Sentences with phrase «on small numbers of patients»

It was based on small numbers of patients — including just seven treated with PSR.

Not exact matches

The disease is generally pretty mild — on par with flu — but health workers have recently found that a small number of patients seem to go on to develop an autoimmune disorder that can cause nerve damage and paralysis called Guillain — Barré syndrome.

The small number of patients and the lack of controls means that the study is not definitive, but it casts significant doubt on the effectiveness of the hormone in children who make normal levels of growth hormone, he says.

Researchers have found that just five strains are overwhelmingly the culprits in more than 3000 samples of resistant S. aureus collected from patients around the world; the small number suggests that relatively few strains can easily develop resistance to antibiotics, allowing scientists to focus on these few and determine what makes them so virulent.

«We look for activity of our molecules in phase 2, and on numerous occasions we generate statistically significant data with relatively small numbers of patients, which gives us reasonable confidence that the program will be successful in phase 3 with a larger group of patients.

By combining two or more of these outcomes to create a single category, you can say it helped «A and B» even if it only helped A and not B. For example, although there was no statistically significant effect from tPA in the NINDS trial on the number of patients who died, there was a small decrease in disability for those who survived.

This method will be useful when the death risk of a novel infectious disease has to be quantified using data from small numbers of patients during the course of an outbreak, providing information on which age groups to minimize exposure in hospitals, nursing homes and daycare facilities.

There are a small number of unscrupulous actors who have seized on the clinical promise of regenerative medicine, while exploiting the uncertainty, in order to make deceptive, and sometimes corrupt, assurances to patients based on unproven and, in some cases, dangerously dubious products.

For example, pneumonitis, which a small number of patients on checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy may experience, can cause some of the same symptoms as a bacterial respiratory infection, but should be treated with steroids instead of antibiotics.

However, subsequent studies carried out on small numbers (20 — 30) of CFS patients, failed to confirm evidence for HTLV (type 1 or 11)[22]--[25] or other retroviruses, including the closely - related simian T lymphotropic virus type l, the prototype foamy virus, simian retrovirus, bovine and feline leukaemia viruses [26] and HIV - 1 [23].

The biggest reality check of all, however, is that the number of cancers immunotherapy has been proven effective for is still relatively small (though growing)-- and it doesn't work on every patient.

Furthermore, there is also little question that the vast majority of conversations, seminars and published papers on the subject have addressed gut microflora purely in terms of its role in GI health, particularly in reference to the ever increasing number of patients who present with issues such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), and inflammatory bowel disease.

This is most critical if they see only a few, as it is difficult for a veterinarian to stay current on exotic animal medicine if they only treat a small number of these patients.

Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques which are flawed by design, in such a way that they exaggerate the benefits of treatments.