General practitioner notifications of gastroenteritis and food poisoning: cause for concern

Everyday General Practitioner Challenges: Arterial Hypertension "Methods of Diagnosis, Identification, Cause, and Significance of Disease (1)"

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Neurotoxicity of general anesthetics: cause for concern?

GENERAL anesthetics are highly lipid soluble and can dissolve in every membrane, penetrate into organelles, and interact with numerous cellular constituents. Their actions have long been considered rapid and fully reversible, with the pharmacodynamic time course of anesthesia dictated solely by the pharmacokinetic profiles of anesthetic uptake and elimination. But recent laboratory data call fo...

A cause for concern?

J ust to add to the recent concern over heading soccer balls and the risk of chronic brain injury, another study has just appeared that raises new fears. In a paper published in Brain, Chio and his colleagues from Italy reported that there was an increased risk of developing motor neurone disease (MND) amongst Italian soccer players. In this retrospective cohort study, there were five diagnosed...

Acute poisoning and suicide trends in Sri Lanka: alcohol a cause for concern.

General practitioner practices in requesting laboratory tests for patients with gastroenteritis in the Netherlands, 2001–2002

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to estimate the (selective) proportion of patients consulting their GP for an episode of gastroenteritis for whom laboratory tests were requested. In addition adherence of GPs to the guidelines for diagnostic test regime was ascertained. METHODS Data were collected from a GP network in the Netherlands. Information was also collected on the reason for...