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As part of a longitudinal study of host/parasite relationships, which was initiated in two Senegalese villages in 1990 (and initially focused on malaria and tick-borne borreliosis), the potential of T. whipplei to cause infection in patients with fever of unknown etiology and negative test results for malaria was initiated in late 2008 and continued until the summer of 2009.
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Investigators in lausanne, switzerland cultured the noses of 405 new hospital workers for Staphylococcus aureus, then checked them again about nine months later.
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Two-hundred eleven adipose biopsies were obtained from 59 patients participating in the Western Australia HIV cohort study.
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If they were better informed on the outcomes of premature infants, physicians might be more inclined to intervene more often, according to Annie Janvier, MD, PhD, FRCPC, a neonatologist and clinical ethicist practicing at St. Justine Hospital in Quebec and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Montreal.
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A bill recently signed into law in New York state will require a patient's health care provider to provide information and counseling to that patient on palliative care, prognosis, and end-of-life options, once the patient is diagnosed with a terminal illness.
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Rabbi Barry M. Kinzbrunner, MD, suggests that in addressing spiritual care for their patients at the end of life, physicians often face the challenge of how to mesh the spiritual concerns with objective science a challenge that sometimes results in a "significant disconnect" with patients.
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A study published in mid-August in the New England Journal of Medicine found that in patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer, "early palliative care led to significant improvements in both quality of life and mood," according to the abstract.
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Jeanne S. Twohig, MPA, senior advisor, Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life, unabashedly asserted that there is a crisis in our country as to the quality of the vision for our health care futures.
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It's not unusual for soldiers who have returned from war never to discuss the war with their families or friends, creating an aura of mystery or a sense that their loved ones somehow cannot fully understand them now that they have returned to civilian life.