The American Academy of Family Physicians says most children stop sucking their thumb by the age of four.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

A web site called Family Doctor dot org provides information from the American Academy of Family Physicians.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

The trainees receive supervision from medical professors and doctors called attending physicians.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

"A team of doctors, including emergency physicians and cardiologists, attempted to resuscitate him for a period of more than one hour,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

Dr.Hannah Wunsch of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons says for some patients, the survival rate was even less.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

The National Institute of Development Administration says medical tourism has exacerbated shortages of physicians, dentists and nursing staff in public facilities.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

President Obama went before the nation's largest organization of physicians to make the case for health care reform.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

"So yes, we want all of our physicians, white,African American,Latino, what have you, to be culturally competent."

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

"FDA physicians and scientists were ridiculed and chastized for raising the bugaboo (fearful image) of radiation."

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

Hope Ferdowsian of the Physicians Committee says "For example,in HIV research, we've learned a lot from human epidemiological studies and ethically conducted clinical trials."

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

But that may be hard to do ince primary care physicians earn much less than specialists.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"We've been warning about this for two and a half years." "There really isn't a good reason for physicians to continue to prescribe the drug.

VOA: standard.2010.03.02

"That keeps pressure off the general practitioners, the primary care physicians, and the hospital doctors.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

"The next stop is for epidemiologists and physicians who are trying to develop vaccines or drugs to take advantage of this knowledge in doing their work."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

Democrats also staged a news conference at which physicians and nurses, as well as Democratic lawmakers who are doctors,spoke in support of the health care reform effort.

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

With the shortage of primary care physicians, expanding the authority of nurse practitioners.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"I think we still need to do more evaluation. It's obviously a very important skill, but I think it doesn't really encompass what primary care physicians do."

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

"There are studies that have shown that African American physicians and Hispanic American physicians are three to five times more likely to establish their practices in African American or Hispanic American communities."

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

"That means midwives,nurses and physicians to assist deliveries."

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Dr.Hope Ferdowsian, director of research policy at Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), , says chimpanzees used for HIV and hepatitis research are anaesthetized with a dart gun before being subjected to harmful and invasive procedures.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16

Sullivan,who once served as secretary of the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services, says minority physicians see a higher percentage of patients with either no insurance, or covered by Medicaid, the government insurance program for low-income Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.03.05

The events draw a diverse audience. "We have people who are professionals that range from engineers and physicians,to people that just have an interest in science and may be retired, may not be employed, may be students, and have just an interest in learning more."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

"You needed about a five percent operating margin in order to stay in business over the long haul, especially if you are in a community like this that is growing and you have to invest in new facilities from time to time, recruit new physicians to the area and hire staff."

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

And that team is continuing to gather that information." A U.S.advocacy group, Physicians for Human Rights, says that allowing Dostum to return to any position of power before there is a thorough and transparent investigation of allegations against him will been seen by Afghans as confirmation that warlords like Dostum have impunity for their crimes.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

"Since that time we've really learned that as close as they are to human species, they're not close enough for any real scientific outcomes for drug testing.I think like that" That's Elizabeth Kucinich, wife of U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, she is a long-time animal welfare advocate and serves as director of public affairs, for the Physicians Committee "Over 80 different HIV-related vaccines have worked in chimpanzees but none have proven effective in human beings.

VOA: standard.2010.02.16