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Genetic Counseling and How it Can Help Those Left Behind

October 29, 2010 Tags: None

New research suggests that patients often take clues about a family’s hereditary cancer risk to the grave because genetic counseling typically isn’t part of end-of-life discussions or care.

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center interviewed 43 dying cancer patients and determined th
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How Doctors Can Motivate Patients to Diet

October 27, 2010 Tags: None

People who are overweight are often counseled by their physicians to lose the extra pounds. But does such advice do any good? A new study suggests that it depends on the way it is offered.
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Gloves, Masks and Patient Isolation

October 22, 2010 Tags: None

For nearly half a century, infectious disease experts and hospital epidemiologists have relied on various methods of contact precautions to contain increasingly widespread and often virulent multi-drug-resistant bacteria.
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When a doctor and nurse disagree over patient care

October 20, 2010 Tags: None

Obviously, doctors and nurses have different roles in the hospital. Our training is different, and so are our responsibilities. It’s also true that patients choose their doctor and only end up with a particular nurse through the luck of the draw.
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