The diverse interests of this group allow them to consult with each other about your pet's health and provide a higher
quality of medicine at no extra cost to you.
Not exact matches
«If you have to miss a night or two, then you can try and fake yourself some energy, but consistent
quality sleep is better than trying to fake it,» Shelby Harris, director
of behavioral sleep
medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, told Quartz.
Commentary: «Sales in U.S. over-the-counter
medicines were significantly impacted by the suspension
of manufacturing
at the McNeil Consumer Healthcare facility... as well as the impact on production volumes related to ongoing efforts to enhance
quality and manufacturing systems.
Dr. Murphy will participate in The Doc Is In: Food, Health and
Quality of Life on March 24
at the UIC Forum as part
of the Good Food is Good
Medicine track
at FamilyFarmed's annual Good Food EXPO.
Today, Julie Tishler, MD, director
of Quality in the Division
of Internal
Medicine and Adult Primary Care
at Tufts Medical Center, shares about what tests you should be getting and when they should start.
According to a 2014 study from Northwestern
Medicine and the University
of Illinois
at Urbana - Champaign, office workers with more light exposure
at the office enjoyed many benefits, including longer sleep durations, better sleep
quality, and better
quality of life compared to workers who did not have much exposure to natural light
at work.
Chemist and indoor air
quality expert Charles J. Weschler, adjunct professor in environmental and occupational
medicine at Rutgers University, said he does not think the levels
of chemical concentration found in the mattresses are alarming, but he considers the research valuable.
Those looking
at the NHS big - picture realise that, facing a period
of rapid change and the challenge
of providing safe, high -
quality care within restricted budgets, what's needed is a workforce that focuses on
medicines - their safety, their effectiveness, their value - for - money.
NIH examines indicators such as the track record
of graduates in academic
medicine positions, time to graduation, overall student happiness, how well the program integrates the medical and scientific training, and most importantly, the
quality of the scientists and science available to the MD / PhD students; NIH manifests disapproval or approval
of a program by decreasing, increasing, or maintaining the number
of funded trainee positions
at that institution.
The ETE comprised different research programs relating to the environment carried out
at the NUS faculties
of engineering,
medicine, and science with research efforts focused on the following six areas: biotreatment technology, membrane technology, adsorption and regeneration, environmental chemistry, environmental catalysis and air pollution control, and air
quality management.
«Unexpectedly, in elementary school - age participants we found that overall eating frequency and snacks positively contributed to diet
quality,» wrote Evans and colleagues from the Friedman School
of Nutrition Science and Policy
at Tufts University, where Evans did the research under the guidance
of senior author Aviva Must, professor and chair
of the Department
of Public Health and Community
Medicine at Tufts University School
of Medicine..
«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects
of diet
quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk
of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor
of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School
of Public Health and Associate Professor
of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.
But it was
at the European
Medicines Agency (EMEA), which regulates approval
of medicines for the European market and continuously evaluates their
quality and safety, that the 31 - year - old French pharmacist was able to pursue his interest in pharmacovigilance, monitoring the safety
of medicines to prevent harm to patients.
«This research shows how technology can be used to dramatically change the way preventive services are delivered and improve preventative health care,» says senior author Grant M. Greenberg, M.D., M.H.S.A., M.A., assistant professor and associate chair for information management and
quality at the Department
of Family
Medicine at the U-M Medical School and member
of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.
«While enthusiasm for medical marijuana is very strong among some people, good -
quality research has not caught up,» said Mike Allan, director
of evidence - based
medicine at the University
of Alberta and project lead for the guideline.
She is director
of the medical intensive care unit
at Keck Hospital
of USC, chief
quality and patient safety officer
at Keck Medical Center
of USC and assistant professor
of clinical
medicine at the Keck School of Medicine
medicine at the Keck School
of MedicineMedicine of USC.
With our scientific understanding
of mRNA
medicines continuing to grow
at an accelerated pace, we are investing heavily across the full breath
of competencies needed to drive our platform forward, including chemistry, mRNA biology, formulation, automation and high - throughput production, process development,
quality and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) mRNA clinical manufacturing.
The most common surgical techniques used to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) offer patients improved
quality of life five years after injury, according to research presented today
at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports
Medicine's Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Researchers from the Perelman School
of Medicine at the University
of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles
of poverty and dramatically improve the
quality of life for those in need — and Gift
of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half
of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.
«Not only do we believe that high -
quality, randomized clinical trials are necessary to determine the safety
of the Lariat device for off - label procedures, but our analysis raises broader issues with the FDA 510 (k) clearance protocol for medical devices,» said study senior author Jay Giri, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the Cardiovascular
Medicine Division
at Penn. «We believe there needs to be a method for reassessing the safety
of a device that has been cleared for one use but is being frequently used for a different purpose in real - world practice.»
In the first study conducted with IgEnio, the MedUni Vienna researchers
at the Institute
of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, led by Rudolf Valenta and lead author Christian Lupinek, Kurt Derfler from the Division
of Nephrology and Dialysis (Department
of Medicine III) and Ventzislav Petkov from the Division
of Pulmonology (Department
of Medicine II), were able to show that this absorption technique brings about a significant improvement in the
quality of life for sufferers during the pollen season — even those with a greatly elevated IgE levels.
«I thought that was terrible
quality of care,» said Goldberger, a professor
of medicine in cardiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a cardiologist at Northwestern Memorial H
medicine in cardiology
at Northwestern University Feinberg School
of Medicine and a cardiologist at Northwestern Memorial H
Medicine and a cardiologist
at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
«The new guideline uses the highest
quality scientific evidence to focus treatment
of blood cholesterol on those likely to benefit most,» said Neil J. Stone, MD, Bonow professor
of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and chair of the expert panel that wrote the new gu
medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School
of Medicine and chair of the expert panel that wrote the new gu
Medicine and chair
of the expert panel that wrote the new guideline.
The aim is to improve the
quality of the reviews by making the process «more transparent and acceptable to the scientific community,» says Tasuku Honjo, dean
of the Faculty
of Medicine at Kyoto University, who is leading the effort on a part - time basis until his retirement from Kyoto next spring.
«Our goal here was to get a picture
of what is happening when patients go to a SNF after hospital discharge, and we found that some
of the assumptions about the impact
of nursing home
quality on outcomes may have been overstated,» says the study's lead author, Mark Neuman, MD, MSc, an assistant professor
of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute
of Health Economics
at the Perelman School
of Medicine at the University
of Pennsylvania.
«The way
quality measures are defined has important implications for how care is delivered,» says lead study author Sameer Saini, M.D., a research scientist
at VA - CCMR and assistant professor
of internal
medicine at the U-M Health System.
«Helping people cultivate a purpose in life could be an effective drug - free strategy to improve sleep
quality, particularly for a population that is facing more insomnia,» said senior author Jason Ong, an associate professor
of neurology
at Northwestern University Feinberg School
of Medicine.
Dr. Yorks and her fellow researchers
at the University
of New England College
of Osteopathic
Medicine recruited 69 medical students — a group known for high levels
of stress and self - reported low
quality of life — and allowed them to self - select into a twelve - week exercise program, either within a group setting or as individuals.
Two Phase III trials, conducted in Europe and in the United States by researchers
at the Icahn School
of Medicine at Mount Sinai and six other U.S. sites, showed that the duration
of pain - free time in the sun and
quality of life were significantly improved by treatment with afamelanotide, a novel synthetic version
of a melanocyte - stimulating hormone.
For example, embryologist Jacques Cohen, scientific director
at the Institute for Reproductive
Medicine and Science
of Saint Barnabas in Livingston, New Jersey, has developed a procedure called cytoplasmic transfer that shows promise for assisting women approaching their early forties who either can't get pregnant through in vitro fertilization or have embryos
of such poor
quality they don't survive.
Chemist and indoor air
quality expert Charles J. Weschler, adjunct professor in environmental and occupational
medicine at Rutgers University, said he does not think the levels
of chemical concentration found in the mattresses are alarming, but he considers the research valuable.
«There remains a strong demand among health care leaders to better understand this issue, and how to address it, given the link between disparities,
quality, safety, cost and value,» says Betancourt, who is an associate professor
of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
People living with serious illness who receive palliative care have better
quality of life and fewer symptoms than those who don't receive palliative care, according to a new study by researchers
at the University
of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine.
Researchers
at the Stanford University School
of Medicine have developed two inexpensive adapters that enable a smartphone to capture high -
quality images
of the front and back
of the eye.
Given the complexity
of the language and concepts in these texts, there is a need for accurate, high -
quality translations, say researchers
at UCLA's Center for East - West
Medicine.
«Based on recommendations from organizations, literature and research, it is becoming clear that identifying mental health needs is part
of quality medical care,» said Alan L. Nager, MD, MHA, director
of Emergency and Transport
Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and first author on the study.
«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source
of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health
of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director
of the Air
Quality Program
at the Marron Institute
of Urban Management and assistant professor
of population health and environmental
medicine at the NYU School of M
medicine at the NYU School
of MedicineMedicine.
«As the technology and use
of HDR brachytherapy advances, it is imperative that clinical, physics and
quality assurance guidance be reviewed and updated, as necessary, to ensure
quality and patient safety in the treatment delivery,» said Bruce R. Thomadsen, PhD, a professor in the Department
of Medical Physics
at the University
of Wisconsin School
of Medicine and Public Health.
«Patients, technologists and radiologists want the best
quality X-rays
at the lowest dose possible without repeating images,» said Steven Don, M.D., associate professor
of radiology
at Mallinckrodt Institute
of Radiology, Washington University School
of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo. «This technology is a tool to help achieve that goal.
In particular, insomnia can lead to decreased
quality of life, increased rates
of depression, and even increased risk
of heart disease,» said senior author, Michael Grandner, PhD MTR, Assistant Professor
of Psychiatry, Psychology and
Medicine, and Director
of the Sleep and Health Research Program
at the University
of Arizona.
«Our main finding was that diet
quality influenced sleep
quality,» said principal investigator Marie - Pierre St - Onge, PhD, assistant professor in the department
of medicine and Institute
of Human Nutrition
at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, N.Y. «It was most surprising that a single day
of greater fat intake and lower fiber could influence sleep parameters.»
«In the world
of critical illness, a lot
of research has focused on making sure people survive — and now that people are surviving, we need to ask ourselves, what does
quality of life and wellbeing look like afterwards for both patients and caregivers,» says Dr. Cameron, also Associate Professor, Department
of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, Faculty
of Medicine at University
of Toronto.
In a study to be presented Friday, Jan. 27, in the oral concurrent session
at 1:15 p.m. PST,
at the Society for Maternal - Fetal
Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, researchers with the California Maternal
Quality Care Collaborative, based
at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca., will present Reduction
of Severe Maternal Morbidity from Hemorrhage (SMM - HEM) Using a State - Wide Perinatal Collaborative.
«We already know that coordinated, patient - centered palliative care improves care
quality, enhances survival, and reduces costs for persons with cancer,» said R. Sean Morrison, MD, Director
of the National Palliative Care Research Center and Professor
of Geriatrics and Palliative
Medicine, Icahn School
of Medicine at Mount Sinai and lead author
of the study.
«While evidence shows that joint replacement surgery improves pain, function, and
quality of life for the osteoarthritis patient, the impact
of cardiovascular health has not been confirmed,» explains lead study author Yuqing Zhang, D.Sc., Professor
of Medicine and Epidemiology
at Boston University School
of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.
In an accompanying editorial, Dr Hagai Levine, Visiting Scientist, from Hebrew University - Hadassah, Israel, and Professor Shanna Swan, Professor
of Preventive
Medicine, who are both
at the Icahn School
of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (USA), write: «Despite the relatively small sample size and exposure assessment limitations, the paper makes a convincing case that dietary exposure to pesticides can adversely impact semen
quality.
During the past decade, Singh and his colleagues
at DeBakey VA Medical Center for Innovation in
Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt) and Baylor's section
of health services research have quantified the issue in a series
of studies, many
of which were cited in the Institute
of Medicine report.
«Air
quality in the U.S. has benefitted from more protective federal standards in response to evidence from health studies, and there are likely further benefits to be gained by standards even lower than those now recommended by the
ATS,» said
ATS President Marc Moss, MD, who is Roger S. Mitchell Professor
of Medicine in the Division
of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care
Medicine at the University
of Colorado School
of Medicine.
«In the world
of critical illness, a lot
of research has focused on making sure people survive — and now that people are surviving, we need to ask ourselves, what does
quality of life and well - being look like afterwards for both patients and caregivers,» says Dr. Cameron, also Associate Professor, Department
of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, Faculty
of Medicine at University
of Toronto.
Lead report author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director
of the Air
Quality Program
at the Marron Institute and associate professor
of population health and environmental
medicine at the NYU School of Medicine, added, «Metropolitan areas and states with large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards
medicine at the NYU School
of Medicine, added, «Metropolitan areas and states with large populations and elevated concentrations of one or both air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards
Medicine, added, «Metropolitan areas and states with large populations and elevated concentrations
of one or both air pollutants would realize the biggest improvements in public health by meeting the more protective standards.»