Sentences with phrase «patient with the head»

This research represents a significant step forward in reducing the complications caused by neck dissection in patients with head and neck tumours.»

The patients with head injury were found to have more amyloid plaques than the healthy volunteers, but fewer than those with Alzheimer's disease.

«Patients with head injuries do better when treated by trauma centers, even if it means bypassing other hospitals: Study shows a major opportunity to improve outcomes for the half of severe head injury patients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centers.»

Dr. Islam saw this phenomenon occur in cell culture and in some samples from patients with head and neck cancers.

«If our findings can be translated into humans this could be life - changing for patients with head injuries.»

To investigate why checkpoint inhibitors so often stop working, Velculescu; Valsamo Anagnostou, M.D., Ph.D., instructor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Kellie N. Smith, Ph.D., a cancer immunology research associate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and their colleagues at the Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy studied tumors of four patients with non-small cell lung cancer and one patient with head and neck cancer who developed resistance to two different checkpoint inhibitors: a drug called nivolumab that uses an antibody called anti-PD-1, or nivolumab used alone or in combination with a second drug called ipilimumab, which uses an antibody called anti-CTLA4.

Patients with head and neck cancer who used antacid medicines to control acid reflux had better overall survival, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Patients with head and neck cancer seldom survive for longer than six months to one year when treated with chemotherapy alone.

Radiation therapy is a lifesaver for patients with head and neck cancer, but the treatment takes a toll on the salivary gland.

Dr. Eduardo Méndez has received a five - year, $ 2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop the first targeted therapy that they hope will be effective for most patients with head and neck cancers.

A systematic review of observational studies suggested that smoking cessation after bladder cancer is beneficial, but owing to confounding and methodological concerns of included studies no firm conclusions could be drawn.30 Some observational studies have also shown an association between smoking cessation in patients with head and neck cancer and reduced risk of disease progression and mortality, but the absence of a systematic review and meta - analysis means that the strength of this association is uncertain.31 32 33

Several trials of adoptive T cell transfer techniques are currently under way for patients with head and neck cancer, including:

The five - year survival rate of patients with head and neck cancer is about 60 %.

As a surgeon who treats patients with head and neck cancer, Kim approaches research from a translational standpoint to understand the relationship between neoplastic transformation and the host immune response.

Also utilizing imaging, PIs Joseph Paydarfar, MD, Ryan Halter, PhD, and David Pastel, MD, will test their solution to the problem that, in patients with head and neck cancer, significant tissue deformation occurs during laryngoscopy, rendering pre-operative images unusable for assessing tumor extent and location of critical structures.

Pregnant or nursing animals Do not use in patients with head trauma, central nervous system disorders, pets with liver disease, respiratory compromise or heart failure Use with caution in geriatric or debilitated pets, those with severe kidney disease, Addison's disease or hypothyroidism If your pet has had an allergic reaction to buprenorphine or other similar drugs Directions:

Safety in pregnant or nursing animals is unknown Do not use in patients with head trauma or with a history of seizures Use with caution in pets with respiratory depression, liver or kidney disease If your pet has had an allergic reaction to tramadol, codeine or other narcotics Directions:

Approach to the Patient With Head and Spinal Trauma.

Before we all start running around like mental patients with their heads cut off screaming doomsday and bloody murder, lets get a few thing straight here.

Many patients with head injuries deny the problem.

Information Clerk • Handle telephone calls and respond to information asked for • Provide visitors and patients with heads up on their inquiries and problems • Determine nature of visit of persons entering establishment and direct or escort them to their destinations • Provide information regarding health procedures and policies and direct people to the right departments • Direct incoming calls to intended recipients and take message in the absence thereof • Take and record information regarding patients, visitors and other people entering the facility • Assist during admission and discharge procedures • File reports and perform research and information retrieval duties as requested • Handle facility inventory by initiating and maintaining contact with vendors and suppliers • Distribute incoming mail and ensure that outgoing mail is sent out on time • Prepare and send correspondence such as memos and letters

Not exact matches

Suneel Gupta, head of mobile, for One Medical, said patients engage with his company's virtual health platform 25 to 30 times a week.

Dr. Iqbal Master, who heads up TB care at King Dinuzulu Hospital in Durban, South Africa says Sirturo, which is used in conjunction with other meds, has «increased treatment success» in the most resistant patients.

For example, a junior nurse heading into a team meeting with a patient with a sports injury might volunteer to the doctor that he underwent a similar surgery in college.

«Two years into my residency in head and neck surgery, I thought, What's going to change medicine the most in the coming years is not what I'm learning in medical textbooks, but rather the impact technology is going to have on the way we interact with patients.

Anyone else would have cracked me on the side of the head with a lug wrench after my 120th question, but he's quiet, thoughtful and patient.

Well guys it is Hell already here on earth endless killings worldwide... Back here where I am Ye is already heading towards that the whole country is on demonstrations demanding resignation of the ruler but he seems unwilling to resign before the end of his ruling period on 2013, while the streets are demanding immediate resignation and that has caused bloodshed in every city in the country... the streets demonstrations has enforced civil strikes all over the country which is now paralyzed... no cash with the banks all money frozen in the central bank... My business is in the field of services therefore I find my self now obliged to dismiss part of my staff in order to be able to survive this unfortunate thing... Already have reduced working hour to one shift to reduce running cost... so you see am now sitting alone in the whole building of our business office writing here as nothing can be done to carry on business even if there is business... Just I pray these unfortunate events passes over soon before it becomes out of control as had happened in Libya... we have nothing to say but (Ina - Lilah - WaIna - Alih - Ragoon) & (Alhmed - Lilah for every thing)... «Mankind has always been Hasty while God has always been the most Patient»...

In the rosy portraits of assisted suicide drawn by the likes of the Hemlock Society, cool - headed patients put their affairs in order, make their peace with Heaven, and drift away peacefully to the dulcet strains of their favorite music, surrounded by loved ones and kindly, compassionate medical assistants.

we've been patient with these guys and others for a very long time now and there seems to be no improvement on the pitch of play... fans have always listed players they believe are not good to take the club to the next height but Mr potato head will continue to have faith till those guys retire from football without achieving anything for themselves.

Just reflect back on Ramsey when he was struggling on the pitch and the fans were on his back, then his breakout season followed... The Ox has tons of potential, hopefully he just puts his head down and works hard to get out of this funk, and he's got one of the best managers to spot potential and be patient with his development.

Be patient, even if this attempt does not work you are still giving your baby an opportunity to establish the feeding reflexes of head bobbing, licking their lips and sticking out their tongue which will help them with your next attempt.

I always get a surge of excitement when I'm paired with someone who wants to head down the path of an all natural labour, and I enjoy being the RN and the doula for my patient.

The Commons health select committee has written to the head of NHS digital urging it to stop sharing patient data with the Home Office for immigration reasons.

A research group headed by Gustavo Turecki, professor of psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, recently used the platform to show that miRNAs can be used as prognostic markers for therapeutic responses to an antidepressant medication in patients with major depressive disorder (3).

Of the 12 patients treated with the high dose, 92 percent of patients have achieved head control, 75 percent of patients can roll over and 92 percent of patients can sit with assistance.

She and other colleagues first noticed an odd shift in patient profiles in the late 1990s: younger men were showing up in her clinic, often with no significant history of smoking or heavy drinking, which are risk factors for head and neck cancers.

Electromagnetic coils are positioned near a patient's skull to deliver brief pulses of magnetic fields; these induce electric currents inside the head, which cause neurons to fire in brain regions associated with mood.

«For our patients with blast - related concussions, I want to emphasize that the explosion was always in combination with another event, such as a motor vehicle crash, a fall or an object striking the head,» Brody said.

The trial enrolled 361 patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who had not responded to platinum - based chemotherapy, a rapidly progressing form of the disease with an especially poor prognosis, said Dr. Ferris.

«New radiotracer helps avoid neck dissection in patients with early head and neck cancer.»

This new study of non-military, civilian trauma patients visiting the emergency department builds on recent research conducted by Dr. Samadani, supported through the Cohen Veterans Center, which found that the use of this novel eye - tracking technology could reveal edema, or swelling, in the brain as a potential biomarker for assessing brain function and monitoring recovery in people with head injuries.

The project, headed by Mark Humayun, a professor of ophthalmology and biomedical engineering at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, involves an implant consisting of 60 electrodes attached to the retina that conduct information from an external camera to the retina to provide a rudimentary form of sight to patients with the implants.

This means that only patients with metastatic SNs would require extensive surgical treatment,» says Professor Remco de Bree, a head and neck surgeon from the VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

«These exciting results indicate that there is a new standard of care option for a population of head and neck cancer patients with no other treatment options,» said the trial's international co-chair Robert Ferris, M.D., Ph.D., UPMC Endowed Professor, and chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery and co-leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at Uhead and neck cancer patients with no other treatment options,» said the trial's international co-chair Robert Ferris, M.D., Ph.D., UPMC Endowed Professor, and chief of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery and co-leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at UHead and Neck Surgery and co-leader of the Cancer Immunology Program at UPCI.

In another case, a 30 - year - old patient with severe head trauma was declared brain dead by two doctors.

«Two patients who suffer a head injury and present with virtually - identical CT - scans might have completely different symptoms,» Dr. Samadani points out.

Four years ago Cochlear, a firm based in Sydney, Australia, ran trials of a prototype implant in three patients, with mixed results, says Jan Janssen, head of Cochlear's design and development.

But in that regard, Medtronic has a head start, with some 3,000 diabetes educators already teaching patients how to use its pumps and CGMs.

Researchers analyzed charts for 2,100 patients who were 55 or older with head trauma who were transported to the hospital by EMS.

The patient was able to follow an object with his eyes, turn his head when asked to, and widened his eyes in surprise when a researcher's head came close to his face — none of which he did in a vegetative state.