Similarly, the death rate from bladder cancer was nearly three times higher in
patients treated with pelvic radiation than in those who did not receive radiation.
In the most recent results of the trial, treatment increased median overall survival by two months
in patients treated according to protocol.
If studies from the 1970s showed
cancer patients treated with vitamin C lived 4 times longer and sometimes even 20 times longer, why isn't it standard practice today?
Communication and psychological and emotional distress
among patients treated with mechanical ventilation in the intensive care setting: a systematic review of quantitative evidence.
So, of the
obese patients I treat, they are often the worst of the worst in terms of obesity and insulin resistance.
Children's sends
asthma patients treated in the emergency room to follow - up care at a clinic that teaches them and their families how to take medication properly and remove home triggers.
Not surprisingly then, this study found that
human patients treated with magnesium had substantially higher glutathione levels at the end of 12 weeks.
Only five of the 29
patients treated so far, however, had tumor progression in more than five sites.
The research team's findings also revealed there was a 5.7 % decreased hazard of death per additional 20
patients treated per year per facility.
A new study could add to the argument over equal pay in the ranks of medicine:
Older patients treated by female doctors tend to do better than those treated by males.
She also specializes in
helping patients treat and manage diabetes, heart disease, and obesity - related diseases.
They would also require better management of
patients treated for drug addiction, and convert some recently closed state prisons to treatment centers.
«It» was a change in the type of
patients treated by the state's 130 hospitals — or rather, the insurance status of those patients.
The sample section also incorporates metrics by including the number
of patients treated in each clinical experience.
Without the benefit of a biopsy, it can ultimately be difficult to predict the outcome for
patients treated with radiation alone.
The second important finding of our study is that patients with degenerative conditions of the spine treated with surgery reported less pain with their sex - life compared to
patients treated without surgery.
The study included 32 prostate cancer
patients treated at Ohio State's Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital.
Gowans MF et al. (2018) Baseline antibody profiles predict toxicity in
melanoma patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
About 60 percent of
patients treated on the trial ultimately crossed over to the immunotherapy treatment arm due to disease progression.
The race is on not only to prove that patients are getting better — by
comparing patients treated with stem cells with untreated patients in a blinded trial — but also to pinpoint the effects.
The federal government will fine more than 2,600 hospitals in the coming year, because too many
Medicare patients treated at these hospitals are ending up back in the hospital within 30 days of going home.
This represents a cumulative total of over $ 2.3 million in funds raised since the tournament's inception in 1997 that directly benefit the
young patients treated at Arnold Palmer Medical Center and UF Health Shands Children's Hospital.
Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader Kirsty Williams has responded to «worrying» figures showing a decline in the percentage of urgent cancer
patients treated within the target time in every Welsh health board.
High serum vascular endothelial growth factor level is an adverse prognostic factor for high - risk diffuse large B - cell
lymphoma patients treated with dose - dense chemoimmunotherapy.
In this blog post, Ioannis Malogiannis describes results of a pilot study of 12 chronically
depressed patients treated with an adapted form of schema therapy, lasting 60 sessions.
In this randomized controlled PARTNER 2A trial, outcomes using the SAPIEN XT valve were compared with open - heart surgery valve replacement among 2,032 intermediate -
risk patients treated between December 2011 and November 2013 at 57 sites, all but two in the U.S. Patients were randomly assigned; 1,011 to TAVR and 1,021 to surgery.
Parkinson's
disease patients treated with low - frequency deep brain stimulation show significant improvements in swallowing dysfunction and freezing of gait over typical high - frequency treatment.
As he explained on Monday, only six of those 40 patients died — half of what was expected based on
similar patients treated at the same clinics over the past 3 months.
Klann says some of the proteins they found «were also reported as being altered in the brains of both (autopsied) rodents and human
patients treated chronically with antipsychotics.»
Luznik and his team inventoried types of immune cells present in the blood of bone marrow
transplant patients treated with post-transplant cyclophosphamide.
Although others had studied this effect before, this research had the largest patient cohort to date, and was also one of the first to
examine patients treated with DHE.
In a surprising new finding, heart
attack patients treated with a substantially lower dosage of beta - blockers than used in earlier clinical trials showing their effectiveness survived at the same rate, or even better, than patients on the higher doses used in those trials.
Significantly
more patients treated with cognitive behaviour therapy showed an improvement of 50 % or more in their symptoms (χ2 = 5.18, df = 1; P = 0.02).
Researchers
found patients treated with this combination of therapies increased their ability to act with awareness, and to practice non-judgment.
Three months after completing the treatment, the depression in
patients treated online even decreased whereas those treated conventionally only displayed a minimal decline: no more depression could be detected in 57 percent of patients from online therapy compared to 42 percent with conventional therapy.
The percentage of Hodgkin lymphoma and Wilms
tumor patients treated with radiation fell from 96 to 77 percent and 77 to 49 percent respectively.