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In medicine, diagnosis (plural, diagnoses) is a label given for a medical condition or disease identified by its signs, symptoms, and from the results of various diagnostic procedures. The term "diagnostic criteria" designates the combination of signs, symptoms, and test results that allows the doctor to ascertain the diagnosis of the respective disease. However, it has two distinct dictionary definitions. The first definition is "the recognition of a disease or condition by its outward signs and symptoms," while the second definition is "the analysis of the underlying physiological/biochemical cause(s) of a disease or condition." Typically, a person with abnormal symptoms will consult a physician, who will then obtain a medical history of the patient's illness and perform a physical examination for signs of disease. The physician will formulate a hypothesis of likely diagnoses and in many cases will obtain further testing to confirm or clarify the diagnosis before providing treatment. For instance, a common disorder such as pneumonia was nevertheless used as a diagnosis before the germ theory was accepted, and the disease was defined as a complex of many symptoms consisting of cough, sputum production, fever and chills. Later, as the actual cause was assigned to micro-organisms, the term diagnosis included the causality, e.g., pnuemococcal pneumonia, suggesting not only a spectrum of symptoms but also a cause for the symptoms.
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1. Medical Imaging Market continues to grow despite of economic recession
November 05, 2009
Medical Imaging Markets: Contrast Agents report ( http://www.bharatbook.com/Market-Research-Reports/Medical-Imaging-Markets-Contrast-Agents.html ) discusses technical developments and emerging application trends such as therapeutic monitoring, whole body screening, and guided therapeutic interventions, and how contrast agents are helping to expand imaging’s role in basic research and drug discovery/development. Specific advances in contrast agent-enabled diagnostics for mammography, Alzheimer’s, and other indications are also reviewed. The application and versatility of medical imaging modali... (read more)
Author: Bharat Book Bureau
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2. Effective Addiction Recovery
November 05, 2009
Dual diagnosis treatment is critical because without proper identification of the root of the problem, recovery is impossible. For instance, a patient may discover he has subconsciously turned to marijuana as a way of self-medicating his anxiety disorder. When he learns how to deal with his fears and emotions in a healthy way, the chances are good he will no longer need to rely on the drug.
When a comprehensive approach to treatment, one that considers all scientific, medical and mental variables is followed, effective addiction recovery can be possible.">Recent research indicates that a... (read more)
Author: Allison Savage
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3. Medical Imaging Markets: Contrast Agents
November 02, 2009
This comprehensive study of the world market for contrast agents builds on the previous modality-focused reports of Kalorama's medical imaging market reports. The application and versatility of medical imaging modalities are continuing to grow in significance as the population ages and healthcare costs rise. Examinations that can facilitate earlier disease diagnosis and the most appropriate treatment are in order. This bodes well for contrast media markets. Since our last round-up of the contrast media market, the economic environment in the world has changed. Although the recession may have... (read more)
Author: vijay kanth
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4. 7 Tips to Prevent Medical Errors
November 02, 2009
According to the Institute Of Medicine, up to 100,000 people are estimated to die in U.S. hospitals each year as a result of medical errors. Many of the medical mistakes occur when patients and doctors don't communicate together, and problems can involve the diagnosis, medicines and other health care issues. Here are 7 tips you can take to lessen the possibility of your medical errors in your medical care: - Take part in every decision about your care. Actively participate as a part of your health care team. Research indicates that those who are involved are less likely to be a victim of ... (read more)
Author: Colon Bolden
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5. Patient Care System
October 29, 2009
Patient care systemis a recording unit, which maintains a patient’s record in computer. A computerized system of patient care system has greatly helped many hospitals and clinics to ease the entire work flow of a patient’s medical database. Moreover, this systematic formatting also helps in grasping medical data in a customary format, thus enabling the medical staff in quick diagnosis.
For a health industry that is very well spread and vast, it is very complicated and difficult to have control over relevant information. All these constrictions in the process gave birth to the technology o... (read more)
Author: Jenny Lauper
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6. Medical equipment know-how
October 28, 2009
Medical technology is that branch of medicine which deals with the technical apparatus associated with the treatment and diagnosis of diseases and medical conditions. Most hospitals and private nursing care facilities have medical equipment which consists of machines and technical devices to detect and monitor any irregularities in a patient’s medical conditions. A Biomedical Equipment Technician (BMET) is usually hired by hospital to maintain the medical equipment of medical facilities. Medical equipment may consist of laboratory instruments and devices to analyze the composition of urin... (read more)
Author: Navneet Singh
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7. Urine Leakage In Women
October 27, 2009
Menopause can bring uncomfortable symptoms such as incontinence in several different forms. Even younger women experience occasional bouts of urinary leakage during pregnancy, after childbirth, and sometimes even during sex. But menses seems to bring out more occasions of uncontrollable incontinence.
Get a medical diagnosis. Your doctor can order tests to find out what is causing your bladder leakage. It may be a problem that can be corrected by surgery. Find out how serious your problem is, the long-term prognosis, and any options that may exist with respect to having surgery. Also, ask ... (read more)
Author: click for
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8. Exploring Medical Billing Training Along With Some Other Interesting Medical Careers
October 27, 2009
Medical billing training and medical assistant training are one of those professions that are climbing up the ladder swiftly. Each and every year, government agencies and insurance companies have need of accurate knowledge of patient’s treatments and diagnosis. Due to these requirements, professions like medical billing training and medical assistant training are gaining importance.
Medical billing training endows the students with up to date developments in its arena. Substantial amount of claims are not approved due to inaccurate billing practices. Due to this, healthcare suppliers are ... (read more)
Author: manhattan institute
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9. What Dual Diagnosis Is All About
October 26, 2009
Oftentimes, when we search for drug rehabilitation centers near our place, we would come across a number of them offering support for dual diagnosis. So what is dual diagnosis really about?
One of the dangers of drug addiction as well as alcohol dependence is that, it oftentimes masks a deeper psychiatric problem. Apart from this, the use and abuse of drugs as well as dependence to alcohol can exacerbate a number of psychiatric disorders. It is situations like these that clinicians refer to as “dual diagnosis”.
Dual Diagnosis, in its broadest use, simply means the simultaneous presen... (read more)
Author: Kerry Golden
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10. Stop Snoring: Ways to Treat the Nighttime Dilemma
October 26, 2009
Stop Snoring: Ways to Treat the Nighttime Dilemma
The most often question raised to any condition is - can it be cured? Well, that actually depends on the nature of the disease, disorder, or syndrome and what knowledge do the medical and scientific communities have with regards to the problem.
Luckily, snoring is not much of a difficult condition to treat. The nature of which is also well-known that most consider it normal. So normal that many tend not to get bothered of its effects, especially when mild.
Treatments for snoring depend on the diagnosis gathered. While snoring ma... (read more)
Author: Schumy Cumi
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11. Five Easy Warning Signs That Could Keep You Out of ER
October 22, 2009
Many people knowingly experience asthma for the first time when they are rushed to the emergency room with acute breathing problems. Many of them did not realize that asthma could develop in adults. Consequently they did not seek medical help when symptoms first appeared. This neglect can be fatal.
If you suspect you have adult or late-onset asthma a final diagnosis should be left to a qualified practitioner, but there are some signs that suggest asthma may be a problem.
Many adults who develop asthma will have experienced chest problems as a child. They may have suffered a higher th... (read more)
Author: Farooqe ahmed
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12. Explosive Anger Disorder (EAD)-New label in the lexicon of the psychologists & psychiatrists
October 22, 2009
Explosive Anger Disorder! (EAD) This is a "new" label in the lexicon of the psychologists and psychiatrists. (You should know that most such labels are made up in order to get paid by insurance companies, and have no relation to real diagnosis.) It's for an old problem that has been around for many decades. The funny thing is that most doctors have refused to recognize it, or the cause, and most still don't.
The official party line of the American Medical Assn. is that if there is no diabetes (measurable sugar affect), then there's no sugar problem. As is often the case, they're WRONG! T... (read more)
Author: amit sansare
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13. Career as a Physician Assistant
October 22, 2009
Contrary to the popular perception that job responsibilities of a physician assistant (PA) are similar to that of the medical assistant, PA works under the supervision of a physician. PA is professionally trained to perform almost 80 percent of the physician’s tasks, including diagnosis, therapeutic processes, counseling of the patients.
Apart from these general duties, PA might also have to perform certain different functions, which differs with their respective training, experience, and country laws. They are allowed to write prescription if it is allowed in their respective state of fu... (read more)
Author: kartik kakar
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14. Simple Solutions to Snoring
October 21, 2009
The most often question raised to any condition is - can it be cured? Well, that actually depends on the nature of the disease, disorder, or syndrome and what knowledge do the medical and scientific communities have with regards to the problem.
Luckily, snoring is not much of a difficult condition to treat. The nature of which is also well-known that most consider it normal. So normal that many tend not to get bothered of its effects, especially when mild.
Treatments for snoring depend on the diagnosis gathered. While snoring may appear to have no types, it must be understood that t... (read more)
Author: Mason Hinton
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15. The Symptoms Of Gilbert's Disease
October 21, 2009
Many people ask about Gilbert's disease and how it affects a person, a lot of people are concerned about having it because there is a little knowledge that can be found about it and there only been a handful of people that are aware that they have it.
How can Gilbert's disease go on unnoticed?
One of the main characteristics of Gilbert's disease is that it is asymptomatic or it carries no symptoms in most patients. This makes detection and diagnosis really difficult for the doctors and for medical experts. Being asymptomatic in nature makes Gilbert's disease one of the few conditio... (read more)
Author: Mason Hinton
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16. Panic Attack - Diagnosis Information to Know
October 19, 2009
A panic attack diagnosis is not a common term used, and there are good reasons for this. It can help us to determine whether or not we suffer from the condition and reveal other information that can be helpful to know. Let us talk a little about the diagnosis itself.
The diagnosis of panic attacks can be tricky. The reason for this is due to the numerous symptoms that share similarities with many other medical conditions. When you visit a doctor for a diagnosis on this, some standard things will apply.
Most questions will be related to your medical history. Shortly after, will be que... (read more)
Author: Dillon Hideki
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17. ABPLA Board Certified Medical Malpractice Attorneys
October 14, 2009
Medical Malpractice effectively deal with catastrophic and unusual medical malpractice cases. These include wrong diagnosis, surgery accidents, incorrect and unnecessary procedures, inappropriate medications and professional negligence. A patient may be allergic to certain prescribed medicines. He may have a chronic disease carried through family genes that can make a common treatment turn into a life threatening issue.
Medical and Legal Malpractice issues also cause great economical and psychological hardships to their victims and family members. What seems small may eventually pose a co... (read more)
Author: Alex Geerlings
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18. Dual diagnosis treatment centers show smart approach to Dual Disorders
October 12, 2009
Drug and alcohol addictions, undoubtedly, are no less than curses in one’s life. In the current time millions of people are severely affected by these addictions. But, the good news is that, with the advancement of medical sciences highly effective addiction and mental health treatments have come up, which can cure the patients completely.
Often it is noticed that the addiction affected people suffer from more than one disease. In medial term, this calls dual diagnosis. These patients have mental health or behavioral problems and also suffer from addiction or substance abuse problem. ... (read more)
Author: Steve Ballmer
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19. Azoospermia Treatment Cost - All Inclusive Medical Packages In India
October 09, 2009
Azoospermia Treatment In India Azoospermia is the complete absence of sperm in the semen and as such means that a man will be completely infertile. The diagnosis of azoospermia is sometimes still made even though as many as 500,000 sperm per ml of semen may have been seen because it is extremely unlikely that the man will be able to father a child naturally with this number of sperm... What is azoospermia and can a person with azoospermia have biological children ? In reality however, a semen analysis which shows the absence of sperm in the ejaculate does not remove the chance that sperm i... (read more)
Author: Pankaj Nagpal
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20. Fibromyalgia Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment
October 08, 2009
Fibromyalgia is often referred to as the “Invisible” illness or “Imaginary” disease. It was not until 1992 that it became recognized as a true medical problem by the World Health Organization. There are a few reasons for this. Some say it’s because it is often very hard to diagnose since Fibromyalgia’s symptoms often mimic those of other diseases and illnesses. Others say that it took so long for the medical community to recognize the syndrome because over 80% of the people affected have been women. For decades doctors have been telling patients with Fibromyalgia that they are just hypochondri... (read more)
Author: Chrisanne Sternal
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21. Challenges With Diagnosis and Treatment For IBS - Control Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Homeopathy
October 08, 2009
Many already know what IBS is and the challenges with diagnosis and treatment. Because of this predicament, a set of guidelines has been created in trying to diagnose IBS in a patient.
Basically these guidelines suggest that a patient is subjected to different medical examinations. The purpose of this is to rule out every other possible gastrointestinal disease that presents the same signs and symptoms of IBS. Once the process of elimination is done and no other gastrointestinal disease comes up, then physicians may conclude that it is a case of irritable bowel syndrome.
Three of th... (read more)
Author: Adam Rise
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22. Sigmoidoscopy Examination For Irritable Bowel Syndrome, IBS - 2 Types to Consider
October 08, 2009
As you know, the diagnosis of IBS can be very difficult. There is no single laboratory examination that can give a definite positive or negative result. In diagnosing for irritable bowel syndrome, a patient undergoes a battery of medical examinations to make sure that indeed a patient is suffering from the disease. One of the medical examinations that a patient goes through is a sigmoidoscopy.
Sigmoidoscopy is an internal examination of the large intestines. It is an invasive procedure wherein an instrument is inserted into the anus to let the doctor see the inner linings of the large bow... (read more)
Author: Adam Rise
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23. Periodontitis - Do You Have a Family History? What Should Your Family Know About This Disease
October 02, 2009
History considerations - It is very important for both the patient and the dentist to give due consideration to periodontal history when recommending oral hygiene practices, procedures and treatments. Periodontal history also plays a major role in oral disease diagnosis.
Defining Periodontitis- periodontal disease is a medical term used by physicians and dentists alike, when referring to infection affecting the teeth and bone areas around the teeth also known as the Periodontium area. The infection is characterized by loss of attachment between teeth and bone.
Causes- The infection i... (read more)
Author: David Sn
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