GPs were given special training in diagnosing depression, the suicide rate dropped by two-thirds.
This addresses the biggest difficulty in diagnosing concussions: the failure to report symptoms.
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An investigation by Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust found the radiologist's actions caused a delay in diagnosing a patient.
Wednesday's meeting also heard calls for training for doctors in diagnosing DVT.
You may also be referred to a specialist in diagnosing dementia or memory disorders, such as a neurologist, psychiatrist, psychologist or geriatrician.
Technology developed for use by jet pilots, which tracks eye movements, is to be customised for use in diagnosing dyslexia in young children.
"We are on the verge of a massive revolution" in diagnosing disease, says William Wallen, senior vice president for lab testing research at Bayer.
Because DiGeorge syndrome can result in so many disorders, a number of specialists will likely be involved in diagnosing specific conditions, recommending treatments and providing care.
Due to this lapse in expertise and awareness of this mental condition, parents are often in the dark and without guidance in diagnosing and caring for their autistic child.
Managers will often have to do the heavy-lifting, that is, becoming actively engaged in diagnosing problems, developing alternatives, executing solutions, and following through to make certain the work is completed to expectation.
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In fact, Salnoske, leveraging his skills as an expert in diagnosing problems to identify that the company needed someone who would oversee a broader variety of divisions of the company to get to the root cause of an issue that had been labeled as an operations problem, as he explains at some length herein.
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Auburn University has bucked that trend by discovering a way to put active viruses to work in not only diagnosing sickness, but in preventing it in the first place.
My friends in China talk about the portable medical scanning devices from GE that have been used successfully in the their market for diagnosing patients in rural areas in mobile clinics.
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The report said waiting times for operations have come down and significant progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing and treating coronary heart disease.
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But Dorset has the worst record in the country for diagnosing the condition, it said.
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Even within the camp arguing for a broader definition of hypothyroidism, Brown stands apart for diagnosing it in young athletes.
On the other, they also indicate that the local health trusts are in the top five best areas in the UK for diagnosing the disease.
Dr. James Perrin, the director of the division of general pediatrics at the Mass General Hospital for Children in Boston, says it takes more than one doctor's visit to get an ADHD diagnosis right. (Perrin helped write guidelines for diagnosing ADHD in general practice or family practice settings, which were published in 2000, but did not participate in Garland's study).
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Diagnosing mental illness in children can be difficult because young children often have trouble expressing their feelings and normal development varies from child to child.
Sheen showed up for work and did his job, which makes diagnosing him an addict in a strict clinical sense an iffy proposition.
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Their remit goes beyond the role of a traditional nurse with many getting involved in the assessing, treating, diagnosing and referring of patients.
One is that we are lousy in the UK at catching and diagnosing the disease before it becomes inoperable: cutting the cancer out through surgery is still the most effective way of prolonging life.
' That didn't stop him from diagnosing moments later that the teen is in perfect health.
If you see no benefit, there are in general two paths your doctor might recommend (and I say doctor in the generic sense, given that many folks nowadays see physician assistants or nurse practitioners who often -- in my experience -- do a better job diagnosing and treating depression than do MDs).
In her 14 years of practicing, she has been diagnosing more and more cases of chlamydia, syphilis and gonorrhea, she said.
Diagnosing schizoid personality disorder is usually based on an in-depth interview with your doctor about your symptoms as well as your medical and personal history.
Dr Andrew Mallick, a research associate at Bristol University, who has just completed a large study into strokes in children in the south of England, says the key to recovery is diagnosing strokes quickly.
The grants, from units of the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health, are to develop antibodies for diagnosing and treating anthrax and inhalation plague--two diseases in the crosshairs of biodefense efforts.
Dutch researchers are proposing that DNA sequencing replace older forms of genetic tests for diagnosing the cause of severe intellectual disability, the second time in a day that researchers have pushed the emerging technology as a first-choice diagnostic test for severe illness.
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