Sentences with phrase «on affected patients»

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They apply different techniques that affect the senses to improve the mental state of their patients on a daily basis.

Sanofi, a diabetes specialist which is now facing increased competition from rivals, has been on a mission to boost its treatment pipeline with new products for diseases that affect a wide swath of patients.

«Although I was previously aware of the many social circumstances affecting my patients» access to care and the circumstances contributing to their overall health,» writes Jessica K. Willett, a California physician, «I'm now able to relate to it on a more personal level.

«We're not going to ration or restrict this drug in any way that would negatively impact these patients,» Khot says, adding that he hopes to do more research on how the decreased use of both drugs has affected patients.

Juno asserted that the clinical hold on the ROCKET trial did not affect plans for its other CD19 - directed CAR T - cell product candidates, including JCAR017, for which the company has launched two clinical trials now recruiting patients.

Researchers are focusing on the patients» eyes, because they say they will be most affected by mold and allergens.

According to the ethics report, physicians objecting to abortion or contraception must refer patients desiring such services to other providers (recommendation # 4); may not argue or advocate their views on these matters though they are required to provide prior notice to their patients of their moral commitments (recommendation # 3); and, in emergency cases or in situations that might negatively affect patient physical or mental health, they must actually provide contraception and / or perform abortions (recommendation # 5, emphasis added).

A religious organization (John Templeton) funded this study to show that praying would have a positive affect on heart patients.

After testing the blend's affects on the patients as well as family and friends, Siegert moved on to the seamen at the ports who complained of seasickness when docking on the banks of the Orinoco River.

«Also, in patients with small or short nipples who get large implants, the nipple projection can be affected and there may not be enough tension on the breast, preventing the baby from being able to properly latch on.»

As a self - help group who have been affected by MRSA, we also help with Government funded research to find ways of combating antimicrobial resistance, giving the patient perspective on what matters.

MRSA Action UK is a patient advocacy charity who have been affected by MRSA and work with professionals in Infection Prevention and Control to develop information on MRSA and other healthcare associated infections.

As a self - help group who have been affected by MRSA, we also help with government funded research to find ways of combating antimicrobial resistance, giving the patient perspective on what matters.

The chairman, however, called on the affected poultry farmers in the state to be patient, as modalities were on ground to ensure that they get compensations.

«If lithium's effect on the cerebellum is the key to its effectiveness as a mood stabilizer, then a more targeted treatment that causes the same change in the cerebellum without affecting other systems might be a better treatment for patients with bipolar disorder,» Wemmie says.

«Treating psoriasis patients with IL - 17 blockers — some already on the market — could have a beneficial effect on the loss of bone tissue, unlike other compounds that might only affect skin inflammation,» says Uluçkan.

«Dependence on others and geriatric illnesses, such as cognitive impairment and mobility problems, affect the majority of older emergency patients across a wide range of nations with different health systems and cultural contexts.

Prices for some generic drugs have increased in recent years, adversely affecting patients who rely on them.

In the U.S., one in five Medicare patients is readmitted to a hospital each year at an estimated cost of $ 17.5 billion annually.i To reduce this impact, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has introduced hospital penalties based on readmissions conditions that commonly affect patients aged 65 and older — including acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure and pneumonia.i

Yet in the United States, where 25 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized medical marijuana, there are no state - wide efforts to collect data on how patients are using cannabis or on whether they have been affected for good or ill, in part because marijuana is still illegal at the federal level.

The research is also the first to demonstrate beneficial effects of UDCA on dopaminergic neurons, the nerve cells affected in Parkinson's disease, in a fly model of Parkinson's disease which carries the same genetic change as some patients with the condition.

Feinberg focused on a region on chromosome 11, because a handful of affected patients had abnormalities there, such as DNA that was repeated or deleted.

Currently, clinical trials are under way to test the effectiveness of mechanically pumping large amounts of these proteins into the affected area of patients» brains on a continuing basis.

When it comes to treating acne, much has advanced medical practice, but patients are still prescribed patience as part of any treatment regimen, according to a nationally recognized expert on the skin condition that affects millions of teenagers in the U.S. each year.

George Daley of Harvard Medical School said on December 1 that he and his team have seen multiple patients affected by NEMO deficiency syndrome, a disorder where an inherited faulty gene results in a weak immune system and leaves patients prone to serious infections.

The infection also can affect those with severe influenza or who are on long - term steroids, or patients in the intensive care unit.

This analysis, done on separate samples from the same patient, revealed that many of the affected genes confer advantages to cancer cells by, for example, enhancing cell migration or resistance to chemotherapy.

By contrast, on average, patients with PD showed a twofold greater preference for their less affected arm, sometimes skewing their effort by as much as 70 percent toward the less affected arm.

To shed light on how co-infection may affect evolution, Sentandreu sequences parts of the genome of both viruses and analyses genetic variability and adaptive evolution in co-infected patients.

Importantly, they observed that the stimulation produced an average improvement of 25 percent in the motor symptoms of the patients, as quantified via the motor component of the Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS), particularly improving rigidity on the affected side.

«Studies have shown that more than 50 % of patients with perennial allergic rhinitis are sensitised to pollen allergens, and the number of people affected by pollen allergy is on the increase worldwide.

The ability of affected nations to isolate patients will also depend on equipment being available.

«Our focus on sleep is part of a larger collaborative initiative to identify previously overlooked but nonetheless treatable conditions that could be affecting patients with MS. Identifying and successfully treating conditions like OSA could help us find new ways to improve the cognitive function in MS.»

These cells were not affected in patients with SLE, dermatomyositis, or other type I interferonopathies, however, suggesting that the source of interferon - can vary depending on the autoimmune disease.

When the late Robert Sperry was a neuroscientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, he experimented on patients with epilepsy, and noticed that breaking the link between brain hemispheres affected the ability to perform certain tasks.

«Our study confirms some of our thoughts on how drug prices affect doctors and patients behaviors,» said lead author Tracy Wang, M.D., associate professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine and member of DRCI.

«The original study only focused on how blood sugar control affected complications in the hospital, so we were interested in following those same patients over time to see if blood sugar control had any impact after discharge from the hospital.»

Patients affected by Parkinson's disease often show marked changes in body weight: they may gain or lose a lot of weight depending on the stage of the disease, or they may put on up to ten kilos after deep brain stimulation (a treatment to alleviate the symptoms).

The research team is doing further investigations various aspects of gait and how diabetes and DPN affects how these patients walk on level ground and on stairs, to identify and further understand factors that may contribute to unsteadiness and in turn the increased risk of falls.

Although this human Gut Chip recreated the villus epithelium of normal intestine and enabled new insights into how flow and cyclic peristalsis affects intestinal differentiation and function, it could not be used to study processes that relied on normal intestinal cells from individual donors, which, for example, is crucial for studying patient - specific responses for personalized medicine.

Dr Heinke Kunst, on behalf of the TB research group at QMUL, said: «The results from our study are very encouraging and may give hope to patients who are affected by MDR - TB.

Now Cecilia Lai, Simon Fisher and colleagues, reporting in todays Nature, show that a gene on chromosome 7, which they call FOXP2, is mutated in the affected members of the KE family, as well as in an unrelated patient with a similar language deficit.

«But our study found that many patients, for example the elderly or those on medications that affect heart rate or the immune system, may not meet the classic criteria to diagnose sepsis, despite having severe infections and organ failure.

And slight changes to the pre-testing probability of any given condition — based on the patient's history and symptoms — can affect the patient's recommended course and potential costs greatly.

Stroke patients generally show muscle weakness of limbs and trunk on the affected side.

A study led by scientists from Harvard Medical School reveals «hidden» variability in how tumor cells are affected by anticancer drugs, offering new insights on why patients with the same form of cancer can have different responses to a drug.

«The question reveals a tension between the goals of health - behavior promotion and informed patient decision - making that has plagued researchers in several health domains, most notably with regard to women's often overly pessimistic perceptions of their breast cancer risk,» Sweeny and Dillard wrote in «The Effects of Expectation Disconfirmation on Appraisal, Affect, and Behavioral Intentions,» published this month in the online edition of Risk Analysis: An International Journal.

Mr. Dong Pyou Han, an Iowa State University researcher on HIV was found committing fraud and has been convicted by court and jailed to serve time for over 5 years, Mr. Anil Potti seems to have done even greater fraud and have affected the lives of cancer patients serves no time and yet practice the same field.

The direction of motion depends on which side of the patient's body is affected.

The study is «very, very encouraging,» says Clement Ip, a cancer researcher at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, but he and others say more studies are needed to determine how selenium acts on tumors and how it affects a broader spectrum of patients.