Sentences with phrase «risk patients in need»

«At the Comprehensive Transplant Center, we have a commitment to include care for the very sickest, high risk patients in need of a lifesaving organ transplant.»

Not exact matches

This is the backdrop for The Antidote, in which Vertex struggles to navigate the FDA's demands for patient safety, Wall Street's demands for returns, and its own need to take big bold costly risks that are likely to end in failure.

I'm in a different field, not OB, but if I got a similar question («why do I need this test or medicine when I have no risk factors for X and won't it just cause Y problem...») I take the time to talk it through with the patient.

In addition, the report stresses the need for patients to be fully informed of the risks of treatment at the time of diagnosis, including written information, and psychological support and counselling should be available.

Patients needing special surgery now face the real risk of dying needlessly because a building in which their lives would be saved has been under renovation for two years, Dr Hadi Mohammed Abdallah, who speaks for the Specialists, lamented.

«While the small - scale study suggests that beta - blockers may reduce the risk of breast cancer returning, more research is needed in this area to determine the effectiveness and safety of the treatment before it can be routinely offered to breast cancer patients.

Taking antibiotics when they are not needed creates additional health risks as it increases the chance a patient will experience an adverse drug reaction, and also leads to the development of antibiotic - resistant bacteria which affects everyone in the community.

«The findings suggest the need for gender - based evaluation and treatment of cardiovascular risk factors in these patients,» says Dr. Farahani.

These findings, which are published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), indicate that efforts to carefully evaluate risk factors prior to surgery need more attention, particularly for older minority patients.

«We wanted to identify patients at higher risk for amelanotic melanoma in whom we need to look carefully for this cancer type.»

In their article, the authors stressed the need for clear communication among stakeholders about all the issues they considered, especially so patients are well - informed about risks that might not be known yet.

«If the absolute risk increases of 1.51 percent for in - hospital mortality and 3.54 percent for major postoperative complications were modifiable, they would be consistent with the number needed to treat of 59 patients for in - hospital mortality and 28 patients for major postoperative complications.

In a perspective in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, Daniel Alford, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and assistant dean of Continuing Medical Education and director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), recommends that prescriber education is the best approach to addressing the prescription opioid - misuse epidemic, allowing for individualized care on the basis of a patient's needs after a careful benefit - risk assessmenIn a perspective in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, Daniel Alford, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and assistant dean of Continuing Medical Education and director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), recommends that prescriber education is the best approach to addressing the prescription opioid - misuse epidemic, allowing for individualized care on the basis of a patient's needs after a careful benefit - risk assessmenin this week's New England Journal of Medicine, Daniel Alford, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and assistant dean of Continuing Medical Education and director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), recommends that prescriber education is the best approach to addressing the prescription opioid - misuse epidemic, allowing for individualized care on the basis of a patient's needs after a careful benefit - risk assessment.

A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.

To ensure that patients can receive all recommended care, we need to recognize the financial burden of cancer and identify patients at risk for financial concerns,» says lead study author Christine M. Veenstra, M.D., M.S.H.P., clinical lecturer in hematology / oncology at the University of Michigan Medical School.

The more you want to relax your considerations about how close a match you need with donors, you know, you open up the field of organs that are available for any particular patient, but you risk, of course, obviously very, very serious indeed lethal reactions in most of those cases.

More research, however, is needed to better characterize those intermediate - risk patients who can safely be monitored on a surveillance program,» said D. Andrew Loblaw, MD, a radiation oncologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada.

A new narrative review authored by Carl Streed Jr., MD, at Brigham and Women's Hospital, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, discusses how more research is needed to better understand cardiovascular disease (CVD) and CVD risk factors in transgender patients receiving long term cross-sex hormone therapy.

A study from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) finds that in morbidly obese patients, bariatric surgery performed prior to a total hip or knee replacement can reduce in - hospital and 90 - day postoperative complications and improve patient health, but it does not reduce the risk of needing a revision surgery.

Before undergoing heart imaging procedures involving radiation, healthcare providers should help patients understand why the procedure is needed and its potential benefits and risks, including risks related to radiation exposure, according to a new scientific statement in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.

The authors conclude that recurrence of an atrial tachyarrhythmia was frequent in both groups, and that when offering ablation as a therapeutic option to patients with paroxysmal AF who have not previously received antiarrhythmic drugs, the risks and benefits need to be discussed and treatment strategy individually recommended.

«Patients with chronic kidney disease need to be aware of the potential for higher potassium content in sodium - reduced foods, as they are educated to follow a low sodium diet and may inadvertently choose sodium - reduced foods without realizing the risk of an increased potassium load from additives,» she said.

A tool intended to detect signs of autism in high - risk infants can be used to help identify and treat patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a genetic disorder, who most need early intervention.

In the analysis of 23 relevant studies, investigators found that many clinicians are broadly informed about the risk to their patients» fertility brought about by cancer treatment, but many factors hinder the appropriate discussions and referrals needed to provide adequate fertility support to patients of reproductive age.

Roughly 1 in 5 patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement in the U.S. are estimated to be intermediate - risk; so together, intermediate - and high - risk patients comprise the top quartile of all patients needing an aortic valve replacement.

«There are few other surgical options to reduce the risk of post-surgery heart damage, meaning new techniques to protect patients are needed,» Montaigne said in a statement.

Gastroenterologists and other health professionals need to be aware of the increased risk of cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure, in their daily handling of patients with IBD.

Results published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, also found that patients diagnosed in childhood were at higher risk of relapse, need of a liver transplant, and reduced life expectancy.

Patients diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis in childhood had a greater relapse risk, higher risk of needing a liver transplant, and a reduced life expectancy.

«We need to discover how to make these complex surgeries faster and easier; in doing so, it will be important to learn as much as possible so that surgeons can tailor the surgical repair to the patient and balance upfront surgical risks with improved long - term outcomes,» concluded Dr. Hawkins.

The authors wrote in their article that «extra consideration will need to be given to ensure that at - risk patients can obtain insurance coverage under the ACA.»

«More research is needed to evaluate the efficacy of this use of a cancer medication to alleviate risk of sudden cardiac death, but we are hopeful that what we observed in mice will translate effectively to humans, providing patients and clinicians with a new paradigm for treating this common and life - threatening illness,» Dudley said.

While Pichia clearly inhibits Candida in the lab, more work is needed to tell if a lack of Pichia is the reason HIV patients are at a higher risk for thrush.

Our results suggest the need for future studies involving long - term ambulatory cardiac monitoring to better delineate the risk associated with transient vs persistent perioperative AF, as well as randomized clinical trials to determine optimal strategies for antithrombotic therapy in patients with perioperative AF and a significant burden of other risk factors for stroke,» the authors write.

Many patients at risk of transmission, or who need palliative care, live in the community because hospitals are full.

Patients in intensive care units (ICUs) may need to have their lines accessed 20 or more times per day, increasing the risk for infection and contamination.

«In light of findings from the study, the dental visit could be a useful opportunity to conduct diabetes screening among at - risk, undiagnosed patients — an important first step in identifying those who need further testing to determine their diabetes status,» said the study's principal investigator, Dr. Shiela Strauss, associate professor of nursing and co-director of the Statistics and Data Management Core for NYU's Colleges of Nursing and DentistrIn light of findings from the study, the dental visit could be a useful opportunity to conduct diabetes screening among at - risk, undiagnosed patients — an important first step in identifying those who need further testing to determine their diabetes status,» said the study's principal investigator, Dr. Shiela Strauss, associate professor of nursing and co-director of the Statistics and Data Management Core for NYU's Colleges of Nursing and Dentistrin identifying those who need further testing to determine their diabetes status,» said the study's principal investigator, Dr. Shiela Strauss, associate professor of nursing and co-director of the Statistics and Data Management Core for NYU's Colleges of Nursing and Dentistry.

«With the aging population, increasing prevalence of co-morbidities and a growing need for concomitant valve surgery, heart bypass is being performed in an increasingly high - risk patient population.

The authors say more needs to be done to prevent Read more about Dementia risk higher in traumatic brain injury patients - Scimex

Secondly, before considering the use of iPSC - derived organoids for transplantation / regenerative medicine in human patients, the current protocols for expansion, reprogramming and differentiation of iPSCs in long - term cultures need further improvement to minimize the risk of oncogenic cellular mutations and teratoma, or tumor formation, in the patient.

Kurian, the lead author of the study, said that more genetic counselors are needed and that doctors should improve their skills in managing cancer risk and communicating with patients.

This model offers unique capabilities for preclinical assessment of thrombosis risk in a patient - specific manner, including efficacy testing of anti-thrombotic agents, elucidation of mechanism of action, and, potentially, biomarker identification, all providing a much - needed platform for drug discovery and development.

Presentations included: Genetics Primer & Clinical Updates by Linford Williams, MS, LGC; Genetics and Women's Health: Seeing and Foreseeing the Ethical Challenges Ahead by Ruth Farrell, MD, MA; Preimplantation Genetic Screening and Diagnosis: What You Need to Know by Marissa Coleridge, MS, LGC; Evolution of Prenatal Genetic Screening and Testing: NIPT and Beyond by Jeff Chapa, MD, MBA; Promises and Pitfalls of Prenatal Whole Exome Sequencing by Amanda Kalan, MD; Fertility Preservation and Cancer: Survivors, Previvors, and the Newly Diagnosed by Rebecca Flyckt, MD; Improving Access to Cancer Genetics via Telegenetics by Ryan Noss, MS, LGC; Breast Cancer: Management of Moderate Penetrance Predisposition Genes by Holly Pederson, MD; Use of Hormonal and Non-hormonal Therapies in Breast Cancer Survivors and Women at High Risk for Breast / Gyn Cancers by Holly Thacker, MD; Addressing Commonly Asked Patient Questions about Genetics by Rebekah Moore, MS, LGC, Christina Rigelsky, MS, LGC and Allison Schreiber, MS, LGC; and a panel discussion on Genetic Testing Reimbursement featuring Bruce Rogen, MD, MPH and John Yao, MD, MBA, MPH, which was moderated by Daniel Sullivan, MD..

«We need a range of models to learn about the connections among genes, molecules, cells, synapses and circuits in normal and abnormal cognition and behavior, and to help us understand the risks of particular patients,» says the Broad Institute's Steven Hyman.

Infected patients are at - risk for long - term joint stiffness and pain, which increases the need to better understand the sequence diversity of these viruses and how any viral mutations affect the severity of disease in the human host.

Their roll - out into translational practice will not be free of complexity, however, as culture and values differ in terms of what defines benefit and risk, who will benefit and who is at risk, what methods must be in place to assure the maximum safety, comfort, and protection of subjects and patients, and educational and policy needs.

Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of metabolic tumor burden at diagnosis and after induction therapy can help identify patients most at risk of follicular lymphoma (FL) recurrence, but more work is needed to differentiate high - risk and moderate - risk patients, suggested findings from a pooled analysis of data from three prospective clinical trials, published in Blood.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators report that measuring leukemia cells that persist in patient bone marrow in the early weeks of treatment helps identify high - risk patients who need intensive therapy.

They have also pulled some patients away from older systemic (as opposed to topical) drugs often used for moderate - to - severe cases, such as methotrexate and cyclosporine, which patients sometimes need to take in rotation to minimize the risk of cumulative damage to their organs.

Number 2: They need to do risk assessment and management to ensure that the patient takes the drugs in a responsible way, and there is minimal risk of abuse, diversion, and addiction.