Sentences with phrase «of trial visits»

Through a couple weeks of trial visits and play dates, the family knew they wanted to give Apollo his forever home, so on April 13, 2017 Apollo was adopted by the Smith family!

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Currently in the U.K., he will go back to Privateer's headquarters in Seattle, then visit Tilray's 60,000 - square foot facilities in British Columbia, Canada, then to Australia, where Tilray has an import license to send marijuana for a clinical trial with a chemotherapy - induced nausea and vomiting study with the University of Sydney, the government of New South Wales and the country's largest cancer hospital.

And even that law he did not break because he made an agreement with the government (Iran) to be able to visit his family in Iran and build a Children «s Home there.Please read all of the articles and you will also find out that he (Pastor Saeed) were not even allow to be at his own Trial to defend himself and that witnesses for the government were intimidated not to attend for fear of reprises.

The freedom of religion report followed a fact - finding visit by CSW to Indonesia in May 2017, shortly after the verdict was delivered in the blasphemy trial of the former governor of Jakarta.

As the trial of George Zimmerman wound down in a Florida courtroom this past week, I had traveled to visit loved ones in a posh neighborhood in Atlanta.

For the first trial, half of the women had pre - and postnatal lactation consultant visits and their doctors were reminded by electronic prompts to speak to the patients about breastfeeding during office visits.

She visits OBGYN, perinatal, urology, family practice and internal medicine offices to educate them on The Fertility Center of Las Vegas by providing information on the practice, advances in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, new clinical trial research, success rates and other important information.

Over the past week or so a few comments made by one of my children and certain current events (Prop 8 trial) made me think we need to spend some time visiting the issue of tolerance as a family.

Although not directly comparable, our findings are in broad agreement with those from routine data in Scotland that have indicated a positive association between Baby Friendly accreditation, but not certification, and breastfeeding at 1 week of age.17 Our findings reinforce those of Coutinho and colleagues who reported that high exclusive breastfeeding rates achieved in Brazilian hospitals implementing staff training with the course content of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based intervention.

Research shows that families typically receive roughly half of the number of home visits expected.16, 17 For example, across three randomized controlled trials conducted of Nurse Family Partnership, average dosage of visits ranged from 45 to 62 percent.18 Research also shows that many, perhaps most, families enrolled in home visiting programs drop out before their eligibility ends.16, 19,20 Some home visiting studies have varied the dosage that families were offered and found that fewer home visits produced outcomes similar to higher levels of exposure.21

In the third trial of the nurse home visitor program, nurse - visited, 6 - month - old infants born to mothers with low psychological resources (i.e., maternal IQ, mental health, and sense of efficacy) displayed fewer aberrant emotional expressions (e.g., low levels of affect and lack of social referencing of mother) associated with child maltreatment.18

Most trials of prenatal home visiting have produced disappointing effects on pregnancy outcomes such as birth weight and gestational age, 9,16,17 although one program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has reduced prenatal tobacco use in two trials18, 19 and has reduced pregnancy - induced hypertension in a large sample of African - Americans.20

In a randomized trial, a home visiting program reduced physical and psychological abuse after 1 year of participation and had the greatest impact on first - time and psychologically vulnerable mothers after 2 years of participation.

Other difficulties when conducting or evaluating research in this area include ensuring the equivalency of the control and experimental groups in randomized controlled trials (RCTs), 10 controlling for participant attrition (which may affect the validity of findings by reducing group equivalence) and missed visits (which may affect validity by reducing program intensity), 11 documenting that the program was fully and accurately implemented, and determining whether the program's theory of change logically connects program activities with intended outcomes.

One randomized controlled trial comparing home - visited families with control participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in depressive symptoms between intervention and control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, 16,17

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses described above produced treatment - control differences in 15 - year - olds» arrests and reductions in arrests and convictions among 19 - year - old females.32, 33 In a subsequent trial with a large sample of urban African - Americans the program produced treatment impacts on 12 - year - olds» use of substances and internalizing disorders.34

The largest randomized trial of a comprehensive early intervention program for low - birth - weight, premature infants (birth to age three), the Infant Health and Development Program, included a home visiting component along with an educational centre - based program.7 At age three, intervention group children had significantly better cognitive and behavioural outcomes and improved parent - child interactions.

While some meta - analyses of home visiting programs suggest that many types of home visiting programs can make a difference in reducing adverse outcomes such as child maltreatment and childhood injuries, 14,15 meta - analyses can produce misleading results if there are insufficient numbers of trials of programs represented in the cross-classification of home visiting target populations, program models, and visitors» backgrounds.

Although some of the enthusiasm for home visiting has waned in the past decades as reports of some large randomized trials have failed to demonstrate program effects, evidence from other programs targeted for families at risk (eg, low - income families) has shown enough promise to build on program development momentum.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses has produced consistent effects on clinically significant outcomes in three separate trials with different populations living in different contexts and at different points in U.S. social and economic history.

Finally, a Finnish trial of universal home visiting by nurses35 and two U.S. programs implemented by master's degree - level mental health or developmental clinicians have found significant effects on a number of important child behavioural problems.36, 37 Additionally, a paraprofessional home visitation program found effects on externalizing and internalizing behaviours at child age 2; however due to the large number of effects measured in this study, replication of the findings is warranted.38

2 - armed randomised control trial of a prenatal paediatric home visit for urban low - income families.

Only one trial reported the following outcomes: mean number of antenatal visits, perceptions of control, breastfeeding on discharge and postpartum depression and so results were not included in a meta - analysis.

A randomised control trial conducted in BC [30] found home visits in early labour to be more effective than telephone triage in reducing the number of women attending the hospital for assessment before they are in labour and those attending before 3 cm cervical dilation, although the home visits had no impact on CS rates or birth outcomes.

24 randomised and 2 non-randomised trials of intervention packages, including mainly: building community - support or women's groups (9 studies), community mobilisation and antenatal and postnatal home visitation (7 studies), community mobilisation and home - based neonatal treatment (1 study), training traditional birth attendants who made antenatal and intrapartum home visits (2 studies), home - based neonatal care and treatment (2 studies), and education of mothers and antenatal and postnatal visitation (2 studies)

A randomised trial in Brazil that compared a hospital based protocol (similar to the baby friendly hospital initiative) with another incorporating intensive home visits, however, found that while the protocol achieved high rates of exclusive breast feeding in hospital, the rates fell rapidly thereafter.27 These findings were confirmed in the UK by the millennium cohort study, 5 and the authors recommended that the baby friendly hospital initiative as a strategy for promotion of breast feeding should be reassessed and that other strategies are required to support mothers in the UK to breast feed for the recommended duration.5 27 Although combined antenatal education and postnatal support is ideal, this may be limited by economic or time resources.

The intervention was not aimed at facilitating breastfeeding, rather the trial compared women who were randomized to early hospital discharge with telephone follow - up (with home visits by nurses only for those women who left hospital within 36 h of the birth «to encourage them to leave the hospital early») versus usual care with later discharge from hospital.

While in lawful custody and on trial in Kumasi, another badge of their mates visited mayhem on the court, physically assaulted the judge and freed their colleagues to «break jail».

At Walsh's trial, DeMarco testified that his attempts to investigate the correction officer's misuse of his job to conduct party politics, play golf or visit casinos «were thwarted at every turn by Spota and others.»

While it could indeed be «a potentially epoch - making moment it could be for Gaddafi to stand trial at the International Criminal Court,» Bali and Abu Rish argue that: «The prospect of retirement in a prison cell in the Hague may factor into al - Qaddafi's incentives to make good on his threats to fight to the last of his capacities, visiting untold atrocities on Libyan civilians in the process.

Aides had to rearrange a central New York swing by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2015 on the spot after right - hand man Joe Percoco issued a profanity - laced last minute order to visit the Syracuse developer now accused of bribing him, according to testimony at his corruption trial Tuesday.

Omare of the IYC said, «Ahead of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo's visit to the Niger Delta starting from Oporoza in Gbaramatu Kingdom of Delta State on Monday, January 16, 2017, the Ijaw Youth Council has called on the Federal Government to release all the Niger Delta activists and ex-agitators in detention without trial.

Whereas, in the case of the opposition especially the PDP members, even when the evidence is flimsy they will be visited with multiple harassment and intimidation for months and weeks without proper trial.

Lisa Nandy MP, who visited Ofer on a Caabu delegation in December 2011 and witnessed the trial of a 14 - year - old boy, said:

The United Nations, Amnesty International and numerous legal, religious and human rights organisations have questioned the fairness of their trial and long sentences, and condemned the US government's persistent refusal to grant visas to allow two of their wives to visit.

During wiretapped phone calls played for the jurors Monday in the corruption trial against former Senate majority leader Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, the younger Skelos told lobbyists he was working with during a Dec. 12, 2014 phone call that Zucker had been personally visiting members of the Republican Senate asking if there would be any «blowback» if the state approved fracking.

For instance, clinical trial participants can avoid the inconvenience of visiting research facilities, writing down their daily activities or wearing clunky monitors.

Schlesinger visited him only a week ago with data about an HIV clinical trial of a dendritic cell vaccine, and Steinman was absorbed in what she had to share.

The panel has learnt that the sailor visited North Africa and Gibraltar in the mid-1950s but had left by the «first half» of 1957, before the Central African trial started.

During the trial, all women received the standard protocol — 4 - 6 visits with a nurse or community health worker during pregnancy and 6 - 12 visits up to two years postpartum — and about half of the women also received the DOVE intervention.

«The success of the trial is a tribute to over 1,000 families of children who were screened with an MRI of the brain and the almost 200 families of children who committed to monthly visits for three years.

«After a century of blind faith, this paper provides probably the first direct evidence from a randomized trial that routine antenatal visits for healthy pregnant women do make a difference» finds Prof Justus Hofmeyr from University of the Witwatersrand / Fort Hare.

That January and February saw a desperate course of trial and error as Cody visited a round of doctors and specialists who prescribed a number of different medications, none of which brought Cody closer to his old self.

For more information regarding Bristol - Myers Squibb Clinical Trial participation, please visit www.BMSStudyConnect.com Inclusion Criteria: • Early stage IB - IIIA, operable non-small cell lung cancer, confirmed in tissue • Lung function capacity capable of tolerating the proposed lung surgery • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status of 0 - 1 • Available tissue of primary lung tumor Exclusion Criteria: • Presence of locally advanced, inoperable or metastatic disease • Participants with active, known or suspected autoimmune disease • Prior treatment with any drug that targets T cell co-stimulations pathways (such as checkpoint inhibitors) Other protocol defined inclusion / exclusion criteria could apply

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«The addition of the new infusion facility will greatly increase our capacity to carry out these important clinical trials, as well as improve the comfort of the participants during their study visits,» said Brian Ott, MD, director of the center.

A clinical trial of different treatments for type 2 diabetes offers free office visits, medications and supplies for participants.

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Trial participants were men and women 35 to 65 years of age who had an average systolic blood pressure of 130 - 159 mmHg and / or diastolic blood pressure of 80 - 99 mmHg based on an average of 9 readings (3 observations at each of 3 screening visits).

So far we've visited historical Salem during the witch trial period and the Victorian era, but today we approaching recipes that were popular during the 1700's, specifically during the life of Alexander Hamilton, thanks to the new Hamilton Cookbook by fellow blogger Laura Kumin, who blogs at Mother Would Know.