Sentences with phrase «old patient found»

Sequencing in one 18 - year - old patient found several oncogenes, and her and her family will continue to work with Human Longevity to monitor the cells.

Not exact matches

Of course, at one point it was worth asking how a company founded by a then 19 - year - old could invent a new, less - invasive way of drawing blood from patients.

But the study also suggested that some antidepressants were more effective than others; several older antidepressants were found to be more effectivee than more modern ones, but the modern treatments (such as Prozac) were better tolerated by patients.

The results of another clinical trial published in the journal found that high - dose vitamins and minerals did not protect heart attack patients 50 and older from experiencing additional cardiovascular events, though the research was marred by a high dropout rate.

I watched the game again and found out Arsenal played so brilliantly the level of the performance was of old Arsenal I have no doubt that the Arsenal will win the league providing we remain united and strong and patient the next 38 games will just be the road for success we just need to remain focused on the road we will eventually arrive to our destination enjoy the trip guys

Reviewing twenty years of billing data for the period 1994 to 2013 from an insurance company operating in a large metropolitan area, researchers found the overall incidence of ACL tears among 6 - to 18 - year - old patients increased by 2.3 percent per year.

Liz Kendall, shadow minister for care and older people, responds to the Care Quality Commission's findings that elderly patients are often mistreated in hospitals:

Laurie Quinn's 28 - year - old son, Eric, checked into a Florida facility for in - patient services after failing to find a facility in New York.

In the first study evaluating patient - reported cosmetic outcomes in a population - based cohort of older women with breast cancer, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center researchers found that less radiation was associated with improved cosmetic satisfaction long - term.

The study also found that older people were more likely than younger people to believe it is OK to allow physicians to prescribe life - ending drugs to terminally ill patients who request them, and that the most religious or spiritual people were the least supportive of this idea.

«Our findings provide a rationale to pursue the new use of these «old» antidepressant drugs to benefit late - stage prostate cancer patients with signs and symptoms of metastasis,» said Wu, an assistant professor of pharmacy at WSU Spokane.

The findings, presented at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in a poster session by Cameron W. Swanick, M.D., should serve as an important discussion point between older patients and their physicians when making treatment decisions.

The study found the impact of oral nutritional supplements on length of stay and cost of care were even more impactful and statistically significant when looking at all Medicare patients aged 65 and older with any primary diagnosis:

These findings, which are published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), indicate that efforts to carefully evaluate risk factors prior to surgery need more attention, particularly for older minority patients.

They found significant differences in RNA molecules in the cumulus cells of older patients when compared to RNA expressed in cells of patients younger than 35.

New research presented today at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), found that 70 percent of patients consider sexual activity «relevant» to their life quality, and patients who receive surgical treatment for spinal spondylolisthesis (DS) and spinal stenosis (SS)-- common degenerative conditions most often occurring in older adults — were twice as likely to report no pain during sex.

In a paper published recently in the journal Pediatric Blood & Cancer, he and colleagues document three cases in which fibrolamellar patients, all 18 - year - old women, were found to have developed brain tumors.

Age also was found to significantly impact the risk of pancreatic cancer, with patients older than 70 having almost four times the risk of being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer compared to patients between the ages of 41 and 50.

Researchers found that patients were less likely to undergo surgery if they were older than 50 years, black, unmarried or located in regions outside the East, among other factors.

They found that although newly developed TR after MV repair was rare, the risk could increase in older patients with atrial fibrillation and impaired heart function.

For example, we have found that in superficial BCC on the lower extremities in older patients, PDT should be prescribed rather than imiquimod.

Key findings in this study show that 5 - year survival for older lung cancer surgery patients is favorable; surgeons will be able to better individualize care for older lung cancer patients based on newly and uniquely linked data, and the prevalence of lung cancer is expected to increase as the population continues to age.

This large study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging has been following 566 noncardiac surgical patients over the age of 70 for the past five years with the goal of finding new approaches to prevent delirium and its long - term consequences in older adults.

Published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, the new study found that older patients with delirium had significantly elevated levels of the inflammatory marker interleukin - 6 (IL - 6) two days after surgery and also identified elevated levels of interleukin 2 (IL - 2) in delirious patients.

After one year, researchers found that primary care providers felt that treating pain patients was less of a problem in their practice, particularly among the experimental group, although younger practitioners continued to express more concern about prescription opioid use than older practitioners.

When they sequenced the iPS cell lines, they found higher numbers of mitochondrial DNA mutations, particularly in cells from patients older than 60.

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.

The findings are important because they suggest that treating high blood pressure in older patients should not follow a one - size - fits - all approach.

A new study appearing in the February 4th issue of the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS) found significant benefit from surgical treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis with and without degenerative spondylolisthesis — debilitating spinal conditions causing leg and back pain, numbness and weakness — and no higher overall complication rate and no higher mortality for patients age 80 and older when compared to patients younger than age 80.

Medicare patients 65 years old or older were not found to be at increased risk for ODO.

There was also a benefit found in patients with elevated progesterone levels prior to egg retrieval — and this was evident whether they were younger than 35 (47 % freeze - all vs 38 % fresh) or older than 35 (45 % freeze - all vs 30 % fresh).

Published in the Jan. 12 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, the study found that many older diabetes patients received aggressive treatment for their disease regardless of their health status and blood sugar levels.

The study also found that patients who were 60 years or older at the time of diagnosis were half as likely to begin treatment as patients under the age of 44.

In a study published in the journal CHEST ®, researchers found that asymptomatic PAF patients are more likely to be older, male, and have more comorbidities and a higher risk of stroke than symptomatic patients.

Egg donation, like IVF and ICSI, is considered a safe treatment, despite the older age of patients, but a new study from France has found that the pregnancies of egg donation patients are at a higher risk of disorders — particularly relating to high blood pressure — than the pregnancies of routine IVF patients using their own eggs.

A large 2011 study found that omega - 3 supplements did not improve the brain health of older patients with preexisting heart disease.

«The impact of overweight and obesity on asthma has not been studied in the youngest asthma patients, and this finding is the opposite of what has been seen in older kids and adults who are overweight,» Lang said.

«The team recently published their results in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology and found that the procedure was well tolerated at all ages — even in those patients aged over 80 years old.

The findings, which suggest women may live four times longer with surgical treatment, were especially striking among older patients; researchers found that nearly half of women over 75 with stage III / IV cancer do not have surgery and roughly 25 percent receive no treatment at all.

In the present study the authors found that the negative predictive value of SB100 is 99.6 %, and they «conclude that S100B levels below 0.105 µg / L can accurately predict a normal CCT scan after MHI in older patients and those on antiplatelet medication.»

Their findings show that care for older patients was no better at hospitals that had been operating under pay for performance programs for more than a decade compared with those which had only been under financial incentives for less than three years.

Dr Kristensen continued: «We found an increased risk of hospitalization for heart failure in IBD patients of all ages, not just older patients.

Studying data from between 2007 - 2009, they identified a sample of 238,624 visits by patients 18 and older at those medical facilities and found that 61 percent of antibiotic prescriptions were for broad - spectrum drugs, such as Levaquin ®.

Detailed findings of this study are reported and discussed in «Evaluation of S100B in the diagnosis of suspected intracranial hemorrhage after minor head injury in patients who are receiving platelet aggregation inhibitors and in patients 65 years and older,» by Heinrich Wolfgang Thaler, MD, Jochen Schmidsfeld, MD, and colleagues, published today online, ahead of print, in the Journal of Neurosurgery.

Findings published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, show that older patients and those with chronic liver disease are most likely to be hospitalized for HAV.

The findings showed that in comparison to those with systolic heart failure, diastolic heart failure patients were older, more likely to be overweight, female and have hypertension.

Researchers found OS improves in patients older than 65 years of age and that the drug is well - tolerated.

In a small prospective study of 365 patients, researchers made a surprising finding: While younger patients had better function and range of motion before surgery, it was the older cohort that saw greater improvement from pre-operative levels after surgery.

In a small, single - center clinical trial, Chadwick Miller, M.D., M.S., and colleagues found that evaluating older, more complex patients in the observation unit with stress cardiac MRI, as opposed to usual inpatient care, reduced hospital readmissions, coronary revascularization procedures and the need for additional cardiac testing.

Professor Wardlaw, at the University of Edinburgh, said: «We found that putting all visible factors on the scan together gave better prediction, yet most current computer methods do not consider all factors available on the scan and may not be suitable for older patients.