EARLY RELEASE: Physicians and the First Amendment
Published 20 Nov 08
(No abstract is available for this citation) BOOK REVIEW: Cancer Supportive Care: Advances in Therapeutic Strategies
Published 20 Nov 08
Supportive care for patients with cancer is not a new concept -- the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer had its 21st international symposium earlier this year. However, both ... BOOK REVIEW: Disability Bioethics: Moral Bodies, Moral Difference
Published 20 Nov 08
In the 1970s and 1980s, the first wave of disability theorists began to criticize medical professionals and bioethicists for using a medical model of disability. They argued that those who ... BOOK REVIEW: In Sickness and in Power: Illness in Heads of Government during the Last 100 Years
Published 20 Nov 08
This book is about heads of state -- presidents, shahs, prime ministers. Author David Owen seeks to examine the relationship between the health of leaders and the quality and integrity ... CASE RECORDS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: Case 36-2008 -- A 59-Year-Old Man with Chronic Daily Headache
Published 20 Nov 08
A 59-year-old man was admitted to this hospital with a 6-month history of chronic daily headache, fever, and myalgia. Dry mouth, polydipsia and polyuria, and pain in the jaws on chewing developed. Neuroimaging studies showed diffuse thickening and enhancement of the dura, extending to the pituitary stalk. Computed tomography revealed calcified nodules in the lungs and spleen. A diagnostic procedure was performed. |
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Ministry's hands tied on beauty therapists
Published 20 Nov 08
The Ministry of Health says it is unable to tighten controls on the beauty therapy industry because the therapists are not already named in the statute covering health workers.
The industry itself wants restrictions on who can... Common vitamin may prevent skin cancer
Published 19 Nov 08
SYDNEY - A vitamin found in meats, nuts, grains and cereals may be more effective than sunscreen in preventing skin cancer, new research has found.
Nicotinamide, or Vitamin B3, prevents damage from both UVA and UVB radiation by... Call for tight controls after scar therapy goes wrong
Published 19 Nov 08
The beauty therapy industry is calling for tighter controls after a woman who was treated for acne scars ended up with worse damage on her face.
Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Rae Lamb yesterday made public her brief... Experts say fertility test no 'magic bullet'
Published 19 Nov 08
A new fertility test will be no "magic bullet" for women hoping to conceive, experts say.
The test that measures the levels of Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH) in a woman's blood, pointing to the number of eggs she has left, has caused... New test tells women how long to delay having children
Published 18 Nov 08
Sarah North has decided to have a newly available fertility test to see if she should start having babies straight away.
Miss North, a 31-year-old pharmaceutical company representative who lives with her partner at Laingholm in... |