A possible link between thyroid disorders and breast cancer has been a subject of debate, since thyroid extract was first used to treat breast cancer in 1896. Many researchers have suggested an increased risk of breast ...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education recently implemented standards which limits hours worked by resident physicians to no more than 80 hours per week. As a result of these limitations, teaching ...

Health care education has been widely criticized for not providing training in end-of-life care. Despite calls from various scientific and professional organizations for formal educational improvement, most education in ...

Introduction: The prenatal period is critical in determining the quality of fetal development and how the infant responds outside of the womb. Many know teratogens exist, but the medical literature evaluating fetal outcome ...

Prostate cancer (PC) is the most common non-cutaneous cancer in the United States male population, and the second most common cause of cancer mortality. It has been proposed that dietary differences in Asian and Western ...

White Parents, Black Children looks at the difficult issue of race in transracial adoptions--particularly the adoption by white parents of children from different racial and ethic groups. Despite the long history of troubled ...

The objective was to investigate the relationships among health beliefs, attitudes, and zidovudine compliance in individuals with HIV infection. A survey was administered to 52 individuals with HIV infection. The survey ...