"For example in Rwanda, where cell phone-based technologies are being used to keep track of dispensation of drugs to patients with H.I.V.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

But it can be acquired in the air, from patients that are from- from other individuals that are infected.

天花会通过空气传播,通过病人和其他感染者呼出的空气传播

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For every increase of five degrees Celsius in air temperature, the patients had a seven and one-half percent higher risk of migraine.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Mr.Mack also says developments in artificial intelligence could lead to a future where disabled patients could be cared for by a voice-activated robot.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

For example, the TMR patients completed elbow and wrist movements in an average of one-point-two-nine seconds.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

But the drug can be given only in centers where specially-trained doctors can observe patients.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Lyrica causes side-effects in some patients, including problems with mental concentration and attention.

VOA: special.2011.08.02

So we are looking at bio-markers, we're doing sophisticated X-rays, like functional MRI and spec-scanning to understand what happens in the brains of patients with fibromyalgia when they have pain, what happens to their brains when we treat that pain."

VOA: special.2011.08.02

Hamish Fraser of the U.S.-based non-profit group Partners in Health, says several studies have demonstrated how the technology can help patients.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Dr.Yasser Ousman at Washington Hospital Center prescribes it for some pre-diabetic patients or those in the early stages of diabetes.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

But in developing countries, especially Africa, patients buy medicines -- often counterfeit -- to treat life threatening diseases like malaria,tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Dr.Robert Bunning, of the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, co-authored a study of about 50 patients who have been on the drugs.

VOA: standard.2010.03.14

A new study of HIV-infected people in Haiti indicates that starting treatment early could save many patients who might otherwise die of AIDS.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

For years, might?" doctors have been telling patients to cut down on saturated fats - the kinds of fats in meats and milk,for example.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

"A lot of these patients are at the highest risk of death and re-hospitalization and problems in the six months following discharge from the hospital."

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Dr.Rebecca Smith-Bindman of the University of California San Francisco led a study of more than one thousand patients in four of the city's biggest hospitals.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

The small pilot project involved 10 video consultations between stroke patients and a team of rehabilitation specialists in Thunder Bay, a mid-size city near the U.S.border.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Dr.Jason Haukoos says the hope was to identify HIV-infected patients early in the disease.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Dr.Kausalya Pendyal tells her patients in Richmond, Virginia before they go outside to check the Air Quality Index - a U.S.government assessment of pollutants in the air.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

The Italian aid group Emergency has had a tense relationship with local authorities in violence-wracked Helmand province, due in part to its policy of treating all patients.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Kaplan's agency is redoubling its efforts to identify obese women early in their pregnancies and to make sure their health care providers treat them as high-risk patients.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23

"We know that this is already happening in remote clinics, for example in Rwanda, where cell phone-based technologies are being used to keep track of dispensation of drugs to patients with HIV,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

"They have seen what happens when patients do not come in for regular check-ups or screenings because either their insurance company does not cover it, or they cannot afford insurance in the first place,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.05