KMJ KUWAIT MEDICAL JOURNAL The Official Journal of The Kuwait Medical Association EDITORIAL
... superscripts (e.g.,[1, 3-5] etc). Do not quote additional data (like part of the title, year of publication etc.) from the references with citations in the text, unless very important. In the References section, list them in the same sequence as they appeared in the text. Include the names and initi ...
... superscripts (e.g.,[1, 3-5] etc). Do not quote additional data (like part of the title, year of publication etc.) from the references with citations in the text, unless very important. In the References section, list them in the same sequence as they appeared in the text. Include the names and initi ...
smoking cessation 2014
... Understand the hazards of smoking Recognize the health benefits of smoking cessation Describe the rationale for treating tobacco dependence Explain why tobacco dependence is a chronic disease Initiate clinical interventions for tobacco users who are willing to quit as well as users who are not willi ...
... Understand the hazards of smoking Recognize the health benefits of smoking cessation Describe the rationale for treating tobacco dependence Explain why tobacco dependence is a chronic disease Initiate clinical interventions for tobacco users who are willing to quit as well as users who are not willi ...
breast cancer - Media Categories
... to us all. He showed everyone with cancer that you do not have to accept the status quo of orthodox medicine and its gloomy statistics. And that by being open-minded, doing your homework and then being disciplined on a course of action you can give yourself seven or eight times more life expectancy ...
... to us all. He showed everyone with cancer that you do not have to accept the status quo of orthodox medicine and its gloomy statistics. And that by being open-minded, doing your homework and then being disciplined on a course of action you can give yourself seven or eight times more life expectancy ...
CEDARS-SINAI REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY
... by clinicians, researchers, patients, families, caregivers and community agencies to address the approaching “tsunami” of Alzheimer’s disease — with cases expected to triple nationally by 2050. The program seeks to identify patients in the early stages of the disease, when interventions and treatmen ...
... by clinicians, researchers, patients, families, caregivers and community agencies to address the approaching “tsunami” of Alzheimer’s disease — with cases expected to triple nationally by 2050. The program seeks to identify patients in the early stages of the disease, when interventions and treatmen ...
prostate-cancer-research-christopher
... • The PSA test and others: screening for prostate cancer • There are four major tests for prostate cancer, including the wellknown PSA test. These tests fall into two categories: those that screen for the disease, and those that help the doctor determine the stage of the disease when it is found. S ...
... • The PSA test and others: screening for prostate cancer • There are four major tests for prostate cancer, including the wellknown PSA test. These tests fall into two categories: those that screen for the disease, and those that help the doctor determine the stage of the disease when it is found. S ...
Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines for Integrative
... tolerated. Acupuncture is safe when performed by qualified practitioners. Caution should be exercised in patients with bleeding tendency. Diet Despite the role that diet plays in cancer prevention, individual dietary supplementation has not been shown to prevent cancer or cancer recurrence. It is rec ...
... tolerated. Acupuncture is safe when performed by qualified practitioners. Caution should be exercised in patients with bleeding tendency. Diet Despite the role that diet plays in cancer prevention, individual dietary supplementation has not been shown to prevent cancer or cancer recurrence. It is rec ...
MRSA (Part 1)
... • Young age. CA-MRSA can be particularly dangerous in children. Often entering the body through a cut or scrape. • Participating in contact sports. CA-MRSA has crept into even sports teams. The bacteria spreads easily through skin-toskin contact, sharing towels, and by equipment. • Living in crowded ...
... • Young age. CA-MRSA can be particularly dangerous in children. Often entering the body through a cut or scrape. • Participating in contact sports. CA-MRSA has crept into even sports teams. The bacteria spreads easily through skin-toskin contact, sharing towels, and by equipment. • Living in crowded ...
Ageism and age discrimination in primary and community health
... digestive disease (4% in men, 5% in women). For all these causes of death mortality rises steeply with age and at each age death rate is higher for men than for women, except for stroke and digestive disease. These figures are not comprehensive as many people with health conditions do not contact ...
... digestive disease (4% in men, 5% in women). For all these causes of death mortality rises steeply with age and at each age death rate is higher for men than for women, except for stroke and digestive disease. These figures are not comprehensive as many people with health conditions do not contact ...
Regulatory strategies to reduce tobacco addiction
... nitrosamine content) are reduced compared to conventional products; (2) “cigarette-like products” in which alternate technologies such as electric and carbon fuelled heating elements reduce overall pyrolysis; and (3) “pharmaceutical products” such as nicotine delivering gum and antidepressants for s ...
... nitrosamine content) are reduced compared to conventional products; (2) “cigarette-like products” in which alternate technologies such as electric and carbon fuelled heating elements reduce overall pyrolysis; and (3) “pharmaceutical products” such as nicotine delivering gum and antidepressants for s ...
Improving Access to Medicines for Non
... Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) now account for the lion’s share of global morbidity and mortality. Spurred by growing attention to the global devastation caused by NCDs, the United Nations General Assembly will hold a high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases on September 19 and 20, 2011, to ...
... Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) now account for the lion’s share of global morbidity and mortality. Spurred by growing attention to the global devastation caused by NCDs, the United Nations General Assembly will hold a high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases on September 19 and 20, 2011, to ...
Precision medicine in China
... recision medicine is a lofty goal, put forth as the pinnacle of medical treatment. Boiled down to its essence, precision medicine describes the ability to tailor therapies to a patient’s individual needs by examining their particular physiology, genome, and environment. The ideal is that individuali ...
... recision medicine is a lofty goal, put forth as the pinnacle of medical treatment. Boiled down to its essence, precision medicine describes the ability to tailor therapies to a patient’s individual needs by examining their particular physiology, genome, and environment. The ideal is that individuali ...
Mass Eradication of Helicobacter pylori to Prevent
... interoperator variation so interval cancers18 (i.e., symptomatic cancer diagnosed during the interscreening interval) are not infrequent. By contrast, colorectal cancer, which has a PCDP of approximate 3 years, is suitable for biennial screening with the noninvasive fecal immunochemical testing, whi ...
... interoperator variation so interval cancers18 (i.e., symptomatic cancer diagnosed during the interscreening interval) are not infrequent. By contrast, colorectal cancer, which has a PCDP of approximate 3 years, is suitable for biennial screening with the noninvasive fecal immunochemical testing, whi ...
Improving Access to Medicines for Non-Communicable
... meeting, this paper provides a first step toward developing a policy research agenda for improving access to NCD medicines in developing countries, a step that the research-based pharmaceutical industry, in particular, can carry forward as part of broader global efforts to combat NCDs. The authors o ...
... meeting, this paper provides a first step toward developing a policy research agenda for improving access to NCD medicines in developing countries, a step that the research-based pharmaceutical industry, in particular, can carry forward as part of broader global efforts to combat NCDs. The authors o ...
Cancer Survivorship - David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
... This is an interactive and self-directed learning module intended to build a foundation of knowledge around the epidemiology and late effects of cancer survival. This is one of several educational modules you will complete during your core clinical clerkships. Themes emphasized in this, and other mo ...
... This is an interactive and self-directed learning module intended to build a foundation of knowledge around the epidemiology and late effects of cancer survival. This is one of several educational modules you will complete during your core clinical clerkships. Themes emphasized in this, and other mo ...
Consumers in Health Care: Creating Decision
... in decisions concerning their health care. And as the number and complexity of these decisions expand — from care and treatment choices to selection of health plans, hospitals, doctors, and other providers — new information and tools are being developed to support consumers in their health care deci ...
... in decisions concerning their health care. And as the number and complexity of these decisions expand — from care and treatment choices to selection of health plans, hospitals, doctors, and other providers — new information and tools are being developed to support consumers in their health care deci ...
Treatment of extensive-stage small cell lung carcinoma: current status and future prospects
... survival (12.8 versus 9.4 months) and higher 2-yr survival rate (19 versus 5%) than those with the etoposide-based regimen. Although haematological toxicity was less pronounced with irinotecan, significantly more grade 3 or 4 diarrhoea was reported in this group. However, these results could not be ...
... survival (12.8 versus 9.4 months) and higher 2-yr survival rate (19 versus 5%) than those with the etoposide-based regimen. Although haematological toxicity was less pronounced with irinotecan, significantly more grade 3 or 4 diarrhoea was reported in this group. However, these results could not be ...
The Dietitian he Dietitian - Association of Community Cancer Centers
... nutritional care of cancer patients, including the American Dietetic Association, the Oncology Nursing Society, and the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC). According to ACCC nutritional guidelines, nutrition should be discussed with all patients and their families, especially those patie ...
... nutritional care of cancer patients, including the American Dietetic Association, the Oncology Nursing Society, and the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC). According to ACCC nutritional guidelines, nutrition should be discussed with all patients and their families, especially those patie ...
The Role Of Imaging In Oncology - International Day Of Radiology
... heavy smokers who were screened with low-dose spiral CT versus those screened with traditional chest x-ray. ...
... heavy smokers who were screened with low-dose spiral CT versus those screened with traditional chest x-ray. ...
American Society of Clinical Oncology Statement: A Conceptual
... them, along with an appreciation of how these options differ with respect to the relative financial consequences they will face. As a physician performs his or her primary role as the patient’s trusted advocate, he or she also has a responsibility to be a good steward of health care resources. It is ...
... them, along with an appreciation of how these options differ with respect to the relative financial consequences they will face. As a physician performs his or her primary role as the patient’s trusted advocate, he or she also has a responsibility to be a good steward of health care resources. It is ...
Global Health Care Management
... Global Plan Options: Post Healthcare Reform (PPACA) It appears that domestically sitused expatriate plans will be subject to some of the new law provisions. – leave US citizens on a US PPACA compliant plan but cover the TCN/KLNs under a separate “offshore” policy, again assuming the US employer h ...
... Global Plan Options: Post Healthcare Reform (PPACA) It appears that domestically sitused expatriate plans will be subject to some of the new law provisions. – leave US citizens on a US PPACA compliant plan but cover the TCN/KLNs under a separate “offshore” policy, again assuming the US employer h ...
Declining Medicine Use and Costs: For Better or Worse?
... sizes. Prescriptions can be of different durations and this has been shown to vary significantly and to change over time. Increasing numbers of 3-month prescriptions over time result in fewer prescriptions. This analysis adjusts all prescriptions to the national average number of extended units per ...
... sizes. Prescriptions can be of different durations and this has been shown to vary significantly and to change over time. Increasing numbers of 3-month prescriptions over time result in fewer prescriptions. This analysis adjusts all prescriptions to the national average number of extended units per ...
Care of palliative patients with cancer
... volume reduction followed by maintenance and self-care (Table 4). For palliative patients with pre-existing lymphoedema, the challenges of undergoing oncologic treatment for malignant disease may make it difficult for them to adhere to their previous lymphoedema maintenance regimen. Equally, where l ...
... volume reduction followed by maintenance and self-care (Table 4). For palliative patients with pre-existing lymphoedema, the challenges of undergoing oncologic treatment for malignant disease may make it difficult for them to adhere to their previous lymphoedema maintenance regimen. Equally, where l ...
Landscaping of Primary Healthcare in India
... Use of technology in both public and private sectors is growing to manage information and data, such as patient records and disease surveillance. Technology is also used in telemedicine to connect clients with medical providers. However, questions prevail about the cost and returns of using technolo ...
... Use of technology in both public and private sectors is growing to manage information and data, such as patient records and disease surveillance. Technology is also used in telemedicine to connect clients with medical providers. However, questions prevail about the cost and returns of using technolo ...
Quality in Primary Care - Ontario Medical Association
... on three key areas—accessibility, specific primary care services, and coordination with other sectors of the health system—using data from the most recent year available. To determine whether the quality of primary care is equitable for all Ontarians (see sidebar: Setting the context), we report on ...
... on three key areas—accessibility, specific primary care services, and coordination with other sectors of the health system—using data from the most recent year available. To determine whether the quality of primary care is equitable for all Ontarians (see sidebar: Setting the context), we report on ...
research for longer better lives - National Breast Cancer Foundation
... More advanced breast screening technology, such as 3D mammographic screening, could be available if there was evidence to support that it would further reduce deaths from breast cancer. Professor Nehmat Houssami has shown that 3D mammography is 33 per cent better at detecting breast cancer than curr ...
... More advanced breast screening technology, such as 3D mammographic screening, could be available if there was evidence to support that it would further reduce deaths from breast cancer. Professor Nehmat Houssami has shown that 3D mammography is 33 per cent better at detecting breast cancer than curr ...