When it comes to diagnosing illness, doctors may turn a deaf ear to some of the most critical information: what the patient has to say.
One recent case: a small child in Wisconsin who suffered through more than 100 surgeries before sequencing identified the cause of his illness and allowed doctors to prescribe a bone marrow transplant as treatment.
Gaidar's spokesman says doctors can't explain the illness, and suspect some form of toxic poisoning.
The Yankees declined to make their medical staff available, but players say that once illness strikes, team doctors and trainers treat their charges with the same basic techniques a school nurse would use to treat a class full of sick kids.
Such tools that measure our biological signals can help advance our understanding of our bodies and aid doctors and scientists in their efforts to combat illness and diseases.
Doctors told him she had died from a respiratory illness but he believes that it was exposure to formaldehyde that killed her - although there is no proof her death was linked to living in the trailer.
The report also said terminal illness had to be strictly defined, and doctors should not have to assist a patient if they had a conscientious objection.
The half-life of a specialty is short, continually disintegrating into subspecialties, and sub-subspecialties, to the point where some doctors devote their whole career to one variant of one illness.
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Doctors from Solihull Healthcare NHS Trust had said they believed his illness might be due to parental neglect.
Hospice deploys nurses, doctors, and social workers to help people with a fatal illness have the fullest possible lives right now.
It has not been made clear what illness the Palestinian leader was suffering from, though doctors ruled out cancer and rejected the allegation - repeated on Thursday by the Hamas militant group - that he had been poisoned.
Dr Buckman said swine flu for most was a nasty but relatively mild illness, however he said people were panicking and swamping doctors with calls.
Insurer Aetna began using nurse-care managers to help manage both Medicare and commercially insured patients with terminal illness in 2004, using telephone consultations with patients, doctors and families to, among other things, ensure advance directives are in place and complied with.
Doctors will come to your house for a small fee and diagnose your illness.
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Doctors have told her she is in remission after completing treatment for the illness.
Their conclusions are that while depression is not necessarily a cause of the illness, there is a strong suggestion that it may help doctors predict which elderly people will develop heart disease.
If Mr. Roy tells me that he plans on going shopping for anything but the very best doctors he can find should, God forbid, his child face such a life-threatening illness, I am not going to believe him.
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