Sentences with phrase «patient gets the treatment»

In honor of Momma T, Wesley Mason and his uncle started a foundation called Thompson - Mason Brain Cancer Foundation dedicated to helping low - income brain cancer patients get the treatment they deserve.

Instead of sitting on a couch in an office, patients get treatment on their smartphones or computers.

Not exact matches

If you have an EMT license, other medical credentials, or are willing to get them, you could start a business that contracts with hospitals to drive admitted patients to other medical facilities for specialized treatment; this would also require some specialty equipment like oxygen delivery and perhaps a vehicle that can transport a patient in a wheelchair.

In a 564 - person trial, patients whose ovarian cancer recurred (and who had already started treatment with chemotherapy) given Rubraca, part of a new class of cancer drugs called «PARP» inhibitors, lived, on median, for double the amount of time without their disease getting even worse compared with those given a placebo.

«My family was shocked by how many cancer patients had difficulty getting to their chemotherapy treatments.»

They're actively discouraging patients with minor ailments from seeking emergency treatment, and trying to get them to see their regular doctors instead.

But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

The same outside adviser, who was unidentified in Tuesday's release, advised that a package of assistance programs to patients would: «force reporters to focus on the byzantine nature of drug pricing and health care and ensure the patient message gets out... specifically tie profits from Daraprim to the research and development of a new and more effective treatment for Daraprim patients.

Under Obamacare, the preferred model is value based — that is, hospitals get paid not to treat patients but to keep them healthy and avoid treatment.

When Jedd Wolchok, a cancer doctor and immunologist leading a Yervoy trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering, examined a melanoma patient's scan 12 weeks after he'd received his course of treatment, the results were utterly disappointing — just like those of any other metastatic patient in the final throes of the disease: The tumors had gotten bigger, and there were more of them.

Sometimes you get treatment pretty fast; sometimes the waiting room is full of other injured patients.

In the case of Kymriah, the company will get reimbursements only if patients respond to treatment within a month.

Urgent care centers — a $ 17 billion industry — usually let patients see doctors within an hour to get a necessary prescription or treatment for non-life threatening medical issues.

With help from DaVita's patient - centered care team, Earl was able to continue to bring his music to thousands of people while getting the lifesaving treatment he needed.

In sum, in the argument that a PVS patient ought to be sustained as long as possible I see the unhappy fruits of the three technological seductions I described above: death by «starvation» has now become our fault, not nature's, if we omit treatment; the distinction between omission and commission is erased in the insistence that the stopping of artificial feeding is the same as killing the patient and, as too often happens, a new technology gets legitimated and routinized by an invocation of the sanctity of life.

I think a common question that patients have for me if I'm telling them I'm going to recommend a fertility treatment to get them to ovulate more eggs is, well, if you're going to ovulate more of my eggs, won't that deplete my supply more rapidly and then shorten my time to menopause and that's actually not the case and this is why.

The homogenous TEOSYAL ® PURESENSE GLOBAL ACTION gel can give natural - looking results that last for up to eighteen months, so your patients can get their treatments less frequently to maintain their smooth, youthful skin.

Irregular / heavy menstrual bleeding can be treated in several ways: 1) Hormonal medication (a low dose birth control pill or cyclic progestin); 2) A hormone - containing intrauterine device (the most common one used is the Mirena IUD, which manages bleeding very effectively and is placed during an office visit and lasts for 5 years); 3) Endometrial ablation is a surgery commonly performed as an outpatient procedure; the entire lining of the uterus is cauterized (many women never get a menstrual period after an ablation); 4) Finally, I reserve hysterectomy as the treatment of last resort — typically only when the above options have not worked for a patient.

Discuss carefully with patients what treatments are available, and in particular the risks and side effects of each when getting consent.

It is hoped the new procedure will improve doctor's understanding of individual patient's reactions to cancer treatments, ensuring they get the right drugs and care.

Patients must get the treatment they want when they need it — and that means top - up payments

Murdoch's company was also involved in 2015 legislation related to the requirement that a hospital or other medical facility get consent from a patient before the patient's treatment can be filmed, photographed or broadcast, and a law that would exclude newspaper delivery workers from minimum wage laws, which Cuomo later vetoed.

If a patient can get diagnosed and started on treatment within 12 weeks of the symptoms first appearing they stand a much better chance of achieving remission or a low disease activity.

They also cover: Proportion of calls closed with telephone advice or managed without transport to A&E; Re-contact rate following discharge of care - to ensure that ambulance trusts provide safe and effective care the first time; Call abandonment rate - to ensure ambulance trusts can take 999 calls and that people don't abandon their 999 call before a control room operator has answered; Time to answer calls - measuring how quickly all 999 calls are answered; Time until treatment by an ambulance - dispatched health professional; Category A: eight minutes response time — measuring whether those patients most in need of an emergency ambulance get one quickly.

«And obviously we've got a very challenging time in the health service, but on the other hand, you also see that the treatment for patients is improving the whole time.»

However, health minister Lord Warner defended the treatment centres, saying they provided a good standard of care, improved patient choice, had driven down prices and were also providing competition to get NHS trusts to «raise their game».

That's when patients must first get approval from their insurance before they're admitted to treatment.

About 1 in 10 patients worldwide get an infection while receiving treatment at a hospital or other health care facility, according to the World Health Organization.

One way out of this dilemma, Daviglus notes, is to design a study in which patients suffering from hypertension get treatment, and doctors analyze the results based on how well the patients» blood pressure was controlled.

Both treatment schedules were similar in terms of controlling cancer, but doctors reported slightly more mild side effects in patients getting the shorter radiation schedule.

Exactly one research team has independently analyzed what prostate patients get for the money spent on proton treatment.

In the future, perhaps a nurse or caregiver could simply send in a photo of a patient's reddened skin to a doctor using the model to find out whether it was likely to develop into a pressure sore for quick and aggressive treatment to keep it from getting far worse, Dr. Vodovotz speculated.

«Iron - deficiency anemia in ulcerative colitis: Many patients don't get testing, treatment.»

«In general, across all the health systems, people with serious mental illness aren't getting a lot of psychotherapy as a form of treatment, and maybe that's a missed opportunity for our health systems to provide care to those patients.»

Conventionally, most transplant patients get six months of immunosuppressive treatment for that purpose.

Beginning in 1962, drug trials had to include a patient group getting bogus treatment.

Even when Unger adjusted his model to account for the fact that not all patients may get the new treatment, and even when he lowered the effect of the new treatment to three, not five years, the model showed a benefit of at least 2 million years in nearly every simulation.

Sparking a placebo response usually requires doctors to dupe patients, withholding treatment while giving them the false expectation that they're getting the real thing.

Now some surgeons and anaesthetists are questioning whether every patient shouldn't get the same treatment.

New cutting edge technology can be used to grade cancer tumours, eradicating human subjectivity and ensuring patients get the right treatment.

A recently published scientific paper shows that health care professionals get vital information and can quickly decide on appropriate treatment if patients are examined using a microwave helmet.

On the other hand, because treatment has improved, more patients are alive after a heart attack to subsequently get heart failure.»

«Orthopaedic Care of Patients with Fragility Fractures» recommends that physicians proactively screen, monitor, and if necessary, assist in getting treatment for all elderly and other at - risk patients for osteoporosis following an initial bone fracture to prevent subsequent frPatients with Fragility Fractures» recommends that physicians proactively screen, monitor, and if necessary, assist in getting treatment for all elderly and other at - risk patients for osteoporosis following an initial bone fracture to prevent subsequent frpatients for osteoporosis following an initial bone fracture to prevent subsequent fractures.

But he says at - home tests may be a good first step in getting patients to consider seeking fertility treatment as well as getting men more involved in searching for infertility solutions.

When piperaquine resistance emerges as well, treatment fails: Patients get better, but a month later they are sick again.

Within one hour of the anticipated start of anesthesia, 64 people received the combination treatment of Zofran (the standard therapy) plus aprepitant; the remaining 60 patients got the Zofran and a placebo.

So with an appropriate test, patients could avoid getting additional radiation or chemotherapy treatment they may not need, Dr. Shay said.

That helped motivate international agencies to get more involved in bringing treatment to patients, says Rachel Cohen, a spokeswoman for Doctors Without Borders.

Kirsch's team considered how sick each group of patients had been before treatment, how much they improved during treatment, and whether they'd gotten a real drug or an inert pill.

Making matters worse, in a quarter of patients who get it, the infection recurs despite antibiotic treatment.