Ask patients which herbal drugs they smoke as well as eat

Herbal drugs as Hepatoprotective Agents

Keep food safe to eat: healthful food must be safe as well as nutritious.

The inclusion of food safety in the 2000 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans is an important step toward ensuring their continued relevance for health promotion and disease prevention. The inclusion of food safety is consistent with the original intent of the Guidelines and the increased focus on food safety today; it also better reflects current knowledge about diet and long-term h...

Physicians smoke as much as their patients in Turkey

Background: There are approximately 17 million smokers in Turkey. These smokers impacted the social and behavioural aspects of the community especially the younger age group which constitutes the majority of the Turkish population. Physicians’ attitudes towards smoking transcend into their patients. Methods: Attitudes and behaviours of physicians in Trakya University Hospital towards smoking we...

Eat well to get well.

mprovement in functional performance is considered an important management goal in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Pulmonary rehabilitation is now considered as an evidence based intervention to achieve an improvement in functional capacity as well as other management goals such as improved health status and reduction in breathlessness. 1 Although exercise training i...

Family medicine residents do not ask better-formulated clinical questions as they advance in their training.

OBJECTIVE We investigated whether family medicine residents demonstrated increased skill in formulating clinical questions over their 3 years of training. METHODS We conducted an analysis of 454 questions asked by 49 family physician residents engaged in informal consultation with subspecialists using an e-mail-based system. Clinical question formulation was measured on a scale of 0 to 2 by a...