Sentences with phrase «studied medicine for»

I want doctors that want to heal, not doctors that studied medicine for a fat paycheck.

Thus Maugham ended up studying medicine for five years while secretly continuing to write and nurse his ambition to become an author.

They compete for relatively few spots in veterinary schools, study medicine for eight to 10 years and end up with hundreds of thousands of dollars in student debt when they get out.

Not exact matches

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that Valeant Pharmaceuticals» infamous price hikes for a pair of heart drugs called nitroprusside and isoproterenol — whose prices were increased by 310 % and 720 %, respectively — had significant downstream effects on patient care.

Take, for example, the recently published report entitled «Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes,» by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — which the Academies helpfully point out is a «congressionally mandated» study.

FITBIT DATA AIDS RESEARCHERS IN UNDERSTANDING SURGERY RECOVERY: Fitbit data can help researchers and doctors predict the risk of 30 - and 60 - day readmission after surgery for cancer patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

Apple, for instance, recently began the Apple Heart Study with Stanford Medicine.

«Based on a series of studies performed by our team over the past 5 years, this «dose» of exercise has become my prescription for life,» Benjamin Levine, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern who wrote the study, said in a statement.

The budget helps full - time students earning more by doubling the in - study income exemption to $ 100 per week from $ 50 per week, and exam fees for Canadians needing to certify their skills in fields such as carpentry and medicine will be tax - deductible.

That's because, as a new study notes, meeting patients» basic social needs — including for heating, electricity, food access, and medicines — can actually have a significant effect on basic health indicators like blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

That study, led by William Bozeman, M.D., of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, found that Tasers «appear to be very safe, especially when compared to other options police have for subduing violent or combative suspects... [though] that is not to say that injuries and deaths are impossible.»

Her discovery of radium lead to the development of using X-rays in medicine, and Curie was at the forefront for cancer research, directing the first studies that used radiation to treat tumors.

That led investigators to conclude that ResearchKit is «particularly suitable for studies of short duration that require rapid enrollment across diverse geographical locations, frequent data collection, and real - time feedback to participants,» according to Yvonne Chan, who heads up the digital health and personalized medicine unit at Mount Sinai.

The studies conducted in the late 60s that suggested fat intake was a greater risk factor for heart disease than sugar consumption were actually funded by the Sugar Research Foundation, according to a new analysis published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Tony co-founded the UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine and chaired the Molecular and Cellular Hematology Study Section for the National Institutes of Health.

Even in the case of professions like law or medicine, which require graduate degrees to practice, not all lawyers and doctors picked the stereotypical political science and biology majors for their undergraduate studies.

The drug is called Acthar, and for the past year it has been the focus of a study by the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine and Oregon State that has been trying to understand why doctors keep prescribing it for ailments it has never been proved to treat effectively.

Charmaine DM Royal Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics Associate Professor of African & African American Studies, Biology, Community & Family Medicine

Over the past three decades, the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development has estimated both the cost and the years it takes for companies to develop new medicines.

The full data from the Phase III study, dubbed ATHOS - 3, of Angiotensin for treating catecholamine - resistant hypotension, or CRH, was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

(Reuters)- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc's RNAi - based drug that targets a rare genetic disease met the main goal of a key study, in a breakthrough for the new class of medicines that works by blocking disease - causing proteins.

It offers student loans for undergraduates and graduate students including MBA candidates, law students and students studying health professions such as medicine, dentistry and nursing.

The school is accredited to offer just a half - dozen degrees, according to California's bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, including an associate's degree in nursing, a bachelor's in biblical studies, a master's in Asian medicine and a doctorate in ministry.

That the daughter may be too tired to study because she has to work for two dollars a day to help feed the family, or that the mother can't afford medicine, are not things taken into account in popular religion.

This strain of realism cropped out first in my younger brother, who until his death in 1927 was studying medicine and preparing for research in pathology.

All her A-levels were in the sciences and she was predicted for Oxford to study medicine.

To become a physician one studied for thirty - two months in the faculty of liberal arts and an additional five and a half years in the school of medicine.

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.

Christian and Jewish leaders addressed issues of genetic research during President Jimmy Carter's administration, promoting a report called Splicing Life, issued by the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research.

Dr. Andrew Newberg, MD is the Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomson Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College and he has studied the neuroscientific effect of religious and spiritual experiences for decades.

This isn't the first study dedicated to this subject, but it is «one of the largest studies to date in living retired NFL players» and the «first to demonstrate significant objective evidence for traumatic brain injury in these former players,» study author Francis X. Conidi of the Florida Center for Headache and Sports Neurology and Florida State University College of Medicine said in a statement.

He studied about Chinese and integrative medicine and has been studying, practicing, and teaching alternative medicine for more than fifteen years.

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.

For instance, I'm very much into herbal medicine, studying Ayurvedic health, practicing personalized nutrition, learning how our emotions and life circumstances affect our health, and discovering the energetic effects of food, emotions, and illness in ways that are typically overlooked in conventional nutrition advice.

«People eat chocolate because they enjoy it, not because they think it's good for them, and the idea of the study is to see whether there are health benefits from chocolate's ingredients minus the sugar and fat,» Dr. JoAnn Manson, preventive medicine chief at Harvard - affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston told The Huffington Post.

Some of the medical studies I used as a reference are: Caloric restriction and intermittent fasting: Two potential diets for successful brain aging and Dietary Factors, Hormesis and Health, found on the US National Library of Medicine Site, Cardioprotection by Intermittent Fasting in Rats on the American Heart Association Site and Effect of Ramadan intermittent fasting on aerobic and anaerobic performance and perception of fatigue in male elite judo athletes from the Journal of Strength and conditioning research.

According to a study on oats and contamination published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and summarized on celiac.com, three brands of rolled or steel - cut oats (Quaker, Country Choice, and McCannâ $ ™ s) were tested for gluten contamination.

If you are studying for medicine for example and you lost the use of a hand that could be detrimental to your studies and eventual career path.

One of the most important and influential studies of the long - term effects of childhood stress and trauma is the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, which was conducted in the 1990s by Robert Anda, a physician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Vincent Felitti, the founder of the department of preventive medicine at Kaiser Permanente, the giant health - maintenance organization based in California.

The problem, as Paul S. Echlin, M.D. of the Elliott Sports Medicine Clinic in Burlington, Ontario, Canada and author of the Canadian study, points out, is that the «young athlete is often caught between competing demands of the adults around them» and «sometimes make decisions based on the adult whom they perceive to have the most influence on their success, and also whom they wish most to please for a variety of reasons.»

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.

That the study found concussion rates for ice hockey (10 per 100,000) and football (8 per 100,000) among younger athletes (7 - to 11 - year - olds) much higher than the overall concussion rate (1 per 100,000), were «not surprising» to lead author, Lisa L. Bakhos, M.D., a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey.

All I can hope for is that ethical studies are done in this regard and in all areas of medicine.

His tremendous contribution to medicine, both for those who practice it and those who turn to the medical profession for help and advice, is shown in this quotation from Dr. Robert Minkus who studied under Dr. Mendelsohn when he was teaching at the University of Illinois:

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that promotes a plant - based diet, cited the Boston study in filing a petition in July asking that the USDA eliminate dairy requirements from the school lunch program.

«You can not find a number for this,» says Marianne Neifert, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine who co-authored a 1990 study of 319 breast - feeding women that found 15 percent of the women were unable to produce sufficient milk by three weeks postpartum.

Dr. Debra Weese - Mayer, chief of the Center for Autonomic Medicine in Pediatrics at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, told Reuters Health she worries that in light of the new study, parents may forget the success of the so - called Back to Sleep Campaign, now called Safe to Sleep.

A search of Pubmed [a data base containing all medical journal articles] for platelet rich plasma yields 6,811 articles, but less than 20 are clinical studies evaluating patient outcomes for orthopedic sports medicine conditions.

In another study of 471 soccer games using a goal post padding system developed by Dr. David Janda, an orthopedic surgeon and director of the Institute for Preventive Sports Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, there were seven major collisions between a goalie and the post, but no injuries.

* 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.