However, in general, termination conditions are far more difficult to diagnose as they straddle the line between convenience and cause.
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That is the coma that filmmaker Annalisa Piras and I diagnose as the Italian condition: economic stagnation, yes, but also a failure of consciousness and responsibility, which is in effect a moral failure.
Q. tests are used to diagnose people as mentally retarded, with a score of 70 generally taken to be the cutoff.
In early August, Russia media reported that doctors in Moscow were being told not to diagnose heatstroke as a cause of death.
Dr. Drew Pinsky would diagnose him as an info-addict.
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Even though the disease is not uncommon, doctors can misinterpret these symptoms and diagnose the patient as suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and irritable bowel syndrome.
Wolfe, in contrast, grouped together a smorgasbord of heart problems that are harder to diagnose, such as angina, arrhythmia and heart failure, a weakening of the heart muscle.
The judge found the main blame for Kalisha's death lay with the doctor, after he failed to diagnose the pregnancy as ectopic, where the foetus develops outside the womb.
But now the hospital has The FibroScan, an ultrasound probe to diagnose what Dr Wright describes as the "ticking time-bomb" of liver damage.
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According to medical experts, is not easy to diagnose Parkinson's, as there are no particular tests that can prove whether or not someone has the condition.
In a study on confidence and accuracy, Lewis Goldberg asked experienced neurologists and their administrative assistants to diagnose brain damage among patients as being organic or non-organic damage using a standard protocol in the field.
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Sleep studies are sometimes used to diagnose so-called parasomnias such as sleep walking and sleep terrors.
Software and services company Compuware, for instance, offers a package that includes software products as well as programming professionals to diagnose, test and solve problem applications.
The winning device, to be determined in about three years, will use sensors to diagnose a dozen medical ailments, such as heart disease and diabetes, as well as, or better, than a team of doctors.
Only by understanding the subtle genetic variations in hundreds of thousands of people--by sifting out the molecular misnomers that predispose someone to a specific malady--will scientists learn how to better predict, diagnose and ultimately cure such difficult diseases as diabetes, schizophrenia and heart failure.
Relatively inexpensive, such nurses can diagnose the most common minor ailments (such as flu) and, crucially, also write prescriptions.
In October, the American Academy of Pediatrics set up new guidelines to help pediatricians recognize the early signs of autism, in order to diagnose the disorder and get children into treatment as soon as possible.
Because radiation oncologists do not diagnose cancer, they rely on referring physicians such as surgeons, urologists and gynecologists.
Typically, a therapist will work with a patient for four to eight weeks -- in sessions that last from 30 minutes to two hours -- to assess, diagnose, and treat the underlying problem, such as relationship worries.
The idea is that some day soon, doctors will be able to automatically alert their public health department and the CDC when they diagnose a patient with a communicable disease of concern, such as whooping cough or tuberculosis.
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The technique, known as 'photodynamic diagnosis', is already used to diagnose and treat other types of cancers, for example, certain skin cancers.
Doctors often fail to diagnose the disease, and sometimes suggest extreme (and useless) remedies such as removing sweat glands or hysterectomy.
"There is no evidence that these type of scans can be used as a general screening procedure for confirming you are healthy or to diagnose a specific condition, " she says.
The FDA approved the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System as a humanitarian use device, an approval pathway limited to those devices that treat or diagnose fewer than 4, 000 people in the United States each year.
As these symptoms are often associated with other conditions, it can be difficult for GPs to diagnose the condition.
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That rings about right: not only is Mahathir a trained physician, but as leader for the past 17 years, he has generally been brisk, modern, quick to diagnose and even readier to prescribe.
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