Sentences with phrase «old medicine by»

His emulation of Valeant's approach brought him under fire for boosting the cost of decades - old medicine by 50-fold and then declaring it was still good value.

Not exact matches

When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

I recalled this decades - old memory when I read an investigation published online yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled, «Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs. Female Physicians.»

The CMA's ruling comes amid a growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic about the ethics of price hikes for old off - patent medicines that are only made by a few firms and where there is little competition.

When old people rolled up on their Hovarounds to test their own blood pressure on the machine that I dominated for three plus hours, I shooed them away by throwing their medicine into the diarrhea aisle and telling them to register any complaints on the Health & Human Services website.

Oh I still take care of them — I nursed each of them though feline fatty liver disease well after I identified with this cartoon, the first with a 11 - 13 month old, the second while dealing with hyperemesis gravidarium and a 18 - 19 month old, this involved well over $ 4,000 in total for vet bills, medicines, and special food, and we are a low single income household, and countless hours of force feeding vile smelling high callorie food (with the first I was force feeding by mouth, this took me upwards of 6 hours a day).

It is sometimes difficult to get a child of that age to take medicine, but I have occasionally had luck teaching even a 3 year old how to swallow a pill by using tiny candy like a «tic - tac» or «mini M&M».

Instead, there is an «adequate intake level» set by the Institute of Medicine at 370 mg of sodium per day for babies 6 - 12 months old.

So your baby only needs my mute amounts of milk, and I encourage new moms or expectant moms to take one of those little syringes that you use for medicine and do five milliliters and squirt that into a bottle that you would pump into and see how much milk your baby actually needs when they're brand, brand new, and then by the time they're 10 days old, it's about the size of a ping - pong ball, and that's an ounce and a half - ish.

A study published Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine found that 20 % of dads suffered depression by the time their child was 12 years old.

According to the American Lung Association, a 2015 report from the National Academy of Medicine found that raising the age of sale for tobacco products to at least 21 years old would reduce smoking by 25 percent among 15 - 17 year - olds and by 15 percent among those 18 - 20 years old.

An expert panel convened by the Institute of Medicine clarified the cognitive aging process by making a distinction from Alzheimer disease and related dementias, and provided recommendations to enhance cognitive health in older adults.

Now a new article published in Annals of Internal Medicine highlights key points of that report and serves as a guide for health care professionals seeking to improve the quality of life of older adults by maintaining brain health.

Cervical cancer rates in the United States are higher than previously believed, particularly among 65 - to 69 - year - old women and African - American women, according to a study led by a researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine published in the journal Cancer.

Most older patients would probably reject the modest potential benefit conferred by these medicines, in favour of taking fewer drugs every day and not having to put up with their possible side - effects, he suggests.

11 Teens who begin drinking before the age of 15 are more likely to develop a dependence on alcohol later in life than those who start when they are older, according to a 2009 study by researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

A simplified frailty index created by surgeons at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Mich., is a reliable tool for assessing risk of mortality and serious complications in older patients considering total hip and knee replacement procedures, according to new study findings presented at the 2014 Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

Obesity and a bigger waist size in older women are associated with a higher risk of death, major chronic disease and mobility disability before the age of 85, according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

Cardiovascular complications and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) were common nonfatal complications in adults 60 years of age and older with diabetes, according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

In addition, the finance industry has identified older adults as an untapped market, which can lead to them being overwhelmed by the «dizzying array of financial products and services,» according to Han and co-author Mark Lachs, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and co-chief of geriatrics and gerontology at Weill Medical College in New York.

Damaged leg muscles grew stronger and showed signs of regeneration in three out of five men whose old injuries were surgically implanted with extracellular matrix (ECM) derived from pig bladder, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

The current influenza (flu) vaccination policy in England and Wales should be expanded to target 5 to 16 - year - olds in order to further reduce the number of deaths from flu, according to a study by UK researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.

Five years ago, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, showed that the UPR is an adaptive response to stress induced by sleep deprivation and is impaired in the brains of old mice.

Compared to conventional medicine, CAM so far lacks the support of an «old boys» network» that could help make it more accepted by the universities.

«We see early aging in the group from the Chernobyl disaster — if we see a man from that group who is, say, 50, the medical examination might suggest he is 10 or 15 years older compared with a member of the population of Ukraine not influenced by the disaster,» says Anver Gasanov, deputy chief medical officer at the Research Center for Radiation Medicine.

A new study could add to the argument over equal pay in the ranks of medicine: Older patients treated by female doctors tend to do better than those treated by males.

The new compound, devised by chemists at Eli Lilly and Co., hit a target in the brain that older medicines had ignored.

Regardless of whether an adult is young or old, male or female, their recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for protein, set by the Institute of Medicine, is the same: 0.8 - g / kg / day.

In a study published in the current online issue of JAMA Psychiatry, an international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, report finding a highly accurate blood - based measure that could lead to development of a clinical test for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) risk in males as young as one to two years old.

«Interactions between drugs, and other substances, can put older people at a real risk of everything from low blood sugar to kidney damage and accidents caused by sleepiness,» says Preeti Malani, M.D., the director of the poll and a professor of internal medicine at the U-M Medical School.

In the neurosurgery ward of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Danny, a stocky 21 - year - old college student wearing blue pajamas and sporting a wispy goatee, sits on a bed watching one photo after another flash by on a laptop screen.

In today's issue of Science Translational Medicine, he and his colleagues present a more efficient way of finding such new uses for old drugs: by bringing together data on how diseases and drugs affect the activity of the roughly 30,000 genes in a human cell.

They reasoned that if there's no upper limit on lifespan, then the biggest increase in survival should be experienced by ever - older age groups as the years pass and medicine improves.

Writing in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, a research team, led by senior author William S. Kremen, PhD, professor of psychiatry and co-director of the Center for Behavior Genetics of Aging at UC San Diego School of Medicine, found that major adverse events in life, such as divorce, separation, miscarriage or death of a family member or friend, can measurably accelerate aging in the brains of older men, even when controlling for such factors as cardiovascular risk, alcohol consumption, ethnicity and socioeconomic status, which are all associated with aging risk.

Family history of breast cancer continues to significantly increase chances of developing invasive breast tumors in women ages 65 and older, according to research published by a team led by Dejana Braithwaite, PhD, associate professor of oncology at Georgetown University School of Medicine and a member of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Among older patients with diabetes whose treatment has resulted in very low hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels or blood pressure values, only 27 percent or fewer underwent medication deintensification, a lost opportunity to reduce overtreatment, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

This is achieved by neurons in a very old part of the brain, the brainstem, according to a study by Carmen Birchmeier's lab at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC).

A 67 - year - old man undergoes the region's first pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE), an intricate life - saving procedure for removing blood clots from the lungs, pioneered by Dr. Kenneth Moser, professor of medicine and director of critical care medicine.

Included among the numerous recipients of Mr. Sanford's gifts, that total more than one billion dollars, are: the Edith Sanford Foundation for Breast Cancer that was created in 2012 by a gift of $ 100 million in honor of Mr. Sanford's mother who died of breast cancer when he was four years old; the Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health System, which renamed itself Sanford Health in 2007, in recognition of a $ 400 million gift; a $ 125 million gift in 2014 to establish Sanford Imagenetics, a program that will integrate genomic medicine into primary care for adults; the University of California San Diego which received a $ 100 million gift for the creation of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center in 2013 to accelerate the translation of stem cell research discoveries by advancing clinical trials and patient therapies; the Burnham Institute for Medical Research that received a $ 50 million gift in 2010, and recognized its appreciation for both this and a 2008 gift of $ 20 million to the Sanford Center for Childhood Disease research at Burnham by then changing its name to Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute; a $ 70 million gift to establish a particle physics laboratory named the Sanford Underground Research Facility; and the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine which received a gift of $ 30 million in 2008 and expressed its gratitude by renaming itself the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Mmedicine into primary care for adults; the University of California San Diego which received a $ 100 million gift for the creation of the Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center in 2013 to accelerate the translation of stem cell research discoveries by advancing clinical trials and patient therapies; the Burnham Institute for Medical Research that received a $ 50 million gift in 2010, and recognized its appreciation for both this and a 2008 gift of $ 20 million to the Sanford Center for Childhood Disease research at Burnham by then changing its name to Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute; a $ 70 million gift to establish a particle physics laboratory named the Sanford Underground Research Facility; and the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine which received a gift of $ 30 million in 2008 and expressed its gratitude by renaming itself the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative MMedicine which received a gift of $ 30 million in 2008 and expressed its gratitude by renaming itself the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative MedicineMedicine.

In a study by the Institute of Medicine, the authors said [pdf] that young people between 15 and 17 years old still have developing brains and are very vulnerable.

* «A chronic low dose of ∆ 9 - tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) restores cognitive function in old mice» by Bilkei - Gorzo et al. will be published in Nature Medicine on Monday 8th May.

BIIB054 was originally developed by biotech company Neurimmune, using a platform they call Reverse Translational Medicine (RTM ®), which derives therapeutic antibody candidates from libraries of de-identified B - cells isolated from ostensibly healthy older adults (those free of specific neurological diseases of aging).

«Something — or some things — in the blood of young mice has the ability to restore mental capabilities in old mice, a new study by Stanford University School of Medicine investigators has found.

Older adults who met twice - weekly strength training guidelines had lower odds of dying in a new analysis by researchers at Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Columbia University.

The poll was conducted by the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, and is sponsored by AARP and Michigan Medicine, U-M's academic medical center.Those who turn to medications may not realize that prescription, over-the-counter and even «natural» sleep aids carry health risks, especially for older adults, either alone or in combination with other substances.

Hakan Tarakci, a 23 - year - old graduate student at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, was attracted by the opportunity to learn about a variety of research animal models.

It may stave off dementia Among patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (age 60 and older), those with lower physical fitness levels (measured by cardiovascular tests on a treadmill) had four times more brain shrinkage when compared to normal adults than those who were more physically fit, according to a recent study from the University of Kansas School of Medicine.

A healthy 30 - year - old has only about a 20 % chance each month to get pregnant naturally; by age 40, that drops to about 5 %, according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

There's a bit of traditional, herbal medicine, practiced mostly by the older generation.