Sentences with phrase «older patients whose»

This is still done for older patients whose lenses are compact.

One famous example involves a 4 - year - old patient whose leukemia temporarily abated after he came down with chicken pox.

Not exact matches

«As a field, we are starting to grapple with premature aging in the HIV - infected population, even in patients who are on therapy — their immune systems largely look like someone whose immune system is many years older,» Hunt notes.

A 48 - year - old physician whose career has centred on treating seriously ill patients, Burgh was diagnosed with cancer in December 2006.

Low saliva production also is a devastating problem for thousands of patients who have had radiation treatment for head and neck cancer, as well as about 50 percent of older Americans whose medications can cause dry mouth, also known as xerostomia.

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.

According to Dr. McCoy, «This means that 3 out of 100 older or clinically complex patients with diabetes who never had hypoglycemia before, whose HbA1C is within recommended targets, and who are not on insulin, will experience a severe hypoglycemic episode at some point over two years.»

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

The authors compared the rate of heart attack or stroke in older patients, aged 60 and over, whose partner died to that of individuals whose partners were still alive during the same period.

Among patients whose cancer had spread to distant organs, 21 percent of younger patients survived beyond five years, compared to 14 percent of older patients.

Highlighting the eye - catching results of several patients — including those of 6 - year - old Emily Whitehead — whose lives have been spared by experimental immunotherapies, the editors cited an emerging belief among oncologists that «a corner has been turned and we won't be going back.»

Consider 23 - year - old Nicole, a patient whose journey is chronicled in my new book, Radiant Again & Forever.

Today, however, there are many other individuals (men and women, young and old, children, and patients with a stable chronic disease) whose main focus is on using weight training to improve or maintain strength.

We kick of the list with dear old Matt, whose southern drawl and familiar roles on the big screen tug on heartstrings in this biographical drama based on the life of AIDS patient Ron Woodroof.

One of Rudd's biggest fans there was 12 - year - old Reese Davis, a former Children's Mercy patient whose wheelchair was decked out as an Ant - Man costume.

DO N'T SAY A WORD (Grade: C --RRB-: In this highly improbable and by - the - numbers thriller, Michael Douglas plays a New York psychiatrist whose 8 - year - old daughter is snatched on Thanksgiving Day by a trio of ex-cons with the demand that he help them get information from the psyche of an institutionalized mental patient (Brittany Murphy).

Many veterinarians are now seeing patients — young and old — whose most severe medical problem is dental disease.

However Petteri is one of the very few dogs whose ongoing existance is thankfully sponsored by one of our returning multiday clients and Hamppu is just waiting for his forever home since one of our old guides has offered to take him when she has settled down (it has just taken four years of waiting so far, but we are patient and hopeful and so is Hamppu!).

The vast majority of patients (whose age was recorded) at the time of osteosarcoma diagnosis were > 4 years old, with almost 2/3 over 7 years.

Thanks to improved nutrition, living indoors, and advances in veterinary medicine, cats live longer and are now considered older at 12 to 14 years, says Richard Goldstein, DVM, assistant professor in small animal medicine at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, whose oldest feline patient reached a healthy 22 years old.

Patient 26: In September, 2012 a 12 - month old baby whose mother was awaiting her refugee hearing was suffering from a fever and had not been eating properly for a month.

The court was hearing a petition filed by one Vishal Ahuja, whose 53 - year - old mother, a cancer patient, was refused cashless treatment in the Dharamshila Cancer Hospital and other medical centres.

Among older patients, whose prevalence rate of depression is very high, these problems were aggravated by concurrent medical illness, social isolation, functional impairment or being home - bound.14 — 20 Overcoming these barriers by providing interventions in patients» own homes may achieve better treatment adherence and thereby greater treatment success than clinic - based or hospital - based interventions.

I also have a patient 13 year old boy whose room needs a make over, so that's where I would start.