Word: fielding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dementia is most often thought of as a memory disorder, an illness of the aging mind. In its initial stages, that's true - memory loss is an early hallmark of dementia. But experts in the field say dementia is more accurately defined as fatal brain failure: a terminal disease, like cancer, that physically kills patients, not simply a mental ailment that accompanies older age. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
That distinction is largely unfamiliar both to the general public and within the medical field, yet it is a crucial one when it comes to treatment decisions for end-stage dementia patients. Dr. Greg Sachs at the Indiana University Center for Aging Research says a lack of appreciation of the nature of dementia leads to misguided and often overly aggressive end-stage treatment. Five years ago, Sachs wrote a paper on such barriers to palliative end-of-life care for dementia patients, but he ran into difficulty explaining the findings to the editors of the major medical journal that published...
...We’re all really excited to get back on the field and play against some of the top programs in the country,” freshman Brian Rogers said...
Hamburger, the history of art and architecture professor, added that he finds the current pace of acquisition to be already worrisome. He says he keeps a list of titles in his field of research which the library “for some reason or another has failed to purchase,” and that over the past decade, that list has grown at an ever-rising rate—now to at least 100 books per year...
Despite Chris’ tremendous success on the field, scholarship has always been stressed in the Owusu household...