Sentences with phrase «patient had of»

In their stories that summarized these cases, the initial illusion was the terror a patient had of the cancer.

Professor Jasmine Zhou, co-lead author from the University of California at Los Angeles, said: «Non-invasive diagnosis of cancer is important, as it allows the early diagnosis of cancer, and the earlier the cancer is caught, the higher chance a patient has of beating the disease.

The tests will detect whether the patient has any of the 26 genes that indicate they have a greater risk for developing breast, colon, ovarian, pancreatic and other cancers

Not exact matches

He spent a lot of time trying to design a widget or app that would reduce confusion for patients.

Several patients who had consumed the potion told the Post they were not aware of its content when they drank it.

That means Theranos is using full blood draws, from patients» arms, rather than a few drops of blood from pricking patients» fingers, which up to that point had been one of the company's key competitive advantages.

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that Valeant Pharmaceuticals» infamous price hikes for a pair of heart drugs called nitroprusside and isoproterenol — whose prices were increased by 310 % and 720 %, respectively — had significant downstream effects on patient care.

«This short book has so many layers of meaning and so many interesting juxtapositions,» Gates writes, including «life and death, patient and doctor, son and father, work and family, faith and reason.»

Palmer reached out to a wide range of pediatricians to find out how they feel about these parents, and he was surprised to encounter mostly sadness rather than anger on the part of these doctors, who often feel like they've let their patients down by not convincing them to vaccinate.

That means peace of mind for diabetes patients, who no longer have to constantly prick their fingers to measure blood sugar and manually adjust insulin doses, and hope for recovering opioid addicts, who might face a relapse if they don't adhere to a strict treatment protocol.

The project's launch featured a prominent ALS patient and research advocate: Pat Quinn, co-founder of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, an initially - derided social media stunt that went on to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for ALS research and may have spurred important new discoveries about the disease's genetic roots.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Pfizer's Besponsa, a drug to treat a rare and vicious form of leukemia that can quickly kill patients.

That it would be really difficult to get a critical share of doctors and patients to use us fast enough to make this a viable business.

One research project, for example, focuses on using robots to recognize the facial reactions of Parkinson's Disease patients who have lost the ability to convey emotion to others because of reduced muscle activity.

But this deal would put Tweed on top, responsible for about a quarter of the registered patients in Canada.

But sales of Praluent and a rival Amgen drug, with list prices of more than $ 14,000 a year before discounts, have been severely constrained by onerous roadblocks to patient access by insurers.

But sales of Praluent and a rival Amgen drug, with list prices of more than $ 14,000 a year before discounts, have been constrained by onerous roadblocks to patient access by insurers.

Finally, in our study of symptoms, we found patients with higher unconventional natural gas development activity had higher odds of nasal and sinus, migraine headache and fatigue symptoms compared to those with lower activity.

But rather than have patients take buprenorphine manually, Probuphine dispenses small amounts of the drug continually into the bloodstream, ensuring that people actually stick to their prescribed regimen.

«Watson is able to give us faster, better matching of patients to potential clinical trials that our oncologists wouldn't have otherwise be able to see — and I sit with our oncologists who work on this kind of thing,» Christopher Ross, CIO at the Mayo Clinic, told MobiHealthNews in an interview.

Every subsequent doctor visit or treatment would be added to the blockchain, including those in different cities and countries, creating a complete, historical record of the patient's health.

«If you look at the software regs that were written in the 1970s, we felt the types of feedback and support we were going to give patients would make us a device.»

Doctors can snap pictures of their patients and upload them to FDNA's mobile app, which then spits out a list of disorders they might have by analyzing telltale facial features associated with those conditions (the tech is not a diagnostic tool, but rather a way to narrow down the list of possible genetic suspects).

With a critical mass of 450,000 patients annually among them, the six centers have agreed to combine their efforts on planning clinical trials in immunotherapy, recruit patients quickly, and share the information learned — which could be the single biggest factor in speeding up drug development.

«So they went out and have a franchise that they feel has higher - end services and making sure good people are taking care of these elderly patients,» he says.

PBMs have been accused of everything from shorting pills in mail - order prescriptions to selling patient data they didn't own to covertly shifting patients to higher - cost drugs.

Carmine Simone, chief of surgery at Toronto East General Hospital, had six procedures cancelled over a three - month period in 2013 because the patients had failed to stop taking their medication beforehand.

«Between the pure science in an academic model, in the ivory tower, so to speak, and the ultra-cutthroat laser focus of a biotech, we have to somehow bridge those two worlds in order to get [therapies] to patients» faster, Parker says.

A small pilot study of schizophrenia patients found that a particular video game where the user has to land a rocket helped the patients control verbal hallucinations.

While Canadian physiotherapist had progressed with the standard of care they provided to all patients, Irish physiotherapists were slipping behind.

Last year, new patients in large metro areas had an average wait time of 24 days to get an appointment.

After one of Theranos» labs was found to pose immediate jeopardy to patient safety, Walgreens has ordered that no blood tests be analyzed there.

But he thinks it'll need to open up more to the scientific community to «win the trust of folks that would be deciding whether to refer [patients] to Theranos versus LabCorp or Quest.»

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.

In spite of all that testing — at a financial cost of untold billions of dollars and an immeasurable time cost for the patients who volunteered — no one was able to say with any certitude whether the drug would work in any one patient or not.

In a follow - up trial, results of which were published in 2011, patients given the drug had nearly half the incidence of AF as those not receiving it.

Doctors don't come cheap, and the company will have to employ many of them to remain as patient - friendly as it intends: The goal, Cape says, is to never have wait times of more than 30 seconds.

The basic hope is that nference's deep learning tech, combined with the giant swaths of medical data that the Mayo Clinic has, can help pinpoint the existing drugs that may hold the most potential for rare disease patients.

«I might see a patient once or twice a year — If they've been in the hospital, I might see them a few more times — but the vast majority of their life occurs outside our office setting.

And while the global scope of the attack galvanized intense media coverage, the reality is that health care has grown increasingly susceptible to this specific kind of malware, which demands digital payment in exchange for sensitive personal and financial patient data.

And what we found is that, in patients who responded to the treatment, they actually had a much higher diversity of bacteria in their gut microbiomes compared to non-responders.»

«We understand that patients, doctors and business partners have been disturbed by the reports of improper behaviour at Philidor, just as we have been,» CEO Michael Pearson said in a news release Friday.

As Charles Haanel, considered to be the father of modern self - improvement said, «Remember that no matter what the difficulty is, no matter where it is, no matter who is affected, you have no patient but yourself; you have nothing to do but convince yourself of the truth which you desire to see manifest.»

To date, private clinics have operated by splitting their funding among government contracts, clients that fall outside medicare and patients paying out of pocket for non-insured services.

But if you have enough luck not to be seated next to the flu patient in seat 11B, you stand a great chance of disembarking disease free.

The Ebola infection rate and death toll have been particularly high among health workers, who are exposed to hundreds of highly infectious patients who can pass the virus on through body fluids such as blood and excrement.

Whereas hedge funds once might have sent an analyst to count cars in retailers» parking lots to inform their earnings models, they're now deploying web - crawling bots to vacuum info from online job - listing sites, Amazon (AMZN) reviews, Wikipedia, Zillow (Z) home - value records, FDA patient complaints, and the remotest reaches of the Internet.

On the other hand, shares of hospital chains have sold off sharply, including a 26 % decline for Tenet Healthcare (thc), on the fears that millions of newly uninsured patients will need care but not be able to pay their bills if and when the ACA is repealed.

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The idea that patients would actually be in charge of such personal information is — shockingly — a radical one.