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The term used when a doctor finds that a person has a certain medical problem or disease.
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Published September 7, 2008, 9:15 pm, Erie Times-News
Gluten Free Support Group of Northwest Pennsylvania meets second Saturday of each month, 10 a.m., Hamot Heart Institute, 120 E. Second St. Call 474-5264.
A 'gravely disabled' mental health care system
Published September 7, 2008, 9:14 pm, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Families who try to help members with mental illness often get trapped in a Kafkaesque system that either fails to help, or doesn't help when there is a better chance for recovery.
Jennifer Kahn: The complicated death of a 9/11 hero.
Published September 7, 2008, 9:07 pm, The New Yorker
In January, 2006, shortly after James Zadroga died at his parents’ house, in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, Dr. Gerard Breton received a call from the Ocean County Medical Examiner’s Office. A retired hospital pathologist, Breton now conducts autopsies for the county on contract. Compared with its more violent neighbors . . .
OU research yields pancreatic cancer breakthrough
Published September 7, 2008, 8:57 pm, The Oklahoma Daily
OKLAHOMA CITY — Doctors at the OU Cancer Institute announced Friday that they have discovered a way to find cancer stem cells in tumors, destroy them and keep them from reoccurring.
Community health workers in Cameroon receive training to diagnose, treat malaria
Published September 7, 2008, 8:39 pm, News-Medical-Net
Approximately 120 community health workers in the Kumba district of Cameroon have been trained to identify, diagnose and treat malaria in an effort to eradicate the disease in the district, Kumba District Medical Officer Orok Bate said, the Post reports.
Racers, Brides Raise Money For Cure
Published September 7, 2008, 7:30 pm, WCVB Boston
As Stand Up To Cancer week came to a close Sunday, thousands of people joined in fundraisers across the city to support the fight against breast cancer.
Prions Observed Jumping Species Barrier
Published September 7, 2008, 6:41 pm, Slashdot
palegray.net writes "Nature is reporting on new findings that prions jump species barriers. Believed to be responsible for ailments such as Creutzfeld-Jakob disease and 'mad cow' disease, prions are thought to disrupt biological processes by causing normal proteins to fold abnormally. Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston have observed infectious prions from hamsters ...
Claim: Woman fired over Healthy S.F. dispute
Published September 7, 2008, 5:08 pm, San Francisco Chronicle
The city of San Francisco is investigating a woman's claim that she was fired for mentioning her rights to health care coverage under the city's universal heath care rules. Julie Ward, 37, was fired in May from her $38,500-a-year job as an assistant manager...
Vital phone-in for men
Published September 7, 2008, 5:00 pm, Parkes Champion-Post
Cancer experts are calling for the Western Region community to get the facts under their belt about prostate cancer – a disease affecting about one in eight Australian men – by calling 13 11 20 this Thursday, 11 September.
Standing up to cancer at Camp Good Days
Published September 7, 2008, 1:57 pm, News 10 NBC Rochester
Some local women with cancer watched the unprecedented "Stand Up for Cancer" telethon at Camp Good Days and Special Times, with tears in their eyes.
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Sun Sep 7
- CBGD Caregivers Report about Corticalbasal Ganglionic Degeneration, CBGD, CBD
- Cortical-Basal Ganglionic Degeneration
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- WE MOVE - Corticobasal Degeneration
- Cushing's syndrome caused by an occult source: difficulties in diagnosis and management)
- The Diagnosis of Cushing's Syndrome: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline: From the article: These technical comments reflect the best available evidence applied to a typical patient. Often, this evidence comes from the unsystematic observations of the panelists and should, therefore, be considered suggestions.
- Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation: Vital information on bipolar disorder in children, teens, and young adults.
Sat Sep 6
- Comparison of Commercially Available Serologic Kit...[J Clin Gastroenterol. 2008] - PubMed Result: "Overall sensitivity was at or below 90%, which is lower than that reported in the literature. Performance of the recombinant and red blood cell antigen-based tTG assays was similar, whereas the alpha-DGP assays demonstrated lower values. Receiver operating characteristic plot derived cut-off values altered test results. Many factors affect the results of these tests and clinicians should be aware of their limitations.&q uot;
- Six Basic Principles in the Communication of Identities: The special ...
Fri Sep 5
- Clinical and Actuarial Judgment Compared (Cosma Shalizi): "The rather surprising, and completely consistent, result of these studies is that there are no known cases where clinicians reliably out-perform actuarial methods ... On the other hand, there is another body of experimental work, admittedly more recent, on "simple heuristics that make us smart", which seems to show that people are often very good judges, under natural conditions.&qu ot;
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