These men and women -- doctors, medics and nurses, many of them just 20 or 21 years old -- have saved the lives of numerous servicemen and women who in any previous war may have come home in flag-draped coffins.
Kurt Graves , Novartis' general manager of U.S. commercial operations, says he expects the campaign to help get women into doctors' offices--and that will help drive Zelnorm sales.
Crystal's nervousness is understandable - though doctors say that if HIV-positive women take anti-retroviral drugs during their pregnancy and avoid breast-feeding, the chance of their baby carrying the virus is tiny.
Doctors now and women are really - they have a kind of a knee-jerk response to the big estrogen study that was conducted a couple of years ago, and estrogen comes off sounding like toxic waste - estrogen replacement therapy.
Six years later, Healy and others are pleading for a middle ground -- a world where doctors don't paint women with a broad brush, but instead consider the medical needs of each individual woman.
Doctors practicing today -- especially those treating pregnant women and new mothers --need to know that lactation failure really does happen, and to be familiar with the potential causes of it, so that they can intervene early.
In another part of Dublin, pro-choice doctors have gathered for a conference organised by the National Women's Council in Ireland.
BBC: Battle between anti-abortion and pro-choice campaigners
Journalists were shuttled off to the women's page, doctors to pediatric medicine, and lawyers to behind-the-scenes work such as real estate and insurance law.
False-negative results, which are rarer, also present a quandary for women and doctors who may not find out until much later that a fetus has an abnormality.
Although carried out on small numbers of women, the researchers say the test is highly accurate for predicting pre-eclampsia and could alert doctors early to the problem.
Meanwhile, high-tech patient simulators, such as those at Brigham and Women's Hospital, are enabling doctors and nurses to hone their technical skills for difficult emergency procedures and boost teamwork under pressure.
It's given me a new appreciation for doctors who successfully deliver thousands of babies, and most of all for the heroics of women -- especially my wife -- in that moment, suffering through all they suffer through for the sake of bringing life into the world.
"These are men and women who know our health-care system best and have been watching this debate closely, " he said of the doctors lobby.
应用推荐