Sentences with phrase «patients in study say»

«Most athletic patients return to sports, highly satisfied with ACL reconstruction: 98 percent of patients in study say they would have the procedure again.»

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Amgen Executive Vice President of Research and Development Sean Harper said the study was designed to explore Kyprolis dosing regimens, noting that the the trial did not meet its goal in improving progression - free survival versus Velcade in patients who had not yet been treated for the disease.

«Among both groups, patients taking Entresto had a 20 % or greater reduction in cardiovascular death or heart failure hospitalization compared to those taking enalapril,» Novartis said in a statement, citing conclusions based on analysis of data from the PARADIGM - HF study.

Fernando Pagan, a GUMC associate professor of neurology who directs the Movement Disorders Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, said that to his knowledge, the study «represents the first time a therapy appears to reverse — to a greater or lesser degree depending on stage of disease — cognitive and motor decline in patients with these neurodegenerative disorders.»

While Tecentriq's results in Imvigor211 were consistent with its previous study, Roche said, patients getting chemotherapy in the latest trial survived longer than anticipated.

The biotech specialist said that its updated phase 2 data in a study of its poziotinib candidate treatment for non-small cell lung cancer resulted in a preliminary confirmed objective response rate and potential progression - free survival benefit in patients with the EGFR Exon 20 Mutant form of the disease.

The study can only look for an effect from prayers offered as part of the research, they said.They also said they had no explanation for the higher complication rate in patients who knew they were being prayed for, in comparison to patients who only knew it was possible prayers were being said for them.»

«Abortion restrictions and clinic closures mean that patients may need to travel greater distances to access services,» said Rachel Jones, lead author of the study, in a written release.

Citing a 2010 study finding that patients who had at least two 2 rehabilitation visits for persistent dizziness after a concussion showed improvement in their DHI scores (2), the study said that on - field identification of dizziness could lead to earlier implementation of vestibular rehabiliation and other modalities to treat dizziness, which may expedite recovery from concussion.

«This is the first study to look at the characteristics of women who are more or less likely to engage in the practice of breast milk sharing, and can help give physicians a starting point for dialogue with their patients,» said Keim.

As mentioned already the «Centre for policy studies» has said that the NHSLA has liabilities of some # 16.8 billion, reducing this figure would make huge inroads to the efficiency saving the NHS has to make without compromising patient safety and staff numbers It would be wise for those within the NHS and from the «Centre for policy studies» to look to their own as for the reason why patients look to the law for recompense, before we say that the compensation culture is «ingrained in the national psyche as a warped form of normal behaviour».

«Previous studies have also noted that the financial condition of the most troubled institutions is, to a large extent, a product of an inefficient expense structure, revenue challenges associated with a patient mix that approaches 90 percent public payers and charity care, and overwhelming liabilities (including debt issued long ago for physical plant improvements that, in some cases, are obsolete),» the health department said in its announcement.

Cori Gambini, president of Communication Workers of America Local 1168, says numerous studies and reports, including one in 2011 by the New England Journal of Medicine, show the adverse effects of putting too many patients on too few nurses.

Since the neuronal death can be recapitulated in directly reprogrammed patient neurons, Yoo said the new technique offers a way to study the details of how potential therapies — including drugs that are currently being tested in clinical trials — could rescue medium spiny neurons from death.

The study provides evidence that patients of various ethnicities and religious backgrounds will be seeking information from their physicians on the issue, many of them at what may be the most vulnerable time in their lives, she said.

Our study suggests that exclusive enteral nutrition may be used as a bridge to semi-elective, and arguably therefore, safer surgery in patients with complicated Crohn's disease,» said Dr. Neel Heerasing, lead author of the Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics study.

Therefore within a few years we hope to be able to start studies in which we will also try treating patients to prevent the development of Alzheimer's disease,» says Hugo Lövheim.

«Virtual house calls for chronic diseases like Parkinson's are not only as effective as in - person care but broader adoption of this technology has the potential to expand access to patient - centered care,» said Ray Dorsey, M.D., the David M. Levy Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and lead author of the study.

Prof Youl - Ri Kim, from Inje University in Seoul, South Korea and lead author on both studies, says: «Our research shows that oxytocin reduces patients» unconscious tendencies to focus on food, body shape, and negative emotions such as disgust.

«The median percentage reduction in seizure frequency was more than 29 percent for patients on a low - dose regimen of everolimus and nearly 40 percent for patients with high - dose regimen to the drug,» says David Franz, MD, founding director of the TSC Clinic at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the study's senior author.

New research finds flaws in a 2009 study that had provided hope and one scientist says CFS patients should stop taking antiretroviral drugs based on those findings

«We're interested in determining patients» sleep patterns,» says John Kane, head of schizophrenia research at Zucker Hillside Hospital in Glen Oaks, N.Y. Kane, who is conducting a Proteus - funded pilot study, says, «For certain mental illnesses, changes in sleep patterns are an early sign that an illness is accelerating.»

Professor Janet Treasure from King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry and senior author on both studies says: «Patients with anorexia have a range of social difficulties which often start in their early teenage years, before the onset of the illness.

«In making effective treatments easier for patients, the hope is that we can reduce vision loss from glaucoma, and possibly other diseases,» said study author James D. Brandt, M.D., director of the UC Davis Medical Center Glaucoma Service.

«One of the toughest challenges of lung cancer is what to do for patients when the cancer comes back in an area that's been treated previously with radiation treatment,» said James J. Urbanic, M.D., lead author of the studies and a radiation oncologist at Wake Forest Baptist.

However, the majority of patients develop treatment - resistant tumors, and only 10 to 15 percent of these patients survive long term, says Ie - Ming Shih, M.D., Ph.D., the Richard W. TeLinde Distinguished Professor in the department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, who led the study with Tian - Li Wang, Ph.D., an associate professor of pathology and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

«In order to expand our knowledge in these areas, doctors in clinics and regional hospitals must be on the alert for unusual disease phenotypes and refer such patients to specialized university hospital clinics for further evaluation,» says study author Mike RecheIn order to expand our knowledge in these areas, doctors in clinics and regional hospitals must be on the alert for unusual disease phenotypes and refer such patients to specialized university hospital clinics for further evaluation,» says study author Mike Rechein these areas, doctors in clinics and regional hospitals must be on the alert for unusual disease phenotypes and refer such patients to specialized university hospital clinics for further evaluation,» says study author Mike Rechein clinics and regional hospitals must be on the alert for unusual disease phenotypes and refer such patients to specialized university hospital clinics for further evaluation,» says study author Mike Recher.

«We chose the basal ganglia because they are primary targets of inflammation in the brain,» says lead author Andrew Miller, MD. «Results from a number of previous studies suggest that increased inflammation may be a contributing factor to fatigue in CFS patients, and may even be the cause in some patients.»

Based on results of the current study described in a report online June 18 in the journal Cancer Cell, Johns Hopkins researchers say they are planning a phase I clinical trial to test the paclitaxel - fostamatinib combination therapy in patients with recurrent advanced ovarian cancer.

In addition, even after hospitals achieved a volume of 100 or so cases, there continued to be improvement in patient outcomes with higher procedure volume,» said John D. Carroll, M.D., professor of medicine and director of interventional cardiology at the University of Colorado Hospital and lead author of the studIn addition, even after hospitals achieved a volume of 100 or so cases, there continued to be improvement in patient outcomes with higher procedure volume,» said John D. Carroll, M.D., professor of medicine and director of interventional cardiology at the University of Colorado Hospital and lead author of the studin patient outcomes with higher procedure volume,» said John D. Carroll, M.D., professor of medicine and director of interventional cardiology at the University of Colorado Hospital and lead author of the study.

It has confirmed that 24 weeks is the optimal duration for a sofosbuvir and ribavirin combination in GT - 3 patients, whilst also finding that sofosbuvir and ribavirin with peginterferon for 12 weeks resulted in the highest SVR12 rates observed to date in a Phase 3 study,» said Professor Tom Hemming Karlsen, Scientific Committee Member, European Association for the Study of the Liver (Estudy,» said Professor Tom Hemming Karlsen, Scientific Committee Member, European Association for the Study of the Liver (EStudy of the Liver (EASL).

«Hospitals are going to be looking for ways to improve quality of care for Medicare patients in order to lower readmission rates and prevent fines,» said study co-author, Tomas Philipson, Ph.D., who is the Daniel Levin Chair of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

These genetic mutations can fluctuate over time, and some patients can harbor more than one mutation,» said Zofia Piotrowska, MD, lead author of the study and a thoracic oncologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston.

Immediately I said, «OK, I can not study schizophrenics, but I can study psychosis in patients who are coming with cocaine substance - use disorders.»

«A significant body of research has resulted in a shift from thinking of placebos as just «dummy» treatments to recognizing that placebo effects encompass numerous aspects of the health care experience and are central to medicine and patient care,» said the article's coauthor Ted Kaptchuk, Director of the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

«Previous studies have demonstrated an association between stress and skin symptoms, but those studies relied on small patient samples, did not use standardized tools, are anecdotal in nature, or focused their analyses on a single skin disease,» says Gil Yosopovitch, MD, Chair of the Department of Dermatology at LKSOM, Director of the Temple Itch Center, and corresponding author of the study.

«The type of inflammation seen in psoriasis is known to promote insulin resistance, and psoriasis and diabetes share similar genetic mutations suggesting a biological basis for the connection between the two conditions we found in our study,» said the study's senior author Joel M. Gelfand, MD MSCE, a professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Penn. «We know psoriasis is linked to higher rates of diabetes, but this is the first study to specifically examine how the severity of the disease affects a patient's risk.»

Nearly all of the patients described in the study have continued their rehabilitation, now exceeding two years of training, Nicolelis said.

«Our study demonstrates that there is a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer in patients with acute pancreatitis than commonly believed,» Agarwal said.

Because the study directly implicates a specific protein pathway in a specific part of a patient's brain, Liu said a strategy for further research could be to deliver a drug that compensates for the lack of CLOCK, or perhaps a protein it affects, directly in that location.

«We found that nearly one in four patients with small tumours are at risk of distant metastases and do benefit from chemotherapy,» said Dr Fatima Cardoso, senior author of the study, Co-Principal Investigator of MINDACT and Director of the Breast Unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal.

Neurologists had presented case studies of «acalculic» patients such as CG from the early twentieth century onwards, if not before, but «people hadn't thought a lot about the specific brain areas involved in calculation», says Butterworth.

«This study demonstrates the value of using the SEER database to analyze factors associated with surgery as a treatment for localized pancreatic cancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

Dr. Hayes says it is not clear what causes SCAD in most cases, but researchers know this from previous studies: • SCAD affects women more often than men; up to 80 percent of patients with SCAD are women.

The next phase of the study will first «condition» patients with antibiotics to knock down the local population of bacteria, as has already taken place in trying unsuccessfully to treat C. difficile patients, Somsouk says.

Prior to the new study, researchers had already developed a more basic type of skin substitute that had been used successfully in human patients, said Takashi Tsuji, a team leader at RIKEN Center forDevelopmental Biology in Japan.

During the time covered in the study, Hansen said, 86.3 percent of patients received CPR before EMS arrived, with 45.7 percent initiated by bystanders and 40.6 percent by first - responders.

«This study forms the basis for future research in patients with breast cancer and offers hope for targeted therapy for patients with aggressive triple - negative inflammatory breast cancer,» said lead researcher Mateusz Opyrchal, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Oncology at RPCI.

«With this breakthrough it is possible to generate cell models with the same alterations as observed in tumour cells from patients, which will allow us to study their role in tumour development,» says CNIO researcher Sandra Rodríguez - Perales.

The new drugs offer the hope of treatment to perhaps thousands of HIV patients who have stopped responding to other medications, says William Towner, medical director of the Kaiser Permanente HIV / AIDS research trials program and member of the study team, which reported its findings online today in The Lancet.