They say their work helps provide a "road map" of which parts of the brain are most and least active when patients feel pain.
Messy, back of the envelope calculation: Assume that there were 200 patients in the active group at 24 weeks and 150 patients at 52, and 250 patients were on placebo at 24 weeks and 200 at 52, and you get something like 9 cases of valvulopathy on lorcaserin and 6 on placebo.
The studies diagnosed patients with active lupus and randomized them to receive Benlysta plus standard therapy, or an inactive infused solution (placebo) plus standard therapy.
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In San Francisco a couple of weeks back the progressive medics of the Sage Commons gathered to talk about how open innovation could, should and will play an ever bigger role in disease detection and cure, with patients more active partners in this process.
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When patients play an active role in their medical decisions, studies show they tend to choose less aggressive treatment paths.
She said the new gown will also encourage patients to be more active after operations.
The theory is that reversing that decline before surgery may help patients be mobile and active afterwards.
It can help reduce costs, drive efficiency and empower patients to take an active role in their healthcare.
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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A pacemaker device could help up to half of all heart failure patients live a more active life, researchers told the American College of Cardiology Tuesday.
Brain scans also show that the patients' brains are more active than before.
Another study in the same journal found that 60% of Lyme disease patients lacked any evidence of previous or active Lyme infections.
Patients diagnosed with prostate cancer who choose "active surveillance" over immediate treatment can follow changes in their PSA over time to help with decision making.
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At the moment, the only sure way of addressing terminal lung disease is transplantation from another person, which can give patients an extra 10 to 20 years of active life.
Proving an incrementally better product enhances value can be expensive (because it takes many patients to demonstrate a small difference in an active comparator trial), and of course, risky as well.
Children may make the ideal patients for these procedures since they have natural and active abilities to heal and grow.
Baraclude is approved in the United States to treat patients with chronic hepatitis B in adults who have active virus and liver damage.
If you look at both of those lines, it appears that both the patients who crossed over from placebo and those in the active drug group are improving.
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The actual benefit may be greater than the research shows, because many of the patients receiving the placebo in the study crossed over to more active therapy.
No active-duty soldiers have died from the infections, but five extremely sick patients who were in the same hospitals as the injured soldiers have died after being infected with the bacteria, Acinetobacter baumannii.
This follows limited but successful testing in Brazil, where patients who underwent surgery with TranS1 catheters had no postoperative back pain and now lead active lives.
However, Kimberley Thacker, vice president at Sanofi, emphasizes that the active ingredient in Ambien and Ambien CR has been around for years and that the drug has helped patients sleep through a combined 14 billion nights in a real-world setting.
Helping patients stay healthy: A growing number of mobile apps and gadgets aim to help people stay active, sleep well and eat healthy.
The studies excluded patients who had received prior B-cell targeted therapy or intravenous cyclophosphamide, and those who had active lupus involving the kidneys or central nervous system.
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