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This study demonstrates an opportunity for ED staff to guide patients with potentially life-threatening allergies toward better allergy management.

Today's approval is a major step forward in making breakthrough treatments available for patients with rare and difficult to treat forms of cancer.

We believed that a minimum of one year was the right amount of time to give health care professionals enough time to fully understand the appropriate use for our medications. You don't want patients going to the doctor and requesting a medicine that they're not familiar with.

We've been working extremely hard to enhance the level of care provided to inmate patients in Delaware.

The fact that this raised the hopes of patients and then did not deliver that promise has special poignancy. Science should be based on truth.

What we try to do is to try to put patients first,

What we're trying to do is to see whether telehealth is an appropriate way to follow patients with dementia, ... The thing about dementia is once you've seen the patient and examined the patient neurologically, most of the followup is examining mental status, which we can do over telehealth. Talking to the patient and the family on how things are going and making some changes or suggestions, be it modifications in the environment or medication treatment for some of the behaviours?that works well over telehealth.

We learned that the two cell lines from which Hwang fabricated photos of the other nine cells for the Science paper do not match the DNA of patients who contributed ... cells.

The only significant gains in finding available kidneys for these patients are likely to come from KPD,

We know that many patients struggle to afford their prescription medicines and are unaware that help is available. That is why the pharmaceutical research industry is leading an aggressive campaign to inform doctors and prepare them to educate patients about the Partnership for Prescription Assistance. This new effort demonstrates our commitment to locate, inform and mobilize as many doctors as possible.

We've worked for many years to achieve the first steps in direct access for the patients we serve in Georgia.

We can treat our patients like kings and queens.

We consider this approval an important advance in the treatment of head and neck cancer because it has been shown to help some patients live longer. Patients need as many effective treatment options as possible.

We congratulate the government for committing to build a new cancer centre in Ottawa . This is very good news for the people in this area who will be diagnosed with cancer in the years to come. It means that patients in Ottawa and the surrounding area will have better and more timely cancer care.

We communicated to the patients that the carbon monoxide they inhale from smoking cigarettes is the same poisonous gas that comes out of the tail pipe of their car.

We are committed to assuring the health and safety of psychiatric patients as well as the staff that serves the patients.

We have five chairmen on our bill from the Republican conference, and that's very important. We're where we been trying to get to for three years, and that is to say to the leadership: "Listen, let's discuss this and let's come out with a bill this year that protects patients in reference to managed care." That's right where we are.

We're all crazy and the only difference between patients and their therapists is the therapists haven't been caught yet.

We don't advocate splitting pills to save money, and this isn't something patients should do on their own,

When patients are asked about the medications they are taking, many do not mention medicinal herbs because they assume that they are safe. What many unsuspecting patients don't know is that the natural herbs they are taking may cause serious complications during and after surgery.

When our crews arrived, they found patients with symptoms that were consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning.

The recommendation will not rescue patients and neither does it promote healthy behavior. Instead, they have been promoting programs that encourage riskier activities.

We're totally reopened for business. We're running a full schedule of patients today and tomorrow.

We knew there were certain kidney cancer patients who responded to this drug, but we didn't know the mechanism behind the response. We had to determine the mechanism of response so we could identify the responders.

We need to engage a broader number of dentists in the state to help out. I'm not blaming or condemning them at all. A lot of them do give away treatment, but if they become a full-fledged Medicaid provider, they're overwhelmed with patients seeking treatment.

We need to educate the public. We have posters up, but some patients have a hard time understanding. We have to educate.

We think this is extraordinarily promising. We think that there are a number of patients who would benefit from tissue-engineered vessels.

Why are cancer patients so hard to buy for? This question always puzzles me. When people are healthy, things are so simple, including gift buying. A jaunt to the local mall or a day in front of the TV watching QVC can be just enough for all the loved ones on your list.

We've decided we're going to start a medical evacuation of patients who need to be treated, ... The doctors told us better treatment could be obtained outside of the community.

We've certainly heard stories where patients are ready to go home but there are a lack of appropriate community options.

You have in the U.S. around two million new diagnoses of cancer a year, and 13 million survivors, so you have about 10,000 patients that require analysis every day. That's about five petabytes that need to be transmitted and computed on a daily basis.

This trial is starting to show we can offer pancreatic cancer patients precious extra time with a new treatment that can be taken in tablet form. These results are an important milestone in the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

This trial demonstrates for the first time that interventional strategy is better than 'watchful waiting' for many patients with threatened heart attack because it saves lives and prevents heart attacks in the long term.

We had a break between patients on the last day there, and one little girl got to sit on my lap and look at the pictures our photographer had shot and stored on her laptop. She was so tickled. She laughed, and pointed at the screen and chattered away like crazy in Spanish.

We are seeing younger and younger patients with more aggressive cardiovascular disease, and we realized we needed to take a closer look at our young people to see when risk factors emerge and why,

We as physicians have spent a great deal of time studying how best to treat our patients while in the hospital, so now we need to focus on better understanding the barriers to improved compliance outside of acute medical settings. This will be a much more difficult problem, since it involves so many different factors.

With Premier's Perception Advisor, we'll receive quality feedback from patients just a few days after their discharge. Furthermore, we'll be able to focus our questions in areas where patient satisfaction is low to get to the root of a problem and identify solutions.

With careful and accurate monitoring, the patients can decide the optimal timing to take their medicine, or can refer themselves in time to a doctor if the results show an aggravation or deterioration in condition.

While further research is needed, our findings suggest that it may be beneficial to use erlotinib, a relatively non-toxic targeted agent, to initially treat patients with advanced lung cancer, rather than use conventional chemotherapy regimens.

The problem is that most male adolescents don't have discussions about reproductive health-care issues when they go to access health services. So medical health-care professionals should be aware that that's something they should be talking about with their male patients -- not just their female patients.

We have to close it down because we can no longer ensure the safety of our patients or our staff in that hospital.

We have shown that a gene called p11 is involved in the multiple complex changes that underlie depression. Our findings demonstrate that patients with depression, and mice that model this disease, have decreased levels of p11 protein, and they suggest that drugs that increase p11 are likely to have anti-depressant properties.

There is no reason to use the combination therapy for primary prevention, whereas it might be useful in patients who have already had a heart attack or stroke.

This shows that the care being delivered is not ideal, as in up to one in four cases, patients are not receiving medicines that are proven to save lives. But the data also shows that there is wide variance among hospitals - some are near perfect in the use of certain drugs while others are down in the 50 percent to 60 percent range of adherence. This shows that there still is much room for improvement.

We love our patients and our patients love us. You don't sue someone you love.

What's important to remember is this is a treatment they're receiving after all other methods have failed. We truly believe that we're giving patients a new lease on life.

While India is poised to receive an 11 percent downturn in infectious diseases in 2006, the country would witness a 35 percent growth in diabetic patients and 18 percent growth in cardiovascular patients.

With or without cognitive impairment, patients improved in stroke rehabilitation, and they improved at a similar rate, regardless of whether cognitive impairment was present, at least as measured by the Mini-Mental State Exam.

With the combined benefits of radiation, chemotherapy and liver transplantation, our patients with bile duct cancer now have a much better chance to live longer and enjoy a good quality of life.

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

When we walked through (Monday) we saw a large, metropolitan hospital ... and patients not only receiving care but receiving the social services that they needed,

We will make our system of checks more robust to ensure achievement of the target truly reflects the experience of patients across the country.

We will have probably longer treatment days because we have to have five patients rescheduled, but we will all be back.

We will carry out intensive rapid diagnosis of patients suspected of having the disease.

We want to understand what is wrong in patients with severe asthma and apply what we learn to help them.

unfortunately for many patients it's not the final answer, because some will get better and then relapse again months later.

Under the right circumstances, for an average or low-risk patient, the mortality risk is very low, ... The risk of complications is very substantial, and the patients need to be prepared.

Two-thirds of our patients are the elderly who are on Medicare and fixed incomes.

Two patients remain critical and four that are in a serious condition are showing some signs of improvement.

Two patients remain critical and four patients are serious but showing some signs of improvement.

Fifteen years ago, the average was probably about 50 patients in a 24-hour period.

Fifteen of them are in bed, one in a critical condition and eight are able to move about. Most of the patients are children.

Family and loved ones of patients often find a great deal of solace and enjoy the peaceful atmosphere.

The governor wants the pharmacies to fill prescriptions, if given valid prescriptions, and I think basically as an organization we have the same expectations, but to also insure the right of pharmacists and the right of the patients as well.

We're talking about patients who are for the most part 65 years of age or older. Eighty-two percent of Medicare patients who want the medication have co-morbid conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesteremia and prostate disease.

We've been collecting names of AIDS patients for more than 20 years. We've never had a security breach of a patient's name in Illinois in all that time. I don't anticipate we'll have any problems handling HIV reporting.

We need to get cancer patients near treatment and keep them near their families at the same time. These three mobile homes are only the beginning. With the help of others in the mobile home and transportation industries, we hope to make a significant impact on the lives of people with cancer in the Gulf Region.

Turkish health authorities have informed WHO that a total of nine additional patients have been hospitalized in the eastern part of the country.

While this program doesn't replace a physician visit, parents and adult patients can learn valuable information about ADHD symptoms, diagnosis, support groups and treatment options that can help them better understand the disorder. Despite the widespread prevalence of ADHD, many people are confused by conflicting information about the disorder and don't know where to turn for help.

While the importance of cigarette smoking in the progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis remains controversial, case control studies among patients with the disease support the current findings in the familial form of the disease as well as sporadic forms, and consistently indicate that cigarette smoking is a risk factor for the development of the disease,

While the first human organ transplant was performed 50 years ago, it was the arrival of the drug cyclosporine that vastly improved transplant survival rates and helped make transplantation the almost routine procedure it is today. That development offered hope to thousands of patients suffering from failing kidneys, livers, and hearts.

We all want this to work. We want our patients to have access to medications that they need and to use the benefits they are eligible for. We are just hoping that some of these issues will be resolved sooner rather than later.

We're studying the highest-risk patients in the middle of their heart attacks, either big or small, and they all have clots in their arteries. In very rapid succession, we'll have lots of new options. It's going to be wild.

The Optimizer is an exciting and innovative technology with the potential to treat patients with Class III or Class IV heart failure. We have already begun enrolling patients in the FIX-HF-5 study to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of the Optimizer. We look forward to completing new patient enrollment in order to fully assess the potential of this device to meet the needs of moderate to severe heart failure patients.

The opportunity is to lower the cost of these drugs. The risk is that state Medicaid programs use this excuse to entirely deny some patients access to more effective and more expensive drugs which work for those patients.

The opportunities are incredible. We're curing Alzheimer's in mice. That's called a proof-of-concept study that the drug companies would then take on to a clinical trial. They are investing. But there are many things that may work in Alzheimer's patients that don't have intellectual property or patentability.

There is something not quite right about letting a patient dictate whether or not they take medicine. Are mental patients the people to whom we should be leaving the decisions?

We have a duty to ensure that patients don't have to worry whether they'll be dropped from their coverage if they get sick. Small business owners shouldn't have to break the bank to provide coverage to their employees. And families should not be forced into bankruptcy because of a medical crisis.

This week we've been at capacity frequently. It changes frequently because patients come and go ... but we have been operating at high or full capacity consistently.

This website will provide patients with information on actual wait times, broken out by procedure, by community, by hospital, by local health integration network,

This upgrade will mean that vital medicines for some of our most vulnerable patients - such as babies, children and bone marrow transplant patients - can be made on site in a new purpose-built environment, reducing their chance of infection,

We find that after the onset of manifestations of Alzheimer's disease patients with higher education decline faster.

We have 40,000 visits to this emergency room yearly. We have 186 patients in the hospital today, 25 critically ill. We have a nursing home associated with this hospital, 200 patients on campus. We provide 1,000 hot meals a day to the elderly in this community,

We want to find out if anyone can take some patients to some transfers.

We want to examine whether the PPRS works well to ensure that pharmaceuticals markets meet the needs of patients by offering adequate rewards to pharmaceutical companies for developing new and useful drugs, while providing the taxpayer with value for money.

Twenty percent of our patients meet the criteria for needing more cardiovascular services. This will complement the services already offered.

Twenty-five percent of all the center's patients come from Summit County. And you can't do that drive alone.

With increased awareness of this connection, IBD patients can initiate or maintain an open dialogue with their physicians and discuss their personal and family history of colorectal cancer as well as symptoms and medications, which are crucial components to cancer prevention.

What this says to patients is, it's important to not give up if the first treatment doesn't work fully or causes side effects. The second step is nearly as effective as the first one. Different people may respond better to one than to another.

We've put together the medically acceptable waiting times, the maximum time patients should be waiting. So we've done the work for them,

What happens if the nurse-patient ratio can't be met? Would the state rather see entire units shut down and patients forced to transfer to different facilities?

What happened? Exactly what Dr. Jeff expected. Patients got well fast. Amazingly well, and amazingly fast. It was not what his patients expected -- to them, it was nothing short of a miracle. For the first time in years, they could walk without pain every step.

We've been talking about the importance of this study for the last two or three years. This is the most important study ever done. It has a very large number of patients and it is scientifically rigorous.

We had the biggest rush of patients between last night and this morning, with the arrival of about 56 patients.

We will not make progress without clinical trials. It's wrong and unfair to deny patients access to clinical trials.

The problem has always been that you were always making guesses about your blood sugar all day long. By connecting it to a pump, it provides an excellent way to for patients to monitor.

We understand some of the things cancer patients go through and the prostheses are so expensive. That's why we carry most of the things they will need at no charge.

With limits on the rights of victims of medical negligence, insurance companies spend less money on patients and more money on insurance company lawyers, but insurers do not lower rates for doctors. Lawmakers looking to California as a model for malpractice insurance reform must understand that regulation worked and liability caps did not.

With limited resources physicians must pick and choose who must receive immediate medical attention and who can wait, ... In a triage setting, patients with minor injuries or sickness are given a green arm band. Those with moderate afflictions receive a yellow band and those in the most immediate need of medical assistance are given a red arm band.

We are cautious, because amphetamines are controversial. You don't want to suggest that Parkinson's patients should stand on the street corner and deal amphetamines.