Sentences with phrase «studied patients at»

Rademakers's team studied patients at several clinics in the United States and Canada.

Not exact matches

A two - month 2010 study of nearly 300 cancer patients at the Mayo Clinic found that those given 1,000 or 2,000 milligrams of ginseng each day reported feeling more energized compared with those who took a placebo.

For example, a small study of 38 patients with Alzheimer's from 2016 looked at the effects of Victoza.

BIIB098: MRI and relapse results from the phase 3 EVOLVE - MS - 1 study in patients with relapsing and remitting multiple sclerosis were presented at the 70th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).

Scientists at the University of Wisconsin and UCLA conducted the study, which implanted electrodes deep into the craniums of epilepsy patients to monitor their brain activity during seizures.

A recent study tested 79 patients, outfitting one - third of them with a VR headset depicting a coastal scene, one - third with a VR cityscape and the remaining third with no VR at all.

Black Medicare patients are being readmitted to hospitals at a much higher rate than white patients, according to a recent study.

The study, by Yusuke Tsugawa and colleagues at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and other institutions, examined the record of a large random sample of Medicare patients, 65 years or older, who were hospitalized from January 2011 to December 2014.

The company's first product, called Prevent, is an online version of the Diabetes Prevention Program, a series of interventions that grew out of a National Institutes of Health study that looked at how diet and exercise could curb patients» chances of developing diabetes.

It may have to do with Addyi's high pricing (on par with Viagra at $ 26 per pill without an assistance program), its daily intake requirement (unlike Viagra, it adds up to $ 780 per month), its potentially deleterious side effects (low blood pressure and fainting), its restrictions on alcohol consumption (abstinence vs. large quantities not recommended for Viagra patients), a 10 % efficacy rate (whereas Viagra works 50 % of the time compared to a placebo, according to a recent study), and its subtle neurotransmitter - targeting mechanism (contrast that to the obvious hydraulics of Viagra).

«More than twice the number of patients [were] still living at the end of the study after receiving IMAB362 plus chemotherapy compared to chemotherapy alone,» according to Ganymed CEO Özlem Türeci, with patients showing the highest level of that protein biomarker responding best to the treatment.

Fernando Pagan, a GUMC associate professor of neurology who directs the Movement Disorders Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, said that to his knowledge, the study «represents the first time a therapy appears to reverse — to a greater or lesser degree depending on stage of disease — cognitive and motor decline in patients with these neurodegenerative disorders.»

When he co-founded Twine in 2013, Moore was a researcher at MIT studying how technology could be used to help patients improve their health.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Attendees will learn through case studies how a PBM can engage all care stakeholders collaboratively - prescribers at the point of care (PoC), pharmacists at the point of sale (PoS), patients, and payers» clinical / pharmacy staff to reduce overall pharmacy costs and avoidable drug — impacted medical costs while improving compliance and patients» quality of life.

Attendees will learn through case studies how a PBM can engage all care stakeholders collaboratively — prescribers at the point of care (PoC), pharmacists at the point of sale (PoS), patients, and payers» clinical / pharmacy staff to reduce overall pharmacy costs and avoidable drug - impacted medical costs while improving compliance and patients» quality of life.

A paragraph that sensuously evokes the rhythm of study and leisure at Oxford so caught my fancy that I read it out loud to my patient roommate:

A study of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at a well - respected Boston hospital revealed that physicians rarely discussed CPR with their patients, despite the fact that one - third of patients who die in the hospital first undergo CPR.

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[27] The STEP, commonly called the «Templeton Foundation prayer study or «Great Prayer Experiment», used 1,802 coronary artery bypass surgery patients at six hospitals.

A 2001 double - blind study at the Mayo Clinic randomized 799 discharged coronary surgery patients into a control group and an intercessory prayer group, which received prayers at least once a week from 5 intercessors per patient.

That's the study that I read to you earlier about the heart patients at San Francisco General, half of whom were prayed for, the other half not.

I have a bachelor degree in social studies and worked for many years with people at group homes in Denmark and experienced everyday how focused the doctors were on trying to cure the patients with drugs.

Another study looked at the effects of millet on blood sugar levels in six diabetic patients.

â $ cents Results from the studies reviewed suggest that some patients exhibit symptoms at much lower doses of gluten than others.

A study conducted at the University of Oxford suggests that Alzheimer's and dementia patients have experienced short - term benefits resulting from consuming coconut oil, even though the results may be temporary.

A recent research study conducted by the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden, in collaboration with DuPont Nutrition & Health (DuPont), yielded breakthrough results demonstrating that probiotic intervention can alter and modify intestinal microbiota in patients with colon cancer.

A first of its kind pilot study titled, «The Celiac Patient Antibody Response to Conventional and Gluten - Removed Beer,» was published online by the Journal of AOAC International, and was conducted by GIG at the University of Chicago's Celiac Research Center.

One study at the Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital in Chicago found that a pinch of pepper in baby food helped stroke patients (who are having difficulty swallowing) ingest their food more easily.

The double - blind study (meaning neither the researchers nor the patients know if they are receiving the coconut oil or placebo) at the Byrd Alzheimer's Institute, located in Tampa, Florida, will be eight months long and will enroll about 65 people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

A study in 2011 looking at more than 645 ACL surgeries found that in patients between the ages of 10 ««19, allograft tissue had a four times higher failure rate than using your own tissue.

The study looked at intended place of birth to rule out improperly assigning transferred patients to the hospital group, and included only the lowest possible risk women.

Whether or not the problems are huge, at least someone goes to the trouble of identifying and quantifying them (e.g., the new study in the Journal of Patient Safety — a whole freakkin» journal devoted to safety, who knew?)

While at the University of Dorpat, he studied the clinical histories of specific patients and realized that identifying and delineating the patterns of symptoms created his organized method to categorize psychiatric disorders.

«At first, the patient is usually very frightened of the voice and will curl up in the chair and look away from the avatar,» explained professor Tom Craig, one of the study's authors.

Citing a 2010 study finding that patients who had at least two 2 rehabilitation visits for persistent dizziness after a concussion showed improvement in their DHI scores (2), the study said that on - field identification of dizziness could lead to earlier implementation of vestibular rehabiliation and other modalities to treat dizziness, which may expedite recovery from concussion.

A strength is that the study was performed in a large family practice teaching center, providing access to a wide spectrum of patients of various socioeconomic strata at one site.

«This is the first study to look at the characteristics of women who are more or less likely to engage in the practice of breast milk sharing, and can help give physicians a starting point for dialogue with their patients,» said Keim.

A prospective study of the progress of labor in 220 nulliparous women and 99 multiparous women who spontaneously entered labor evaluated the benefit of prolonging oxytocin augmentation for an additional 4 hours (for a total of 8 hours) in patients who were dilated at least 3 cm and had unsatisfactory progress (either protraction or arrest) after an initial 4 - hour augmentation period (21).

Primary end points were gross disruption or purulent discharge at site of perineal repair by 2 weeks postpartum.One hundred forty - seven patients were recruited for the study.

They know that birthing at home or in a birth center with a trained midwife is a very safe option with lower rates of interventions and high patient satisfaction but now you no longer have to search and search for studies regarding homebirth which are often buried by cultural anecdotes and message boards.

Patients and staff providing feedback to the study which led to the report complained that they «closed ranks» and that an official at a hospital's patient advice and liaison service department «barely looked at me and dismissed me with a leaflet».

As well as the water club study, the team looked at patients recovering from stroke, and the value of group nostalgia among people with dementia, as well as several other studies.

It's even more repulsive in light of a recent study by Dr. Andrew Chang of Albany Medical Center, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showing opioids were no more effective at reducing pain for patients with broken limbs than a high - dose combination of the over-the-counter, non-addictive painkillers ibuprofen and acetaminophen.

Better ways of preventing foot problems in dialysis patients with diabetes could reduce the 100 or so associated amputations that take place every week in the UK, according to Diabetes UK - funded research being presented this week at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Lisbon.

In the beginning, teaching was my passion, but I didn't just want to be a teacher; I wanted to be a teacher with a difference, I wanted to teach how to save lives, so I decided to study medicine, that way I get to be a doctor and a teacher at the same time, which I still want to do, but over the years I have come to fall in love with medicine, I want that instant gratification of treating a patient and seeing them get better right in front of you, I mean that is the definition of joy for me.

Erie County and each Mall partner are teaming up with the University at Buffalo's School of Public Health to conduct long - term studies of the health outcomes and health care utilization of patients who visit the Health Mall.

Finally, the practical aspects are reviewed with illustrative case studies and advice on how doctors and other healthcare professionals can engage with patients to decide the best course of action, on the understanding that this may be particularly difficult at the end of life.

To conduct the study, researchers developed an online survey that asked participants to respond, true or false, to whether they believed it is acceptable to allow a physician to prescribe medication, at the request of a terminally - ill patient, in order to end that person's life.

A second study, «Arteriolosclerosis that affects multiple brain regions,» appears in a recent issue of the journal Brain, and looks at small blood vessels in patients with HS - Aging and describes a specific change, called «arteriolosclerosis,» which is present in patients with HS - Aging.