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...crisis in end-of-life care is one of the main reasons that physician-assisted suicide is at the forefront of public and professional discourse today...
...medical education and training in end-of-life care. The eight-year, $20 million Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments (SUPPORT), the largest, most rigorous study ever of the experiences of patients facing the end of life, confirmed our worst anxieties. Its main finding was that communication between health care professionals and terminally ill patients was horrendously insufficient. As a result, physicians often knew very little about their patients preferences for end-of-life care, and were reluctant to discuss the topic...
Armed with such powerful weaponry to kill the main body of the enemy, and backed up by new therapies like TGF-beta antisense to hunt down straggler cells, Black believes the audacious course he set for himself in medical school may be attainable. Along with other top neurosurgeons, he may yet find a way to defeat--not just hold off--malignant brain tumors...
Discovering early just who has glutaric aciduria is more than half the battle. Once the disease is diagnosed, Morton's main task is to put his young patients on a low-protein, high-riboflavin diet to lessen the effects of the disorder and prevent medical complications. If a stricken child can survive to age 5 with this help, he or she typically becomes resistant to the worst of the disease...
...acre rain forest. It helped persuade Congress to authorize the National Park of American Samoa--about 10,000 acres of forest and 420 acres of coral reefs in the neighboring archipelago. And it has helped villages build schools, medical clinics and cisterns to catch rainfall, the main source of drinking water...