Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Registered nurses reportedly said they were concerned the hospital would lessen the quality of patient care by cutting the nurse-patient ratio, thus requiring unlicensed aides to perform more duties...
Which version of events is correct? Since both plaques and tangles are found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, a number of clinicians suspect that tau and beta-amyloid may each play a role, though not necessarily in every patient. For in contrast to the simplistic thinking that dominated the Alzheimer's field only two decades ago, medical researchers now believe this common form of senile dementia is actually a cluster of diseases that, like diabetes and heart disease, may have more than one fundamental cause...
...surprise that medicine's great advance has been at once high-minded and profit-minded, selfless and selfish, inspired and pragmatic, sublime and boorish. With its emphasis on technology, the juggernaut of medical science has often strained and frayed the traditional personal bond between doctor and patient. It has presented medicine with a tangle of ethical dilemmas, bringing moral implications ever closer to daily life--and death. And, if that were not enough, it confronts society and government with the urgent problem of just...
...example, explains Caskey, researchers know that there are at least three or four forms of Alzheimer's disease, each of which may be caused by a different defective gene. "If I develop a drug for gene A," he says, "it may not have any influence on a patient who has a defect on gene C. So it's easy to understand how genomics research would be critical to the development of very precise and effective drugs...
There would be a lottery for the course. While some of the more patient fans eventually made their way into the class, a large number decided on an early lunch, hoping to return Wednesday...