His team is now
studying patients who have especially high risk of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
By
studying patients who emerge into consciousness after years in limbo, Schiff and Giacino have shown that the brain can sometimes fix itself even decades after damage.
Medical sleuthing, O'Rahilly says, works best by
studying patients who seem to defy all sorts of standard diagnoses: «I study the experiments of nature to illuminate the normal.»
With over 20 centers working together to
study their patients who have torn their anterior cruciate ligament and undergone surgery, the amount of knowledge gained with this collaboration [has been] astounding,» concludes Dr. Weiss.
However, in
this study all patients who developed TR often had tricuspid annulus diameters less than 40 mm, as well as less than moderate TR by echocardiography at the time of the MV repair.
Using electronic health records, insurance claims and demographic data, the researchers
studied patients who received a new diagnosis of depression in primary care settings in five large health care systems between 2010 and 2013.
Among
study patients who experienced complications within the first month after the surgical procedure, the authors looked for the presence of any of three known preoperative nutritional factors that could affect surgical results.
In a 2006 study, neuroscientist Larry R. Squire of the University of California, San Diego, and the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System
studied patients who had hippocampal damage.
Vilayanur Ramachandran and Diane Rogers - Ramachandran of the University of California, San Diego,
studied patients who had lost an arm but could still feel it as a «phantom» limb.
For several decades, beginning in the 1960s, neuroscientist Roger Sperry of the California Institute of Technology, psychologist Michael S. Gazzaniga of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and their colleagues
studied patients who underwent surgery to sever the corpus callosum (the large band of neural fibers connecting the two hemispheres) in an effort to halt intractable epilepsy.
Now, she and her Oxford colleague Dr Lali Iyadurai have taken their model for the first time from the laboratory into a clinical environment to
study patients who had a traumatic motor - vehicle accident.
As a physician who interviewed women who had survived breast cancer for my art project The Woman Inside and who
studied patients who experienced...
As a physician who interviewed women who had survived breast cancer for my art project The Woman Inside and who
studied patients who experienced spontaneous remissions from cancer as part of the research for my book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, I discovered that those who had overcome cancer shared one remarkable thing in common.
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.
This
study, published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, found that 22
patients who played the memory game made significantly fewer errors and needed significantly fewer attempts to remember the location of different patterns specific tests.
Ahern has been overseeing a three - year
study involving more than 200
patients who suffer from physical and psychiatric disorders.
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 ENDEAVOUR Phase 3
study data monitoring committee recommended dosing be suspended after it found «an imbalance of mortality» in
patients who used revusiran as compared to placebo.
Amgen Executive Vice President of Research and Development Sean Harper said the
study was designed to explore Kyprolis dosing regimens, noting that the the trial did not meet its goal in improving progression - free survival versus Velcade in
patients who had not yet been treated for the disease.
An early, outsourced clinical research
study with real
patients was encouraging, but there are many potential pitfalls yet to come, said University of North Carolina diabetes researcher Dr. John Buse,
who was briefed by Google on the lens last week.
The
study is
patient - funded; participants,
who range in age from late 30s through 80s, must pay $ 8,000 to take part, and live in or travel to Monterey for treatments and follow - up assessments.
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.»
For industries like healthcare, Larsen points out that various
studies have found that the most «satisfied»
patients are also those
who spent the most on prescription drugs and were 12 percent more likely to be admitted to hospitals.
REDUCE - IT is the first multinational cardiovascular outcomes
study evaluating the effect of prescription pure EPA therapy, or any triglyceride - lowering therapy, as an add - on to statins in
patients with high cardiovascular risk
who, despite stable statin therapy, have elevated triglyceride levels (150 - 499 mg / dL).
Dr. Saxon,
who spoke with me after her SWSW panel Biometrics and Identity: Beyond Wearable, said that her institution soon will launch a ResearchKit app for an existing
study that tracks
patients after atrial fibrillation repair surgery.
In a
study, conducted by a faith - based group no less, it was shown that ICU
patients who knew they were being prayed for tended to suffer more complications and problems than those
who were not or did not know.
The
study can only look for an effect from prayers offered as part of the research, they said.They also said they had no explanation for the higher complication rate in
patients who knew they were being prayed for, in comparison to
patients who only knew it was possible prayers were being said for them.»
In the Rutgers
Study (http://www.templeton.org/pdfs/articles/060331Reuters.pdf),
patients who were prayed for did WORSE.
Traditional Buddhist stories abound of meditators being taken over by evil spirits, and contemporary psychological
studies of mindfulness practice going back to the 1970s include
patients who experienced hallucinations, psychotic episodes, depression and other mental trauma, as well as nerve pain and similar physical impacts.
A 1990's European medical
study of terminal
patients who died experienced weight loss of 1 / 3000th oz.
But if he had the charge of a hospital, or lived in a city where the pestilence was raging, if he would be
studying fermentation, the circulation of the blood, blisters, and the like, and such like excellent points, when he should be visiting his
patients, and saving men's lives; if he should even turn them away, and let them perish, and tell them that he has not time to give them advice, because he must follow his own
studies, I would consider that man as a most preposterous student,
who preferred the remote means before the end itself of his
studies: indeed, I would think him but a civil kind of murderer.
She commends the work, and rightly so, primarily for its «comprehensive critical review of the literature» (there have been about 15
studies of female homosexuals
who were not
patients) and for its 26 summarized case
studies.
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.
He went to Russia in 1970 and
studied the work of Yuri Nikolayev,
who prescribed fasts for mentally ill
patients.
They did it right, a nice
study in the hospital of heart attack
patients, those
who were and were not prayed for, those
who knew they were prayed for, those
who did not, those prayed for by family, those
who didn't know, and they had strangers pray for them.
Then my supervisor told me about a
study on prayer in which
patients who didn't know they were being prayed about got better faster than
patients who weren't being prayed about.
Instead we can take another approach as described by Mary Midgley: «There are two points of view — inside and outside, subjective and objective, the
patient's point of view on his toothache and that of the dentist
who studies it» (OW 508).
The Lisansky
study compared the women outpatient clinic
patients with a group of women alcoholics
who had been committed to a state farm for various offenses.
One such
study by the University of Utah found that healthy
patients who consumed unprocessed cacao experienced a decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressure by 5 mm within two weeks.
Study Suggests a Little Wine May be Good for Your Kidneys: Moderate wine consumption could help keep the kidneys healthy, and may protect the heart in
patients who already have kidney disease, according to new findings...
Even in IBD
patients,
who have a very messed up microbiome (a finding of the American Gut data), the benefits of antioxidant therapy is well documented (see below
studies).
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.
I hope this
study leads to hospitals adopting
patient - controlled epidurals as standard practice for women
who choose to have epidurals.
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?)
The hospital birthing center where I had my baby offers it... My midwife was actually excited that I wanted to do water labor but no water birth... I was the only one of her
patients who DID N'T intend to birth in the water and she needed people birthing out of the tub for a control group in a waterbirth infection
study she was contributing to.
He points to research by a Stanford University researcher, Allan K. Mishra,
who has
studied PRP for years, whose in his most recent published research includes a large multicenter
study [8] involving a host of well - respected orthopedic surgeons around the country
who followed 230
patients in a double - blind randomized control
study [the gold standard for medical research].
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.
In response to reports that women may be using this unapproved drug, to increase milk production (lactation), the
WHO and FDA are warning breastfeeding women of safety concerns as «there have been several published reports and case
studies of cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden death in
patients receiving an intravenous form of domperidone that has been withdrawn from the market in a number of countries.»
A 2012
study in Brain, Behavior, and Immunity found that people
who listened to a relaxation CD before and after surgery had less stress and a speedier recovery than other
patients.
While there is some evidence to suggest that helmeted children recognize that they are somehow different, a 2008
study on the quality of life of children
who had undergone helmet therapy discovered that 96 % of
patients and their families were satisfied with treatment results.