Sentences with phrase «only were patients»

Not only were patients losing more weight, but their metabolic profiles were improved compared to the low fat diets of years past.
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I think the fans can only be patient and wait for these enemies to leave out so shame or monetary reasons.
I have been using the Sitting Solution for a few months now and I'm happy to say the best part about it is not only are my patients pain free, they actually said their overall posture and health has been improved.
But as a puppy, he made mistakes and had accidents in the house, and I had to learn to not only be patient with him, but do my part as his owner, friend, and provider to help train him as quickly and effectively as possible so we could both move on with our happy, potty - trained lives.
Not only are patients turning to providers as customers, but because they genuinely need help.

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The consultants estimate that the use of such surgical technology, which includes machine learning and other forms of AI, will result not only in better outcomes but also in a 21 percent reduction in the length of patient hospital stays.
Right now, our healthcare model is set up so that insurance will only cover a test (and therefore a physician will only order a test) when a patient becomes symptomatic for a given condition.
Lingzi's roommate and friends waited for hours at the hospital, only to learn, as Krystle Campbell's parents had, that the patient being treated was not Lingzi.
Under Health Canada's rules, patients are only able to buy medical marijuana from licensed producers and are no longer permitted to grow their own, something they were allowed to do prior to 2013.
Only Canada and three other OECD countries have no patient cost - sharing, where at least a nominal fee is charged to patients to minimize frivolous visits.
The slice of patients above the age of 60 consumes about 85 % of the drugs and devices and diagnostics out there,» says Justin Stephenson, senior life sciences analyst at Vancouver - based independent investment dealer Haywood Securities Inc. «That is only going to get significantly bigger in the western world, which is the main market for Canadian health - care products in the next five to 10 years.
He need only talk to me for five minutes to realize I wasn't an introvert and certainly was not a patient soul.
It is only through being patient that we can truly learn from the curveballs which get thrown in our path.
Developing a culture of engagement can be realized only through a patient devotion to what you are trying to achieve.
In a statement to ABC News, Endo Pharmaceuticals said that it had only been able to confirm one defected birth control pack that was sold to a patient.
This is only a possibility when we are patient with our progress, no matter how fast or slow it goes.
The only way it's going to bring down the cost is if it lets providers make better decisions about the care and either improves patient health or keeps them out of the system.
He also points to the «outcomes - based» pricing model that the company will be instituting alongside the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)-- Novartis will only receive reimbursements for Kymriah if patients respond to it after the first month of treatment.
The idea originally required hardware fobs or trackers that children or patients would carry on their persons, but in the case of kids it's now being morphed into a software - only function that can be downloaded onto iPods and iPhones.
As a result, phage therapy is now used only for the sickest patients, as a treatment of last resort.
«The parts of medical care to do more with interacting with the patients, making them comfortable, and communicating clearly with them are going to turn out to be the things that only humans can do well.
In 2008, only three percent of physicians were effectively emailing with patients.
«Ideally, I would have battery of noninvasive tests that look at the brain,» she said, «And I could tailor treatments exactly to what I saw, and then monitor the outcomes to see not only if my patients are feeling better but if the circuit is performing better.»
AMA leaders decided that rather than allowing doctors to insure patients, only insurance companies would be permitted to offer medical coverage.
«In India, there are programs that send doctors into villages and slums, but there are a lot of patients and only so many ophthalmologists.»
The days when patients are greeted at a doctor's office by only a clipboard should be long gone.
Patient advocates, generic drug makers, and even some biotech investors promptly rebuked Allergan after the arrangement was announced Friday, arguing that the IP gymnastics will only worsen biopharma's miserable reputation on drug pricing issues.
Silicon Valley isn't the only one who sees value in bringing care to the patient.
This is reflected not only in the emergence of consumer - directed health insurance benefits, which are designed to give consumers more «skin in the game,» but also in an array of direct - to - consumer outreach efforts, many of which aid patients in navigating the health care system and managing their own health and wellness.
The biggest one to date for a biosimilar product in the U.S. — the treatments have only been around for a handful of years in America despite widespread and long - standing availability in Europe and other regions — Renflexis may ultimately not do much to curb health care and patient spending, as the Wall Street Journal «s Charley Grant points out in an astute note.
This is certainly not to minimize her pain, but only to point out that many other patients will be in very different circumstances.
Physicians don't want to be limited to helping patients only from the confines of the exam room.
That is the critically important message of Topol's masterfully argued 2015 manifesto, The Patient Will See You Now — which, I'm ashamed to say, I only began reading (and finished) yesterday.
Even if the book you write is read only by your prospective clients, patients or customers, a book can make you famous right where you live.
«Further testing is required before Song's device could be approved as a treatment for dementia or Alzheimer's, but if it is able to help those patients regain even part of their lost memory function, the impact would be felt not only by the patients themselves, but their families and even the economy at large,» says Science Alert, which notes that Alzheimer's was responsible for a whopping $ 236 billion in healthcare costs last year.
Pathologists review dozens of slides to determine whether a patient has cancer, with only a few of these slides being relevant to the diagnosis.
«Liquid biopsies are far less invasive than traditional biopsies, a development that not only benefits our patients through a simplified diagnostic procedure but also by significantly enhanced analysis of samples taken,» said Dr. Stanley Hamilton, professor of Pathology and division head of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at MD Anderson, in a statement.
The differing circumstances only complicated the picture, but the effects of the phenomenon became clearer: The first patients examined in the US were all found to have concrete medical symptoms, and in the case of the younger man, they were fairly serious.
Shane Jackson, president and COO of LocumTenens.com, which conducted the survey, said the results are potential red flags for not only the finances of those physicians» offices, but also for their patients, who «rely on their doctor for a lot of information.»
That's one reason researchers think the microbiome might be a crucial part of not only obesity and diabetes, but also some of society's most pervasive mental health problems — the very illnesses that, too often, leave doctors stuck and patients frustrated.
Be patient and choose only the investors who have the experience, resources and willingness to help in future rounds of fundraising.
«Patients aren't the only ones whose lives will be improved by precision medicine,» writes Black.
But still only a fraction of cancer patients at the advanced state Belvin was at, and given the drug Belvin got, experience the kind of medical «comeback» she did.
Belbua incorporates BDSI's BioErodible MucoAdhesive (BEMA) drug delivery technology and is the only long - acting opioid that uses novel buccal film technology to deliver buprenorphine for appropriate patients living with chronic pain.
PROMs are questionnaires that patients complete that assess how health services and interventions have, over time, affected their quality of life, daily functioning, symptom severity, and other dimensions of health, which only patients can know.
But the company claimed it is committed to patient access, adding that about 9,000 DMD patients could benefit from the drug and «only a small fraction of these patients have been able to access Emflaza,» Chief Financial Officer Shane William Charles Kovacs said.
«AHS has reached a critical point where the only viable option for sustaining linen services that are core to patient care is to work with our existing linen contract provider and transition AHS facilities to them as effectively as possible,» says a briefing note from June last year.
The only entities with any negotiating power are the pharmacies and medical institutions that fulfill the medical patients» prescriptions.
Volatility only concerns us when we must sell, otherwise it's a source of opportunity for patient investors.
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