Sentences with phrase «patients access to treatments»

These clinical trials offer local veterinarians and their patients access to treatments that are not yet commercially available.
«I have carefully considered the facts, and after meeting with patients and their families I have come to the conclusion it's time for New York to offer a highly restrictive, tightly regulated network to provide patients access to treatment that will improve their quality of life,» O'Mara said in a statement released today.
«To preserve patient access to this treatment option, and given the scale that we've reached, demonstrating the safety and efficacy of fecal transplantation through adequate and well - controlled clinical trials is the right thing to do,» explained Carolyn Edelstein, OpenBiome's director of Outreach and Public Affairs, in an op - ed published earlier today with the Fecal Transplant Foundation.

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Telemedicine services, such as Teladoc, can streamline the treatment process because it connects patients remotely to certified physicians around the US, via phone, video - conferencing, and online, rather than relying on local access to physicians.
«Bringing new biosimilars to patients, especially for diseases where the cost of existing treatments can be high, is an important way to help spur competition that can lower healthcare costs and increase access to important therapies,» said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb in a statement.
For example, Watson for Oncology can summarize the key medical attributes of a cancer patient and rank the best treatment options based on the data it has access to.
Gilead subsidiary Kite Pharma (which the biotech giant scooped up ahead of the FDA's approval for Yescarta, a treatment that reengineers patients» immune cells to fight cancer) will have access to Sangamo's platform technology, which could be used to create various types of cancer cell therapies.
However, in very rare circumstances, Ionis Pharmaceuticals is able to make an experimental drug that we are developing available for patients outside of a traditional clinical trial under an expanded access protocol, sometimes referred to as a treatment protocol.
«We've not had access to the drug for a few months,» said Dr. Armstrong, who also works at Grady Memorial Hospital, a huge public treatment center in Atlanta that serves many low - income patients.
As Gawande notes, a study conducted by Aetna Insurance permitting «concurrent care» — having access to both hospice and life - extending treatments — saw hospice participation rise from 26 to 70 percent of eligible patients.
We have offices across the state, giving more patients access to the latest innovations and treatment options than ever before.
As part of a major medical center, we can offer our young patients evaluation and treatment that includes access to state - of - the - art equipment, advanced therapies, clinical trials and a team of specialists in pulmonology and from other clinical disciplines.
«I have great concerns with a policy that impedes patients» ability to access information about a legal medical treatment,» said Sen. Diane Savino, a Democrat from Staten Island and the lead sponsor of the medical marijuana legislation in the Senate.
And we need to ensure that patients have access to the best surgery, radiotherapy and other treatments.
Lawmakers are considering a bill that would provide cancer patients more access to affordable treatments.
It is impossible to imagine the devastation of the emotions that a patient must go through when they are told that they can not have access to a drug or treatment that could prolong their life because of their postcode.
Freedom of Information requests have shown that most NHS trusts at best only cursorily audit the treatment of foreign nationals not entitled to automatic free healthcare, and GP practices do not record this information at all, despite in many other countries access to primary care having a nominal charge for all patients, including British visitors.
The suite of measures agreed to in bills submitted late Monday night have an emphasis on insurance, such as ending prior authorization to allow immediate access for in - patient treatment.
«It is shocking that arguments over funding still limit patients» access to fertililty preserving treatments.
While justifying his call for allocation of oil block to cancer treatment, he said a Mevavoltage cancer therapy machine is available for 33 million Nigerians as against four to about 200,000 Australians, adding, «most patients have little or no access to Radiation Oncology services».
We proposed the idea of a Health Technologies Fund as we wanted to offer patients better access to innovative treatments that were not routinely available on the Welsh NHS.
That is why we would ensure that patients suffering from mental health will have equal rights to access diagnosis and treatments as those requiring physical health care.
The first - line designation means that some patients will have access to the drug without first having to receive other treatments such as chemotherapy.
«Understanding these challenges is critical to improving access to ART today and to helping ensure patients who travel across borders to receive ART treatment receive high - quality care.»
They produced two estimates: one based on the assumption that there was no available effective treatment for melanoma, and the second on the assumption that there was a treatment available that resulted in a 25 % reduction in melanoma deaths from 2015 onwards, assuming that all patients had access to these treatments.
U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell last year proposed a response, calling for a program to change doctors» opioid prescribing practices, to expand the use of naloxone, a drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdoses, and increase patient access to medication assisted treatments for opioid use disorders.
«Education has the potential to both reduce overprescribing and ensure that patients in need retain access to opioids,» explained Alford, who is also medical director of Boston Medical Center's Office - based Opioid Treatment (OBOT) program.
As opposed to blunt regulatory solutions that decrease access to opioids in an indiscriminant way, education is a more finely tuned approach that can empower clinicians to make appropriate, well - informed treatment decisions for every patient at each clinical encounter.
The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.
Physicians and patients in a community setting may not have easy access to a large hospital or other diagnosis / treatment facility.
«Patients deserve access to the best possible information when researching where to go for treatment, and they are increasingly looking to public reporting websites, including U.S. News, because they know that's where they'll find authoritative data,» said Ben Harder, Chief of Health Analysis at U.S. News & World Report.
«Given the current state of the opioid overdose epidemic, it is critical that patients seeking help for opioid addiction have access to comprehensive treatment that includes highly effective medications whose effects may be enhanced with the provision of psychosocial interventions,» according to the report by Karen Dugosh, PhD, of Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, and ctreatment that includes highly effective medications whose effects may be enhanced with the provision of psychosocial interventions,» according to the report by Karen Dugosh, PhD, of Treatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, and cTreatment Research Institute, Philadelphia, and colleagues
«MSF and DNDi are working together to increase access to care and treatment for HCV patients in key low - and middle - income countries, through the STORM - C project financed by MSF's Transformational Investment Capacity (TIC) initiative.
«With this test, results will be clear before the patient leaves the clinic, allowing immediate counseling and access to treatment
The findings suggest that benefit is most likely, and risks will be mitigated, when digital communication is used with patients who already have a relationship of trust with the clinical team, and who need to have flexible access, such as when transitioning between services, treatments or lived context.
«Self - administered treatment for keloid scars can reduce the economic burden on the healthcare system and provide a treatment option for patients who have limited access to medical care,» comments Professor Jeffrey Karp from Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, US, an expert on medical device design who was not involved in this study.
«Patients with this condition need access to timely diagnosis and treatments to ensure they receive the best possible care.»
The lab is also working with the Breast Oncology Program at UCSF to make this data part of an adaptive clinical trial called I - SPY, which lets researchers identify the most effective therapies based on patient molecular profiling, and is collaborating with members of the UCSF Institute for Computational Health Sciences (ICHS) to put these and other public data into a centralized database that clinicians can access through an app to help make the most appropriate treatment decisions.
«Professor Gandhi's discovery will mean patients get access to the best treatment for them, first time, every time.
Monash University Professor William Sievert said a delay in access to DAA treatment means that thousands of HCV infected patients could die or develop advanced liver disease.
«We believe it is critical to provide patients with access to highly effective treatment to cure HCV infection without delay in order to diminish future HCV - related morbidity and mortality,» added Professor Sievert.
The findings, which could lead to new treatments for a disease that kills more HIV / AIDS patients than tuberculosis, appear in mBio ®, the online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM.)
The IOM report recommends, in the short - term, that doctors and patients should be better informed about pain and currently available treatments; barriers to accessing pharmaceuticals should be removed; and alternative treatments that have demonstrated some efficacy, such as physical therapy, should be made more available and covered by insurance.
As part of a suite of measures to support the country's life science sector, the United Kingdom plans to increase researchers» access to medical patient data and funnel # 180 million ($ 280 million) to a new fund designed to help turn basic science into marketable treatments, Prime Minister David Cameron announced today.
«In many developing countries, the median life expectancy for hemophilia patients is 11 years due to the lack of access to treatment, but our new oral delivery of factor IX can now overcome these issues and improve the worldwide use of this therapy.»
«With increased access to this potentially life - saving treatment, we can continue to improve outcomes for the growing population of elderly patients fighting early stage cancer.»
Patients in certain parts of Asia in particular may have ingrained cultural beliefs or preferences to self - medicate with traditional treatments, poor access to healthcare, or socioeconomic limitations which could hypothetically lead to long delays before seeing a doctor.»
The Center is involved in the care of thousands of patients with celiac disease and gluten sensitivity, providing better access to proper testing, diagnosis, treatment and follow - up care.
Its mission is to increase access to and improve the quality of addiction treatment, to educate physicians, and other health care providers and the public, to support research and prevention, to promote the appropriate role of the physician in the care of patients with addictive disorders, and to establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by professional organizations, governments, physicians, purchasers and consumers of health care services and the general public.
As one of this nation's 49 National Cancer Institute (NCI)- designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, Rutgers Cancer Institute is able to offer its patients access to clinical trials available only at NCI - designated centers providing the most advanced treatments available.
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