Common schizophrenia symptoms often overlooked by physicians, according to expert panel
...dings.php3 . "Traditionally, physicians have been oriented to treating schizophrenia by preventing symptoms from getting worse, rather than helping the person continue to get better beyond their current level of symptoms and functioning," said Peter J. Weiden, MD, professor of psychiatry and director of the ...Major overhaul needed in end-of life care for patients with dementia
...t author of the study. "Our health care system is oriented toward treatment of acute illness but dementia produces a long, slow, unpredictable decline." Their study is one of four in the October, 2004 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine that focus on the expanding role of primary care p...Major overhaul needed in end-of life care for patients with dementia
...t author of the study. "Our health care system is oriented toward treatment of acute illness but dementia produces a long, slow, unpredictable decline." Their study is one of four in the October, 2004, issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine that focus on the expanding role of primary care physic...Researchers examine oleic acid in atmosphere
... molecules. They wanted to see how these molecules oriented themselves when they came into contact with the surface of water molecules. "Knowing how molecules orient themselves is a big factor in understanding how they react and what byproducts they form," said Gopalakrishnan. "These orientations ma...Summa Health System improves stroke care using ace model of care
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...st. "The discussion of symptoms with pragmatically oriented trauma center providers may facilitate early mental health screening and intervention procedures targeting the complexity of PTSD and depression, and somatic amplification," Zatzick says. "Similarly, mental health professionals working in the acute c...ACP publishes 'Medical Meanings,' second edition
...ongs in the library of everyone, whether medically oriented or not, who savors the romance of language and the fertile interplay of thought, word, and deed." (JAMA) Dr. Haubrich is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California at San Diego and senior consultant emeritus at the Scripps Clini...Both languages active in bilingual speakers
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...ve officers of major chemical and pharmaceutically oriented companies, literary lights such as Oliver Sacks ( "Uncle Tungsten" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" ) and Alan Lightman ( "Einstein's Dreams" and "Reunion" ). Among the authors will be those who helped discover elements. Overall, th...July/August 2003 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
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...First-generation teen-agers were more likely to be oriented toward the other country (separation) than second-... adolescents, who, in turn, were more likely to be oriented toward the other country than third-generation adolescents. Those oriented toward neither country (...Tricking diseases into synthesizing their own worst enemies
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