Sentences with phrase «of the patients who»

A number of these highly addictive painkillers get diverted, landing in the hands of patients who misuse them or lack a legitimate medical need; often, they wind up with people to whom they were never prescribed.

In treatment of melanoma, for example, a significant percentage of patients who enter full remission with immunotherapy remain there.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

It will focus its initial clinical sequencing efforts on cancer, teaming up with the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego to sequence the genomes of every patient who is treated there, as well as perform a full genome sequence on their tumors.

Aimee Eyvazzadeh, a reproductive endocrinologist, has ordered more than 100 Fertilome tests, although she says she is careful about using the test with the small percentage of her patients who have severe anxiety disorders.

It's won the endorsement from the small number of patients who've tried it — but that's not the market that the Frog team needs to convince.

Amgen unveiled some promising news during the American Heart Association's annual meeting involving its next - gen cholesterol - busting medication Repatha, which has been shown to significantly reduce the level of «bad» cholesterol in patients, announcing that more than 60 % of patients who were receiving the therapy in a trial had a reduction in arterial plaque.

Bridgepoint proposes to create «complexity teams» for different profiles of patients who would be enrolled in a program.

In a brick - and - glass office park just outside Roanoke, Virginia, Missy Conley and Jeanne Woodward have battled on behalf of hundreds of patients who believe they've been overtreated or overcharged.

Noting that Mylan had sought legislation to increase the number of patients who receive prescriptions for EpiPens, Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C.

Its first indication is a rare cancer that affects only 3,100 new patients each year, and the drug only targets roughly 30 % of those patients who do not respond to standard therapy.

«B.C. New Democrats are going to keep working to defend the needs of patients who can't afford another four years of Christy Clark's government.»

But when Mr. Pearson took the stage, he forgot the names of the patients who had just spoken.

The targeted radiotherapy shrank tumors for 71 % of patients who had already failed standard chemotherapy, but these results came from a small trial that started with 30 patients and then added another 20 after positive data started rolling in.

Incyte's (NASDAQ: INCY) Jakafi racked up $ 1.1 billion in sales last year as the only targeted therapy for patients with myelofibrosis, but a majority of patients who take it eventually relapse.

(Nothing was said about the anxiety of patients who may be killed rather than cured.)

When I worked at a psychiatric hospital, I had dozens of patients who exhibited the «classic» signs of possession as described above by Fr.

Merleau - Ponty describes the case of a patient who loses, not a stock of words but the ability to use them for novel purposes:

In hospital wards and nursing homes across the country, there are thousands upon thousands of patients who are, by the criteria applied to Nancy Cruzan, lebensunwertes Leben.

About 29 per cent - 130,000 - are of patients who are on the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP).

Halfway houses (where small groups of patients who are not ready to return to their homes live together and receive help in social rehabilitation), day hospitals, foster home services, rehabilitation centers, and ex-patient clubs are still in short supply in all parts of our country.

Patient nicknamed «Julia» Psychiatrist - Dr Richard E Gallagher at New York Medical College, documented the case of a patient who he said was possessed by demons rather than mentally ill.

A study of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at a well - respected Boston hospital revealed that physicians rarely discussed CPR with their patients, despite the fact that one - third of patients who die in the hospital first undergo CPR.

The most astonishing example is the surgeon in England who is prepared to amputate the legs of patients who claim to find sexual excitement in gazing at and exhibiting stumps of amputated legs.

It is not a case of judging that «a life is not worth living»; the question is whether there is a moral responsibility to continue at all cost the artificial feeding of patients who, in the opinion of physicians, are in an irreversible coma.

Results: In the two groups uncertain about receiving intercessory prayer, complications occurred in 52 % (315/604) of patients who received intercessory prayer versus 51 % (304/597) of those who did not (relative risk 1.02, 95 % confidence interval 0.92 - 1.15).

According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, one half of patients who are newly diagnosed with gluten intolerance are anemic.

A nationally recognized speaker and New York Times Best Selling Author, Dr. Kartzinel has presented medical interventions that work to improve the lives of his patients who suffer from many types of medical conditions that include: autism, allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, chronic constipation, chronic diarrhea, sleep cycle disruptions, and hormonal imbalances.

The hospital birthing center where I had my baby offers it... My midwife was actually excited that I wanted to do water labor but no water birth... I was the only one of her patients who DID N'T intend to birth in the water and she needed people birthing out of the tub for a control group in a waterbirth infection study she was contributing to.

With a ridiculous push by some to avoid c - section at all cost, and induction being almost as bad, I am continually surprised at the number of patients who decline this option... usually because of preconceived ideas that are inaccurate

While a nurse at Clarian Health, Dr. Lane received a number of awards due to the high number of patients who wrote in and praised her bedside care and expertise in their birthing and breastfeeding experience.

This program at our Virginia fertility center is specifically for patients who do not have insurance coverage for IVF, which is approximately 70 % of our patients who are under age 38.

Sometimes the toughest role isn't being the patient; it's being the young child of the patient who has cancer.

Health warning over hip implants Tens of thousands of patients who received hip...

I was one of those patients who just let the nurses and doctors do whatever they felt necessary.

Our extensive array of services, from intrauterine insemination (IUI) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) to cutting edge technology such as cryopreservation of a woman's eggs (egg freezing) and genetic testing of embryos, is designed to meet the unique needs of every patient who walks through our door.

440 Loyola jobs cut The Loyola University Health System in Maywood will cut more than 440 jobs, as it has encountered an influx of patients who can not pay their medical bills with current economic conditions.

The Loyola University Health System in Maywood will cut more than 440 jobs, as it has encountered an influx of patients who can not pay their medical bills with current economic conditions.

Between 20 to 25 percent of patients who receive their care at Care New England hospitals have their labor induced.

Hospice care provides comfort, not only to patients, but also to families of patients who are terminally ill.

«We easily get the majority of our patients breast - feeding, but there is still a significant number of patients who, for a variety of issues, breast - feeding just doesn't work out.

That said, I have an awful lot of patients who never take classes, pick up a pamphlet or talk to other women about what to expect.

Thus, the purpose of this document is to review the risks and benefits of TOLAC in various clinical situations and to provide practical guidelines for counseling and management of patients who will attempt to give birth vaginally after a previous cesarean delivery.

If you have never had the pleasure of going to rehab, then you may not know that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Girl Interrupted are fairly accurate in their portrayals of the patients who are admitted there.

I gave also observed a number of physicians at my institution that will do a c / s by 12 noon if the cervical ripening of their patient who's induction started at 12MN was not successful.

Any one of my patients who somehow manages to live on # 30 a week.

Officials at the Central New York Psychiatric Center in Marcy are probing the March 12 death of a patient who was civilly confined in the hospital's secure unit for sex offenders.

Hundreds of patients who visited the...

The BHA was called to give evidence to the Commission's inquiry into whether there should be a change in law to legalise assisted dying in the UK and made the case that there are good ethical reasons not to limit legal assisted dying only to terminally ill people but to others who are incurably suffering, and to permit voluntary euthanasia as well as assisted dying to maximise autonomy of patients who wish to end their lives but are unable to do so themselves.

Nine out of ten GPs say they feel pressurised to issue the prescriptions and 97 per cent of patients who ask for them are prescribed them.