Sentences with phrase «small medical center»

Yes, there is a small medical center in our town.

Radiology nurses can work anywhere from small medical centers to specialized radiology centers.

Not exact matches

Already, smaller specialized surgical facilities and high - end outpatient clinics are drawing patients away from the old downtown medical centers.

«Horrific mass killings receive the most media attention, but as can be seen by the numbers, they only represent a small portion of the total costs - human and medical - of gun injuries in the United States,» said David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center in Boston, who was not involved with the study.

Many pharmaceutical companies continue to work on treatments for neurological diseases, as do many smaller biotech firms and academic medical research centers, and funding sources for these pursuits include private foundations as well as governments.

Here's a small list of the medical centers, research hospitals and continued expansion turning Memphis into a major medical hub for the U.S.:

I was one of a small number of National Guard chaplains selected for duty at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.

Steven Becker was a twenty «eight «year «old father of three small boys who was admitted to St. John's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis in March 2000 because of severe headaches.

Most large studies have found only a very small decrease in risk of colon cancer with the consumption of higher levels of dietary fiber and no decrease in risk of colon cancer recurrence, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center.

From large urban healthcare campuses to smaller regional medical centers, Towne Health has been providing warm welcomes and safe departures from coast to coast for over two decades.

It has a senior center, medical clinics, childcare facilities, and a community safety - net fund that awards small grants to market - affiliated folks in dire need of help paying the rent or medical bills.

Celiac disease damages the lining of the small intestine and creates inflammation, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center.

To be sure, Giambra takes pride in many accomplishments: a new youth detention center, a new public safety campus in downtown Buffalo, a new corporate setup for Erie County Medical Center, small - scale successes in consolidation, a property tax rate still among the lowest in New York and the fact that he turns over a fiscally sound government to County Executive - elect Chris Cocenter, a new public safety campus in downtown Buffalo, a new corporate setup for Erie County Medical Center, small - scale successes in consolidation, a property tax rate still among the lowest in New York and the fact that he turns over a fiscally sound government to County Executive - elect Chris CoCenter, small - scale successes in consolidation, a property tax rate still among the lowest in New York and the fact that he turns over a fiscally sound government to County Executive - elect Chris Collins.

In some ways, the conversations taking place in Brooklyn over the next several months will mirror those taking place on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where Mount Sinai Health System also wants to transform health care delivery, proposing to replace Beth Israel Medical Center with a much smaller inpatient hospital as well as additional ambulatory care sites.

Subica and his colleague, Li - Tzy Wu, a professor at Duke University Medical Center, took on the project in part because national estimates of Pacific Islander, American Indian, and multiracial adolescent substance use and suicidality are scarce, presumably due to their small population sizes.

Bloom, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, and Small, of Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, California, also express hope that more studies could reveal a gene in the myobacterium for virulence or transmissibility.

The authors are Reza Kordestani, MD, Kevin Small, MD, and Rod J. Rohrich, MD, of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.

Researchers from Columbia Engineering and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have developed a new method that can target delivery of very small volumes of drugs into the lung.

Recently, groups working independently at Yale Medical School; the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Harvard; and the University of California at San Diego reported that in afflicted individuals an important region of the brain called the hippocampus is smaller than average.

For example, Tamara Gurvits, Roger Pitman, and their colleagues at the Manchester VA Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have studied combat PTSD patients and reported that one side of the hippocampus was about 25 percent smaller than expected.

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have deciphered how a small protein made by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS manipulates human genes to further its deadly agenda.

Likely so, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center who have shown that a small region within the amygdala, an almond - shaped structure in the brains of all mammals, is responsible for producing emotional calls and sounds.

In 1984 the late Ian Falloon, professor of psychiatry at the Auckland Medical Center in New Zealand, created a model mental health service in Buckingham and Winslow, two small towns northwest of London, to identify and treat high - risk patients in the community.

The small study, based on a survey of 236 cardiologists and internal medicine physicians and trainees at a large tertiary academic medical center, found that although physicians rate nutrition to be as important as statins in terms of reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, only 13.5 percent agreed or strongly agreed that they were adequately trained to discuss nutrition with patients.

While still controversial and performed at a small number of medical centers around the world, face transplantation has become an option for carefully selected patients with full or partial destruction of the facial tissues.

«Small amounts of gadolinium deposit in certain parts of the brain in people who undergo repeated gadolinium - based contrast agent enhanced exams,» said Vikas Gulani, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Urology, and Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Director of Magnetic Resonance Imaging at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.

A small and articulate woman, she explained her decision from a hospital bed at Duke University Medical Center.

But about a decade ago, Leuthardt and Bundy, who is now a postdoctoral researcher at University of Kansas Medical Center, discovered that a small area of the brain played a role in planning movement on the same side of the body.

«Our study is small, retrospective and all of the patients were located at a single medical center, but it demonstrates that it's possible to use molecular diagnostics to identify subgroups of patients more likely to respond to a given treatment,» said co-first author John Paul Shen, MD, senior clinical fellow and postdoctoral fellow.

«This report ups the ante on the pace at which these cases need to be identified and treated,» says Peter Small, a TB researcher at the Stanford Medical Center in California.

So intrepid researchers from the International Center for Medical Research of Franceville in Gabon set out to trap small animals that might harbor the disease from forest regions that had recently been devastated, starting in 2001.

The project was developed during the researcher's stay at Columbia University Medical Center in New York — in the group led by Dr Zara Melyan and Dr José A. Morón — and it concluded that the small potassium channel plays a fundamental role in regulating the neuronal excitability of the spinal cord.

While excited, the researchers caution that so far this new diagnostic approach has only been tested in a relatively small patient group at a single, highly specialized medical center.

A couple of years earlier, Garofolo had submitted to experimental surgery himself at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, during which a surgeon pulled chunks of ivory - colored fat out through small openings in his belly.

Overcoming this challenge, researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center discovered a small molecular compound that successfully blocks a transcription factor and its pro-inflammatory and hyper - mucous activity in asthma.

An international team of scientists contributed to this research, including Jennifer Yokoyama, of UCSF; Lei Zhu, of UCSF and Gladstone; Lauren Broestl, of UCSF; Kurtresha Worden of Gladstone and UCSF; Dan Wang, of UCSF; Virginia Sturm, of UCSF; Daniel Kim of Gladstone; Eric Klein of UCLA; Gui - Qiu Yu, of Gladstone; Kaitlyn Ho of Gladstone; Kirsten Eilertson of Gladstone; Lei Yu, of Rush University Medical Center; Makoto Kuro - o of UT Southwestern Medical Center and Jichi Medical University; Philip De Jager, of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute; Giovanni Coppola, of UCLA; Gary Small, of UCLA; David Bennett, of Rush; Joel Kramer, of UCSF; Carmela Abraham, of Boston University; and Bruce Miller, of UCSF.

«Usually when someone is diagnosed with cancer, if there's no family history of cancer we think the likelihood of an inherited factor is small,» says Elena Stoffel, Assistant Professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and director of the Cancer Genetics Clinic at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center.

«These are very small tumors,» added cancer specialist and study co-author Suzanne Conzen, MD, associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

12/18/2008 Big Smiles for the Small Patients - Santa Visits UC San Diego Medical Center With high spirits and happy faces Santa Claus and his team of elves visited the Infant Special Care Unit and the Regional Burn Center at UC San Diego Medical Center, Hillcrest.

Cedars - Sinai Medical Center began as two small organizations built by the Jewish community.

Herrell performed the first robotic partial nephrectomy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in 2009, and he is one of a small number of urologic surgeons in the United States who now perform a large number of these minimally invasive surgeries.

A limitation of this study is the small sample size, limited to tumor samples from patients treated for thyroid cancer at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

«One - quarter of people drive fairly sleepy, and a small percentage have wrecks,» says David Davila, MD, medical director of the Baptist Health Sleep Center in Little Rock, Ark., and a National Sleep Foundation spokesperson.

«The pollens that causes most people problems aren't the heavy, large particles — it's the smaller, invisible ones that are light enough to become airborne,» says Keith Young, MD, an allergist at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

â $ For a small subgroup of women with strong family histories of breast cancer, we recommend starting screening, including annual mammograms and MRIs, at age 25, â $ says Julie R. Gralow, MD, the director of breast medical oncology at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Humans don't naturally have yeast in their body, but because of our diets and lifestyle — we eat bread, drink alcohol, take antibiotics — it is often found in very small amounts, says Dr. Kanodia, who's also a clinical assistant professor at Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University.

In a 2012 study, researchers at Tel Aviv University Medical Center found that dieters who ate a large breakfast that included a sweet treat lost 37 pounds more over eight months than those on an equal - calorie diet with a smaller, low - carb breakfast.

«If you're living in a small town and the nearest oncology center is a hundred miles away, you probably would want to get a second opinion from a major center,» such as one of the National Cancer Institute's designated comprehensive cancer centers or a large hospital - based cancer center where multidisciplinary consultation can be obtained, says Edward M. Wolin, MD, a medical oncologist at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Ancenter is a hundred miles away, you probably would want to get a second opinion from a major center,» such as one of the National Cancer Institute's designated comprehensive cancer centers or a large hospital - based cancer center where multidisciplinary consultation can be obtained, says Edward M. Wolin, MD, a medical oncologist at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Ancenter,» such as one of the National Cancer Institute's designated comprehensive cancer centers or a large hospital - based cancer center where multidisciplinary consultation can be obtained, says Edward M. Wolin, MD, a medical oncologist at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Ancenter where multidisciplinary consultation can be obtained, says Edward M. Wolin, MD, a medical oncologist at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Amedical oncologist at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los AMedical Center in Los AnCenter in Los Angeles.

Mark Pimentel, MD, gastroenterologist at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center, one of the key leaders in research and treatment of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth notes, «Methane is an important gas to assess during breath testing because it is nearly universally associated with a phenotype of constipation.

According to Evangeline Lausier, MD who is an assistant clinical professor in medicine at Duke Integrative Medicine of the Duke University Medical Center, ginkgo biloba improves * blood flow in small vessels.