Sentences with phrase «particular patient»

This is a feature motion picture that consists of three tales based on particular patients of a mental institution.

The researchers wanted to determine if particular patient characteristics were associated with a better response to therapy.

Just the same as medicine, treating particular patients is not always in the best interest of both the patient and therapist.

Future research will refine what type of psychosocial intervention is most beneficial for particular patients at particular stages of their illness, and determine ways to address cognitive deficits and comorbid disorders.

«While care must be taken in extrapolating preclinical findings to the care of particular patients, we believe that these and other data do support a more comprehensive and perhaps holistic approach to caring for patients with diabetes and / or obesity,» he adds.

CCA said the product had been specifically developed for the healthcare market, in particular patients with swallowing difficulties.

In other words, doctors drew general conclusions from experience to forecast the course of disease in particular patients.

Assigned nurses to particular patients based on patient needs and special talents of the nursing staff.

It is before the dawn of what, today, we call personalized medicine — genotyping particular patients to determine their response to a drug.

Importantly, these devices also will open up new approaches to drug development not possible with animal models today, such as personalized medicines and development of therapeutics for specific genetic subpopulations using chips created using cells from particular patients.»

Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School and other scientists tested the effect of having three Christian groups pray for particular patients, starting the night before surgery and continuing for two weeks.

«We need a range of models to learn about the connections among genes, molecules, cells, synapses and circuits in normal and abnormal cognition and behavior, and to help us understand the risks of particular patients,» says the Broad Institute's Steven Hyman.

Some psychologists use one approach with all patients; others are eclectic, and some tailor their approach based on particular patients» needs, symptoms and personality.

«As we move toward personalized medicine, there's a lot of interest in knowing whether drugs can target mutated genes in particular patients or in certain diseases, like breast or lung cancer.

Nurses don't want to receive an alert every time a patient reclines below 45 degrees — but they definitely want one if that particular patient also has a feeding tube, because then they're facing a potential choking hazard.

In 2013 the couple began work on Janus Choice, which gathers information from multiple sources and combines it with artificial intelligence to find the best facility for a particular patient.

I am not Kerry Egan; I have not been in the dying rooms with these specific patients in order to know what these particular patients talked about before death.

It was only when he was describing his work with particular patients that his communication style was dynamic and moving.

Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School tested the effect of having three Christian groups pray for particular patients, starting the night before surgery and continuing for two weeks.

It's also unclear how long insurance companies will cover a particular patient.

In October Anil Potti of Duke University reported that new tests can dramatically improve the odds of choosing the right drugs for a particular patient's cancer.

Based on how the genes fit within the original, mapped profile, they can predict with a high accuracy if a particular patient will develop metastatic tumors.

But instead of doctors applying their own personal clinical experience, they rely on generalizing the results of large trials to their particular patients.

But even if that generalization is fair, applying trial results to treating a particular patient may still be unjustified.

Japanese scientists have found unique genetic alterations that could indicate whether expensive immune checkpoint inhibitors would be effective for a particular patient.

The discovery paves the way for a more personalized approach to treatment in rheumatoid arthritis based on the biology of a particular patient's disease.

However, there is no way to predict which drug would be best for that particular patient at that time.

Also, standard drug screening methods don't adequately re-create the environment surrounding cancer cells growing in a particular patient's body, making those methods less reliable at predicting effective drug therapies.

The screening method suggests which commonly prescribed multiple myeloma drug, or combination of drugs, a physician should consider first for a particular patient.

«A goal of our predictive model is to pinpoint specific regions in the red blood cell that might increase susceptibility to this side effect and predict what will potentially happen to any particular patient on this drug over time,» said Bordbar.

The proof of concept study is aimed at determining how different individuals will respond to a drug treatment and could help assess whether a drug is suitable for a particular patient based on measurements taken from the patient's blood.

«For now, a tailored application of available data to the constellation of comorbidities and healthcare priorities of a particular patient remains the best approach for individualized hypertension management among older adults with CKD.»

You could then use that model to identify the region to be removed, to produce the best results for that particular patient.

Nearby, a young technician in a white lab coat watches a computer screen for one particular patient's signs of mutation.

A nomogram is a graphic depiction of models that can be utilized to estimate the numeric probability of death, disease progression, or other events for a particular patient.

«Lithium has been used to treat bipolar disorder for generations, but up until now our lack of knowledge about why the therapy does or does not work for a particular patient led to unnecessary dosing and delayed finding an effective treatment.

Macchiarini's entire claim to scientific fame is based on data from the surgery of this particular patient.

Key features of this innovative technology are that it (1) learns more and more about the stability of the patient's glaucoma with every measurement of eye pressure or visual field, (2) can be personalized to identify the optimal frequency of testing for each individual patient, and (3) would suggest an eye pressure level specific for that particular patient that the care provider would use in the process of recommending treatment.

The researchers looked at several factors that might explain this racial difference, such as whether there were differences in tumor characteristics between black patients and white patients, or differences in a family history of breast cancer — both factors that a doctor must consider before deciding whether a genetic test will likely benefit a particular patient.

Cell biology and tissue engineering scientists are moving ever closer to personalised, patient - specific cancer therapy by using 3D printed hydrogels to model individual patients» tumours to test for the most effective drug for that particular patient.

This will help doctors tailor treatments that are most likely to work for a particular patient and spare them from unnecessary toxicities of treatments that are unlikely to work for their cancer,» he says.

The information is not considered medical advice and is not a specific recommendation for any particular patient.

The side effects of chemotherapy vary depending on the medicine and particular patient.

A better understanding of how the immune system works to fight cancer and a detailed characterisation of the different immune cells that infiltrate a particular patient's tumour, would enable more efficient treatments.

One particular patient, a man in his mid-50s, had all of the above.

There are some other medications available that are prescription - only, but in general they are all going to do the same type of thing for every patient, although one might work better for one particular patient than for another.

Thus, a result that appears to be within normal range may not necessarily reflect what is normal for that particular patient.

There are many mechanisms to gain weight and leptin resistance is just one of them, so we use a multisystem approach; there is no one magic bullet, although any one treatment can have a dramatic effect on a particular patient.