Word: patient
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...caring for someone with dementia, be sure you also take care of yourself--for your own and your patient's sake. Contact the Alzheimer's Association www.alz.org for support groups and adult day-care centers. It also runs an invaluable service called Safe Return, which helps with searches for Alzheimer's patients who wander from home. Whether you suffer dementia or love someone who does, the condition is difficult enough to cope with without trying to face it alone...
...disease is caused by the slow deterioration of brain cells that produce dopamine, a chemical essential for the transmission of messages from the brain to the rest of the body. A decade ago, Swedish researchers started implanting dopamine-producing cells from human fetuses into the brains of Parkinson's patients. The treatment improved the mobility of many of the patients but usually only partly and in some cases not at all. Even if the treatment becomes more successful (and the ethically charged issue of mining aborted fetuses is overcome), it can hardly become routine. For each patient, cells from...
...problem is, the "cure" for cancer is not going to show up anytime soon--almost certainly not in the next decade. In fact, there may never be a single cure, one drug that will bring every cancer patient back to glowing good health, in part because every type of cancer, from brain to breast to bowel, is different...
...like to score early to put the pressure on them to try to get goals," Larson said. "But we know that controlling the ball for much of the game without getting a goal is a possibility, so we just have to be patient...
...recognizes that the lack of choice for patients causes both the quality of care and the doctor-patient relationship to suffer," Bursztajn adds...