Some patient communities have existed for decades, have highly credible leadership, and offer real world information.
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Some patient groups can take their mission a little too far, or get too cozy with drugmakers.
Much of the usage today is ad hoc : doctors can handwrite diagnostic notes or access some patient records via their tablets.
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Although some people feel like this is a big culture change we have been doing this already for decades in some patient populations.
Several years ago, investors and some patient advocates held a protest outside the FDA after the agency decided not to approve the prostate cancer treatment Provenge, from Seattle biotech company Dendreon, despite a positive advisory panel vote.
In fact the government has been moving away from them, though it is rebranding some as patient "guarantees".
Making some neurologists nervous is the fact that the study was performed in Russia, where Alzheimer's drugs aren't used as often as in the U.S. This or some other undiscovered patient population difference might tend to magnify the difference between drug and placebo, some neurologists say.
In March, the Care Quality Commission called for action at the hospital in some areas including patient care, welfare and respect.
Dr Palle Palmer, from Karolinska University Hospital, said the treatment would buy the patient some time and allow her body to recover.
Thus, many doses that are sufficient to provide pain relief also pose some risk to the patient.
The signals required vary from patient to patient and some people wait many years before an audiologist gets it right.
The standard treatment for Barrett's has been to watch for precancerous changes called dysplasia, and in some cases remove the patient's esophagus.
Given the billions of cancer cells in a patient, some cells will likely evolve that lack the targeted genetic alterations or that are resistant to the targeted therapy.
Partridge says there have been several new reconstructive breast therapies developed over the past several years, and though she agrees patients should be informed of them, she says in some cases if the patient doesn't bring it up, the oncologist may wait to have this discussion, especially when radiation treatment is needed.
Shoemaker has done some interesting work showing that patient satisfaction and profitability go hand in hand.
Beyond that, some sites claiming to be patient support sites are data mining sites.
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They could also leave the hospital nearly a full day earlier on average (which saved some two thousand dollars per patient).
With both types of breast reconstruction the patient will retain some sensation.
This is not the first time Dr. Woodcock has put the generic industry on notice that some in the physician and patient communities were starting to doubt generics.
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While electrophysiologists and heart surgeons traditionally handle these implants, more general cardiologists are doing them--leading some electrophysiologists to wonder if patient care will suffer (along with their own practices).
While electrophysiologists and heart surgeons traditionally handle these implants, more general cardiologists are doing them-leading some electrophysiologists to wonder if patient care will suffer (along with their own practices).
Some doctors, academics and patient advocates blame the lapses on a medical-industrial complex made up of acquiescent regulators, gadget-happy cardiologists and surgeons who rake in consulting and appearance fees from device makers, and pushy device makers themselves.
McGee, had developed a prototype for a Virtual Patient program, one that third and fourth year Harvard Medical students could utilize (on CD-ROM) to learn some of the details of patient care that they would not be able to pick up on rounds.
"In 30 of these reports it is documented that the patient died at some point in time afterwards, often as a result of cardiac or circulatory problems, " the ministry said referring to the period after the drug was authorised in the EU in September 1998.
In reality, any chemical that can help a patient can also do some measure of hurt.
And in some cases pharmacists automatically assumed the patient had been given information about their medicine by the GP.
Calling and e-mailing their doctor or nurse can save some time, but result in patient data scattered all over the place.
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