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A patient is any person who receives medical attention, care, or treatment. The person is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician or other medical professional, although one who is visiting a physician for a routine check-up may also be viewed as a patient.

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Study suggests dentists can identify patients at risk for fatal cardiovascular event

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A new study indicates dentists can play a potentially life-saving role in health care by identifying patients at risk of fatal heart attacks and referring them to physicians for further evaluation.


Use of cannabinoids could help post-traumatic stress disorder patients

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Use of cannabinoids (marijuana) could assist in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder patients. This is exposed in a recent study carried out at the Learning and Memory Lab in the University of Haifa's Department ...


Radiation therapy technique successfully treats pain in patients with advanced cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), a radiation therapy procedure pioneered at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) that precisely delivers a large dose of radiation to tumors, effectively controls pain in patients ...


Catheter-delivered Valve May Help People with Heart Defects Avoid Multiple Surgeries

Catheter-delivered Valve May Help People with Heart Defects Avoid Multiple Surgeries

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Children born with certain heart defects have impaired blood flow from the right ventricle to the pulmonary artery leading to the lungs, requiring implanted devices (known as right-ventricular ...


The cost of improving dialysis care

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Improving survival among dialysis patients may increase treatment costs significantly, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego, ...


Travel may be hazardous to dialysis patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If you're sick, traveling to a foreign land may boost your spirits, but jeopardize your health, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in ...


Health information not communicated well to minority populations, MU researcher finds

Health information not communicated well to minority populations, researcher finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

According to the Institute of Medicine, more than 90 million Americans suffer from low health literacy¬, a mismatch between patients' abilities to understand healthcare information and providers' abilities ...


Older patients with dementia at increased risk for flu mortality

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An epidemiological study on pneumonia and influenza (P&I) in adults age 65 and over reports that patients with dementia are diagnosed with flu less frequently, have shorter hospital stays, and have a fifty percent higher ...


The power of doctors makes elderly patients passive

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Elderly patients are often critical towards the meeting with the doctor. Hierarchical structures, time pressure and traditions in the health care sector make these patients and their relatives passive when facing the doctor ...


Diagnoses of fatigue in primary care patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Patients who visit their family doctors for fatigue have a wide range of diagnoses yet the prevalence of serious illness was low, according to a Dutch study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).


Henry Ford Hospital study: Diverticulosis not associated with higher incidence of polyps

Diverticulosis not associated with higher incidence of polyps

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A Henry Ford Hospital study questions the need for aggressive screening for colonic polyps in patients with diverticulosis.


Obesity may hinder optimal control of blood pressure and cholesterol

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Obese patients taking medications to lower their blood pressure and cholesterol levels are less likely to reach recommended targets for these cardiovascular disease risk factors than their normal weight counterparts, according ...


'Difficult-to-treat asthma' may be due to difficult-to-treat patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Difficult-to-treat asthma often may have more to do with patients who do not take their medication as instructed than ineffective medication, according to researchers in Northern Ireland.


Patient hopelessness linked to poor cardiac rehab, researchers find

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Feelings of hopelessness lead to decreased participation in rehabilitation for patients recovering from cardiac events such as a heart attack, according to a team of researchers led by a Michigan State University ...


Physicians have less respect for obese patients, study suggests

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Doctors have less respect for their obese patients than they do for patients of normal weight, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests. The findings raise questions about whether negative physician attitudes about ...