Sentences with phrase «seriously ill patients»
Our North 183 location now provides specialized 24 - hour Intensive Care for seriously ill patients.
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The soothing effect therapy dogs have on seriously ill patients has been well documented but now scientists can hook us up to monitors and prove the effect.
Recognizing the powerful impact animals can have on seriously ill patients, most hospitals have permitted visits from therapy dogs for years.
But the assertion prompted calls for caution from outside experts, who warn that the procedure hasn't been rigorously tested and may give seriously ill patients false hope.
«This would only be used on very seriously ill patients in hospitals,» Avidon noted, «and so would only be given intravenously, usually via an infusion pump.»
Doctors have been spreading a potentially deadly superfungus between seriously ill patients using underarm thermometers.
He noted that the panel played a big role in shepherding into law a 2012 measure — the FDA Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA)-- which created a new «breakthrough therapy» designation to speed the approval process for certain treatments for seriously ill patients.
A 48 - year - old physician whose career has centred on treating seriously ill patients, Burgh was diagnosed with cancer in December 2006.
Flu viruses are a major cause of death and sickness around the world, and antiviral drugs currently do not protect the most seriously ill patients.
«It may sound like an appealing idea to allow seriously ill patients accelerated access to experimental therapies,» Sally Temple, the president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, wrote to Texas lawmakers this month.
Web - based diagnostic and triage tools often get it wrong, but sometimes they can help guide seriously ill patients to needed care.»
The study asserted that because of the number of complex provisions in the law — such as the requirement that medication must be self - administered by a mentally competent patient — it will actually affect only a tiny fraction of seriously ill patients.
«In order to alleviate suffering for all seriously ill patients, it is extremely important that we also provide excellent palliative care early in the illness process.»
The legislation also allows the Health Department to relax some of its regulations to speed marijuana access to seriously ill patients.
«Gov. Cuomo has done a very good deed for seriously ill patients and their families,» said Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (D - Manhattan), who sponsored the bill.
Cuomo is perpetuating the pain and suffering of seriously ill patients who would benefit from medical marijuana.
12:19 - Clegg says doctors there were instructed by manager to ignore seriously ill patients in the name of targets.
UPDATE — Staten Island Sen. Diane Savino, sponsor of the medical marijuana legislation, rejected the notion of approving only the «oil» form of the drug, arguing that smoking the drug provides the quickest relief for many seriously ill patients.
«Governor Cuomo has done a very good deed for seriously ill patients and their families by signing the Medical Marijuana Expedited Access Bill,» Gottfried said, adding, «I know the Health Department is working hard to get the medical marijuana law up and running on schedule, but glitches happen.
They are known to calm even the seriously ill patients - just like their name (tranquility) suggests.
Research has shown that, with modern tranquilizers and detoxification methods, alcoholics cause no greater disturbance than any other group of seriously ill patients.
The price of medicinal marijuana has risen far beyond that of its street value and it is causing problems for seriously ill patients that can not afford the extremely high prices.
Mischa Sogut, a spokesman for Gottfried, said the guidelines for how seriously ill a patient must be and what hoops the doctor must go through to prescribe the non-smokable marijuana will be developed through a regulatory process led by the state health commissioner.
Is there anything else a seriously ill patient can do to trigger a spontaneous remission?
Then there was therapeutic cloning, which would provide genetically matched human tissue to patch up even the most seriously ill patient.
Two: «Thou shalt not take the name of thy Lord in vain» is the Commandment that one doctor (Aleksander Bardini) is in danger of breaking when the wife (Krystyna Janda) of a seriously ill patient places an important decision in his hands.
A physician must be careful to avoid two errors: misdiagnosing the patient with a dread disease that is not present, and misdiagnosing a seriously ill patient as healthy.
Not exact matches
UnitedHealth is in the forefront of deploying data to identify patients most at risk of becoming seriously ill.
When faced, for example, with the decision of whether or not to let a seriously ill or irreversible patient succumb voluntarily in terminal situations, we might avoid making the decision now, arguing for the possibility — maybe next week — that a new cure for the patient's condition will be discovered.
Therefore, as long as there are strict safeguards in place, a new law on assisted dying would actually lead to increased protection for vulnerable patients, as well as extend the lives of many seriously ill people who would otherwise choose to end their lives too early.
Patients currently in state psychiatric centers are among the most seriously ill.
CCNY is a statewide group of patients, providers, and organizations working together to relieve the suffering of thousands of seriously ill New Yorkers by establishing a carefully regulated medical marijuana program in New York.
«Figures obtained by the Mail show that just five NHS trusts in England employ a consultant to work in A&E overnight — even though thousands of seriously ill and injured patients turn up during these hours.
Most of the patients died, including at least one — a woman treated in Krasnodar, Russia — who was not seriously ill before the surgery.
The possibilities arising from therapeutic cloning are creating hope for millions of people who are seriously ill — for example, Alzheimer's patients, just to mention one group.
Patients who are seriously injured or chronically ill can be evacuated to Europe or the United States for medical care.
The Australian food authority said in March that three patients died and 12 were seriously ill and taken to hospital after consuming rockmelon contaminated with listeria bacteria.
TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Doctors might be overprescribing beta - blocker medications to heart patients who aren't seriously ill, a new study contends.
The medium - chain triglyceride oils are used in sports nutrition, hospital settings for malabsorption syndrome, cystic fibrosis, epilepsy, seriously burned or critically ill patients, and treating and nourishing premature infants.
Dr Essyltyn of teh Cleveland Heart clinic also recomends no nuts are seeds, but he deals with some very seriously ill heart patients.
Good sleep helps cancer patient's survival chances Sufficient good quality sleep not only helps healthy people not to fall ill and to live longer; a healthy sleep pattern also increases the survival chances of people who are already seriously ill.
Since many, if not most of you, are now seriously considering genetic aberrations when evaluating the needs of chronically ill patients, it is appropriate to feature the comments by Calabrese et al (1) on the PD connection with genetic dysfunction:
Dr. Perry Baird's account swings from the voice of a brilliant Harvard - educated physician examining his own illness («the brutalities one encounters in state and city psychopathic hospitals must be the by - product of the fear and superstition with which mentally ill patients are regarded») to the voice of a seriously delusional man in the throes of his manic - depression.
We treat the most critically ill or seriously injured patients first.
Eventually these patients can become seriously ill and die if the condition is not treated.
Our emergency doctors receive ongoing continuing education and belong to the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society, which helps raise the level of patient care for seriously ill or injured animals through quality education and communication programs.
Our veterinary emergency center treats the most critically ill or seriously injured patients first.
When a patient is seriously ill, they may not be able to eat food.
Seriously ill medical marijuana patients in Minnesota are still being prosecuted for the «crime» of marijuana possession or cultivation may find that other legal defenses will have greater efficacy than the medical necessity defense, or jury nullification.
Emergency rooms are often frantic, high - stress environments where doctors and ER personnel are forced to make snap decisions in an effort to save the life of a critically ill or seriously injured patient.