Sentences with phrase «used to benefit patients»

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Often, that translates to employees on the front lines stealing patient medical data or client social security numbers, which can then be sold on the black market or used to commit fraud like collecting someone else's social security benefits, opening new credit card accounts in another's name, or applying for health insurance by assuming the identity of someone else.

But federal prosecutors allege that Babich and his co-conspirators doled out kickbacks to doctors who prescribed the drug even to non-cancer patients, and even set up a special «reimbursement unit» to sway insurance companies and pharmacy benefits managers to provide coverage for these non-authorized uses.

These days, Brown primarily targets health and wellness providers, who use the software to show patients the benefits of a healthier lifestyle, but she continues to sign up police forces in the United States, Poland, Ecuador and Turkey.

1 Effective July 1, 2013 we are not able to provide diabetic care supplies to patients using Medicare Part B benefits.

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«I want to assure you that we would make judicious use of the drugs donated to us and it shall surely be for the benefits of our patients and the good people of the State of Osun.

«Knowing that long - term opioid use causes addiction, (they) misrepresented the dangers of long - term use to physicians and patients, and overstated the benefits of opioids.»

In a ministerial statement to MPs, Alan Johnson insisted the government is not dropping its policy of using private sector centres to treat NHS patients, insisting they continued to have many benefits.

Critics say an oils - only approach would provide relief for some kids suffering from seizures, but would be of little benefit to cancer and other patients with chronic pain who use marijuana for immediate relief.

«Our findings provide a rationale to pursue the new use of these «old» antidepressant drugs to benefit late - stage prostate cancer patients with signs and symptoms of metastasis,» said Wu, an assistant professor of pharmacy at WSU Spokane.

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He continued: «We can conclude from this analysis that the use of G - CSF during thoracic radiotherapy is safe and should support patients to receive the full planned course of concurrent chemo - radiotherapy and achieve the best possible benefit.

Prof. Severine Vermeire (KU Leuven / UZ Leuven): «In the future, gut bacteria may be used to help identify PSC patients with a more or less aggressive disease, or patients that may benefit from microbiota - based therapies, such as fecal microbiota transplantation or targeted pre - and probiotics.»

A technology that uses magnetism to regulate neural activity shows a small benefit in patients with mild forms of the disease

«This is an excellent example of the use of evolutionary optimisation to provide tangible benefits to patients.

In Quebec, researchers established a patient registry in 2015 to collect demographic data on patients who use medical marijuana, the type and dose they take, and the conditions they're seeking treatment for, along with self - reports on benefits and adverse outcomes.

«We hope that our work will provide the basis for a larger study of patient samples that may ultimately identify biomarkers that can be used as surrogate markers to determine the benefit of therapeutic interventions in diagnosed but asymptomatic HD patients to prevent or delay disease onset.»

Researchers say further study is needed using individual patient - level data among men with high risk prostate cancer to assess the benefit of HRT and whether treatment toxicity, particularly those to the bladder and urinary system are also low with HRT.

«I used to be a scientist so I was interested in research and I wanted to know if this trial would be of benefit to me and to patients in the future.

«Physiotherapy and OT using an individual goal - setting approach produced no clinically meaningful short - or medium - term benefits in ADL or QoL [quality of life] in patients with mild to moderate PD.

The researchers will use the molecular profile of each individual cancer to offer patients and their doctor a menu of trials that might benefit them.

While the use of light - based devices remains a subject of debate, Dr. Orlow points out that some patients seem to benefit from certain types of blue or red light treatments.

«COPD patients benefit from the use of statins just like any other group of patients that benefit from statins according to established indications to reduce cardiovascular risk,» Dr. Criner said.

Its expression could be used as a biomarker test to ensure patients might benefit from an NPTX2 inhibitor, when one is developed.

But the size and consistency of the benefits observed in this study indicate that policies solely designed to reduce the use of ED CT scans could compromise patient care.

The findings suggest that benefit is most likely, and risks will be mitigated, when digital communication is used with patients who already have a relationship of trust with the clinical team, and who need to have flexible access, such as when transitioning between services, treatments or lived context.

Using data from a previously published, multi-center study funded by the National Cancer Institute, researchers aimed to identify the possible benefits of assigning patient navigators to women recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

Future research should focus on better methods of identifying patients less likely to benefit from CT scanning — such as the three - quarters of headache patients whose diagnoses did not change — without reducing CT use in patients who would benefit.

«We found very high response rates to this treatment combination, which has the added benefit of having a much reduced risk of long - term organ damage compared to the highly toxic chemotherapy agents typically used for patients with relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma,» says Dr. Kelly, who is Program Director of the Pediatric Hematology / Oncology Service Line at the Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo and holds an additional faculty appointment with the University at Buffalo.

The study, Developing an Interventional Stroke Service: Improving Clinical Outcomes and Reducing Cost and Delivering Great Cost Savings Benefits to Health Economy, conducted at the University Hospital of North Midlands, Stoke - on - Trent, U.K., found that mechanical thrombectomy (the use of a device to retrieve a clot from the vessel) in the treatment of stroke reduced the average stroke patient's hospital stay to 14 days when compared to previously recorded 90 days.

In the Netherlands, based on research reported in 2016 in Science Translational Medicine, Clevers and colleagues are already using personalized gut organoids, derived from rectal biopsies, to test whether cystic fibrosis patients will benefit from available drugs.

In terms of clinical practice, physicians can use risk assessment tools in some cases to determine which patients would most likely benefit from statin therapy, rather than focusing only on blood cholesterol to determine which patients would benefit.

Current apnea treatments, such as the use of continuous positive airway pressure (C - PAP) while sleeping, are difficult for many patients to maintain and provide only limited benefits.

The findings, published online ahead of print in the Annals of Internal Medicine, highlight the challenges faced by physicians to balance the known risks with potential benefits of prescription opioids for patients with chronic pain and reinforces the importance of developing tools that will help better identify and treat patients at risk for opioid use disorders and / or overdose.

The use of simulation techniques in medical education, such as lifelike mannequins and computer systems, results in improved patient care, better outcomes and other benefits, according to a study led by a Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researcher.

DEFUSE 3 builds on results from the two earlier DEFUSE studies as well as the industry - sponsored DAWN trial, which used perfusion imaging technology to identify patients most likely to benefit from interventions such as thrombectomy.

In cases of severe to profound hearing loss where there is no benefit from conventional amplification (i.e. hearing aids), cochlear implantation that uses direct electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve has proven successful and selected older patients are among those who can benefit, according to the study background.

«Our study shows that when the creatinine level is elevated in the blood of a kidney transplant recipient, use of our urine test would differentiate the common causes of kidney dysfunction that led to the elevation in creatinine, hence benefiting many patients by allowing them to avoid the need for an invasive needle biopsy,» said Dr. Muthukumar.

The authors and editorialist express grave concerns that there will be many needless premature deaths as well as preventable heart attacks and strokes if patients who would clearly benefit from statins are not prescribed the drug, refuse to take the drug, or stop using the drug because of ill - advised adverse publicity about benefits and risks, which may include misplaced concerns about the possible but unproven small risk of diabetes.

The study, published in the July issue of the journal Epidemiology, offers benefits over typically used randomized clinical trials, as such studies are often too small to identify rare side effects or may be performed in a group of patients who do not take other types of medications or have other conditions that could skew the drug's effect in a broader group following approval.

We found that performing MRI before biopsy and using that information to alter biopsy pathways would be a strategy that would add health benefits to the patient population in a cost effective manner,» said Vikas Gulani, MD, PhD, study advisor and associate professor of radiology, urology, and biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and member of both the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Case Center for Imaging Research.

With more than 1,000 KPro surgeries performed annually, and with new technologies being developed to increase the number of patients who may benefit, the KPro is a clear, plastic artificial cornea often used to replace diseased corneas in patients prone to rejecting biological tissues.

In an editorial accompanying the published article in Circulation, experts from the Technische Universität and the Munich Heart Alliance, Gjin Ndrepepa and Adnan Kastrati, affirmed that, if confirmed by a subsequent analysis of large numbers of patients, the results of METOCARD - CNIC trial are likely to lead to a change in clinical practice: «In this regard, a pharmaco - protective strategy able to reduce infarct size by 20 percent when used in conjunction with primary PCI nurtures great hope in clinical benefit.»

We need to figure out what is driving this paradox and learn how to use this information to benefit all of our patients.»

In the meantime, oncologists should advise all smokers to quit smoking traditional combustible cigarettes, encourage use of FDA - approved cessation medications, refer patients for smoking cessation counseling, and provide education about the potential risks and lack of known benefits of long - term e-cigarette use.»

Doctors use diagnostic tests to determine which patients are at risk for developing a disease and which would benefit from a treatment.

One study reported clinical benefits using gene therapy to regenerate joint cartilage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

(Collins, an evangelical Christian, also explained how he reconciles his support for hESC research with his beliefs: Although he thinks the human embryo «deserves moral respect,» he balances that with the ethical benefits of using frozen embryos from fertility treatments that would otherwise be discarded to help develop treatments for patients.

The researchers set out to see whether the effect of using IMRT in those patients who would have received a dose greater than 107 % to parts of their breast with 2DRT would translate into clinical benefit.

Though smaller in number, some patients with advanced disease and carrying a BRCA mutation may benefit from the same targeted therapy being used today in the clinic to successfully treat some ovarian cancer patients.»