180 articles on "patient"

Strategies You Must Understand Regarding Medical Malpractice

When all of us think about a medical malpractice case we usually think of it from the doctor's standpoint. There is, on the other hand, the mindset of the patient and members of the family. Right now it truly is not only necessary that doctors k...

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B-Vitamins Help Promote Healthy Arteries and Heart

B-Vitamins Help Promote Healthy Arteries and Heart by: Jeremy Maddock A 2002 study reported, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation reported that a six-month regiment of taking folic acid, vitamin b12, and vitamin b6 can be instrumental...

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$2.75 Million For Patient Whose Physician Failed to Carry Out His Request For Prostate Cancer Testing

Prostate cancer affects African-American males earlier and frequently more aggressively than the rest of the population. Males of African-American descent are at greater risk of having prostate cancer at an earlier age. For this reason, physicians ge...

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Tests Show Possibility Of Cancer Yet Doctor Repeatedly Fails To Notify Patient

Male patients tend to possess a poor knowledge of prostate cancer, their own risk for the cancer, and how to determine whether they have prostate cancer. Many men have minimal, if any, knowledge of the merit of testing for prostate cancer or of the r...

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Things You Ought To Know First Before Undergoing Liposuction Surgery

According to the medical dictionary of Medline Plus, liposuction is the removal of excess body fat by suction with specialized surgical equipments, typically performed by a plastic surgeon.With the removal of excess body fat, the body appearance impr...

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Congestive Heart Failure And CoQ10

Congestive Heart Failure And CoQ10 by: Greg Post Since the 1960’s there have been numerous controlled clinical trials concerning the relationship between congestive heart failure and Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10). As its name implies CoQ10 is a coenzym...

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Is Dysthymic Disorder a Second-Rate Depression

Dysthymic Disorder, used to be called Dysthymia, is a low-grade and yet chronic depression characterized by feelings of sadness or depression associated with lack of interest to do things and some physical symptoms such as lack of energy, sleep, and ...

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Antiviral Drug Sharply Reduces Return of Herpes of the Eye

Researchers have found that an antiviral drug, often used to suppress genital herpes, also decreases the recurrence of herpes of the eye. A paper detailing these findings is published in the July 30, 1998 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine....

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Refractive Surgery For Vision Problems

The method of changing the optical measurements of the eye by means of an operation is called refractive surgery. Its popularity began with the introduction of radial keratotomy or RK in the 1980s. Russian doctors were able to correct mild degrees of...

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How to Diagnose Asthma - Practical Methods That You Can Use

It's very important that asthma be diagnosed at an early stage so that the patient will not have to endure or suffer the symptoms of asthma without really knowing what kind of illness they have. In addition to that, diagnosing asthma at an early...

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