Sentences with phrase «treating older patients»

Why bother treating older patients who have lived their whole life with ADHD?

Not exact matches

I recalled this decades - old memory when I read an investigation published online yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine entitled, «Comparison of Hospital Mortality and Readmission Rates for Medicare Patients Treated by Male vs. Female Physicians.»

Regulators noted that they will require special training for anyone involved in delivering this therapy, while expanding the approval of Actemra (tocilizumab) to treat CAR T - cell - induced severe or life - threatening CRS in patients 2 years of age or older.

«An unacceptably high number of older patients are denied basic help - with eating, drinking, or going to the toilet - and aren't treated with the dignity or respect we would all want for our elderly relatives.

Taub also claims in the email that a Weitz & Luxenberg lawyer had already called an 80 - year - old cancer patient he was treating and trying to refer to the foundation, noting that the money - hungry attorney told the patient he would be charged 30 percent of the settlement fee.

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

A 38 - year - old psychiatrist by training who still sees patients once a week, Deisseroth entered the field of bioengineering because of his frustration over the inadequate tools available to research and treat mental illness and neurodegenerative disorders.

In addition, the study showed that the 5 - year survival rate for selected older patients with advanced lung cancer who were treated with surgical therapy was 29.9 % for Stage III and 26.7 % for Stage IV.

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.

Because there was only one other published case report about a child with M. velutinosus — a 1 - year - old with brain cancer who had undergone a bone marrow transplant — Kumar notes that he and colleagues were at a loss as to how best to treat their patient.

Dr Jeff Chaitow, head of rheumatology, a co-investigator and the patient's treating clinician at Sydney's The Children's Hospital at Westmead, said his young patient, now 10 years old, still needs regular steroids and immune suppressive drugs each day.

The findings are important because they suggest that treating high blood pressure in older patients should not follow a one - size - fits - all approach.

Prior research has demonstrated that patients under 55 have significantly improved outcomes if treated in trauma centers, but these studies did not determine if older adults or patients with isolated head injuries had the same benefits.

Both groups of animals were equivalent to 55 - to 60 - year - old morbidly obese patients with uncontrolled diabetes, the most difficult population to treat.

What people may not know about Sacks, however, is that the 74 - year - old neurologist has spent much of his career regularly treating patients in mental - health facilities around New York City.

A 10 - year - old girl in Sweden is the world's first recipient of a donated vein treated with a patient's own stem cells.

A 48 - year - old physician whose career has centred on treating seriously ill patients, Burgh was diagnosed with cancer in December 2006.

A new study could add to the argument over equal pay in the ranks of medicine: Older patients treated by female doctors tend to do better than those treated by males.

While direct - acting antivirals have been used to treat and cure adult patients with HCV, until now children have been mainly treated for 24 to 48 weeks with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin (RBV), an older treatment which causes severe side effects.

The initial patient, a 68 - year - old man who had just returned from a business trip to the Middle East, was treated at several clinics before being diagnosed with MERS on 20 May — 9 days after he fell ill.

The way to do so occurred to Olaf Blanke — a neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist at the Brain - Mind Institute, part of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland — a decade ago while he worked with an epilepsy patient, a 43 - year - old woman with drug - resistant seizures who had to be treated with surgery.

The generic risperidone products will have the same safety warnings as Risperdal, including a boxed warning, cautioning that older patients with dementia - related psychosis treated with atypical anti-psychotic drugs are at increased risk of death, as compared with those taking placebo.

In older patients, the success rate of the surgery are made worse by the fact that many patients are typically using oral anticoagulant medications to treat other cardiovascular diseases.

Glucocorticoid therapy is widely used to treat inflammatory conditions and is the most common cause of secondary osteoporosis.1 Treatment with glucocorticoids is especially common (2 % -3 %) in patients older than 65 years.2 Glucocorticoid treatment leads to rapid bone loss, reflected by reduced bone mineral density (BMD).

The targeted agent ibrutinib has shown a high response rate in both treatment - naive and previously treated, relapsed, refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) patients older than 65.

At 11 a.m., on Wednesday, June 1, Edward Murphy — a 66 - year - old Osceola, IN, man who suffers from advanced kidney cancer that has spread throughout his body — became the first patient ever to be treated in the Chicago - area with gene therapy.

We help patients, family members, loved ones, and other physicians understand the benefits, risks, and limitations of treating cancer in older adults.

In Louisiana, the 4 - year - old TCA Cellular Therapy company has several ongoing FDA - approved clinical trials on humans, using patients» own stem cells to treat heart and vascular diseases.

The first gene therapy trials were carried out in 1990 treating a four - year old patient who suffered from severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)(1).

The study — which examined insurance claims data for more than 3,000 patients who were at risk for stroke due to atrial fibrillation, treated with anticoagulants, and later admitted to a hospital for bleeding — calls into question the current medical belief that the older drug is safer.

Old, who also heads the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research (LICR) New York Branch and has served for many years as director of LICR's worldwide scientific programs, says that, eventually, vaccines will treat a wide variety of cancer types, recruiting the immune system to stop the progression of patients» tumors and helping to fully stabilizing the disease.

«My doctor diagnosed me with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) but then had no idea how to treat it other than to tell me to reduce my intake of gassy foods» my 34 - year - old patient Maria said during her initial visit.

One of the patients that most inspired me to really start my journey outside of the pelvis was an 18 - year - old girl I treated 4 years ago.

Oclacitinib is the newest treatment approved for treating canine atopic dermatitis for patients at least 12 months old.

Laser therapy: A new way to treat old problems The Doctors and staff of Park Animal Hospital are now excited to introduce Laser Therapy to our clients and patients.

The study involves injecting feline patients with stem cells cultivated from the fat of young, healthy cats, and has shown promise for treating a health problem that affects approximately 50 percent of cats older than 10, CSU said.

Airway surgery to treat brachycephalic airway disease of pugs, bulldogs and other short nosed breeds and laryngeal paralysis in older patients.

The majority of patients we treat are older / geriatric cats.

A major focus for the hospital and foundation has been replacement of the old hospital with a new $ 623 - million facility designed to better attract and treat the most acute patients in the Denver area.

Part of the agreement involved Janssen pleading guilty to misbranding the drug, including marketing it for use by older patients suffering from dementia despite the fact that it was only approved for treating schizophrenia.

In 2012, Attorney Satin achieved two of the five largest verdicts of the year — a $ 5.83 million verdict for the family of a patient who died after his primary care physician discontinued his aspirin regimen, and a $ 3,582,831 judgment for the mother of a 12 - year - old boy who died after an emergency room doctor failed to transfer him in time to treat a malfunctioning shunt.

Long - term care insurance covers the costs associated with treating chronic illnesses or other ailments in old age, such as at - home care for Alzheimer's patients or nursing home costs for people unable to live alone.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Developed and implemented a series of interventions for a 5 year old with severe behavioral issues, resulting in him mellowing down without the use of medication • Suggested introduction of group therapy sessions to bring patients with behavioral problems (due to chronic illnesses) together, which decreased treatment time considerably • Introduced a special needs assistance unit within the facility, resulting in increased number of patients signing up • Devised a basic intervention plan to treat children with Autism which reduced time and difficulty in developing individualized plans

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS • Successfully rehabilitated a patient who was suffering from altered brain activity due to drug abuse • Implemented a core mental health plan, which successfully treated a family suffering from mass hysteria • Intervened in a crises situation involving a 10 year old child threatening to jump off a third floor apartment and managed to talk him out of it • Formulated a system which dynamically measured the effectiveness of each mental health treatment plan and provided suggestions for improvement

Our program treats patients age 5 and older in an outpatient setting.