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Diagnosis: Unknown

The characters were originally featured in a series of short stories written by Lawrence Blochman, initially published in Collier's magazine.


AAP Red Book

The AAP Red Book, or Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics, is a hardcover, softcover, and electronic reference to the "manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of some 200 childhood infectious diseases".

Alan Russell-Cowan

He stars in the documentary My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures, which covers six years of his life and focuses on the relationship between his diagnosis as a paranoid schizophrenic and his struggle to find success in the art world.

Anaplastic large-cell lymphoma

To make this diagnosis under its present system of classification, the WHO the presence of "hallmark" cells and immunopositivity for CD30.

ASRS

Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale, a self-reported questionnaire used to assist in the diagnosis of adult ADHD

Ataxia telangiectasia

Ataxia-telangiectasia like disorder (ATLD) is an extremely rare condition, caused by mutation in the hMre11 gene, that could be considered in the differential diagnosis of A-T.

Athlete's foot

Athlete's foot can usually be diagnosed by visual inspection of the skin, but if the diagnosis is uncertain, direct microscopy of a potassium hydroxide preparation of a skin scraping (known as a KOH test) can confirm the diagnosis of Athlete's foot and help rule out other possible causes, such as candidiasis, pitted keratolysis, erythrasma, contact dermatitis, eczema, or psoriasis.

Brett Deacon

On 19 December 2013, Deacon was forced to retire due to a diagnosis of lupus, an autoimmune disease which in his case led to potentially life-threatening blood clots; he was immediately placed on blood thinners.

Carey Eidel

Eidel has appeared in a number of television series, including Strong Medicine, Yes, Dear, Melrose Place, 7th Heaven, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Diagnosis: Murder, L.A. Law and Thirtysomething.

Congenital hyperinsulinism

The relative rarity of this condition and the difficulty of both diagnosis and treatment has resulted in only a few centers around the world developing the expertise to achieve optimal surgical outcomes for these infants: the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, as well as centers in Paris and Israel.

Cushing's syndrome

Plasma CRH levels are inadequate at diagnosis (with the possible exception of tumors secreting CRH) because of peripheral dilution and binding to CRHBP.

Denise Main

Main is the President of Siempre Unidos California, and is Director of the Prenatal Diagnosis Center at California Pacific Medical Center.

DiaGenic

The first products from DiaGenic are tests for the early diagnosis of breast cancer (BCtect) and Alzheimer's disease (ADtect), to be followed by a test for Parkinson's disease (PDtect).

Diagnosis for Death

Diagnosis for Death is the multimedia debut album by Dr. Chud's X-Ward which was released in 2004 on Dr. Chud's Bloodwork Records label.

Dieter Matthaei

With Axel Haase and Jens Frahm he succeeded in 1985 with the invention of rapid image proceedings FLASH MRI (fast low angle shot) a revolutionary breakthrough that allows the use of MRI imaging for clinical diagnosis.

Diffuse myelinoclastic sclerosis

Diffuse myelinoclastic sclerosis, sometimes referred to as "Schilder's disease", is a very infrequent neurodegenerative disease that presents clinically as pseudotumoural demyelinating lesions, that make its diagnosis difficult.

Embarrassing Bodies

In May 2011, a spin-off series, Embarrassing Bodies: Live From The Clinic (titled "Diagnosis Live From The Clinic" in pre-publicity and the first episode) launched, enabling viewers to appear via webcams and Skype.

Encephalitis

Diagnosis is often made with detection of antibodies in the cerebrospinal fluid against a specific viral agent (such as herpes simplex virus) or by polymerase chain reaction that amplifies the RNA or DNA of the virus responsible (such as varicella zoster virus).

Endometrium

Gene expression profiling using cDNA microarray can be used for the diagnosis of endometrial disorders.

ESL Incorporated

The company developed the first software for interpreting renal isograms in the diagnosis of Renovascular hypertension, working in conjunction with physicians practicing in the kidney disease diagnostics field.

Focal dermal hypoplasia

The differential diagnosis of focal dermal hypoplasia (Goltz) syndrome includes autosomal recessive Setleis syndrome due to TWIST2 gene mutations.

Fred Plum

Using the limited clinical tools available at the time, Plum developed guidelines to help determine how to best treat comatose patients, writing The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma in 1966, together with his longtime research partner Dr. Jerome B. Posner, a work described by neurologist Marcus E. Raichle as having "put stupor and coma on the map as an important consideration in neurology".

Freiburger Persönlichkeitsinventar

The FPI-R was developed as a personality test with a mean bandwidth for various tasks of psychological diagnosis, but has an application focus in the areas of psychosomatic, psychotherapy, rehabilitation, chronic diseases and health psychology.

History of Tay–Sachs disease

The History of Tay–Sachs disease started with the development and acceptance of the evolution theory of disease in the 1860s and 1870s, the possibility that science could explain and even prevent or cure illness prompted medical doctors to undertake more precise description and diagnosis of disease.

International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision

The International Society for Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision (ISCEV) is an association that promotes research and applications of electrophysiological methods (e.g. electroretinogram, electrooculogram, and visual evoked potentials) in clinical diagnosis of ophthalmological diseases.

Jahi McMath

Paul Graham Fisher, the chief of child neurology at Stanford University School of Medicine, was appointed by the court and he reaffirmed the diagnosis of brain death.

JDRF

The Pak is a sling-style bag containing educational materials and resources targeted at adults, including the Adult Type 1 Toolkit (described below), Mary Tyler Moore’s memoir “Growing Up Again” about her own diagnosis with T1D in adulthood, and a Bayer Contour Next USB Blood Glucose Monitoring System.

Joan A. Steitz

Steitz's research may yield new insights into the diagnosis and treatment of autoimmune disorders such as lupus, which develop when patients make antibodies against their own DNA, snRNPs, or ribosomes.

Lafora disease

Currently the preferred method of certain diagnosis is DNA sequencing.

Lexington Medical Center

Lexington Medical Center’s Women’s Imaging Center is the first breast center in the Midlands accredited by the American College of Radiology and the only Midlands hospital with Five Day Detection to Diagnosis for breast cancer.

Lisa Thomas-Laury

According to a WPVI special report from November, 2005, Lisa finally ended up at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where she got the right diagnosis: she was suffering from a syndrome called POEMS Syndrome, which can cause nerve damage, organ enlargement, hormonal imbalances, and skin changes.

M. R. Gurusamy Mudaliar

Though none of the other doctors believed him initially, the X-ray report confirmed the diagnosis was right.

Medical diagnosis

The history of medical diagnosis began in earnest from the days of Imhotep in ancient Egypt and Hippocrates in ancient Greece.

Nanowire

This approach proved useful for dramatically enhancing the sensitivity of cardiac biomarkers (e.g. Troponin) detection directly from serum for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction.

Norrie disease

The diagnosis included a pseudotumor of the retina, hyperplasia of retinal, ciliary, and iris pigment epithelium, hypoplasia and necrosis of the inner layer of the retina, cataract, and Phthisis bulbi.

Orthoptic

Orthoptics, the diagnosis and treatment of defective eye movement and coordination

Peutz–Jeghers syndrome

90-100% of patients with a clinical diagnosis of PJS have a mutation in the STK11/LKB1 gene.

Pittsburgh compound B

The first PiB study of a human subject with a clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease was conducted in February, 2002, at Uppsala University.

Project Icarus

Icarus Project, a methodology in the diagnosis of mentally ill patients.

Pupilometer

In ophthalmology, a pupillary response to light is differentiated from a pupillary response to focus (i.e. pupils may constrict on near focus, as with the Argyll Robertson pupil) in the diagnosis of tertiary syphilis.

Ralph Weber

This "sticker" should disclose the Chargemaster price, the billed price, the allowable price, the discounted price, the paid price, the cash price, and the cost, as well as alternate treatments for the diagnosis.

Ron Kennedy

Ron Kennedy resigned after his December 2008 diagnosis of brain cancer, from which he died, aged 56, in Klagenfurt, Austria.

Shane Van Dyke

Shane Thomas Van Dyke is the son of Mary (Carey) Van Dyke and actor Barry Van Dyke (Airwolf, The Love Boat, Diagnosis: Murder) and grandson of the entertainer Dick Van Dyke (The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Night at the Museum).

Stan Belinda

He began to suffer from tingling and numbness in his legs the following season, and on September 22, 1998, the Mayo Clinic issued a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.

SWAP-200

The Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure (SWAP-200) is a psychological assessment tool for personality diagnosis and clinical case formulation developed by psychologists Drew Westen and Jonathan Shedler.

The Diagnosis of Dr. D'arqueAngel

The Diagnosis of Dr. D'arqueAngel is a short story by Harlan Ellison giving an idea of how some people live forever.

Thomas Horder, 1st Baron Horder

Horder began his career at St Bartholomew's Hospital and, when still quite young, successfully made a difficult diagnosis on King Edward VII which made his reputation.

Thunderclap headache

The importance of severe headaches in the diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage has been known since the 1920s, when London neurologist Charles Symonds described the clinical syndrome.

Tim Choate

On television, he played Zathras on Babylon 5 and had a recurring role on Newhart, as well as appearing in several TV movies, notably Child in the Night (1990), and guesting on shows including The Practice, Diagnosis: Murder and The Bold and the Beautiful.

Trisha Torrey

The impetus for Torrey's work in patient empowerment and patient advocacy stemmed from her diagnosis in 2004 of Subcutaneous T-cell lymphoma when she was told she had only months to live and was encouraged to undergo chemotherapy to treat it.

Vietnam – Germany Hospital

In 1998, the Medicinal Laser Unit was established here to study and apply laser techniques in diagnosis and treatment of some diseases including cancer.


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