But health economists and medical experts say the treatment, however alluring, is part of an unsettling trend: new and ever pricier treatments for common medical conditions that are part and parcel of aging -- procedures that could potentially benefit tens of thousands of patients, at a total cost that would far exceed the kind of prescription drug benefit now being considered by Congress.
Our hospital facilitates both early ICU follow-up, including brief recapitulation of the ICU stay and giving patients an ICU diary, procedures that may potentially affect the prevalence of later adverse psychological outcome.
demanded that her words be stricken from the congressional record -- a procedure that would potentially necessitate a vote by the full House that would have lengthened a farm bill debate that had already taken longer than Republicans had expected.
Tuesday's forced resignation of Bob Diamond, the Barclays chief executive, follows well-worn procedures for dealing with crises that potentially threaten those in power: denounce the worst offenders, let a few symbolic heads roll, set up an inquiry under a safe pair of hands, and tweak the regulations to prevent a repetition of the most egregious misdemeanours.
Red-carpet dermatology involves scalpel-free procedures that create more temporary and potentially less detectable changes than a facelift, including Botox injections to paralyze the muscles underlying wrinkles, filler injections to pad lips and facial creases, or lasers for brown spots and broken blood vessels.
Wasteful spending — perhaps $700 billion a year — "does nothing to improve patient health but subjects you and me to tests and procedures that aren't necessary and are potentially harmful," the president's budget director, Peter Orszag, wrote in a blog post characteristic of the administration's argument.
Under such circumstances, concern over the safety of drinking water should be paramount, and federal legislation, especially the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974, should theoretically give the Environmental Protection Agency EPAA) the power to oversee (and potentially ban) any procedures that endanger water supplies.
The use of familiar music as an emotion carrier and procedures that depend on verbal labeling are potentially confounded by semantic impairment, which frequently accompanies bvFTD; meanwhile, structural neuroimaging techniques are essentially associational and cannot examine underlying dysfunctional brain mechanisms.
However, bone harvesting potentially causes donor site morbidity which is a major issue for the patients who appreciate procedures that reduce morbidity [38].
HyPhy/Datamonkey [ 30] is a likelihood-based procedure that can handle potentially recombinant sequences when inferring positively selected sites under the phylogenetic assumption.
