their study to patients who unquestionably had the disorder, based on an unusually thorough, six - hour evaluation of each study patient by a multi-disciplinary clinical team that specializes in ADHD.

Dr. Cook and colleagues were able to confine their study to patients who unquestionably had autism, based on an unusually thorough evaluation of each study patient by a multi-disciplinary clinical team that specializes in this disorder.

Not exact matches

«From 2012 to 2015, the absolute number of patients treated with nitroprusside decreased by 53 %, and the number treated with isoproterenol decreased by 35 %,» wrote the study authors.

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.

A two - month 2010 study of nearly 300 cancer patients at the Mayo Clinic found that those given 1,000 or 2,000 milligrams of ginseng each day reported feeling more energized compared with those who took a placebo.

GOOGLE»S AI HELPS TO PREDICT CARDIOVASCULAR CONDITIONS BY ANALYZING EYE SCANS: Google and Verily — Google - parent Alphabet's life sciences unit — are exploring new ways that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to identify patients» risk of suffering from a cardiovascular event, such as a heart attack or stroke, according to a newly published study by the two Alphabet subsidiaries.

In all studies, we assigned patients measures of unconventional natural gas development activity.

Finally, in our study of symptoms, we found patients with higher unconventional natural gas development activity had higher odds of nasal and sinus, migraine headache and fatigue symptoms compared to those with lower activity.

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.

In health care, this amounts to an hourly avalanche of new research papers, clinical trials, scientific studies, and patient health information.

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.

The study participants were asked to develop strategies for landing the rocket mentally; this, in turn, allowed the patients to strategize ways of blocking out hallucinatory voices inside their heads.

The study, published today in the journal Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, found most of the fictional patients (71 %) were transferred from emergency directly to the operating theatre.

After studying numerous patients with circadian rhythms out of sync, he hypothesized that their adrenal glands were overworked and producing lower levels of the hormones needed to cope with stress.

This study, published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, found that 22 patients who played the memory game made significantly fewer errors and needed significantly fewer attempts to remember the location of different patterns specific tests.

British - based GlaxoSmithKline, for example, conducts more than 100 studies a year in Canada, with the participation of some 10,500 patients in more than 1,000 medical centres.

For example, a small study of 38 patients with Alzheimer's from 2016 looked at the effects of Victoza.

BIIB098: MRI and relapse results from the phase 3 EVOLVE - MS - 1 study in patients with relapsing and remitting multiple sclerosis were presented at the 70th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).

In a study cited in Shawn Achor's book The Happiness Advantage, three groups of patients treated their depression with medication, exercise, or a combination of the two.

FITBIT DATA AIDS RESEARCHERS IN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin and UCLA conducted the study, which implanted electrodes deep into the craniums of epilepsy patients to monitor their brain activity during seizures.

The company points to a simple resource allocation problem that's hindered the most effective patient care: the fact that it is physically impossible for oncologists to keep track of every study, every clinical trial, and every breakthrough in the wildly stratified world of cancer research.

A recent study tested 79 patients, outfitting one - third of them with a VR headset depicting a coastal scene, one - third with a VR cityscape and the remaining third with no VR at all.

Speaking of checkpoint inhibitor drugs... Merck's star cancer immunotherapy treatment Keytruda is facing some troubling clinical trial incidents which have now compelled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt three studies of the drug in multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer, after a number of patient deaths.

To participate in the study, which concludes in July 2020, patients must be 18 years or older and have a histological - or cytological - proven diagnosis of a malignancy in the lung, breast, head and neck, genitourinary organs or ovaries or multiple myeloma.

«If we add machine learning, the field of study that allows computers to self - learn without specific programming to do so, to existing artificial intelligence (A.I.), the resulting machines will be better able to diagnose and heal patients than their human counterparts can now,» he notes.

The study offers more validation for the use of remote patient monitoring (RPM) wearables and devices to provide clinicians with fuller, more accurate patient data.

The first step in the process is to surgically remove the patient's tumor and ensure that the patient is cancer free by confirming that there is no sign of cancer on blood tests and imaging studies.

Now, the firms are hoping that the completion of the study will show cardiovascular improvement in these patients, giving them a strong argument to present to reticent physicians.

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.

The study, just published in Science, showed that the creation of what the researchers are calling microtumors can help predict drug effectiveness in cancer patients better than the current standard method of testing the drugs on rodents.

Other studies, meanwhile, are examining tryp's potential efficacy as an antifungal agent; and as a prognostic indicator in patients with brain cancer (as seen by increased uptake of the amino acid on a PET scan).

«While we are disappointed CheckMate - 026 did not meet its primary endpoint in this broad patient population, we remain committed to improving patient outcomes through our comprehensive development program, including the ongoing Phase III CheckMate - 227 study exploring the potential of the combination of Opdivo plus [our other cancer immunotherapy] Yervoy for PD - L1 positive patients, and Opdivo plus Yervoy, or Opdivo plus chemotherapy in PD - L1 negative patients,» he added.

The study, by Yusuke Tsugawa and colleagues at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and other institutions, examined the record of a large random sample of Medicare patients, 65 years or older, who were hospitalized from January 2011 to December 2014.

The ENDEAVOUR Phase 3 study data monitoring committee recommended dosing be suspended after it found «an imbalance of mortality» in patients who used revusiran as compared to placebo.

«Patients in the study spent an average of approximately 27 minutes per day exercising over the course of an average 30 days in recovery,» wrote the researchers.

Amgen Executive Vice President of Research and Development Sean Harper said the study was designed to explore Kyprolis dosing regimens, noting that the the trial did not meet its goal in improving progression - free survival versus Velcade in patients who had not yet been treated for the disease.

«ICU care is inefficient, devoting substantial resources to patients less likely to benefit,» their study, published in the February edition of JAMA Internal Medicine, concluded.

An early, outsourced clinical research study with real patients was encouraging, but there are many potential pitfalls yet to come, said University of North Carolina diabetes researcher Dr. John Buse, who was briefed by Google on the lens last week.

Khosla referenced a study that asked a group of doctors to review patient data in order to determine whether the individual was in need of cardiac surgery.

The company's first product, called Prevent, is an online version of the Diabetes Prevention Program, a series of interventions that grew out of a National Institutes of Health study that looked at how diet and exercise could curb patients» chances of developing diabetes.