Sentences with phrase «vulnerable patients»

They would not turn on their most vulnerable patients.

While generally harmless, it can cause an allergic reaction or chronic lung problems in some people and serious, invasive disease in vulnerable patients.

The map will help to hunt down disease - causing genes, which may be used to design new drugs, diagnose illness, and help vulnerable patients avoid bad drug reactions.

The next step of this research is to begin study specific interventions that benefit vulnerable patients at - risk for a poor quality of life after hospital discharge, he added.

To ensure that vulnerable patients do not have their lives ended against their will, the practice must be brought out into the open and properly regulated.

Yet that practice, once considered the best way to protect a hospital's most vulnerable patients, is now being challenged.

Researchers have found that a hormone responsible for controlling iron metabolism helps fight off a severe form of bacterial pneumonia, and that discovery may offer a simple way to help vulnerable patients.

The signatories range from high - profile bodies such as the Royal College of Midwives, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, Unite the union, and Amnesty International UK, to local services for vulnerable patients such as homeless people and asylum seekers.

Facebook was in discussions with top hospitals up until last month about the possibility of sharing the medical info of vulnerable patients with the social media platform.

«Particularly among the most vulnerable patients with IBD: women, individuals who are in chronic pain and those with a history of childhood sexual abuse.»

Healthcare Verify advanced degrees, protect sensitive patient information and help protect vulnerable patients with our specialized healthcare screening services.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America and the HIV Medicine Association sent a joint letter to Turing earlier this month calling the price increase for Daraprim «unjustifiable for the medically vulnerable patient population» and «unsustainable for the health care system.»

«We hope that the results will give rise to a new drug combination therapy and improve prospects for a very vulnerable patient group.»

The article, Donor Human Milk Update 2016: Evidence, Mechanisms and Priorities for Research and Practice» documents how the use of pasteurized donor human milk has steadily become the standard of care for these most vulnerable patients when mothers» own milk is not available.

The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (Apil) expressed concerns about the Bill in October, warning it could drive vulnerable patients into the hands of «maverick» or «over-ambitious» doctors.

Personal injury lawyers have warned Lord Saatchi's Medical Innovation Bill could drive vulnerable patients into the hands of «maverick» doctors.

Having previously called doctors «militants», Hunt has now condemned their planned walk outs on 1, 8 and 16 December as «extreme action» that will «harm vulnerable patients».

Pharma companies take pains to note that list prices are only topline numbers untethered from reality, and that they take pains to make sure vulnerable patients aren't taking on those prices.

Because this scenario showcases a slew of problems that are endemic to our modern healthcare system — from the utter lack of bacterial control in clinical settings and the associated infections that result... to a process that shuttles vulnerable patients in and out of emergency rooms for piecemeal diagnosis and treatment... to overcrowded, overburdened hospitals that still mindlessly cling to patient - management processes that haven't worked for decades.

The experience in Oregon confirms that laws permitting physician - assisted suicide corrode the practice of medicine and place vulnerable patients at risk.

Staphylococcus Aureus or Staph is carried harmlessly on the skin in well people, it only becomes a problem when it breaches the skin or enters other organs of vulnerable patients whose immune systems are compromised.

It is unacceptable that in 2007, 62 of the most vulnerable patients died while in hospital - somewhere that is meant to be a safe place for them to recover.»

«Commitments to increase spending on the NHS year - on - year are «dangerous» and will leave vulnerable patients without the support they need, shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has claimed.

Many are peddled by con men preying on vulnerable patients.

The PIER program relies on community networks to flag vulnerable patients and bring them in for treatment.

Since the inherited risk is based in family genetics and is therefore beyond clinical reach, McFarlane relies on multifamily group therapy and social supports at school and at work to protect vulnerable patients from environmental triggers — illicit drugs and emotional stress in particular — that might send them over the edge.

«Because interventions to reduce the risk of readmission for any group of patients can be costly and labor intensive, identification of the highest risk cohort for readmission can allow more targeted intervention for this population of socially vulnerable patients.»

Notably, for clinically vulnerable patients (those treated for three or more conditions), savings increased to $ 456 per patient annually.

Shaman and Kohn say the data bolster the idea, suggested previously by others, that increasing humidity in nursing homes and emergency rooms might help prevent flu among vulnerable patients.

A Dutch doctor who sent people with multiple sclerosis from the United Kingdom for controversial stem cell injections at his clinic in Rotterdam faces allegations of dishonesty and exploiting vulnerable patients.

The project came to an abrupt end over allegations of breached confidentiality, the failure to obtain informed consent and the disregard of the best interests of vulnerable patients who were the subjects in the study.

Looked after numerous vulnerable patients.

«Cost - effective medicine,» Huang said, «depends entirely on an ongoing societal commitment to providing chronic care for vulnerable patients.»

«The use of human cellular membranes as a decoy has the potential to block a large family of related microbial toxins and reduce the severity of invasive bacterial infections in vulnerable patients,» said Escajadillo.

Advocates for legalizing assisted suicide assure us that such laws protect vulnerable patients.

The article, Donor Human Milk Update 2016: Evidence, Mechanisms and Priorities for Research and Practice» documents how the use of pasteurized donor human milk has steadily become the standard of care for these most vulnerable patients when mothers» own milk is not available.

«Further studies are needed to assess which collective therapies should be utilized in the most vulnerable patients with severe sepsis to prevent cognitive and physical disability and predict which early interventions will impact outcome.»

«We have endeavoured to secure provisions that will ensure a parity of esteem between physical and mental health, and have continued to work to bring about changes which we see as critical for high - quality care of vulnerable patients and for high - quality postgraduate medical education.

She says that, while 21st Century Cures is ultimately a step forward for Americans who have no options for treating their medical conditions, the bill could have gone further to help the most vulnerable patients.

'' [It] minimizes the need for a full fledge [d] investigation to determine if some of these deaths could have been prevented, or whether the island's medical facilities were negligent in terms of providing treatment to their most vulnerable patients,» writes Yordán, who is from Puerto Rico.

Labour former minister Lord Clark of Windermere warned that «vulnerable patients» would be allocated to homes where the host had no «medical expertise».

Major concerns have recently been raised about the quality of food available in hospitals and the way in which elderly and vulnerable patients are fed.

«Research has shown that our most vulnerable patients, critically ill newborns, benefit exponentially from mothers» milk.

Clad in neon pink t - shirts from a coalition of disability rights groups called Not Dead Yet, critics of aid - in - dying policies say it could lead to the cheaper alternative of ending the life of a vulnerable patient rather than caring for them.

«Every day, they stand up and fight for New York City residents, they fight to keep our public hospitals open and serving our most vulnerable patients and on behalf of the thousands of nurses in NYC and the thousands that serve within our public hospital system, we applaud and enthusiastically support these candidates who stand with our patients and communities.»

Opponents of the proposed closure fear that eliminating the unit would have dire consequences for a vulnerable patient population in Northern Manhattan.

Therefore, as long as there are strict safeguards in place, a new law on assisted dying would actually lead to increased protection for vulnerable patients, as well as extend the lives of many seriously ill people who would otherwise choose to end their lives too early.