But it is estimated only 36% of sufferers have had a clinical diagnosis.

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Goodman made the issue very real by noting that Japanese researchers have come up with a clinical diagnosis called Retired Husband Syndrome.

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Campaigners are targeting what many say is an increasingly common practice - deploying the language of clinical diagnosis to describe everyday personality traits.

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It is considered the earliest possible clinical diagnosis of breast cancer.

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Simple clinical diagnosis would probably trace the condition back to 1896, the year of the first modern Olympic Games, when a trainee accountant from Melbourne called Edwin Flack headed to Greece as Australia's first Olympian.

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The real crux to answering that is this: Do we view autism only as a clinical diagnosis based solely on behavior and outward function, or do we talk about it as a neurobiological construct and identification, with an understanding of the context of the hidden disability and the hard work that those outward behaviors require?

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This past April, Easterling committed suicide in the wake of a clinical depression diagnosis resulting from dementia.

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To restrict access to therapy with JUXTAPID to patients with a clinical or laboratory diagnosis consistent with HoFH.

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To restrict access to therapy with KYNAMRO to patients with a clinical or laboratory diagnosis consistent with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH).

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Equally important, and of perhaps greater urgency, is the need to derive value from structured data such as lab results, clinical findings and diagnosis that is already being captured in electronic health records.

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Her diagnosis sounded quite clinical.

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At my initial diagnosis I participated in a clinical trial evaluating Herceptin, a so-called personalized medicine (PM) drug targeting a mutation believed to be driving my cancer.

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