What Should Physicians Tell About Themselves to Patients?(should...

American Family Physician;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......alcoholism or sexual abuse can demonstrate deep joining with patients' suffering. Because the patient is entrusted with personal...are most comfortable making personal disclosures to patients whom they have treated for many years. The gender of...circumstances it is suitable to reveal personal information to ...

Peak expiratory flow rate as predictor of inpatient death in patients with...

Southern Medical Journal;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......expiratory flow (PEF) in these patients. Materials and Methods Patients and study design A prospective study was conducted on 284 patients who had been admitted consecutively to the Short Stay...based internists. Over the 1-year study period, 3,000 patients were admitted to the SSMU, and the ...

Review of Data of the Patients Receiving Total Parenteral Nutrition at the...

Journal of the National Medical Association;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......university hospital. Forty-five patients who were treated at this hospital...following results: 31.1% of the patients received parenteral nutrition...were used in 86.7% of the patients; 77.8% of the solutions were...than 800 mOsmol/L; routine Fe and Fe binding capacity, ...

Characterization of the Fe(III)-binding Site in Sepia Eumelanin by...

Photochemistry and Photobiology;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the intensity of these features increases with increasing Fe(III) content. The 580 and 1470 cm^sup -1^ bands are assigned to Fe-OR stretching and ring deformation modes, respectively. These data further substantiate that the Fe(III)-melanin-binding site in melanin is composed of CAT-like...proposed that ...

Q & A: Herbal, nutritional supplements attract patients

Dermatology Times;  May 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......educate themselves to answer patients' questions about alternative...Skin Surgery Center of Santa Fe, N.M., conducted the interview...encountered in taking care of patients who are seeking an alternative...may be several reasons why patients are turning toward these medications. Some ...

Wavefront technology offers patients improved outcomes

Ophthalmology Times;  June 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......treatment, FDA study says SANTA FE, NM-Initial results from the...Device wavefront system in patients who underwent LASIK to treat...and hyperopia indicate that patients with myopia, especially, can...the FDA feasibility study, 20 patients were approved to undergo bilateral...

Induction of anaesthesia in patients with coronary artery disease: A...

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......fentanyl-etomidate (Group FE) for induction of anaesthesia in patients with ischaemic heart...reduced to 2%. For Group FE (n=20), anaesthesia...Significantly more patients in Group SR (P<...bradycardia in three patients and asystole in a...

Interferon Aids Dyspareunia in Vestibulitis Patients.(Brief...

Family Practice News;  February 1, 2000 ;     596 words ...SANTA FE, N.M. - Interferon can cure...dyspareunia in more than 40% of patients with vulvar vestibulitis...88% in vulvar vestibulitis patients who had evidence of HPV on...recurrent vaginal candidiasis. Patients initially received 1 million...years after treatment, 24% of patients were cured ...

Educating patients key in STEP-BD.(Adult Psychiatry)(Systematic Treatment...

Clinical Psychiatry News;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...SANTA FE, N.M. -- The principal investigator...studies ever conducted in patients with bipolar disorder is encouraging...that went into it. With 4,361 patients enrolled, the Systematic Treatment...not telling you how to treat patients, but how to put together your...

Acid-base and electrolyte disturbances in patients with hypercalcemia.

Southern Medical Journal;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......period of 2 years were recruited for the study. The 76 patients (51 male, 25 female) ranged in age from 22 to 81 years, with a mean age of 57. Patients presenting with hypercalcemia readily explicable by...study if the initial high values were not confirmed. Patients with a history of receiving drugs ...

Treat anxiety in patients with depressive, bipolar disorders.(Mental...

Family Practice News;  November 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ...SANTA FE, N.M. -- Anxiety disorders...lead to worse outcomes for patients with major depressive and...half, 53%, of 2,876 depressed patients in the first phase of the...Psychiatry 2006;163:28-40). Anxious patients were significantly less likely...

Interferon Improves or Resolves Dyspareunia in More Than 40% of Vulvar...

OB GYN News;  November 1, 1999 ;     343 words ...SANTA FE, N.M. -- Interferon can cure...dyspareunia in more than 40% of patients with vulvar vestibulitis...to a review of almost 200 patients reported at the International...improvement rate found in these patients treated at a single specialty...

In-hospital death in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary...

Southern Medical Journal;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......airflow obstruction (FE[V.sub.1]), dyspnea...markers of death among patients hospitalized with...10) In contrast to FE[V.sub.1], measurement...predictor of outcome in patients with COPD. In one...be equal to best FE[V.sub.1] in predicting...than the baseline FE[V.sub.1]. The ...

Medical License Hearing Wraps Up Doc Says He Tried To Help Patients

Albuquerque Journal;  February 8, 2006 ;     556 words ......several more weeks before Santa Fe physician George Schwartz learns...anything he did was intended to help patients. "I feel I still have valuable...many actually were picked up by patients. In many cases, patients couldn't afford the entire amount...

Identify and treat depression in cancer patients.(Clinical Rounds)

Family Practice News;  January 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Santa Fe, N.M. -- Clinical depression is common in cancer patients and can affect outcomes of...treated. About 13% of cancer patients develop a major depressive...than twice the experience in patients diagnosed with heart disease...