Sentences with phrase «younger patients as»

Cognitive therapy is a scientifically proven method of treatment that works for younger patients as effectively as it does for adults in the treatment of the anxiety disorders as well as such disorders as conduct disorder, depression, and physical complaints that are not caused by an actual physical condition.

Judging pediatricians on the changes in the height and weight of their young patients as measured at their annual physicals from one year to the next makes just as much sense as using student «growth» on annual standardized reading and math tests to evaluate teachers.

Not exact matches

The Turtle Hospital in Marathon doubles as a tourist attraction and sanctuary, where vets care for wounded sea turtles and educators give hourly tours of their 53 patients, including one young turtle named Irma after the storm washed it onshore when it was just a hatchling.

As a New Age dentist, Reeves tells a young patient, «The only answer is there is no answer.»

Riding the publicity wave of Brittany Maynard, a young woman who suffered much and became the human face of the death - with - dignity movement, they have redefined compassion as respect for a patient's autonomous determination of the time, location, and method of death.

The clinic, which sets 55 as the maximum age for patients seeking a donated egg, was fooled by the woman's relatively young appearance and her falsified documents.

As recognition of their work and dedication, we gladly donated our services for the hospital's young patients over the last two years.

As for the Minnesota Twins, a horrendous June (7 - 21), coming after a terrific May (21 - 7), is a warning to Twins fans to be patient with the team's young pitchers.

Ppl keep on saying ox and Wilshire are still young and should be patient with them, but guess what, ozil kroos khedira muller hummels boeteng iniesta xavi cazorla fabregas mata busquets alaba etc were already established players for top club the same age as ox.

Neither one is too old for the price and the other doesn't score enough against top teams Give Lacazette a chance young, quick and a good eye for goal, won't cost as much as Martinez and would be patient

«As health care providers dealing with concussions, we need to be aware that many concussed patients may be bullied or shamed on social media by friends or teammates who may not believe that they are experiencing concussion symptoms, or that those symptoms are lingering,» notes Mark Halstead, M.D., a sports medicine physician and Director of the Washington University Sports Concussion Clinic & Young Athlete Center.

«Dr. Jerry» as his adolescent patients call him, is a young PhD who really relates to teens, speaks their lingo and has felt their pain.

The Headache & Pain Program at Floating Hospital for Children in Boston helps patients as young as two years old to overcome their headache pain and enjoy life once again.

As part of a major medical center, we can offer our young patients evaluation and treatment that includes access to state - of - the - art equipment, advanced therapies, clinical trials and a team of specialists in pulmonology and from other clinical disciplines.

We also make many different formulas as required by our youngest patients.

Are health professionals such as health visitors, GPs and relevant hospital staff, with an in - patient mother, baby or young child,

Are health professionals such as health visitors, GPs and relevant hospital staff, with an in - patient mother, baby or young child, really mother centred?

Young people with psychosis for the first time will be seen within 14 days - the same target as cancer patients.

This emergency access law is designed to get medicine to the neediest patients, including young children, as quickly as possible.»

The budget also allocates $ 100,000 for the Statewide Action Council Patients» Rights Hotline, $ 86,000 for the Foundation for Senior Citizens Home Sharing and Respite Program and $ 250,000 for the Older Adult Technology Center, which helps seniors better understand today's technology to remain in contact with younger loved ones, such as grandchildren.

He indicated that older women are experienced, patient, loving and caring and less demanding as compared to the younger ladies.

Robotic companions that are capable of expressing some emotion might be better as pals for autistic children as well as mentors and health advisors for young diabetic patients

Bennett thinks the therapy will work even better in younger patients who have not lost as many photoreceptors.

«This information is important as it demonstrates that total shoulder arthroplasty may be a good option in younger patients who are indicated for a shoulder replacement.»

One morning as I looked out at the busy waiting room of my internal medicine practice, I watched a new patient, a trim, healthy - looking young woman, check in.

The research team identified potential deceased donors based on specific criteria such as a ventilated inpatient death of a patient 75 years or younger, without multi-organ system failure, sepsis, or cancer, and whose cause of death was consistent with organ donation — which includes neurologic determination of death (DNDD) or circulatory determination of death (DCDD).

For the 12 - week, $ 170,000 pilot project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will begin later this month, Young's team plans to recruit about 60 patients from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center who are experiencing chronic pain, are on long - term opioid therapy, and have reported other behaviors — such as drug or alcohol abuse — that put them at high risk of addiction.

These considerations may be important as some orthopedists are requesting higher steroid doses and injections in younger patients.

These new results tell us that the elderly should be treated with the same urgency as younger patients.»

It is disturbing to enter the tribe's newly renovated dialysis clinic, which treats three shifts of patients each day, and see the young bodies as well as the elderly hooked up to the machines and their pale, drawn faces while their blood is cleansed.

Another is that the relevant information is missing, as pediatric oncologists often don't ask about adult cancers in a family to better understand their young patients.

Placed after removal of the inflexible and less - transparent lens in patients with cataracts, accommodating IOLs can change focus — much as the natural lens does in younger people.

My laboratory colleagues were always helpful and patient with me as I learned new methods and techniques, which is very important to a young scientist.

Their young patient had a severe form of the disease known as junctional EB, caused by a mutation in a gene encoding part of the protein laminin 332, which makes up a thin membrane just below the epidermis.

The incidence of major hemorrhage increased markedly in patients over 65 years, who were twice as likely to suffer massive hemorrhage as a result of an injury compared to younger groups.

Cardiovascular disease in these young patients develops as vulnerable cells lining the interior of major arteries (vessels that carry blood away from the heart) accumulate the toxic protein and die.

Progeria affects one in every four million to eight million births; there are about 50 cases currently recognized worldwide with 10 to 12 in the U.S. Common symptoms include fragile bones, hair loss, limited growth, stiff joints and wrinkling of the skin by as young as age two; about 90 percent of progeria patients die by age 13 from fatal heart attacks or strokes, according to the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

A reduction in harsh radiation therapy could be a big deal for many HPV - positive oral cancer patients, especially as they tend to be much younger (often in their 40s and 50s) compared with the previous majority of patients whose malignancies are linked to smoking or alcohol consumption.

Despite increased understanding of heart disease risk factors and the need for preventive lifestyle changes, patients suffering the most severe type of heart attack have become younger, more obese and more likely to have preventable risk factors such as smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to a study scheduled for presentation at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

Previous in vitro studies conducted by researchers in other countries showed that this molecule was able to reduce the multiplication and increase the mortality of cells from melanoma, the most aggressive type of skin cancer, as well as breast cancer and neuroblastoma, a tumor that typically affects patients aged 15 or younger.

In contrast, he found that younger patients — such as middle - aged corporate CEOs with stiff upper lips — were often reluctant to reveal their feelings, such as fear of dying.

Although there remain some effects of treatment on hearing, endocrine, and neurocognitive outcomes — particularly in younger patients — other late effects common in photon - treated patients, such as cardiac, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal toxic effects, were absent.»

There is an alternative type of surgery known as hip resurfacing, which is carried out on younger patients.

The analysis revealed that while performing working memory tasks, the young patients with concussion had initial activation that was greater than normal, known as hyperactivation, compared to young controls in the right precuneus and right inferior parietal gyrus of the brain, whereas the older patients had hypoactivation (less than normal) compared to older controls in the right precuneus and right inferior frontal gyrus.

«Results from our observational study in young adults with normal kidney function may not translate into a clinically meaningful difference and may be insufficient to inform decision - making concerning marijuana use; however, it is possible that the association between marijuana use and kidney function could be different in other populations such as older adults or patients with kidney disease, so additional research is needed,» said Dr. Ishida.

The standard treatment for Lyme disease is a course of antibiotics, such as oral doxycycline if the patient is older than 8 years old or amoxicillin if the child is younger than 8 — typically two weeks for early symptoms and longer for late symptoms.

In preliminary findings presented at the 2016 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, researchers showed that older patients were as likely as younger patients to receive targeted therapy and enroll in therapeutic trials based on their sequencing results.

«The concept for the CCRC arose from the needs of young adult ICU patients who we saw leaving the hospital with functional impairments as well as a spectrum of disorders — memory, attention, depression, mood and anxiety — typically not seen in other patients of similar age,» said Dr. Khan, lead author of the study.

Guy Young, MD, director of the Hemostasis and Thrombosis Program and lead physician for study efforts at Children's Hospital Los Angeles explains further, «While the standard medications allow us to «bypass» the need for Factor VIII, they don't do the job as efficiently or as well for these patients.

Using this method, the researchers revealed that the death risk of the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) epidemic in the Republic of Korea for patients with an illness prior to MERS infection was as high as 48.2 % for those over 60 years while it was below 15 % for younger patients.