Sentences with phrase «patients under treatment»

The mission set the goal in September of having 70 percent of Ebola patients under treatment and 70 percent of victims safely buried.

There are currently no vaccines available for any fungal infection, which can be extremely deadly to patients under treatment for diseases like HIV, AIDS and cancer.

Not exact matches

One is an agreement with Harvard Pilgrim, a nonprofit health plan covering 1.2 million people, to pay rebates if a patient's vision doesn't meet certain thresholds in 30 to 90 days, and then 30 months after treatment, under a model known as outcomes - based pricing.

Last week the company also reduced coverage for Valeant's toe fungus treatment Jublia, saying that patients under its benefits programs should instead try a less expensive remedy.

Under Obamacare, the preferred model is value based — that is, hospitals get paid not to treat patients but to keep them healthy and avoid treatment.

Inotersen is under regulatory review for marketing approval in the U.S. and EU for the treatment of patients with hereditary ATTR amyloidosis.

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.

No. 2: Alzheimer's disease treatment nets a breakthrough Roughly 99 % of all Alzheimer's drugs to enter human trials have ended up in the trash heap, but trials are under way evaluating drugs that could soon reshape patient treatment.

Under New York law, patients may legally refuse treatment and authorize the withdrawal of life - support systems, including nutrition, even in those instances where such steps would undoubtedly hasten death.

It is important to understand, it seems to me, that the LCP should be considered unacceptable under all circumstances, not simply for Catholics but universally, since it is based on an ideological notion about the end of life, a pressing of all supposedly dying patients into a predetermined pattern of treatment involving the withdrawal of food and hydration (itself an unacceptable procedure under all circumstances) and not on an evidence - based assessment of the needs of individual patients.

Already a movement is under way to improve end - of - life care by educating health - care providers to respond better to the needs of dying patients, by creating new care settings or improving existing ones, by seeking changes in methods of paying for appropriate care, by educating the public through conferences, town meetings, television programming, and even Web sites (see www.careproject.net), by providing adequate relief of pain, by withholding or withdrawing treatments that only prolong dying, by keeping company with those who are lonely, and by being a resource of meaning and hope for those tempted to despair.

Patients who underwent timed intrauterine insemination after the Cap - Score Test had a higher chance of pregnancy than under other treatment regimens for unexplained infertility.

Under the previous Labour government, the NHS lost hundreds of millions of pounds through the treatment of foreign patients where the costs were not recovered.

Whereas previously, under the MHA 1983, patients lost the right to refuse medical treatment whilst subject to hospital detention, once discharged from their section and returned to the community they regained the same rights of citizenship as the rest of us, such as the right to refuse medical treatment, even if this goes against professional medical opinion and is likely to be detrimental to our health.

This may be explained by delays in diagnosis and the «under - treatment» of older breast cancer patients.

A dozen human studies of MDMA, LSD, a powerful African drug called ibogaine and psilocybin, from so - called «magic mushrooms,» are now under way, testing the once - stigmatized drugs as treatments for not only PTSD, but also cluster headaches and addiction, as well as anxiety and depression in cancer patients.

April 16, 2016, Barcelona, Spain: A Hepatitis C (HCV) drug currently under investigation, ABT - 493 and ABT - 530, which is an all - oral once - daily antiviral treatment, helped HCV genotype 3 patients with heavily scarred livers and no previous treatment history to achieve a 100 % sustained virologic response after receiving the treatment for 12 weeks (SVR12).

For one thing, they point out, acupuncture studies are extremely difficult to double - blind — a methodological approach in which neither the researchers nor patients know who is receiving the treatment under investigation and who is receiving the placebo or sham.

Of all patients referred, four - fifths (79 %) went on to have dental treatment without the need for sedation and 6 % had their dental treatment under sedation.

Liu notes that since all glaucoma patients were under treatment, their medication's impact on those levels could not be ruled out, but he suspects that increased expression is a hallmark of the disease state.

«Monitoring and early treatment of those conditions are key to prevention, and can help patients keep their kidney disease under control.»

«From a treatment provider perspective, this is very exciting as we have been waiting for a simple, affordable, robust treatment tolerated by all patients groups, including those whose treatment outcomes are currently poorer, like patients under antiretroviral therapy,» said Pierre Mendiharat, Deputy Operations Director for Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

That access could be extended under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (pdf), recently affirmed by a Supreme Court ruling, says Kathy Cerminara, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University in Florida and an expert in law governing treatment at the end of life.

These results may support clinicians in initiating and continuing biological treatment for patients with poor outcomes under conventional treatment.

The study also found that patients who were 60 years or older at the time of diagnosis were half as likely to begin treatment as patients under the age of 44.

By applying survival analysis — a statistical method often used to calculate how well new treatments help patients survive — they determined how often a prisoner under threat of execution was exonerated.

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Patients who contract pneumonia in hospital are already ill, making it hard to know if the treatment under review played a part in their death.

Skin rash and nervous system disorders such as dizziness or headache occurred less frequently under the elvitegravir fixed combination in patients without prior treatment.

Whilst two new NHS proton treatment centres are under construction in the UK that will provide state - of - the - art treatments, the proton imaging based on this prototype will enable the most accurate pre-treatment images of patients, improving on the imaging used today which is based on x-ray imaging.

Although a goal of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act was to provide Medicaid patients with a source of nonemergency care outside of hospital emergency departments (EDs), researchers suggest that these newly enrolled patients will likely continue to look to EDs for treatment of chronic diseases and other nonemergency issues, despite state attempts to impose fees on ED visits.

But like the other treatments under discussion, it is far from proven that convalescent serum will help Ebola patients.

However, they continue to market the same mesh for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence as they use a strip of it as a tape under the urethra and it remains very beneficial for the majority of patients with a very low complication rate in experienced hands.

After years of difficult and inadequate treatments, two drugs — Harvoni and Viekira Pak, approved in 2014 — eradicate the virus in more than 90 percent of patients (though their high cost — around $ 80,000 for a 12 - week course of treatment — has come under continual fire).

Around one quarter of the patients in this study switched their anti-TNF treatment, with just under two - thirds of these switches due to therapy failure, one quarter due to adverse events and one eighth due to patient preference for subcutaneous administration.

Under the system to provide medical treatment to end - stage heart failure patients, a group that is ineligible for heart transplantation, in response to their requests, Osaka University Hospital gained the nation's first approval for its use as a medical device on February 20, 2017.

But when they factored in the long - term medical cost of delaying treatment for hepatitis C, they found the savings, in combination with improvements in the quality of patients» lives, were enough under current standards to justify using them even at early stages of liver fibrosis.

«Both physical functioning and quality of life are severely affected, and while many treatments are used to relieve symptoms and try to get the disease under control, this largest set of placebo - controlled information to date clearly shows that improvement can result for patients.»

The researchers concluded, «Appropriate use of rapid and culture - based diagnostic tests can reduce inappropriate use of antibiotics for sore throats, while avoiding under - treatment of patients who can benefit from antibiotics.»

While the long - term safety data for the first generation CXCR4 antagonists are not yet available, several new compounds are under preclinical development in an attempt to provide safer and more efficient treatment options for HIV and cancer patients.

Lung cancer treatment is an evolving field of science, currently there are several pathways under investigation as a possible treatment target.1 - 3 Targeted treatment is currently considered to be more efficient compared to the non-specific cytotoxic drugs, however; the small number of patients identified with mutations, limit the application of these drugs.

Under his leadership, Gladstone created the new Center for Translational Advancement to help bring treatments to patients more quickly.

As a research facility, only patients with the precise type or stage of illness under investigation are admitted for treatment, and the 240 - bed hospital does not specialize in services common for most community hospitals.

Tests developed under design control and manufactured under cGMP stratify patients in a far more reproducible way, being critical to optimize treatment and select patients for clinical trials.

Information about her life and uncompensated contributions to medical research provide an opportunity point for discussing the rights of patients and women, medical ethics, treatment of minorities, and fair compensation under the law.

February 2, 2017 Under and misuse of hormone therapy decreasing, but still high A nationwide cancer registry of almost one million patients treated for hormone - sensitive breast cancer shows that one out of six women who should have received post-surgical treatment known as adjuvant endocrine therapy did not get this recommended component of care, which can reduce the odds of recurrence.

Okyanos is proud to have been the first cell therapy facility to receive approval from the Bahamas National Stem Cell Ethics Committee (NSCEC) under legislation passed in 2013 which allows and regulates the use of patients» own adult stem cells in the treatment of certain chronic conditions.

In addition, a multidisciplinary breast clinic has been opened under her direction for patients with a recent diagnosis of breast cancer who have not yet received treatment.

During my work as a consultant pharmacist, I saw quite a few patients who were hospitalized for psychosis later to be found to be suffering from hyperthyroidism and a patient who was found to have under - treated hypothyroidism after being hospitalized for treatment - resistant depression.

In this digital precision medicine lab, students will order tests and examine clinical features of cancers from patients, including gene expression in the cancer and appearance under the microscope, to advise on the best course of treatment