Patients with Serious Illness Appear to Adapt Well
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NEW YORK  - Most people who live with  serious disability or illness, such as kidney failure, appear  to adapt well and maintain a healthy outlook on life, new  research reports.
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After getting a diagnosis of a life-threatening illness, coping strategies include second opinions, online checks and more.
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A new study challenges the notion that terminally ill patients can somehow hold on until after a holiday such as Christmas, their birthday or another major event in their lives.
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AN Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have revealed that physical symptoms are nearly as common as emotional ones in patients suffering from depression.
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When a massive tsunami crashed into Sumatra more than two weeks ago, nurses at the Banda Aceh Hospital for the Mentally Ill unlocked the doors and let the patients wander off.
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Medical advances are forcing more patients and families to confront ever more grueling choices about living and dying.
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Several companies have sprung up in recent years to help people with serious illnesses and their families stay easily connected.
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How to heal when the inexplicable occurs? Sometimes the right response is acting normal
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NEW YORK  - COPD patients who engage in   regular physical activity, even a relatively small amount, may   lower their risk not only of being hospitalized but also of   dying, a new study shows.
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DELFT, Netherlands, Nov 01, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Highly optimistic patients have lower risks of death in general as well as lower rates of cardiovascular death than pessimists, a Dutch study found.
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GPs are providing more and better services to patients, performance figures suggest.
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The pharmaceutical enlists help to thwart a troublesome illness.
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When Joan Irvine's husband collapsed in July from heart problems, he was rushed to Montgomery General Hospital. There, he was admitted not by the family's primary care doctor but by a hospitalist, one of a growing breed of physicians specializing in inpatient care.
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Care offered to people with long term conditions such as asthma and diabetes to be overhauled.
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NEW YORK  - Much of the racial and ethnic  differences in the care given to patients hospitalized with a  heart attack can be explained by the quality of the hospital to  which patients are admitted, rather than racial bias, a new  study indicates.
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The high survival rate among the injured at the battle of Waterloo could help inform modern medicine.
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Staff who struggle into work when they are ill risk potentially shortening their lives, researchers believe. Some workers who do not take time off when ill had twice the rate of heart disease, the 10-year study of 10,000 civil servants showed.