Sentences with phrase «rejected by patients»

The challenge will be not only to produce the arteries, but find ways to insure they are compatible and not rejected by patients.

Although such harvested cells could be cultured as say, liver cells for treating hepatitis or dopamine - producing cells for Parkinson's, the resulting transplants would likely be rejected by patients» immune systems.

«But at some point we'll be able fabricate a biodevice from a patient's own cells that will duplicate the most important functions of a kidney and that won't be rejected by the patient's immune system.»

Cells can be removed from a patient and used to create new organs for transplant that will not be rejected by the patient's body.

«Having a very efficient and practical way of generating patient - specific stem cells, which unlike human embryonic stem cells, wouldn't be rejected by the patient's immune system after transplantation brings us a step closer to the clinical application of stem cell therapy,» says Belmonte, PhD., a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory and director of the Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona, Spain.

Not exact matches

Although the FDA can't dictate prices or reject therapies over pricing concerns (they can only focus on safety and efficacy), the agency can encourage more competition through moves like this (as well as speedier approval pathways) which could spur drug makers to produce products that ultimately lower costs for patients — a goal cited by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb in announcing the list.

If a society is judged by the way it treats its most vulnerable members, we will reject the let's - kill - Alzheimer's - patients agenda out of hand and focus on improving our capacities to care.

The Graham - Cassidy bill is an obvious attempt to contain the political damage done by July's failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and it should be rejected along with planned cuts to services provided by hospitals for low - income and uninsured patients.»

Most older patients would probably reject the modest potential benefit conferred by these medicines, in favour of taking fewer drugs every day and not having to put up with their possible side - effects, he suggests.

On the other hand, giving the Fukushima workers their own stem cells should work better than donor cells because the patients» own cells won't be rejected by the immune system.

Transplanted embryonic stem cells are ethically cleaner, but they have a genetic makeup different from the patient's own, so they could be violently rejected by the immune system.

The combination therapy was rejected by the FDA in 1997 because trials showed inconclusive benefits for patients overall.

Often used to prevent patients» bodies from rejecting transplanted organs, rapamycin works by increasing the numbers of regulatory T cells and block other aggressive types of T cells.

That means that two and a half years after the crash, if the patient tried to file a claim for physical injuries he sustained during the crash the court would have to reject his suit; but the same patient would be allowed to file a claim for the exact same injuries by framing them as the result of medical malpractice.

The disease can not be said to be pre-existing if it was merely opined so by the doctor on basis of talks with the patient, the forum said while asking the National Insurance Co Ltd to pay Rs 75,000 to a policy holder for rejecting his claim for reimbursement of his wife's treatment expenses.

• Working knowledge of ICD - 9 and ICD - 10 and OASIS • Excellent skills in reviewing delinquent accounts and creating avenues for overdue payments • Demonstrated expertise in translating medical procedures into codes that can be easily translated by payers and medical facilities • Proficient in appropriately and confidentially handling patient treatment, diagnosis and procedural information • Well - versed in investigating rejected claims and ensuring that they are resubmitted and paid • Special talent for investigating insurance fraud and determining ways to counter / avoid sticky situations • Skilled in verifying and completing charge information in company defined databases • Familiar with documentation needs (and manners of obtaining them) for insurance claims submission and approval • Qualified to work efficiently with external collection agencies to ensure maximization of reimbursement • Particularly effective in handling appeals for denials by employing exceptional knowledge of carriers and appeal processes • Special talent for increasing reimbursements by investigating denied claims and providing alternatives to denials

• Ascertained the integrity, completeness and accuracy of data received from medical coders • Handled data entry duties by ensuring that all information is punched in with minimum errors • Checked the accuracy of punched in data and ensured that any corrected needed are seen to immediately • Contacted insurance companies to determine statuses of claims and resubmitted rejected claims • Serviced information requests from patients and insurance companies, while remaining within the facility's privacy policy

For example, one patient of mine was constantly belittled and rejected by everyone in his family.

The budget also includes a reckless scheme, authored by Sen. Kurt Schaefer, to reject $ 8 million in federal family planning funds and create an entirely new taxpayer - funded state program in order to skirt federal Medicaid laws and discriminate against Medicaid patients.

Enter I Stand with Planned Parenthood: a multi-faceted campaign to educate and engage the public to Stand with Planned Parenthood by urging policymakers to #StandWithPP and reject any and all efforts to block patients from going to Planned Parenthood for care.

When mental health professionals make the WRONG diagnosis concerning the pathology of attachment - based «parental alienation» as incorrectly being the product of the child's oppositional - defiant behavior or as being caused by the problematic parenting of the targeted - rejected parent, this leads to incorrect and entirely ineffective treatment, and the patient (i.e., the child's healthy development and the child's healthy loving relationship with a normal - range and affectionally available parent) dies as a direct consequence of the misdiagnosis by the mental health professional.

Staff rated measures include the Patient Rejection Scale (PRS31) used in 4 studies; 10,11,13,14 and the Nurse Attitude Scale (NAS) used in 2 studies by the authors.15, 16 The PRS is a brief 11 - item self - report scale, which assesses hostility and rejecting responses.