A tube is placed inside the body to collect urine, so the patient does not have to get out of bed.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

There is a risk that giving a patient a strong blood thinner during a stroke can cause bleeding inside the brain.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

Pfizer announced a plan in February to publicly disclose its financial relationships with doctors, medical organizations and patient groups.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

Doctors,nurses,social workers and others work with patients and their families to raise the quality of a patient's last days.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

If resident doctors work shorter hours, for example,mistakes could happen when one resident takes over a patient's care from another.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

For example, in nineteen twenty-one, a Swiss doctor, Walter Morgenthaler published a book about the art of his patient, Adolf Wolfli.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Failing to report an injury like this,can be dangerous if a patient,or a medical worker, has an infectious disease.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

He thought that if these memories could somehow be brought into the conscious mind, the patient would again feel the pain.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

The Global Snakebite Initiative is trying to increase the availability of good quality antivenom treatments and improve medical training for patient care.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

In nineteen six, a German doctor,Alois Alzheimer, told about a dementia patient whose brain was studied after death.

VOA: special.2011.02.08

He also took liquid from the nose and throat of a pellagra patient and put them into his own nose and throat.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

Doctors who suspect a patient has MS must carry out a number of tests and study the patient's history of health problems.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

The Global Snakebite Initiative is working to increase the availability of good quality antivenom treatments and improve medical training for patient care.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

The reshaped cornea corrects the patient's bad eyesight so he or she does not have to wear glasses or other corrective lenses.

VOA: special.2010.09.01