What Do Our Patients Really Know About Dialysis and End Stage Kidney Disease

Do we really know what pesticides are in our food?

What do patients really want to know?

A 60-year-old male patient presents to his primary care physician complaining of recent fatigue. The work-up reveals iron-deficiency anaemia due to carcinoma of the ascending colon, which has extensively metastasized to the liver. Had this illness occurred in the early 1960s, when a pater-nalistic approach to medicine was at its height, the physician might have chosen to tell the patient that h...

What do we really know about patient satisfaction?

What do we really know about the Sun-climate connection?

The Earth's climate has always been changing. This is documented in historical as well as in geological records. The reasons for these changes, however, have always been subject to discussions and are still not well understood. In addition to natural climate changes the risk of human influence on climate has recently been seriously considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. An...

Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma: what do we really know about it?

BACKGROUND Pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomas (PXA) may recur and demonstrate aggressive clinical behavior with a mortality rate between 15% and 20%. To the authors' knowledge, no histopathologic features currently are known to reliably predict recurrence or tumor progression. METHODS The study was based on 71 cases with available information regarding clinical and therapeutic data and follow-up....