Sentences with phrase «with study investigators»

«With this study the investigators show that their findings about a motor complete patient regaining movement, as published three years ago in The Lancet, were not an anomaly,» said Susan Howley, executive vice president for research at the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.

Not exact matches

As a minor illustration: I have written two books (The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, 1934 and Born to Sing, 1973) which, with all their faults (especially apparent to me in the earlier work), contain pointers, I believe, by which competent investigators might be helped to deal with some problems in psycho - physiology and in the study of animal behavior.

Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

Study investigators, who were aware of the status of the educational intervention collected information about resident behaviors by performing telephone interviews with breastfeeding mothers.

With this second aim, we used new data on planned birth setting to improve the interpretation of studies in which investigators could not disaggregate in - hospital births that had been planned to be out - of - hospital births from births that had been planned to be in - hospital births.

A study by Dallas et al indicated that milk produced by women who deliver preterm demonstrates a high level of protein breakdown by endogenous proteases, with the investigators suggesting that such breakdown may reduce difficulties associated with the immature digestive systems of preterm infants.

Next, they should discuss the study with their allergy doctor and the investigators performing the study.

Jane Sandall was and is principal investigator for two studies evaluating models of midwife - led continuity of care (Sandall 2001), and co-investigator on the «Birthplace in England Research Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric services.

During her time at UCSF she worked closely with the project investigator conducting a research study to promote women's health.

«We are pleased with the results of this first - of - its - kind study,» adds Dr. Heere, who was also lead investigator.

Declan Devane is a co-author in one of the included trials in this review (Begley 2011) Jane Sandall was and is principal investigator for two studies evaluating models of midwife - led continuity of care (Sandall 2001), and co-investigator on the «Birthplace in England Research Programme», an integrated programme of research designed to compare outcomes of births for women planned at home, in different types of midwifery units, and in hospital units with obstetric services.

Comey is back in the crosshairs of Democrats, who say he hasn't been forthcoming with congressional investigators probing alleged Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election, a situation that could jeopardize their ability to study whether the Kremlin colluded with anyone connected to Trump.

«We saw significant, worse prognoses and outcomes for women with a pregnancy - associated melanoma, compared to a control group of non-pregnant women,» said Brian Gastman, M.D., a plastic surgeon, director of melanoma surgery at Cleveland Clinic, and primary investigator on the study.

«The aim of our study was to examine associations of pregnancy and offspring sugar consumption (sucrose, fructose) with child cognition,» explained lead investigator Juliana F.W. Cohen, ScD, School of Health Sciences, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, and Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

«Certainly, medical school, residency, Ph.D. training, all those kinds of advanced degrees are set up with a lot of expectations, and by and large the people that are doing them are driven,» says Deborah Goebert, a psychiatrist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and lead investigator of the study.

«The findings are significant because they can influence how patients with aphasia are treated to ensure a more complete recovery,» said Chaleece Sandberg, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders at Penn State and principal investigator of the study.

«What's really interesting is that we show that an increase in the amount of stomach fat and a lower density fat is associated with worse heart disease risk factors — even after accounting for how much weight was gained,» said Caroline Fox, M.D., M.P.H., former senior investigator for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and the study's senior researcher.

In a study of more than 5,000 people, investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital have found that greater intake of nuts was associated with lower levels of biomarkers of inflammation, a finding that may help explain the health benefits of nuts.

With this kind of review process, if 20 studies of the effectiveness of a truly ineffective drug are conducted, and one of them shows a significant effect with a p - value of 0.05 because of chance alone, investigators for the other 19 studies not showing any effect would presumably not be inhibited from writing up and submitting reports of these for publication out of fear that they'll be denied publication because of their nonsignificant resuWith this kind of review process, if 20 studies of the effectiveness of a truly ineffective drug are conducted, and one of them shows a significant effect with a p - value of 0.05 because of chance alone, investigators for the other 19 studies not showing any effect would presumably not be inhibited from writing up and submitting reports of these for publication out of fear that they'll be denied publication because of their nonsignificant resuwith a p - value of 0.05 because of chance alone, investigators for the other 19 studies not showing any effect would presumably not be inhibited from writing up and submitting reports of these for publication out of fear that they'll be denied publication because of their nonsignificant results.

In collaboration with Anna Pyle, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale, Patrizio and his team studied samples from 20 cumulus cells in 15 patients younger than age 35 and in those age 40 and older.

Investigators studied liver tissue from patients with steatohepatitis, who were heavy alcohol drinkers, and from ethanol - fed mice to identify biochemical markers of cellular senescence.

In a study published in Nature Communications, the investigators report that hyperglycemic mice (or mice with type 2 diabetes) have a 24-fold higher accumulation of succinate, an intermediate metabolite, in the metabolic pathways of their bone marrow stromal cells.

Mateusz Markowicz, the lead investigator, is inviting people who want to take part in the study to come to the Institute out - patient clinic with their ticks.

«This study shows that a high - risk score for obstructive sleep apnea is common in non-dialysis CKD patients with diabetic nephropathy and is associated with more rapid loss of renal function,» the investigators concluded.

A recent study by investigators from LIJ Medical Center demonstrated that using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in men with an elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) resulted in a prostate cancer detection rate that was twice as high as data reported in the March 1999 Prostate journal that analyzed men undergoing the standard 12 - core biopsy with an elevated PSA.

The study of 1,003 men was conducted at the NIH in Bethesda, Md., from 2007 - 2014, with Peter A. Pinto, MD, the head of the prostate cancer section of the urologic oncology branch, serving as the senior investigator.

«We believe these studies and clinical trials that combine immunotherapy with chemotherapy are advancing efforts toward better clinical care and more positive outcomes for our patients at CTCA,» said Dr. Vivek Khemka, Medical Oncologist, CTCA at Western and the WCLC study abstract's principal investigator and senior author.

«We found that nearly one in four patients with small tumours are at risk of distant metastases and do benefit from chemotherapy,» said Dr Fatima Cardoso, senior author of the study, Co-Principal Investigator of MINDACT and Director of the Breast Unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal.

To accurately test the hypothesis of a lower risk of recurrence with HRT, a new study led by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital published in European Urology Focus, performed a systematic review and meta - analysis, pooling available data, to assess whether an improved risk of recurrence could be demonstrated using HRT compared with CRT, in addition to assessing the relative impact of these two treatments on bladder and rectal function.

Study subjects who received a 3 - milligram (3 - mg) dose of liraglutide lost an average of 8 percent of their body weight (18.7 pounds), compared with just 2.6 percent (6.2 pounds) for subjects receiving a placebo, or «dummy» drug, the investigators reported.

Liu, who was an investigator at the Children's National Medical Center in Washington DC during the research, decided to study tissues removed from eight patients with either focal cortical dysplasia or tuberous sclerosis complex to see if she and her co-authors could discern what might be going awry at the molecular level.

According to Dr. Philip Awadalla, senior author and principal investigator, «the fact that two very close populations (French versus French Canadians) accumulate such an excess of differences in rare variants has important consequences in the design of genetic studies, including the identification of possibly damaging mutations associated with diseases specific to this population.»

«Investigators have studied this «second - hit» hypothesis for some time, to explain why not everyone with genetic predisposition actually develops the disease.

«This study provided clear evidence that, in people with early Parkinson disease, inosine treatment can safely elevate urate levels in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid for months or years,» says Michael Schwarzschild, MD, PhD, principal investigator of the study and an MGH neurologist.

In a trio of studies to be presented at the 57th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition in Orlando, investigators at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute will present the results of clinical trials showing that new drug combinations can significantly extend the time in which multiple myeloma is kept in check in patients with relapsed or treatment - resistant forms of the disease.

This situation leaves vaccine investigators stuck with inadequate study designs.

Reviewing thousands of genome wide associate studies (GWAS) to identify genetic variants in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), investigators at Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center found that some alleles (one of a pair of genes located on a specific chromosome) are more frequently risk - associated with disease than protective.

The investigators found that the proportion of study participants living with HIV who reported taking ART climbed from zero in 2003 to 69 percent in 2016.

«Gene sequencing has opened a huge door to how complex these communities are,» says Patrick Seed, a Duke pediatrician specializing in infectious disease, who with biologist Rob Jackson is a lead investigator of the premature infant study.

The new approach contrasts with previous ways scientists analyzed and came to conclusions about sea level rise because it is «the only proper one that aims to fully account for uncertainty using statistical methods,» noted Parnell, principal investigator of the study conducted collaboratively with researchers at Tufts University, Rutgers University and Nanyang Technological University.

A research team led by SDSU environmental health scientist and lead author Neil Klepeis, behavioral health researcher and principal investigator Melbourne Hovell, and co-investigator Suzanne Hughes recruited into the study nearly 300 families living in San Diego with at least one child aged 14 and younger and one smoker.

An assistant professor who wrote her first successful R01 when she was still a postdoc, Suter believes that «young investigators who are in the position to make that transition to independence with their first R01,» and who recently submitted a proposal that was «very well - crafted and very well - received by their study sections but still couldn't meet pay lines,» will get a second look as funding agencies focus on applications that are already in - house.

The study was led by Dr. Alexandre Zlotta, Director of Uro - Oncology at Mount Sinai Hospital, and researcher with the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute, part of Sinai Health System in Toronto, Canada, and Dr. Paul Boutros, Principal Investigator, Informatics and Bio-computing, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR).

The study focuses on «stemness,» defined as the potential for self - renewal and differentiation from the cell of origin, and on «stemness indices» developed during postdoctoral research conducted by Tathiane Malta as part of a project supported by FAPESP and with Houtan Noushmehr, a professor in FMRP - USP's Genetics Department, as principal investigator.

«It's a novel strategy, and it works beautifully,» said senior investigator Harvey M. Friedman, MD, a professor of Infectious Diseases at Penn. «I know of no other HSV2 vaccine candidate with published results that are as promising as this study.»

The work could have implications for pregnant women infected with Zika or women with autoimmune disorders who are trying to have a baby, says study author Akiko Iwasaki, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator and immunologist at Yale University.

By using this technique, we demonstrated that the telomere G - tail length of leukocytes is significantly correlated with endothelial function and severity of ARWMCs,» said Professor Hidetoshi Tahara, a principal investigator of this study at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hiroshima University.

A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.

«Lenalidomide maintenance following autologous stem cell transplant can now be considered a standard of care for people with multiple myeloma,» says Dr. McCarthy, senior author on the meta - analysis and Principal Investigator of the U.S. study, CALGB (Alliance) 100104.

For example, typing in the key word «sarcoma» will pull up a listing of principal investigators at the NIH studying sarcoma — with a brief description of their research — who may have available appropriate postdoctoral opportunities.