Sentences with phrase «used less medication»

Once again, the hypnotized patients used less medication, recovered faster, and spent less time in the hospital than those with standard care.

On average, Spiegel and Lang found, the hypnotized subjects used less medication, experienced less pain, and felt far less anxiety than the other two groups.

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In less than a month I have I have had my physican tell me that he is not renewing my medication as my A1C's are 6.2 AND he intends to use me as a poster child for what diet change / walking can do for your Diabetes.

Research has found that women who have continuous one - on - one support during labor tend to use pain medication less often, have slightly shorter labors, and are less likely to have a c - section or a forceps or vacuum - assisted delivery.

It is important to NEVER use Benadryl or any other sedating medication to babies less than 1 year old just to make them sleep.

Dr Sharara recently reported that using injectable medications once a day is not only equivalent to taking the medications twice a day, but is also associated with the use of less medications, which makes the IVF cycle cheaper.

From this study, researchers concluded that «women who received continuous labor support were more likely to give birth «spontaneously», without caesarean, vacuum, or forceps, less likely to use pain medications, have shorter labors and have an overall more positive birth experience.»

That makes medications less profitable than, say, insulin or Viagra, which patients use for years.

What these medications won't tell you is that after repeated use, they become less effective and it takes increased amounts of the medication to work on the gums.

Research shows that women who have continuous support during labor have a shorter, more comfortable labor, experience fewer interventions (including cesarean birth), and use pain medication less often.

Research shows that the active presence of a supportive and educated life partner is associated with many positive benefits during childbirth, including shorter labors, less use of pain medication or epidurals, fewer cesarean sections and more successful breastfeeding.

Drug companies used to stay one step ahead by continually introducing new medications, but bacteria have been mutating rapidly in response, making the drugs less effective.

Reduced risk of interventions — studies have found that doula assisted births have 50 percent less chance of caesarean section, 40 percent less risk of a forceps delivery and 60 percent reduction in the use of epidural pain medication.

If you're really serious about avoiding pain medication, you must learn about and become comfortable with other coping methods, like the rebozo (a type of large cloth traditionally used in Mexican culture), visualization, and even lesser - known options like sterile water injections.

Huh's team could give the organ the symptoms of dry eye disease by making it blink less frequently, so the device could be used to test the safety and effectiveness of new eye drop medications.

Respondents in this year's survey pointed to five main causes of the field's less than favorable reputation: drug and product recalls such as the withdrawal of Avandia; safety issues such as the discovery of problems with raw material from China used in medical products; scandals, including evidence that pharmaceutical companies have failed to release data from trials whose results cast doubts on their drugs» safety and efficacy; lawsuits brought against companies that failed to warn patients of problems with their products; and ethical issues such as kickbacks for physicians promoting specific medications.

Use of melatonin and other herbal remedies may be perceived as safer, but less is known about their potential side effects and they are not subject to the FDA's approval process for medications, says Malani.

Asthma is considered well - controlled if symptoms occur twice a week or less; rescue bronchodilator medication is used twice a week or less; there is no nocturnal or early morning waking; there are no limitations on activities including work, school and exercise; patient and doctor consider the asthma well - controlled and the patient's peak expiratory flow is normal or personal best FEV1.

It's possible,» he adds, «that the brain would get used to the stimulation — just as it adjusts to medications — and also become less responsive over time, but we are hopeful that continued stimulation might improve symptoms.»

Clinicians at Albany Medical Center and the State University New York Empire State College in Saratoga Springs used a treatment called image - guided, intranasal sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) blocks to give patients enough ongoing relief that they required less medication to relieve migraine pain.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

They were most likely to use modules that reminded them to perform self - care steps that occurred less than every day; and to remind them to take medications, which changed frequently.

The veterans in the study who misused alcohol were less likely to take their medications as prescribed, more likely to use other drugs and had worse quality of life.

The survey also indicates that while opioid overdose rates remain high among adults, teens are misusing opioid pain medications less frequently than a decade ago, and are at historic lows with some of the commonly used pain medications.

Hypnotized patients used significantly less sedative medication and anesthesia; they also reported less pain, nausea, fatigue, and emotional upset.

For example, the percentage of 8th graders who think that occasional use of synthetic marijuana or over-the-counter cough and cold medications is less than it was last year and in prior years.

Patients with HbA1C in the prediabetes range, 5.7 - 6.4 percent, were considered to be intensively treated if using two or more medications at the time of the test, or if started on additional medications after the test, because current guidelines consider patients with HbA1C less than 6.5 percent to be optimally controlled already.

Patients using less common drugs and non-prescription medications could be more at risk for harmful interactions because health care providers may be less familiar with their safety profile.

December 12, 2011 — Recurrent wheezing in children at risk for developing asthma can be controlled using far less medication by giving higher doses of an inhaled corticosteroid only as needed instead of lower doses every day, a study found.

Antiviral medications like valacyclovir may also be used in combination with a steroid, although there's less convincing evidence that they help, Dr. Simpson explains.

In a National Institutes of Health study of 1,480 people with type 2 diabetes, 24 % of those who used insulin, 65 % who used oral medications for diabetes, and 80 % who controlled their blood sugar with diet and exercise said they tested their blood sugar less than once a month.

The study discovered that after half a year, minimal contact behavioral chronic migraine treatment was competitively priced with pharmacologic treatments making use of medications costing 50 cents or less daily.

A 2008 study that followed a group of adolescent women with ADHD for five years found that the participants who had been treated with stimulants were nearly 75 % less likely to develop a substance - use disorder than those who were not, while other research has shown that the use of ADHD medication in young men reduces the risk of later substance - use disorders by 85 %.

By the end of the eight months, the second group reported 43 percent less neck and shoulder pain, 41 percent fewer headaches, and a 51 percent reduction in the use of pain medication.

Meglitinides (Starlix / Nateglinides, Prandin / Repaglinide)-- These medications are short acting sulphonylureas and are not used clinically by the vast majority of physicians as patients would rather take the stronger ones less often.

If you worry about the use of antibiotics in agriculture and the rise of antibiotic - resistant bacteria, grass - fed animals receive less medication (and sometimes none).

Community is more effective than any medication, even though many still use less than optimal and outdated nutritional advice and lifestyle interventions.

What's more, after 12 - weeks, adults in both the yoga and PT groups were less likely to use pain medication than education group members.

According to these physicians, iodine at these doses does indeed reverse fibrocystic disease; allows diabetic patients to use less insulin and hypothyroid patients to use less thyroid medication; resolves symptoms of fibromyalgia; and stops migraine headaches.

Both massage groups saw significantly greater improvements in disability and symptoms after 1o weeks than those who received usual care, reporting they were more active, spent fewer days in bed, and used less anti-inflammatory medication.

When I hear the amino acids are not effective for sleep and depression these factors come to mind: it's not a low serotonin or low GABA issue; the products are inferior or have additives; too much or too little was used; it's another root cause (like high cortisol, gluten, SIBO, heavy metals, Lyme etc); low thyroid (makes aminos less effective); medication side - effects (benzos, SSRIS and even fluroquinolones)

Fortunately, pain medication for childbirth is much safer and less terrifying today than it used to be.

This study on elderberry and the flu concluded, «Symptoms were relieved on average 4 days earlier and use of rescue medication was significantly less in those receiving elderberry extract compared with placebo.

The strong hormonal medications used for IVF may render stress hormones less potent on fertility since the entire hormonal cycle is being controlled.

Not only did the yoga group report significantly more functional ability, less pain, and less depression, they also tended to use less pain medication than the group receiving conventional treatment.

Compared with the participants who consumed less than 10 % of calories from added sugar (same as in Q1), those who consumed above the thresholds of 10 % or 25 % of calories from added sugar were younger; more likely to be non-Hispanic black; less likely to be currently smoking; had lower levels of physical activity, total serum cholesterol, systolic blood pressure, HEI, American Heart Association healthy diet score, 44 and antihypertensive medication use; and had higher intake of sugar - sweetened beverages and prevalence of family history of CVD (Supplement [eTable 2]-RRB-.

Usually this is because they missed a dose or used other medications — including anti-seizure drugs, antibiotics, antidepressants or some HIV drugs — that can make the contraceptive less effective, Charlton said.

Urban schoolchildren with asthma are less active than their peers, a tendency that persists regardless of the severity of their condition or whether medications are used to control the symptoms, an analysis has found.

However, it is widely used by dog owners as a less expensive alternative because it is the same ingredient that is used in other parasite control medications for dogs (like Heartgard for Dogs).

Gingival hyperplasia may also be associated with the use of calcium channel blockers (used to treat cardiovascular disease) and phenytoin derivatives (used to control seizures), though these medications are used far less frequently than cyclosporine in veterinary patients.