Sentences with phrase «studied medicine before»

Exposed early on to the work of painter Achilles Moortgat, Beuys originally studied medicine before enrolling in the army...

Exposed early on to the work of painter Achilles Moortgat, Beuys originally studied medicine before enrolling in the army in 1940.

One falls prey to a series of pranks en route to a legal vocation, while the other studies medicine before discovering a different calling entirely, and it is years before their destinies are entwined in a mesmerizing alliance.

Not exact matches

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

Richard Overman spent four years in the general practice of medicine before returning to school to study philosophy and religion.

You might recall that last summer I was madly cramming for my rheumatology exams and the summer before that was spent studying for my internal medicine exams.

The studies, however, were not enough to persuade Dr. James Andrews of the ASMI, and one of the most highly respected sports medicine physicians in the country, to soften his long - held stance against pitchers throwing curveballs before age 14.

More recently, a study reported in the American Journal of Sports Medicine suggests that the ACL injury rate for female athletes, particularly non-contact ACL injuries, can be significantly reduced if the athlete follows a specific exercise program called the Prevent Injury and Enhance Performance (PEP) program before practices and games.

* Announcement of the rule came just days before a study, presented to the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine meeting in San Francisco, found that making sure that football helmets fit properly, and that those with air bladder linings are properly inflated, may be two of the simplest but most effective ways to minimize the risk of concussion and catastrophic brain injury in the sport.

Neurmuscular training (NMT) programs, including the FIFA 11 + program, a 20 - minute series of warm - up exercises performed at the start of each training session and in a modified form before matches, and the PEP exercise program developed by the Santa Monica Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Research Foundation, a series of 19 warm - up, stretching, strengthening, plyometric, and sport - specific agility exercises that can be completed in less than 30 minutes without any specialized equipment, have both been proven effective in a series of studies in reducing ACL injuries, particularly of the non-contact variety, and especially among female athletes, who more prone to ACL tears.

In 1997 a researcher from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, studied 482 healthy toddlers between 18 and 30 months of age to see how long before they are potty trained.

An August 2015 editiorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, [41] said that autopsy studies - many conducted in Boston at the Center for the Study of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy - and a study reporting that retired NFL players who began playing football before age 12 demonstrated greater levels of cognitive impairment in their 40s - 60s than those who started later, [40] «raises concern that an accumulation of undiagnosed subconcussive head trauma may lead to (or be a leading factor) for CTE.&rStudy of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy - and a study reporting that retired NFL players who began playing football before age 12 demonstrated greater levels of cognitive impairment in their 40s - 60s than those who started later, [40] «raises concern that an accumulation of undiagnosed subconcussive head trauma may lead to (or be a leading factor) for CTE.&rstudy reporting that retired NFL players who began playing football before age 12 demonstrated greater levels of cognitive impairment in their 40s - 60s than those who started later, [40] «raises concern that an accumulation of undiagnosed subconcussive head trauma may lead to (or be a leading factor) for CTE.»

If however many MDs aren't practicing evidence - based medicine, then why not don't MDs * police their own * before going off on other professions for their lack of evidence - base... or attacking what evidence - base there is even if it isn't multiple double - blind placebo controlled studies funded by wealthy drug manufacturers?

In a study of over 1000 mothers, approximately 60 % of them stopped breastfeeding earlier than they were planning to continue before their babies were born, and they cited concerns about difficulty with lactation, their babies» nutrition or weight gain, their own illness or need to take medicine, and the effort required to pump breastmilk (Odom, Li, Scanlon, Perrine, & Grummer - Strawn, 2013).

In fact, according to a study in Breastfeeding Medicine, mothers with lower rates of breastfeeding «tend to be young, low - income, African American, unmarried, less educated, participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), overweight or obese before pregnancy, and more likely to report their pregnancy was unintended.»

I moved on to Osun State University Osogbo to study medicine; studied for 3 years before we got stagnated due to lack of accreditation and the Osun State Government came to our rescue.

The 54 - year - old was born in East Kilbride in Scotland and educated in the state system, before studying medicine at Glasgow University and becoming a doctor.

Editor's Note (10/2/17): Seventeen years before the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three U.S. scientists for their research on biological clocks, one of them, Michael W. Young, set out an account in Scientific American describing the genetic studies that identified the «molecular timepieces» that are ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom.

«Most of the medicines in use today are in the crystal form, which means that they need extra energy to dissolve in the body before they enter the bloodstream,» said study co-author Professor Axel Zeitler from Cambridge's Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

Martin teamed with Richard Lipton, MD, Jelena Pavlovic, MD, PhD, and Dawn Buse, PhD, from Montefiore Headache Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Kristina Fanning, PhD, and Michael Reed, PhD, from Vedanta Research, Chapel Hill, NC, to study 3,664 women who experienced migraine before and during their menopausal years.

Gray completed a PhD in Health Information Sources before receiving a a Harkness Fellowship from the Commonwealth Fund, an opportunity she used to conduct a trans - Atlantic study on the use of Internet resources by adolescents for health and medicines information.

Patients 65 and older who have ambulatory surgery are much more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days than younger patients, regardless of their health before surgery, reports a new, large national Northwestern Medicine study.

11 Teens who begin drinking before the age of 15 are more likely to develop a dependence on alcohol later in life than those who start when they are older, according to a 2009 study by researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

«In the last few months, we've diagnosed several people with the disease years before the diagnosis is typically made, which has changed how we do medicine in our nerve clinic,» says Michael Polydefkis, M.D., professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author on thmedicine in our nerve clinic,» says Michael Polydefkis, M.D., professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author on thMedicine and senior author on the study.

When he was still in his early twenties, studying medicine in Puerto Rico and moonlighting at a San Juan hospital, his hands coaxed newborns into the world, 60 or more before he ever graduated from medical school.

But depression that begins before or during pregnancy is often more severe because it lasts longer and usually goes undetected until the doctor screens for it after the birth of the baby, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study.

«What this study clearly says is at least beginning at 30 weeks and possibly before that, the fetal brain is starting to lay down short - term memories and might even be laying down some long - term memories,» says Rahil Briggs, director of Healthy Steps at Montefiore Medical Center and assistant professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

But a new study suggests that doctors should also focus on patients who were taking such medicines before their operations.

Now, a new preclinical study from Penn Medicine researchers found that in many cases the root of the resistance may lie in a never - before - seen autophagy mechanism induced by the BRAF inhibitors vermurafenib and dabrafenib.

In a new Yale School of Medicine study, researchers examined MRI brain scans to identify children at high risk of developing MS before symptoms appear, which may lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment.

Obesity and a bigger waist size in older women are associated with a higher risk of death, major chronic disease and mobility disability before the age of 85, according to a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.

«Although data clearly indicate better immune responses and vaccine efficacy against both genital warts and cervical dysplasia when vaccination occurs before age 14, this study suggests that HPV vaccination may be effective in reducing abnormal Pap test results even after sexual debut,» explained co-author Rebecca Perkins, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Boston University School of Medicine and a gynecologist at Boston Medical Center.

To better predict how patients will respond to chemotherapy drugs before they begin treatment, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine conducted a proof - of - principle study with a small group of metastatic colorectal cancer patients.

We found that performing MRI before biopsy and using that information to alter biopsy pathways would be a strategy that would add health benefits to the patient population in a cost effective manner,» said Vikas Gulani, MD, PhD, study advisor and associate professor of radiology, urology, and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and member of both the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Center for Imaging Research.

«Never before has PTK6 inhibition been shown to inhibit growth and induce cell death of ER + breast cancer cells, including those resistant to standard treatments for this subtype such as tamoxifen,» said Hanna Irie, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Hematology and Medical Oncology) and Oncological Sciences at The Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and senior author of the study.

However, further studies will be needed to learn how they actually work before applications in human medicine are possible.»

A first - of - its - kind study led by Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), published online in the journal, Circulation, found that infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) born far from a hospital providing neonatal cardiac surgery for HLHS have increased neonatal mortality, with most deaths occurring before surgery.

Adults who have dyslexia are much more likely to report they were physically abused before they turned 18 than their peers without dyslexia, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill.

Army STARRS researchers, led by study co-principal investigators, Robert J. Ursano, MD, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Murray B. Stein, MD, MPH, Professor of Psychiatry and Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego, found that a majority (58.2 %) of soldiers who ever thought of suicide had these thoughts before enlistment, 76.6 % of soldiers with current mental disorders had onsets before enlistment, and nearly half (47 %) of soldiers who ever made a suicide attempt did so for the first time before enlistment.

«Our study demonstrates that dogs can distinguish angry and happy expressions in humans, they can tell that these two expressions have different meanings, and they can do this not only for people they know well, but even for faces they have never seen before,» says Ludwig Huber, senior author and head of the group at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna's Messerli Research Institute.

Researchers at Penn Medicine's Center for Studies of Addiction have now found that the drug baclofen, commonly used to prevent spasms in patients with spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders, can help block the impact of the brain's response to «unconscious» drug triggers well before conscious craving occurs.

Since the mid-1990s, FDA has deemed that organisms used in challenge studies are experimental medicines, and the agency has required researchers to submit Investigational New Drug applications before conducting trials.

David C. Johnson, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and a third - year urology resident at UNC School of Medicine, and colleagues evaluated the impact that patients» nutritional status before radical cystectomy had on the rate of complications within 30 days after the operation.

Isolating the sickest Ebola - infected individuals before they progress into their late phase of illness can effectively eliminate the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, according to a modeling study being published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

«In gene carriers, before they show signs of the disease, the neurodegeneration process has already started,» says Sarah Tabrizi, a neurologist at University College London and coauthor of the study, which appears in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

«With 3D printing, surgeons can make better decisions before they go into the operating room,» said Matthew Bramlet, M.D., study lead author and assistant professor of pediatric cardiology and director of the Congenital Heart Disease MRI Program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria.

Analysing blood samples from a study of 100,000 women showed that, in 88 per cent of cases, the test could detect ovarian cancer 1 to 2 years before it is usually diagnosed (Genome Medicine, doi.org/ch2m).

Declines in prostate - specific antigen (PSA) testing differed among urologist and primary care physician visits in a study that compared testing before and after a 2011 recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force against PSA screening for all men, according to an article published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

«While our findings are consistent with other reported changes in neuronal firing rates with attention, they go far beyond such descriptions, revealing never - before tested mechanisms at the synaptic level,» said study co-author Farran Briggs, PhD, assistant professor of Physiology and Neurobiology at the Geisel School of Medicine.

With a background in nuclear physics, Seifalian also studied nuclear medicine and biochemistry before settling on tissue engineering.