Sentences with phrase «than treating patients»

For example, the cosily corrupt relationship between some medical expert witnesses (whose prime expertise is in giving «expert» evidence rather than treating patients!)

Not exact matches

In this new system, healthcare is evolving to become proactive rather than reactive, allowing patients to potentially catch and treat problems earlier.

It's not a blockbuster, but Sirturo is saving lives: the drug, which was added to the World Health Organization's Essential Medicines List in 2015, has been registered in over 40 countries and used to treat more than 10,000 patients.

AmpliPhi and Adaptive Phage Therapeutics have successfully treated more than two dozen patients with life - threatening conditions and are currently treating a few others under an emergency use authorization granted by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Cancer is more complex to treat with a vaccine than viruses, like the measles, mumps or flu, and varies according to patient.

Healthcare professionials in the Coastal Bend say they're treating more patients with allergies this year than in previous years.

They'll also jointly market Pfizer's drug Xalkori, which is approved in more than 75 countries for treating non-small cell lung cancer in patients with a certain genetic mutation.

Treating symptoms rather than causes is usually a good way to make a patient worse.

The impatient person is treated differently than the person who is patient to a fault.

The educator who tries to dominate or enjoy his pupils «stifles the growth of his blessing,» and it is the same with the doctor and the psychotherapist: «As soon as the helper is touched by the desire, in however subtle a form, to dominate or to enjoy his patient, or to treat the latter's wish to be dominated or enjoyed by him as other than a wrong condition needing to be cured, the danger of falsification arises, beside which all quackery appears peripheral.»

But he approves of it in the case of a physician who» knowingly facilitated» the suicide of a patient whom he had treated for a long time, knew well, and who had convinced him early on that she preferred to die rather than go through a long and losing battle with cancer.

It arose from several sources, including simultaneous attempts on the part of several clinicians in the early Fifties to understand and to treat their schizophrenic patients more successfully than had been the case with orthodox one - to - one approaches (see HFT).

Says Cott: «Dr. Nikolayev's experience extends to more than 6,000 patients treated by fasting in the past 25 years.

The atheist would admit that it is better to dig out a splinter than to let it fester and infect its victim — in fact, the atheist would call a doctor who refused to dig out splinters a cruel doctor for refusing to treat his patient.

The fact that doctors are free to prescribe lethally for people with illnesses outside their areas of medical specialization — and to do so secure in the knowledge that they are legally less accountable than if they were treating the same patient — demonstrates the folly of legalizing doctor - prescribed death.

The OB DO focuses on seeing the patient as a «whole person» to reach a diagnosis should problems arise during pregnancy, rather than treating symptoms alone.

We've served over 600,000 hypnosis downloads and treated more than 5,000 patients in 1:1 therapy.

PFC's fertility specialists only treat fertility patients and do not do any routine obstetrics (other than caring for our patients in the first 9 weeks) or gynecology.

«When I first diagnose a child with ADHD, I tell the parents they need to learn behavior techniques, whether I'm prescribing medication or not,» says Patricia Quinn, M.D., co-author of Understanding Women with AD / HD and When Moms and Kids Have ADD, and who has treated patients with ADHD in Washington, D.C., for more than 25 years.

However, since there are simply not enough stem cells in cord blood alone to treat an adult sized patient, Americord offers a proprietary process for storing the entire placenta and preserving up to 10 times more stem cells than cord blood banking alone.

and this year more patients are being treated, and more operations are being carried out, by more doctors and more nurses than ever before.

Many of us in the Legislature know family members, friends or neighbors who have been treated at the VA and were shocked to learn that more than 700 patients were potentially exposed to life - threatening viruses.

Higgins and other bill supporters point to the statistic that while more than 800,000 doctors can prescribe controlled substances - including the ones to which patients become addicted - only about 30,000 doctors can prescribe the medication that can treat the addiction.

The NHS of the future will do more than just treat patients who are ill - it will be an NHS offering prevention as well.

Providers would be paid according the results they achieved, the Tory leader said, rather than the number of patients treated.

Armor spokeswoman Teresa Estefan said the company had treated more than 200,000 patients at Nassau's jail, and «sadly, there are deaths which are not preventable as is the case in some of the most prestigious hospitals.»

If the drug is safe and works, it will undoubtedly encounter strong demand; depression — the world's leading cause of mental disability — never enters full remission in more than half the patients treated with psychotherapies and existing antidepressants.

«If we want to treat the greatest number of diseases, we need to figure out how to get these molecules inside the cells of patients — not just increasing the number of target cells but also hitting tissues other than the liver,» says Anderson, who co-founded a company called CRISPR Therapeutics to pursue those goals.

And using cells from someone other than the cancer patient being treated might trigger an immune response against the foreign cells.

His lab is located in the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, in a building that sits adjacent and is connected to The Christie — the largest single - site cancer center in the United Kingdom, where more than 44,000 patients a year are treated.

But these studies suggest that doctors do not have to take aggressive measures when treating patients older than 85 for hypertension.

«Each area of the brain is different with distinct cell types and connectivity, so if we can confirm that one area of circuitry is more involved in a particular symptom than another, we may eventually be able to treat a depression patient more efficiently than treating everyone the same way.»

In the military, health professionals are much more aware of their social mission as purveyors of public health than they are normally as civilians treating individual patients, Williams - Jones added.

Indeed, so many patients have developed HUS that German physicians have treated more than 200 people with the antibody eculizumab, which had previously only been used to treat three infection - related cases of the syndrome.

Cancer researchers have long observed the value of treating patients with combinations of anti-cancer drugs that work better than single drug treatments.

Although Nauts herself had no formal medical training, she published more than 18 monographs and identified more than 500 patients who were successfully treated with her father's toxin.

Coley went on to treat nearly 1,000 patients with his toxin and published more than 150 papers on the subject.

After one year, researchers found that primary care providers felt that treating pain patients was less of a problem in their practice, particularly among the experimental group, although younger practitioners continued to express more concern about prescription opioid use than older practitioners.

Dr. Mehnert noted that it was surprising that patients with a more treatable cancer, such as breast cancer, experienced more distress than people with cancers that are more challenging to treat, such as stomach and pancreatic cancers, and that more research is needed to interpret these findings.

To address this, BWH investigators used state of the art natural language processing tools to review the course of more than 24,000 patients with coronary artery disease treated at either BWH or Massachusetts General Hospital between 2000 and 2011.

This study used the National Cancer Data Base to analyze 9,817 patients and found that patients treated at higher - volume facilities were more likely to have shorter radiation therapy duration than those at lower volume facilities.

The primary endpoint of death and non-fatal heart attack at 30 days was no different between the two groups (7 percent in the aspirin group and 7.1 percent in the placebo group); however, major bleeding was significantly higher in aspirin - treated patients than in the placebo group (4.6 percent vs. 3.7 percent).

In parts of Siberia, where Tomsk is located, this hard - to - treat variety appears in more than 15 percent of the diagnosed patients.

«Our results show that the number of responders was three times higher when correct information was given than when patients thought they were treated with an ineffective active placebo, even though the pharmacological treatment was identical,» says author Vanda Faria.

«African - American multiple myeloma patients have higher incidence rates and lower survival rates than their Caucasian peers despite this being a relatively easy - to - treat cancer.

Nearly half (48 %) of patients with severe or difficult - to - treat asthma in The Epidemiology and Natural History of Asthma: Outcomes and Treatment Regimens follow - up study (TENOR II) still had very poorly controlled (VPC) symptoms after more than a decade of treatment, according to a new study presented at the ATS 2016 International Conference.

Should doctors treat patients in early stages of Parkinson's disease, when drug side effects may be worse than the symptoms they alleviate?

In Cohort A, pembrolizumab shrunk tumors by more than 30 percent in eight of 170 patients, or five percent, and stabilized the disease in 35, or 21 percent, of those previously treated for mTNBC.

At more than 20 medical institutions around the world, physicians have been experimentally treating patients diagnosed with recurrent depression by bombarding their left cortices with magnetic fields.

Most of the patients who were treated with radium - 223 also had fewer side effects: With regards to serious / severe side effects, there were no more than indications of lesser harm from radium - 223 + BSC compared with BSC with the extent of no more than «minor.»