"Due to excessive edema, the doctors have decided to start hemofiltration treatment in order to remove the excessive fluids from his body. The treatment will take place over the next few days in the ICU," the statement said.Related Links: Patient Information on Kidney Replacement Therapies
Experts in medicine and ethics have many questions about the accusations, made on Tuesday by Louisiana’s attorney general, that a doctor and two nurses used lethal injections to kill four critically ill patients in a flooded New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina.Technorati Tags: new york times, hurricane katrina, euthanasia
The use of acronyms to name clinical trials is increasingly popular yet controversial. We evaluated whether the naming of a trial with an acronym is associated with a distinctive effect on research, measured as the citation rate after publication. We identified consecutive randomized trials published between 1953 and 2003 from all systematic reviews completed by the Cochrane Heart Group as of January 31, 2004. The trials were classified as having or not having a name composed of an acronym and were analyzed as clusters according to research question...Technorati Tags: new england journal of medicine, hilarious journal articles, acronyms
One TV ad, set to debut during next Sunday's 60 Minutes telecast, shows a woman relaxing in her living room and reading a newspaper headlined "Newest Drug Company Scandal Undermines Public Trust." The camera zooms into the tangled neural matter of her brain, revealing a sticky black substance and a purplish gas.Technorati Tags: the onion, drugs, humor
The narrator says, "She may show no symptoms, but in her brain, irrational fear and dislike of global pharmaceutical manufacturers is overwhelming her very peace of mind."
After a brief summary of PharmAmorin's benefits, the commercial concludes with the woman flying a kite across a sunny green meadow, the Pfizer headquarters gleaming in the background.
