Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) ARDS, or , is a lung condition that leads to low levels in the . ARDS can…
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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS): Tests
by explainingmedicine June 13, 2016Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS): Tests ARDS, or , is a lung condition that leads to low levels in the . ARDS…
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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS): Treatments
by explainingmedicine June 13, 2016Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS): Treatments ARDS, or , is a lung condition that leads to low levels in the . ARDS…
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Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS): Symptoms
by explainingmedicine June 13, 2016Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS): Symptoms ARDS, or , is a lung condition that leads to low levels in the . ARDS…
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Dr. Frank Catalanotto: Why The ADA Is Wrong About Access To Dental Care
by PBS June 10, 2016Out of curiosity, how did you become so fervent about this issue? I was a typical middle-class kid who didn’t understand that dental access problems were a serious problem in the early part of my career. But in 1985 I moved to San Antonio … and I got to spend two weeks on a border […]
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Watch Dollars and Dentists, FRONTLINE’s investigation into the the flaws in our dental system. A trip to the dentist’s office may instill a sense of dread, but for the majority Americans, access to care is rarely an issue. For roughly one-third of the population, though, finding a dentist can seem next to impossible. The problem […]
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MSF on Ebola: “This is the Biggest Outbreak We’ve Ever Known”
by explainingmedicine June 10, 2016Researchers believe a 2-year-old boy who died last December in a village in Guinea, was the first casualty of West Africa’s ongoing Ebola outbreak. Since then, Ebola has spread to the neighboring countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. By September 8, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the virus had infected 4,290 people and killed 2,296 of them — […]
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In his book Being Mortal, writer and surgeon Atul Gawande has a chapter titled “Hard Conversations.” He writes about the extremely difficult, yet ultimately rewarding conversations his father, who was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor, had with his loved ones and with his doctors. The conversations allowed Gawande’s father to make critical decisions about his […]