Sentences with phrase «which life saving treatments»
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The detection of melanoma at its most curable stages can result in decades of high - quality life saved, versus the treatment of this terrible disease at late stages, which offers several months of life extension, at best.»
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Such directives, which encompass the well «known «living will» as well as documents assigning health care decision making to a family member or others, are designed to allow a person to refuse even life «saving treatment or medical care if the person becomes mentally incapacitated.
C - section is the life saving treatment for a worrisome velamentous cord insertion because it reduces the risk of perinatal death to near zero, not homebirth, which guarantees the baby's death if the blood vessel is torn.
«I also see the profound opportunity in lives and quality of life which will be saved if we are able to answer objections and pursue the treatments and cures which will be available to us through this stand of medicine,» he added.
«I lost two of my own brothers to HIV, and I was one of the lucky ones — there were families of 10 that only had two members left,» says Sikwese, who coordinates an HIV treatment advocate network called AfroCAB, which campaigns for the speedy development and approval of life - saving treatments.
An international team led by Professor Tom Harrison at St George's, University of London has published results of their Advancing Cryptococcal Treatment for Africa (ACTA) Trial in the New England Journal of Medicine which shows relatively simple changes can save tens of thousands of lives a year.
Bryant and his colleagues believe these findings may lead to new therapeutic treatments which could ultimately save lives and restore healthy eating behaviors in conditions such as compulsive overeating, bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa and even substance use disorders.
«Providing treatment saves lives and helps people become productive members of society, positively engages them with their communities and families which makes for healthier and safer communities.»
A blood test for a protein called high - sensitivity troponin T, which is released into the bloodstream when injury to the heart occurs, can identify patients with heart damage after non-cardiac surgery whose lives could potentially be saved with timely treatment, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 66th Annual Scientific Session.
Jessica Wapner is a freelance writer and author of The Philadelphia Chromosome: A Genetic Mystery, a Lethal Cancer, and the Improbable Invention of a Life - Saving Treatment, which has recently been reissued.
Even across our Cleveland Clinic Health System, which includes one Comprehensive Stroke Centers, eight Primary Stroke Centers and Stroke Ready Centers, only 15 percent of patients arrive within the three - hour time window for intravenous tPA, making delay in presentation the most common reason patients were ineligible for this life - saving treatment,» says Peter Rasmussen, M.D., Director of Cleveland Clinic's Cerebrovascular Center.
Dr Fitzgerald added: «Armed with the knowledge of which genes are driving the disease we will be able to group patients based on their genetic makeup and determine those who will benefit most from certain treatments, helping to save more lives.»
By collecting Element Alpha and navigating your spaceship through the cosmos you're finding the significant genetic changes which help scientists to discover cancer causing genes and develop new life saving treatments.
She is diagnosed with a fatal disease, and Casey decides to steal from German gangster Hagen, in order to pay for the medical treatment which could save Juliette's life.
Specifically for older dogs, this program will work in tandem with the Save - a-Life Program which focuses on life - saving medical treatment for pets of all ages to prevent «economic euthanasia.»
They often are instrumental in solving our pets» mysterious medical puzzles that prevent a diagnosis, which can in turn lead to life saving treatment and complete disease resolution.
Proceeds benefit the OCHS Second Chance Fund which provides life - saving medical treatment and other -LSB-...]
The nine - year - old heard about FOTAS's «Have a Heart, Save a Heart» program, a fund which supplements the treatment of heartworm positive dogs at the shelter, and decided he wanted to pitch in to this life - saving effort.
(iv) they had failed to take account of the saving to the defendant of not having to provide the expensive life prolonging treatment which had been given to the claimant within its operational plan before he developed his intolerance to it, which could have been another ground for holding that his circumstances were exceptional to the plan.
TBIs can be fatal, and even instances in which emergency medical treatment proves life - saving, TBI victims can be faced with long - term impairments.
But had he come to an agent who knew which companies allow treatment for blood pressure, he could have maintained his best rating, and saved $ 4,908 over the life of the 20 year term.
ECT: Consider reviewing California's current code which limits the use of Electro Convulsive Therapy, which has been proven an effective course of treatment in severe cases of depression and may be life - saving.
We believe that the former child star should be doing everything he can to get the treatment he so desperately needs — and which could have saved the life of his friend Elijah Rosello.