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

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

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

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

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

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

If resident doctors work shorter hours, the researchers said, errors could happen when one resident takes control of a patient's care from another.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

Being a patient in certain hospitals in the month of July can be dangerous or even deadly.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

Doctor Volkow says the dopamine levels were directly related to the severity of the patient's inattention.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Deep brain stimulation begins by doctors drilling two small holes in the head of the patient.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

Doctor Volkow says the dopamine levels were directly linked to the severity of the patient's inattention.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

The overall key finding of our study is that the patient in Africa receiving antiretroviral therapy for HIV can expect to live a near-normal lifespan."

VOA: special.2011.07.20

They sent electric signals into the brain of a young patient who suffered from epilepsy.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

One day he had to deal with a patient who was dying of Ebola.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

It says the method could reduce the number and severity of a patient's headaches.

VOA: special.2010.03.30

This form of lupus usually goes away when the patient stops using the medicines.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

said the doctor. "But whenever my patient begins to count the carriages at her funeral, I take away fifty percent from the curative power of medicines."

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Treatments are based on the condition and needs of each patient.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Others say they are afraid of making the patient worse.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

The agency is now investigating patient reports of LASIK injuries and is working on a study of post-LASIK problems.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03