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Contact Information:
Florida State University
College of Medicine
Department of Medical Humanities and Social Sciences
1115 West Call Street
Tallahassee, Florida
32306-4300
Phone: (850) 644-3457
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- Participant and Parent Experiences in the Parenteral
Insulin Arm of the Diabetes Prevention Trial for Type 1
Diabetes
- The journal
Seminars in Dialysis has not only published the
research of Dr. Jeffrey Spike, but has additionally
honored his research by making it the lead editorial of
their October Issue.
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With great power…" The relevance of science
fiction to the practice and progress of medicine.
Co-Authored by Dr. Bill Pomidor a courtesy faculty
member was featured in The Lancet, Dec. 2006 edition.
- Quality of life is important to patients with type 1
diabetes, their families and their providers. But what
does quality of life mean and how do we measure it?
In
this commentary, Dr. Suzanne Bennett Johnson
tells us about a brief measure of diabetes quality of
life that has been used internationally.
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Terri
Schiavo And End-of-Life Issues
Talk of the Nation, April 8, 2005 - Terri Schiavo
died last week, nearly two weeks after her feeding tube
was removed. In this hour, we'll talk about the legal,
medical and ethical lessons learned from the Terri
Schiavo case. What does this case mean for future
end-of-life decisions, and what can you do to ensure
that your decisions about treatment are honored? Plus,
is removing a feeding tube different from stopping other
life-prolonging treatments? And how do doctors determine
when there's no chance of recovering brain function?
Listen to the Story
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Florida Migrant Healthcare Worker of the Year: Her
long-time commitment to helping migrant children and
their families began when Elena Reyes did pro bono work
through her private clinical psychology practice more
than 10 years ago. Reyes assisted migrant students in
need of evaluations for learning disabilities, ensuring
the schools they were destined to attend would be
prepared to meet the children’s needs.
- Genetic testing is now available for many diseases
and will be come more common in the future. However,
most genetic tests provided information about the
probability of getting a disease and cannot tell someone
whether they will definitely get the disease or not.
Communicating genetic risk information is difficult and
many studies show that people fail to understand
probability statements. This study examined maternal
understanding of infant diabetes risk in a large sample
of mothers whose infants had been identified as at
increased risk for type 1 diabetes.
Read
Article [pdf]
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