Discussing weight requires sensitivity, awareness

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The American culture and Western attitudes toward beauty make talking about weight issues with female patients more difficult because many psychological conditions, such as depression and eating disorders, are connected to weight problems. However, physicians are responsible for recording this aspect of health, and effective communication is needed. An open-ended approach to the subject is considered more tactful, with the physician asking patients how they take care of themselves and keep fit.

Psychological aspects, Management, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, Weight loss

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More patients need their second chance at life

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Organ transplantation is a medical breakthrough that makes it possible for many patients to live healthy productive lives yet thousands of patients die each year due to a lack of organ donations. One solution to resolving the organ shortage is to expand mandated programs that require a decision on organ donation by more people. Presumed consent is an extension of this idea which assumes people will donate their organs after death unless otherwise specified.

Column, Social policy, Political aspects, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Organ transplantation, Tissue transplantation, Transplantation, Organ donors, Tissue donors

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Panel urges risky baboon transplant for AIDS patient

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The Food and Drug Administration has been advised to approve of the controversial bone marrow transplant from a baboon to AIDS patient Jeff Getty, who is willing to risk the procedure. Suzanne Ildstad MD, has discovered 'facilitating cells' that may prevent the bone marrow of an ape from being rejected by a human. Baboons do not get AIDS, and Ildstad hopes the injection will help Getty's body manufacture the new blood cells it needs to fight the disease.

Usage, Cases, Bone marrow, Bone marrow transplantation, Baboons, Getty, Jeff

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